Out of the Box Prize 2015 Finalists

The Urban Pioneers Service Project

Motor City Blight Busters (MCBB) has been working to alleviate blight within the city since 1988. The MCBB tears down blighted structures, clears trash, and brings lots to code. Since 2005, the Fertile Ground Collective (FGC) has been an integral part of the MCBB. Once the MCBB has cleared the...

We began providing disadvantaged young women with sanitary towels and undergarments back in 2007 when a girl was brought to our office for counseling apparently her widowed mum could not afford sanitary napkins so she had improvised with rags which made menstrual blood to leak through her dress...

The Charter for Compassion seeks to make compassionate action “go viral” in the hearts and minds of communities globally by working with them to address their most pressing needs. We view compassion as a verb, moving beyond empathy to identify problems and act on solutions. November 2014, we...

Persistent poverty, adverse weather effects related to climate change and lack of sustainable natural resource management strategies have degraded the forests and rivers of Northern Honduras, imperiling the water, wildlife and general wellbeing of local communities. EcoLogic works with chosen...

Nutre-Perú is a voluntary organization created and sustained by undergraduates, its main objective is to fight against malnutrition in children under 5 years old in Peruvian rural communities through a program that looks up to create a local organization, constituted by mothers from the...

Linking Sanitation and safer meat processing to Community Health and Development in Northern Ghana.

Environmental Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) issues are one area that compromises the health and well being of majority of people in Ghana, especially the underserved poverty...

The Latina Breast Cancer Awareness Program has brought free and reduced screenings to hundreds of women in the Salt Lake Valley. This program was created to address ethnic and socio-economic disparities in breast cancer screenings in the Salt Lake Valley. In high-risk areas, just 54% of women...

The project promoted rural women’s economic justice trough increase in wages for cotton picking labor. The goal of project was: Cotton picking women are organized, educated and have sufficient wages; with strengthened voice on women economic rights protection and justice and their economic and...

Farashe, which means “butterfly” in Arabic, is a nonprofit and volunteer-based community yoga movement based in the heart of Ramallah and working throughout occupied Palestine. Farashe’s mission is to make yoga accessible for all living in Palestine, as a means to manage stress, improve healthy...

WNOC is a public-private partnership comprised of the Orange County Health Department, the Orange County Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank, Food Finders, and private industry with the overall vision to end hunger in Orange County using a three pronged approach: educating the community about...

Out of the Box Prize 2015 Finalists

The Urban Pioneers Service Project

Re-usable, washable sanitary towels and undergarments program for poor young women in Kiambu County, Kenya

Charter Tool Box

Communities Organizing for Watersheds

Creating a mother’s organization against malnutrition in Catahuasi

Building the Capacity of Environmental Health Officers to Promote Sanitation in the Northern Ghana

Comunidades Unidas

Organizing and Building Capacities of Cotton Picking Women for Economic Justice

Farashe Yoga for Healthy Living

The Waste Not OC Coalition (WNOC)