This initiative aims to leverage renewable energy technology, learning, and skills to promote community collaboration, provide jobs, and make new trust-based connections between beneficiaries and municipal leaders.

Unregulated waste dumping, burning, and emergency measures are sources of health threats and conflict. This project across 22 villages will promote recycling, composting, and biomass energy – and be a municipal model for engaging communities in collective changes to waste management.

This STEM career-focused program of workshop training and mentor support is designed to advance gender equity in the sciences through the public education system. A partnered approach of schools, universities, and private sector expertise has a pilot goal of 800 beneficiaries.

A trained legal professional, policy advisor, and founder of The Legal Edge Community Lab has a vision for a national platform that is community-centric and expands access to justice and civic participation where legal support services are scarce.

A medical student, in partnership with a university Social Medicine program, is developing a digital platform of resources to support information access for 5,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals nationwide. The project includes training healthcare workers to provide sensitive care to this community.

This youth-centered, volunteer-based initiative is an integrated approach to gender equity, human rights, and peacebuilding action projects across public and private schools. Planned milestones include a National Youth Forum for up to 1,000 participants.

Starting with 30 farmers, a sustainability-focused consultant is expanding a project that combines renewable energy, irrigation, and farmer empowerment training to increase rural agricultural efficiency and resilience.

An advocate for psychosocial support in conflict-affected geographic areas is working toward the goal of community spaces to support mental and emotional well-being with increased engagement of policymakers and donors, as well as more “sustainable business models.”

With support from an established entrepreneurial incubator, this project advances economic empowerment for women survivors of gender-based violence through business and vocational training, financial literacy, and new income-generation pathways.

This project puts young people 16-25 at the center of creating community connections through guided storytelling, events, exhibitions, and national programs in partnership with school, library, and park leaders.

This initiative focuses on community leadership development and trades-based training that brings different neighborhood groups together (especially young people and women) to embrace a shared identity and build connections through restoration, rehabilitation, and renewal projects.

Entering its fifth edition since 2022, the
Intersection Mentorship Program bridges the university-to-work gap by connecting graduates with mentors and other resources. Expansion plans include Intersection Tech and Intersection Health for a growing network of beneficiaries.

The purpose of a newly registered youth-in-action organization is to mobilize volunteers to, in turn, engage women and young participants ages 15-30 in civic activities including councils and learning workshops. Ten municipalities are the focus of the project.

There are fewer networking, funding, and partnering opportunities easily accessible to students in specific parts of the country. This project’s three-year vision is to significantly expand national and international access for 200+ students from two universities.

An initiative called Arise Education aims to train classroom teachers in immersive digital tools with embedded approaches to trauma healing and social cohesion. The prototype phase will evaluate the platform through feedback from 100 educators.

With support through the Danish Refugee Council, this recently launched Green & Connected project focuses on supporting innovations in micro and small business environmental practices, mentorship, and collaboration with the Lebanese diaspora.

This initiative is designed to mobilize parents, youth, teachers, religious leaders, and community influencers to increase referrals for specialized protection services that address child labor and gender-based violence.

This mixed-reality platform project involves scoping, proof of concept, and resource mobilization for a modular curriculum that integrates science, engineering, technology, the arts, and math (STEAM) with peacebuilding and trauma healing.

Lebanon has a large number of migrants from the Philippines, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other countries. This project - led by a former International Organization for Migration (IOM) manager - is developing a human-centered design approach to education, health, and life-skills support.

This project, with support from a Norwegian funding source, serves more than 1,500 formal and informal learners, including people living in settlements for Syrians and vulnerable Lebanese families. The goal is to plan for expansion and sustainability.

Through a respected mental health provider – Embrace – this project and its team have goals to reduce cost, transportation, and attitudinal barriers to mental well-being efforts. The project includes outreach to bring psychosocial services to rural communities and informal settlements.

This project, with support from an international funder, serves more than 1,500 formal and informal learners living in settlements for Syrians and vulnerable Lebanese families. The project involves strategic planning for expansion and sustainability.

This project – designed by professionals in community-building and cohesion – leverages community centers, municipal rooms, youth clubs, and shared areas for events to provide low-cost, conflict-sensitive programmingthat fosters dialogue and unity across diversity and difference.

In collaboration with interfaith and intercultural specialists, this project connects local and municipal stakeholders to support youth-led discussions that promote nonviolence and set community priorities together.

Based on action research on waste management, this project is prototyping AI-driven education and a waste-sorting machine to “gamify” environmental sustainability. Early tests in schools showed increases in awareness and positive habits that can reduce a site’s environmental footprint.

A social impact business founder who designs and fabricates circus props is evolving the organization’s workshops and entertainment to promote inclusive work, school, and community environments. The underlying ideal is that play-inspired events lead to more effective personal and community leadership.

A growing for-profit potato chip provider is leveraging its business to “give back” through job, internship, and other community income-generating opportunities. Beyond local sales, exports have begun in MENA, the US, and Australia.

There is a profound need for both technical (hard) and human-centered (soft) problem-solving among young people and women in areas with a history of conflict and low economic investment. This project will test a model that combines peacebuilding with practical training across divided groups.

The platforms of ToRead, Taallam, and Takadam use proprietary technology to connect young people with a variety of learning and development opportunities that may be widely visible or accessible. This equity-inspired project builds on local, regional, national, and international partnerships.

This project seeks to develop a new and comprehensive system of project monitoring – defined from local perspectives and experiences – to guide the design and evaluation of education and empowerment projects to meet the needs of a new era.