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Education
How to Get People to Vote Online
Do Something U's latest video offers advice for getting people to vote in crowdsourced contests.
The Community Board
The Evolution of the Accessibility Initiative
Check out today's blog post. It gives some background information about the importance of accessibility for individuals with ASDs:...
The Community Board
In the beginning....
Check out our Pepsi Refresh blog.... http://pep.si/c24UgI. We'll be updating our progress and letting you know how we're impacting our statewide...
News
A Community Hub for a Neighborhood Reborn
In 1925, a 22-year-old busboy slipped three poems to acclaimed poet Vachel Lindsay while he was dining at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington,...
Education
Solving the Black Male School Achievement Puzzle
Closing the African American achievement gap is the life’s work of Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. Founder of a company focused on helping parents and...
Environment
How to Achieve Zero Waste at Home in Six Steps
Zero Waste is more than just a visionary goal– it’s a practice that’s easier to adopt than you may think. The basic principle is that nothing...
Education
Five Tips for Drama-free Homework
Homework’s been around as long as schools -after all, kids need to practice the concepts they learn during the day. But, homework time can be...
Cities
Get a Crosswalk for Your Neighborhood In Six-ish Weeks
We’ve all been there before: standing on a street trying to cross with no traffic light in sight. Cars speed past and you try in vain to dash...
Lifestyle
A Community of Ovens
For most of us, cooking is more or less a solitary event. Kitchen stoves, office microwaves, and dorm room toaster ovens fry, zap and roast our...
Environment
Bringing the Polar Perspective on Climate Change to D.C.
Will Steger has led historic expeditions to both poles, traveled tens of thousands of miles through the arctic and antarctic by kayak and dogsled...
Culture
A Neighborhood Canvas
When Assata Richards moved into one of the newly renovated row houses in Houston's Third Ward in the winter of 1996, she knew her life had...
Design
Farming the Front Lawn
Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Environment
Getting on the Biofuel bus with Veterans for Clean Energy
Something's different about the latest climate action road trip barnstorming the country in a biodiesel bus, holding clean energy rallies in...
Cities
How to Grow an Edible, Vertical Garden in Five Steps
It’s hard to believe but, yes, spring is on its way. And with it all kinds of wonderful green things like arugula, celery, and cherry tomatoes....
Culture
Bringing Theater to the Street
Accomplice is an unusual theater experience– part game, part mystery theater, part walking tour (through little-known labyrinths specific to each...
Education
SAT Prep Gone Wild
Only wealthy kids are lucky enough to get primed for their SATs with a formal prep course, right? Not anymore. The online social enterprise I Need...
Education
Four Tips for Volunteering at Your Local School
One thing almost every school has in common these days is figuring out how to provide a quality education despite budget cuts. The days of...
Environment
What Went Wrong? A Historian Looks Back from the Future at the Climate Fight
Climate activists often wonder what future generations will think about our inability (or unwillingness) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over...
