Projects

What's the best way to get two countries whose leaders have demonized each other to engage in diplomacy? Start with average citizens. By setting up direct phone links and online tools, we're giving Americans and Iranians the chance to talk directly to each other. 

What do you get when you cross a slot machine with a savings bond? A new kind of gambling that replaces short-term harm with long-term benefit for the players.

A simple action and a decentralized organizing model brings 5,000 people from 47 states to hijack Bush's inaugural parade. SNL's Weekend Update and The Onion provide coverage. (Also: the BBC, CNN, and newspapers on every continent except Antarctica.)

How do you plan an urban area so that residents share the positives and negatives of new developments? The NIMBY Game is a tool that can be used by stakeholders to builds skills and develop strategies that lead to better outcomes for everyone. 

Unsatisfied with media coverage of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, an anti-war veterans group hold four days of first-person testimony and broadcast it live via satellite, radio and online. Membership jumps 25% in the weeks that follow.