Projects
Working on something that’s making the world a better place?
Each month, we feature and support a Hopemakers who’s working on an awesome project to build a better future.
More info. is coming soon, but projects will look like these:
👊 Laurene Allen, who picked a fight with a polluting plastics facility on behalf of her community, and won.
🍄 Marsya Ancker, who had the first living mushroom casket burial in North America to honor her father’s wishes.
🎣 Cash the Conservation Kid, who started cleaning his local river at just 15 years old, saving enough fishing line litter to wrap around the US twice.
⛺️ Lauren Mason, who’s collecting abandoned tents from music festivals and giving them a second life as functional bags.
🐢 Sidney Woodruff, who helped save the native northwestern pond turtle in Yosemite from an invasive bullfrog that “eats anything that fits into their mouth”.
👯♀️ The three “drone didis” (sisters), who are flying high tech drones to make farming more efficient & better for the land.
🐒 Jo Leen Yap, who started a community Facebook group to protect the dusky langur monkey that evolved into building tree canopy bridges using old fire hoses.
🍄🟫 Danielle Stevenson who’s figuring out how to use mushrooms to eat pollution.
🍅 Maggie Baird, who started Support + Feed which puts on a free biweekly farmer’s market in NYC to help families in need.
🌞 Syd Kitson, who built America’s first solar-powered town after retiring from the NFL,
🛣️ Fernanda Abra, who collaborated with Indigenous leaders to build rope bridges to reconnect the forest over roads to protect tree dwelling species.
💐 Laura Ruth and Rebecca Shelly, who repurpose used flowers and bouquets to help people going through hard times.
🌳 Nemonte Nenquimo, who is building a pathway to amplify Indigenous wisdom, conserve the Amazon rainforest, and protect the environment.
… and much more to come!
If you know someone working on a great project, please encourage them to submit it! And if you’re fixing a problem in your community: