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Three Humanity United grantees—Invisible Children, Resolve, and the producers of Call+Response—are currently under consideration by TED judges for two new products aimed at informing everyday activists. Their tools, the LRA Crisis Tracker and Slavery Footprint, are both being considered for TED’s annual Ads Worth Spreading Challenge.
Click on the images after the jump to watch videos and cast your vote!
"Philanthropy wonk" Lucy Bernholz—a highly regarded expert on philanthropy, technology, information, and policy and visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society—recently reviewed Humanity United's 2011 Performance Report on her popular blog, Philanthropy 2173.
Her post offers both praise—"it brings the concept of annual report into the 21st Century"—and thoughtful suggestions for improvement, such as offering more interactive tools.
Read the full post and share your comments here.
Today is National Freedom Day in the United States, which honors President Abraham Lincoln's signature of the document that later became the 13th Amendment to constitutionally outlaw slavery. Sadly, human trafficking and modern-day slavery continue to persist in the United States today.
Meet one member of the Humanity United team who focuses daily on helping the U.S. government make slavery history.
Yesterday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided the national intelligence community’s annual threat assessment to the U.S. Senate. Significantly, both mass atrocities and human trafficking were included as threats to U.S. national security—raising the profile of how these human rights violations directly affect our country.
This week marked the public release of Humanity United's first comprehensive performance report, an exercise that helped us to better understand the impact we believe we are having and the learnings we are collecting from our grant-making and direct-impact activities.
Here are a few things we’re doing this year to continue to learn at Humanity United.