We all like a bit of help and a new campaign is trying to enable just that. A Billion + Change is a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars of pro bono and skills-based volunteer services from businesses by 2013, but it's also a helpful resource to quickly identify which corporations offer pro-bono services and what's actually on offer. Check out the list here.

When President Obama first took office in 2009, he had an idea called the Social Innovation Fund. The hope was that federal seed money would help the nonprofits grow and spread creative ideas about how to solve social problems. But the fund is still very much a work in progress. In this new story, NPR asks, what have taxpayers have gotten for their money?

China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.

President Obama is preparing a major policy push on climate change, including, for the first time, limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants, as well as expanded renewable energy development on public lands and an accelerated effort on energy efficiency in buildings and equipment.

Two years in the making, the Althelia Climate Fund has raised €60 million ($80 million) to be invested in REDD+ and other ecosystem-service projects. It expects to raise another €90 million ($120 million) in the next 18 months, and hopes to generate both financial and social returns – for its investors and the world at large.

One hundred and seven degree heat. The height of the monsoon season. A country recently ruled by a brutal military dictatorship where US sanctions have just been lifted and foreigners are free to investigate and invest: time, thinking, money. What could be a better location for a design workshop?

We are witnessing a historical transformation in which the private sector is slowly emerging as a 3rd pillar of social change. So what can we learn from those companies leading the charge and how they scale their business success and impact?

We know everything about Damon, but he just wants us to know about the plight of the poor in so many parts of India and throughout Africa. Across the globe, 780 million people lack ready access to clean water, and some 2.5 billion are without toilets.