Meet Mikaila Ulmer, bee advocate and teenage CEO
Her advice to anyone trying to start a business is simple: Be fearless. Believe in the impossible. And dream like a kid. At 15, Mikaila Ulmer is sharing her…
Leveling the playing field for students with learning differences
Microsoft employees partnered across teams to develop free learning tools that can help anyone—particularly students with learning differences—improve their reading skills. One in five students struggles with dyslexia, which can…
New book about Standing Rock Written from Child’s Perspective
"Our kids are just as much a part of this as we are," says Aslan Tudor's mom Aslan Tudor, now 10, has just published a children's book with the help…
How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier
How I Get By: A regular series in which people lay out what it’s actually like to work at some of the country’s most powerful companies. Cierra Brown is trying…
full documentary | Huntington, West Virginia | Opioid Epidemic
Dark States – Heroin Town
The opioid epidemic or opioid crisis is the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada in the 2010s. Opioids are a diverse class of moderately strong painkillers,…
COMMUNITY | EDUCATION | EMPOWERMENT | HOUSING | SOCIAL JUSTICE | YOUTH
How To Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone Again
Recently, we wrote about a new report from the California Legislative Analyst's Office that found that poorer neighborhoods that have added more market-rate housing in the Bay Area since 2000 have been less…
EMPLOYMENT | EMPOWERMENT | ENVIRONMENT | YOUTH
Wiz Kid / Lemonade Stand
Mikaila Ulmer was 4 when she had an important epiphany inspired by the pain of a bee sting. A couple of bee stings, to be exact. “I got stung by…
COMMUNITY | WELLNESS | YOUTH
Former Foster Child Devotes His Life to Helping Thousands of Other Kids in Foster Care
When Rob Scheer opened his door in 2009 to meet his first-ever foster children, he did not expect to be reminded of an old, painful memory that would propel him…
COMMUNITY | CRIME AND SAFETY | YOUTH
Gangs In Berkeley Ca.
This week, for the first time ever, Berkeley police officers were given carte blanche to speak without filters at a public meeting about gang activity in town and what can…
Student parent to graduate, her son by her side
Graduating senior Dajanaye Adrow-Hubbard always knew she was destined for college. She grew up in Oakland in a low-income family and knew that her ticket to a more comfortable lifestyle…