Olympic gold medalist and best-selling author, Nikki Stone shares how she became involved with Right To Play in order to to help disadvantaged children reap the same benefits from sports that she has.

This article reports on the 11th annual Youth Business Plan Competition sponsored by BUILD, a four-year entrepreneurship program that helps underserved youth start their own businesses, graduate from high school, and get into to college.

Martin J. Fisher, co-founder and CEO of KickStart International, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University’s 117th Commencement for his remarkable vision and innovative approach to alleviating poverty in Africa.

In this Newsweek piece Jonathan Alter suggests that companies with waning public images could regain credibility by giving large donations to high-impact nonprofits like Teach For America or Year Up.

On its website, the Chelsea Football Club announces a partnership with Right To Play to support United Against Malaria. Through this new partnership, a coalition of leaders from across public and private sectors will combine efforts to tackle a disease that kills an African child every 30 seconds.

This Examiner article highlights Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) for providing innovative summer and after-school education programs that help failing students to achieve advanced levels in core academic skills.

This Boston Globe article details Fidelity Investments' plan to expand its Boston-based collaboration with Citizen Schools into the group's first national initiative.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a Social Innovation Compact with representatives of the social innovation community, committing to expand the existing reach of innovative organizations into the state's communities.

Education Week reports on New Leaders for New Schools' new online portal designed as a web-based compendium of professional-development resources for principals, staff-development coaches, and teachers.

Jonah Edelman, CEO of Stand for Children, a New Profit portfolio organization, answers questions about his family's background in social activism.