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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Virtual Reality
Virtual reality presents incredible opportunities for nonprofits. Schools, museums, and performing arts organizations are leveraging its use everyday to teach empathy and cultural understanding, empower people to experience faraway places, and provide the public deeper immersion into the arts. Through virtual reality, mixed reality, and…
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Gloucester’s ‘Angel Initiative’ a Way Out for Heroin Addicts
(The City of Gloucester, Massachusetts) Over the past two years, the United States’ addiction to opioids has come into full view. With users injecting heroin on public transportation in Philadelphia and rural areas such as Vermont witnessing an influx of guns related to the drug trade,…
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Red Cross Gives Money Directly to Canadian Wildfire Evacuees
Much of central Canada is still ablaze. According to reports, wildfires just spread to the Saskatchewan province having torn through Fort McMurray over the past two weeks, scorching well over 100,000 hectares of land and displacing more than 80,000 people. The number of individual fires…
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Vertical Farming: The Future of Basic Needs Nonprofits?
Basic needs organizations may have a new model to emulate that could provide a fresh and constantly renewing source of produce to help those in need. INFARM, a German firm, has expanded upon the common design of vertical farms which have enabled growers to ship…
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Detroit: Leader in Philanthropy Innovation
Detroit’s economy has long been in the doldrums. The slow decline of the city’s once-great auto industry – along with the deleterious effects of the housing bubble and 2007 economic crash – rendered Michigan’s largest metropolitan area perhaps the poorest of its size in the…
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