Council Member Profile Are Maximizing Financial Returns and Maximizing Social Outcomes Mutually Exclusive?
When it comes to social impact businesses, there's a tension between what's perceived and what's reality.
Bridging the Opportunity Divide The School Where Only Addicts Roam the Hallways
With a curriculum that integrates traditional studies with specialized drug counseling, can it keep teens sober?
Making Government Work Emergency Dispatch Technology Enters the 21st Century
In various counties across the nation, no longer will you hear, "9-1-1, what's your emergency?"
Bridging the Opportunity Divide Ending Recidivism, Brick by Brick
Students at the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh are working with reused materials to rebuild their lives and their communities.
Council Member Profile Powered by Ad Dollars, Nonprofits Get a Boost
NationSwell Council member (and surfing aficionado) Paul Polizzotto founded CBS EcoMedia with one goal in mind: to leverage the power of advertising to impact real social change.
Bridging the Opportunity Divide The Sure-Fire Way to Get Millennials Interested in Public Service
To celebrate Peace Corps week, NationSwell uncovers how one Pacific state recruits more volunteers than anywhere else.
What's Possible Learning to Code Is Vital for Today’s Students. This Nonprofit Helps Schools Teach It
Presented by Comcast NBCUniversal
Code/Interactive, an education nonprofit that trains both teachers and students in computer languages, steps in when traditional school courses don’t cut it.
Making Government Work One on One With the Police
Can open conversations between cops and inner-city youth bring down crime rates?
Council Member Profile In a Divided America, What’s the First Step in Erasing Prevalent Stereotypes?
NationSwell Council member Amanda Mortimer uses media to destroy longstanding cultural norms surrounding gender.
Moving America Forward 5 Virtual Reality Projects That Will Change How You View the World
Can empathy be taught? The artists and academics behind a slew of new VR experiences think so, betting that the burgeoning medium has the potential to alter human behavior for the better.
