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ELaw Helps Communities Around The Globe Speak Out For A Healthy Planet

The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) helps communities speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Public interest lawyers from 10 countries launched the Environmental Law Alliance (ELaw)  in 1991 These lawyers were working together at a public interest law conference at the University of Oregon School of Law. They realized that …

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Better Basics Gets Children’s Books Into Low Income Homes

Better Basics Birmingham Alabama – In 2019-2020, Better Basics served 21,987 students in 35 Central Alabama schools. And, for 2021 – 2022 the organization had 757 volunteers, served 22,000 children and gave away 70,000 books. According to the organization 16% of Alabamians are illiterate, 79% of the state’s kindergartners enter school not knowing all the letters …

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The Pastry Project Pays It Forward

A social enterprise is a cause-driven business that sells products or services. The entity’s goal is to maximize profits while improving a set of social objectives and serving the common good. For Seattle-based  social enterprise The Pastry Project their intent is to address barriers to education and employment in the world of baking. Founded in 2019 …

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Sarvodaya Institute – Urban Farming And Environmental Responsibility

In 2013, watching the documentary Urban Fruit by Roman Zenz. I was fascinated by the story of Rishi Kumar a highly educated engineer by training who gave up a promising career in information technology to choose a different path. Along with his mother they had transformed their once wasteful and nonproductive meticulously landscaped yard into …

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