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By Christopher Purdy Americans continue to be a most generous people, ranking Number 1 in the World Giving Index 2014, the only country to rank in the Top 10 for all three kinds of giving covered by the Index – helping a stranger (1st), volunteering time (5th) and donating money (9th). In 2014, Americans’ giving to charitable organizations exceeded $350 billion, according to Charity Navigator, equ...[Read More]

Kirigami cutting has produced skin that a robot can use to propel itself along. (Image by Ahmad Rafsanjani/Harvard SEAS) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 22, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Harvard researchers have developed a robot modeled on snakeskin with soft robotic scales made using kirigami – an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts to change the...[Read More]

The Rwanda E-Waste Recycling Facility in Rwanda’s Bugesera District, the second largest such facility in Africa. This is a Rwanda Green Fund investment. September 2017 (Photo by Rwanda Green Fund) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, December 14, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Last year, the world generated e-waste – everything from end-of-life refrigerators and TV sets t...[Read More]

Our Fast Track to Employment program is designed to equip refugees and migrants with the necessary language for employment skills and find them jobs in many of the sectors we cover, including Retail, Hospitality, Care & Nursing, Safety and Agriculture. We have an 80% job placement success rate and increasing demand for staff from employers. We work with employers such as the Beannchor Group, R...[Read More]

Students learn about artificial intelligence as applied to music at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. A-MINT is a new kind of adaptive artificial music intelligence, the first of its kind able to crack the improvisation code of any musician in real time and improvise with him. September 6, 2019 (Photo by Jürgen Grünwald) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New...[Read More]

The International Rescue Committee, the sports shoe company Nike, and the local organization buntkicktgut are offering “Berlin Kickt,” a soccer and education program aimed at bringing local and refugee children together. Berlin Kickt coaches, many with a refugee or migration background, run weekly sessions and activities in five primary schools across Berlin. April 2018 (Photo courtesy Internation...[Read More]

Syrian refugee students in Turkey, September 26, 2018 (Photo courtesy UK Dept. of International Development) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 30, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – As millions of displaced people move around the world in search of safer lives, learning the language of their adopted homes is a skill best acquired young. Sci...[Read More]

In the laboratory of Wickman and Tunsu at the Chalmers University of Technology, when mercury ions (light purple) in a liquid come near an electrode of platinum, they are attracted to the electrode’s surface where they get reduced to metallic mercury. On the electrode, mercury atoms (dark purple) and platinum atoms (grey) develop into a very strong alloy, and so the mercury is removed from the wat...[Read More]

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Board of Directors. Back Row from left: Eduardo Rallo, Jayne Battey, Tom Stocky, Thurman V. White, Jr., Dan’l Lewin, Catherine A. Molnar, Erik Dryburgh Middle Row: Marie Oh Huber, Julie Miraglia Kwon, Rose Jacobs Gibson, Kate Mitchell, Lynn A. McGovern Seated left to right: David P. Lopez, Emmett D. Carson (CEO and President), C.S. Park (Chair), Samuel Johnson, ...[Read More]

Media Release: February 2019 Accelerating into 2019 with prospects to help migrants integrate in English predominant environments, Maximpact recently received the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy’s support for its Fast Track to Employment Programme for Syrian refugees. The Programme provides innovative, live, online English language training for Syrian refugees. Completed within a short...[Read More]

Stress in the workplace is a real problem. When you become aware of the high percentage of people reporting excessive stress levels at work in the United States, it’s easy to understand why more than a third of employers offer stress management and reintegration programs, to minimize the financial and health impacts excessive stress causes. The vast majority of these statistics are taken from what...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor, Maximpact, @mmmaretich Water sector investments continue to be high on the wish-list of many impact investors. But what are the wider issues surrounding investment in water? Maximpact talks to J. Carl Ganter, award-winning CEO and Founder of Circle of Blue and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security. What’s your view of water se...[Read More]