HSI NEWS
Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to welcome Amazing Educational Resources to our community of social entrepreneurs. When he started a Facebook group in December 2019, Nick Hoover never imagined that his idea — to create a place where educators could easily exchange resources — would become a vital platform just…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to introduce Search and Recovery Canines (SARC) as a new member of our community. When Gregory Chown met his first search dog, Krabi, it wasn’t just the beginning of a bond between man and Man’s Best Friend — it was the start of a partnership in…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to welcome CupCats Cafe to our network of social entrepreneurs. From Tokyo to Paris to New York City, cat cafes are beloved for giving visitors the opportunity to enjoy delicious treats in the company of adorable furry friends. Soon, the Lehigh Valley will boast one…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is pleased to welcome VAW Global Health Alliance to our community of social entrepreneurs. Clean water, safe medical treatment and health education are just a few of the vitally important resources that many communities around the world now have access to, thanks to VAW Global Health Alliance.…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is proud to have Downtown Wellness Berks as part of our network of social entrepreneurs. In the spring of 2017, a small group of entrepreneurs and business owners passionate about wellness gathered to discuss healthy living practices and ways to make those practices more accessible to the…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to welcome Safe Communities to our network of social entrepreneurs. As a new year — and decade — begins, Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to introduce Safe Communities to our network. The group works to prevent and address child sexual abuse (CSA), educate churches and…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is pleased to welcome Bridge Beyond Addiction to our community of social entrepreneurs. Bridge Beyond Addiction, a Lehigh Valley-based nonprofit, seeks to combat the growing incidences of substance abuse in its community and across the country. The organization was founded by four mothers whose children suffered from…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to welcome Global Health and Education Alliance to our community of social entrepreneurs. More than 25 years in the making, the Global Health and Education Alliance was founded by Dr. Nnachi Oko to make medical care and education available to underserved areas around the world.…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is proud to welcome Seniors and Sprouts to our community of social entrepreneurs. Across Pennsylvania’s Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties, beautiful green spaces bursting with native flowers and gardens ripe with fresh herbs and food are popping up in unexpected places — around billboards, in neighborhoods and…
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Humanitarian Social Innovations is pleased to be the home for a this new organization. We welcome The Hahn Logging Foundation. Hahn Logging Foundation is a Pennsylvania-based organization that provides financial assistance to families who have lost their breadwinner or have had their breadwinner become disabled due to an accident from…
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Allentown United Football Club
March 22, 2019-“United Premier Soccer League Announces Pennsylvania Expansion with Allentown United Football Club”
https://www.prlog.org/12760906-united-premier-soccer-league-announces-pennsylvania-expansion-with-allentown-united-football-club.html
Writing Wrongs
August 13, 2018-“Intensive 2-Day Workshop to Challenge College Students to Produce an Awareness-Raising Book on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault”
September 1, 2016 – “Student Journalists Illuminate Issue of Addiction at Easy Does It”
Bringing Up A Bookworm
July 30, 2018 – “2018 Freedom Through Literacy Award Winners Announced”
Reading Entrepreneurs’ Connection
June 4, 2018 – “Reading’s Entrepreneurs’ Connection Announces Kauffman FastTrac® Entrepreneur Training Program”
We Need Books
February 8, 2018 – “Local Nonprofit Partners with Greek Nonprofit to Aid Refugees”
MELTDOWN: Based on True Events
November 22, 2017 – “JML Films LLC has partnered with EUE/Sokolow to develop a TV limited series based on true events about the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island.”
July 6, 2017 – “Humanitarian Social Innovations Sponsors Movie on Lasting Impact of Three Mile Island Disaster”
Bethlehem Women of Excellence
November 13, 2017 – “Organizations Collaborate to Assist Area Poor”
Overcoming Odds
May 1, 2017 – “I Am on a Mission to Revolutionize the Adoption Process”
Great Girls Scholarship
April 11, 2017 – “Humanitarian Social Innovations Partners With Scholarship Program”
OUR PROGRAMS IN THE NEWS
La Befana and Friends
"Madison native writes book to inspire small acts of kindness."
Fox 61, January 7, 2021, interview by Audrey Kuchen
Y.E.A.H. Philly
"This successful Black-led org couldn't get a loan that wasn't predatory. Philanthropy needs to step up."
Generocity, November 17, 2020, by Sarah Martinez-Helfman
Mountain Bike Afghanistan
"These Afghan Women are Defying the Patriarchy--On Bikes"
Bicycling, October 12, 2020, by Farid Noori
“Young Afghans Look to Mountain Biking as a Means to Transcend Conflict”
The Diplomat, November 5, 2019, by Ian J. Lynch
“Farid Noori, Mountain Bike Afghanistan”
iamtedking Podcast, July 2018
“Student Hopes to Represent Afghanistan at 2020 Olympics
Middlebury College Online Newsroom, May 15, 2018
“Farid Noori ’18 Looks to Blaze a Trail with Mountain Biking”
Middlebury Campus Newspaper, March 14, 2018
Bringing Up a Bookworm
“Nonprofit Kindled by Teacher’s Fervor for Early Reading”
Reading Eagle, April 27, 2018
Overcoming Odds
“He was a Russian orphan. Now he’s a podcast host changing lives.”
The American Statesman, June, 2018
Humanitarian Social Innovations
“The Business of Making a Better World”
Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine, Winter 2016