On the web
The Solutions Story Tracker is a curated database of responses to social problems from around the world that has become a respected resource for the teaching of "solutions" journalism and for learning about social innovation more broadly....
The Opportunity Atlas uses anonymous data on twenty million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s to answer the question, Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?...
Created in collaboration with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, EIE makes it easier for cities to access, and act on, data and information related to climate change....
Created by Foundation Center, the platform features tens of thousands of grants that help shed light on foundations' efforts to strengthen U.S. democracy....
The Smithsonian Learning Lab pulls together digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums and nine major research centers, making it easy to create and share personalized collections of Smithsonian assets and user-generated resources....
The LRA Crisis Tracker is a mapping tool that displays up-to-date activity data on the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, enabling users to better understand the urgency of the LRA crisis as well as broader security threats in the region to its human population, wildlife, and natural resources....
Developed by Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, Prevent Epidemics is a new information source designed to help users determine how prepared their country is to find, stop, and prevent them....
The Public Safety Assessment tool was developed as a way to predict the chances that an individual charged with a crime will fail to appear for a future court appearance, as well as the risk of him/her committing a new crime if released before trial....
Racial Equity Here is a national movement dedicated to dismantling structural racism, eliminating racial inequities, and driving better outcomes for all communities....
Founded by ocean conservation organization Oceana, Google, and SkyTruth, Global Fishing Watch is a big data "transparency" platform that leverages satellite data to create the first comprehensive view of commercial fishing activity on the planet's oceans....
USA Facts is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic initiative that works to spur serious, reasoned, and informed discourse on the purpose and functions of government....
The MIT Living Wage Calculator enables anyone to estimate the cost of living in a community or region and determine the hourly wage a worker in that community needs to support him or herself and a family....
Run by Victor G Temprano, the Native Land site uses various kinds of data to map the boundaries of Indigenous ancestral territories in North America, and beyond....
The final GEC report provides valuable information to governments, scientists, NGOs, and wildlife stakeholders in Africa involved in making strategic decisions on how to manage and protect wild elephant populations....
