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Storytelling for Social Good
Brooklyn Story Lab — with decades of experience in journalism, media, and technology — creates cutting-edge campaigns, events, videos, social media, and website content for purpose-driven organizations, helping them earn the global attention they deserve.
"Brooklyn Story Lab helped us craft and disseminate our message of global peacebuilding."
— José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Chairman, Advisory Board, The Community
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Projects and Partners
BLUE PLANET ALLIANCE
Imagine a world with no carbon-based fuels. Blue Planet Alliance is working to achieve that — and it’s not just a quixotic quest. Its founder, Henk Rogers (pictured above), led the movement to help Hawai’i become the first U.S. state to legislatively mandate a transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045. Soon after, more than 20 states and U.S. territories followed suit. Now BPA is working with other island…
GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint for making sure no one on the planet is left behind by 2030. Glasgow Caledonian University is a Scottish institution that has adopted the SDGs as its core curriculum, and was the first Scottish university to sign the UN Global Compact. GCU’s focus on being the University for the Common Good has earned it high marks in academic circles…
THE GLOBAL NGO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Our planet has rarely seen challenges as complex and unnerving as we are facing now. It’s a perfect storm of crises, particularly for nonprofit organizations trying to help the world’s most vulnerable communities. The additional challenges posed by COVID and the climate crisis have pushed these NGOs to the brink. At least they have a trusted ally in the Global NGO Executive Committee…
FEATURED PROJECT
#RaceforOceans, D.C.
The Anacostia River in the nation’s capital is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. Washington-based Chemonics partnered with three D.C.-area nonprofits to tackle the river’s marine plastic pollution, as part of the global Race for Oceans campaign. Watch the Brooklyn Story Lab video that captures the story behind the clean up.
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FRIENDLY FUEL
Students from Kazakhstan turned agricultural waste into alternative energy in the Enactus World Cup, an annual international competition for entrepreneurial ideas that make a difference in the world.
GIRL POWER
West African music superstar Angelique Kidjo’s Batonga Foundation teaches the hardest-to-reach girls & young women in her home country of Benin the skills they need to be agents of change in their own communities.
YOUTH CATALYST
The Stanford Seed Transformation Program is a partnership between Stanford University, the government of Botswana, and De Beers, providing management training and networking for southern African entrepreneurs.