Beyond Survival to Potential
Ensuring each person has access to food, shelter, and water is necessary, but not sufficient. BridgeBuilder encourages innovators to go beyond these basic needs, to empower the entire human experience. With access to joy, hope, dignity and a platform for opportunity, those experiencing displacement can develop their full potential and invigorate the communities they are joining. How can the aptitude, strength and creativity of people on the move be fully realized for the benefit of all?
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Empowering Return Migrants as Inspiring Teachers (ERMIT)
We will prepare return migrants to Mexico to be dynamic, successful English teachers and leaders in Mexican public schools and communities.
Shifra: Sexual and reproductive health web-app for refugee and migrant communities
Shifra aims to increase the sexual and reproductive health literacy of refugees and migrants everywhere.
Refugee Voices Peer Network
We seek to develop and test a platform for former refugees to serve as mentors and social networks to recent arrivals in two US locations.
Talent Beyond Boundaries
We open pathways for refugees to use their skills and talents as a route out of displacement towards restored self-reliance and safety.
CAIR-Minnesota's Building Youth Power Initiative
We will empower Muslim youth from immigrant communities and give them the resources they need to fulfill their aspirations.
Promoting Integrated Fish and Crop (Aquaponics) Commercial farming in Refugee settings in Uganda
Building hope, esteem, joy and harmony among refugees and host communities in Uganda
My [inte]gration Data Co-op
My integration Co-op is an innovation targeting migration and human rights by using data/tech for good in Mexico-Central America- US- Spain
Amal Alliance: Rainbow of Education
We empower children with social-emotional learning, psychosocial support, and early childhood development to restore hope for their future.
Mayan Languages on the Move
Building Indigenous Language Activism and cross-community support for using Mayan languages in a predominantly white Midwestern town.
4City Fund to Support Cities through Micro-finance Platform
A city development fund that gives individual access to micro-credit based on comprehensive development plan at the city level.
IntegrArte: Integration and Protection Program for People in Migratory Situation
Promote the integration, well-being, and development of the creative potential of people in a condition of migrants and returnees
Scaling up Forward Incubator's impact to other European cities
Forward empowers refugees to achieve economic independence through entrepreneurship and to integrate into host societies
"Claiming Our Voice"
Claiming Our Voice will connect & train ethnically-diverse, college-educated, young S.Sudanese women to promote girls' educ on public media.
Build bridges by art and culture
Connect newcomers with locals through art and culture by enabling refugees to become leaders in cultural spaces.
Top Manta Project: Nobody is illegal
An ethical, social and solidarity brand that is committed to changing this society by improving the lives of the most vulnerable.
Social Enterprise A Beautiful Mess founded by the Refugee Company speeds up integration by putting women to work.
In restaurant, coffeebar and makerspace A Beautiful Mess we support women with a refugee background to integrate by working to improve lives
Storytelling as resistance
Refugees and locals work together in a self-organized publishing house on Lesvos to spread stories of inclusion, empowerment and diversity.
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Regain Education: The power of education against inequity.
We help victims of forced displacement whose education was interrupted by war or human rights violations to access educational opportunities
Bridging Communities of Conflict-Affected Entrepreneurs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Five One Labs is a startup incubator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that equips youth with the tools to rebuild their lives with dignity.
RefuSHE Resource Center & Business Incubator: Moving Refugee Girls and Young Women from Protection to Livelihoods
Creating an enabling environment that helps refugee girls, young women, and their children move from dependency to self-reliance
Roma IDPs - Social and Economic Empowerment Initiative
Improvement of living conditions and wellbeing of Roma IDPs in Serbia through in-kind support, employment and self-employment