The earlier people are diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the sooner they can get the help they need. Too few people know the ten early warning signs, and they need to understand when memory loss becomes a problem. I need your help to create and...

Loans that Change Lives is an internet based platform that allows everyday people to become “social investors”. Imagine – with $25, a credit card, and an internet connection, anybody in the world can invest in the life of a deserving...

Where you grow up shouldn’t determine the quality of the education you receive. Unfortunately, where I live, and in urban and rural communities around the country, family income often determines a child’s educational opportunities...

To provide school lunch to children across India. There are amazing school lunch programs in India that are feeding several million children daily – providing them with their only full meal of the day and creating strong incentives to...

Giving starving children food is not enough – the food needs to contain the vitamins, micronutrients, and calories a developing child needs to survive. New ready-to-use food (RUF) provides this. It is individually packaged, is stable...

Brain cancer is the #1 cause of solid tumor cancer deaths in CHILDREN. There are over 120 different types of pediatric brain tumors, making effective treatment virtually impossible. Project Brain Child proposes to conduct a...

Provide women survivors of war the opportunity and the tools to rebuild their lives, and their families' and children's lives, with job skills and agribusiness training, financial assistance, microcredit loans and access to markets...

To help the people of New Orleans rebuild their city with healthy, energy efficient homes and schools. My goal: help 10,000 or more residents rebuild their homes with energy efficient, healthy materials that lower monthly bills; create...

My wife and I want to fund primary and secondary school scholarships for 6,000 young women in the developing world. $250 is all it costs to open the doors of education for a young girl in the developing countries through a holistic one-year...

"Stop the traffic" kits will be community organizing tools to help end human trafficking. Targeting communities with high rates of trafficking here & abroad these multi-lingual kits will include awareness, educational and resource...

We want to produce a $25 incubator designed for the developing world. The product is an extremely cost-effective incubator device that requires no electricity and provides heat to an infant at a constant temperature, the key factor...

My idea is to rapidly develop affordable, new therapies for major diseases by conducting clinical trials with combinations of generic or unpatented substances. Pharmaceutical companies will not conduct such trials, since they will...

Help families who need medical care AND child care. My Little Waiting Room will bring drop-in child care to the hospital so a lack of child care will never get in the way of medical care. Moms, dads, caregivers, and children should never miss...

Our project is a locally driven social venture that creates an alliance of textile designers and gifted artisans in Southeast Asia to produce luxurious hand-woven fabrics. By providing economic opportunity, we help preserve...

An inspiring and daring solo row across the Pacific Ocean to maximize opportunities to explain and publicize a broad range of environmental issues that affect our ocean. The Pacific Voyage project is a 3-stage challenge – launched in May...

Jharkhand, India is the most economically backward state with a large tribal population, poor infrastructure, no electricity or drinking water. Jharkhand Tribal Project aims to build 7 elementary schools, 1 middle/high school and 1...

Delivering sports-based HIV prevention and life skills training to African girls and boys aged 10-18, arming them with the knowledge, life skills and support they need to live HIV-free. The project uses an interactive curriculum that...

Creating pediatric eye care clinics in India. My son Nyan (age 9) and daughter Lehka (age 7) have made it a family project to raise money for this cause, part of a multi-million dollar charitable project to screen 5 million children for eye...

Cocos Island, lies over 300 miles west of Costa Rica (CR), one of the earth’s last spectacular wild places. The UN inscribed Cocos as a World Heritage Site, a place of “outstanding natural importance to the common heritage of humanity...

Teach health ed to pre-school age kids living in disadvantaged homes while parents and/or grandparents are present to also learn in a non-threatening setting. Kids hear the information early and all generations can work together to...

Our mission is helping poor Mayans in Guatemala to help themselves through education, vocation, and sustainable development projects. Sometimes we are asked “Why not help the poor in our country?” In the US there are poor people, but...

My idea is to provide solar powered LED (Light Emitting Diode) lanterns to rural, war-torn regions of Sierra Leone. LED lights have shown to be a reliable and sustainable source of light with over 50,000 hours of available life. I would...

There are more than 10 million artisans globally who live under poverty, but their art and creation has always been the centre of attraction for masses. These artisans are also known for their dilapidated situation, declining...

MoPOEd is a program that brings experts in pediatric orthopaedics to teach local physicians in the developing world to care for children with orthopaedic problems. The training is on-site, hands-on, and uses locally available...

Constructing environmentally friendly, economically sustainable, community managed secondary schools (grades 7-12) in rural Cambodia that employ highly trained teachers, and offer students solid academic courses and job...