- October 8, 2009 • 12:26 pm PDT
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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Reinventing the Outdoors contest: Learn how you can help preserve oceans, coastal areas, and waterways.

The Sunlight Foundation turned the cameras around to take pictures of all the power brokers who show up to Senate hearings. Recognize anyone?
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The Awesome Foundation wants to give you $1,000 for your public art project or madcap science experiment.
A new school in the Philippines takes the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mantra to the extreme, making whole buildings out of discarded bottles.

Here are our five favorite projects from the Gates Foundation's education technology grant competition.

A modern twist on old-fashioned giving circles takes microphilanthropy macro.
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With world population approaching 9 billion, we need to fix our food problems. This grant might help.
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The newly launched Awesome Food wants to give you $1,000 to make our food system more awesome.

Philanthropist Kevin Starr demands great ideas, scalability, and eight word mission statements. It's all part of a Design for Impact approach.