The world's only public urban prep and boarding school. Its 320 students in Washington, DC--90% of whom enter seventh grade three years behind the national academic average--make a six-year commitment to change, with a curriculum focused on both academic and social development.
Some 97% of SEED's graduates go to college, and 85% of those graduate. It plans campuses in Baltimore and New York in the next five years.
Counsels entry-level workers so they can move toward more fulfilling, better paying work and become more productive workers--at once breaking a cycle of poverty and solving a persistent employer problem.
Has offered training and counseling to 101 clients in projects with Home Depot, Stanford University, and the City of Palo Alto, among others. It's partnering with Kenexa to devise surveys that will assess performance.
Recruits top college graduates to teach at troubled rural and urban schools. Its 3,600 teachers in 22 cities reach more than 300,000 students a year, leveling the educational playing field for academically at-risk children.
Half of TFA teachers effect first-year gains in student performance equivalent to 1.5 academic years. And 60% of TFA alumni still work full time in education.
Certifies fair-trade coffee and other developing-nation crops, then works with certified growers--who otherwise lack access to market information--to get higher prices. In the United States, it promotes awareness of fair-trade products and enables retailers and distributors to buy direct from producers.
TransFair has supported 1.1 million farmers and producers worldwide, certifying 150,000 growers in 2006 alone.
Helps microfinance institutions become sustainable by providing financial support and consulting, drawing on practices from venture capital, investment banking, and microfinance. In March, it launched the Unitus Equity Fund L.P., expected to total up to $30 million, to invest in microlenders in Asia and Latin America.
Unitus serves 860,000 people with $62 million in loans through microlenders in India, Kenya, Mexico, and Argentina. Those partners are growing an average of over 100% annually.
Trains human-rights organizations to document abuses on camera, and to use the video in advocacy campaigns. In 2007, it will launch the Human Rights Video Hub, allowing anyone anywhere to upload footage from handheld devices or computers--a YouTube for human rights.
Based on video from AJEDI-Ka/PES, a Witness partner, the International Criminal Court arrested Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for war crimes in Congo, including conscripting children.
I tend to see things going this way as well. I'm certain this won't stop at drug use and party behavior (which is actually a ridiculous qualifier as some of the best employees I've seen partied hard on the weekends). What happens when you're denied a job because of some political or religious views you espouse on blog that the HR person doesn't agree with? You know, the kind of information they aren't allowed to ask you in an interview setting. If it can't be asked in an interview they shouldn't be allowed to go looking for that info online. But, I guess you can always make your profiles private so only people you want to see them can.
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August 20, 2009 at 6:30am by Jesica Semon
I tend to see things going this way as well. I'm certain this won't stop at drug use and party behavior (which is actually a ridiculous qualifier as some of the best employees I've seen partied hard on the weekends). What happens when you're denied a job because of some political or religious views you espouse on blog that the HR person doesn't agree with? You know, the kind of information they aren't allowed to ask you in an interview setting. If it can't be asked in an interview they shouldn't be allowed to go looking for that info online. But, I guess you can always make your profiles private so only people you want to see them can.