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Posts by Roddenberry Foundation

Catalyst: TabLab

250 million children, about 40%of the world’s total, cannot read, write, or do basic math by age ten. The problem is worse in rural areas, where up to 75% of children do not have basic literacy or numeracy skills.

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Catalyst: Team fEMR

A chronic lack of access to primary care in developing nations had led to the upsurge in STMMs – Short Term Medical Missions. These temporary clinics are set up for a few days to a week at a time to provide critical care in under-resourced areas.

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Catalyst: Twin Oaks Water Systems

In sub-Saharan countries, over 80% of the economy is based on subsistence farming, but each year, almost 12 million hectares of arable land are lost due to drought and desertification. There are 20 million food insecure people in the region, and more than 7 million people in the region suffer from sanitation issues resulting from human waste contamination of available water sources.

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Catalyst: NextBillion

1 in 5 people in the world live with a disability. At over a billion people worldwide, they constitute the world’s largest minority. Those living with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, and it is often difficult for them to find the right mentor who can help them move forward and reach their potential in a career.

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Announcing the 2018 Prize Awardees

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  We are thrilled to announce this year’s 2018 Roddenberry Prize Awardees. This year’s Prize focused on climate change through the lens of food waste, plant-rich diets, girls’ education and women’s rights — all generally underfunded and often overlooked for their impact on climate change. Applicants were evaluated on their organization’s impact, strategies and capacity for scale, and…

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Meet a Fellow: Charlene Carruthers

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Meet Charlene, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow  October 25, 2019   Meet Charlene, a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow  Charlene Carruthers is a strategist, author and a leading organizer in today’s Black liberation movement.  As the founding national director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), she has worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a member-led…

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2018 Roddenberry Prize: About the Prize

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2018 Roddenberry Prize About the Prize The Roddenberry Foundation | May 25, 2018   Last year, Project Drawdown, an international coalition of scientists, economists, and experts cataloged and ranked the most effective solutions to global warming. This has never been done before (shocking, right!) and the results are surprising. Some solutions are less effective than one…

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