Allegory Is On The Hunt For Volunteers!
Sock Company Doubles Down on Helping The Homeless
After discovering that socks are the #1 requested item in homeless shelters, the gang at Bombas decided to do something about it. They started a sock company with the express purpose of donating their product. For every pair of socks you buy from Bombas, the company gives a pair to a person in need. And the best part is that while researching how best to help the homeless, Bombas has made some amazing design innovations with their product.
Marta Becket: Ballerina With A Dream
Upon, learning about Marta Becket and the dream she made real in Death Valley, we were blown away. In 1967, this ballerina and New York native blew a tire on a camping trip with her husband in Death Valley. They had to travel forty miles to the nearest gas station where she spotted the future site of the Amargosa Opera house. After renting the theater for only $45 a month, Ms. Becket started her very own ballet theater in the middle of nowhere when she was 43 years old.
BRITE Program Helps Seniors Remember In a Whole New Way
23% of folks over the age of 65 suffer from some kind of memory loss. Some of this cognitive loss could be the first steps towards Alzheimers or dementia and some of it is just plain, old fashioned getting old. Either way, the University of Pittsburgh’s BRITE program is helping seniors remember by offering them music lessons on the marimba.
When You Love Zebras a Little Bit Too Much
Join the #TryPod Movement - We'll Walk You Through It!
March is officially #TryPod month on twitter! Don’t know what any of that means? That’s okay! Let us explain. People who love podcasts loooooooooove podcasts and they’re always trying to get other folks to love podcasts too. Well, count us in - as it happens, Allegory produces one of the best pods out there.
The Human Kind Podcast is a 12-part series that features conversations about race. It’s smart, it’s educational, it’s fun and it’s sooooo addictive. If you’re going to "Try A Pod," it’s the perfect pod to try.
Blendoor App Levels the Playing Field in Hiring
This might very well be the biggest game changer in hiring we’ve seen so far: a hiring app for companies looking to hire on merit, not molds. Stanford and MIT-trained engineer Stephanie Lampkin has developed a hiring app that keeps the age, gender and race of an applicant completely under wraps throughout the process.
Grover: Unlikely STEM Spokesperson...er...SpokesMuppet
Loveable, furry, old Grover has become Sesame Street’s go-to character to teach STEM principles to children. Why? Because he represents the children he is teaching. Rarely does Grover get things right, right? He is constantly finding himself in sticky situations that he doesn’t know how to get himself out of and THAT’S exactly why the producers of the show chose him to be their spokesperson for STEM.
A Cop Walks Into A Barbershop
Every institution has its problems. Sometimes those problems lead to real heartache within our communities. When we recognize that and work to solve those problems, bridges are built, relationships are forged and some beautiful progress is made.
Watch how this policeman and barber have set aside their preconceived notions of each other to build a relationship that’s great for their community.
This Otter Is Showing The Upside How To Live Our Best Life…
The Global Village Project Means the World To Us
At Allegory, we are striving to let the world know about the great things folks are doing here at home and abroad. One of our latest projects is a media venture centering around the amazing strides some of our newest citizens are making to become thriving members of their community. The Global Village Project is a non-profit school designed specifically for refugee girls. This three year program takes girls from all over the world whose education has been interrupted and prepares them to enter their local American high school.
A Well That Creates Drinking Water From Thin Air
One in nine people worldwide lives without access to clean drinking water, but the WaterSeer seeks to solve that problem by creating water - out of thin air. The wind-powered device uses condensation to extract moisture from the air and collect up to 11 gallons of potable water every day. After a fan pushes air below ground, a metal chamber cools it and then water particles collect in a reservoir.
Singing at Sing Sing For All the Right Reasons
Folk singer Rhiannon Giddens chose to debut her new album this week in an unexpected, beautiful and socially conscious way: by Singing at Sing Sing. It happened through Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections program, which seeks to bring musicians and musical education into the lives of those incarcerated there. Participating inmates learn to play instruments and compose, in addition to the opportunity to enjoy the concerts.
More Love, Less Fear...All Over the World
Watching the news can make anyone feel helpless these days. Fear is a powerfully disabling force. But thanks to The Preemptive Love Coalition, the non-profit on the ground in war torn parts of the world, fear has met its match on the streets.
Miracle Messages is Tackling Homelessness - One Family At A Time
The San Francisco-based non-profit Miracle Messages works by reconnecting people experiencing homelessness with family members from whom they have lost touch. Armed with video messages of the person they are helping, volunteer "detectives" take to the internet to track down long lost family members - and they are changing lives.
Everybody Needs a Good Haircut...
A Registry We Love! : Miry's List Helps Refugee Families
We are living through rough times right now, UpSiders. Conflicts abound and folks coming into the country from far more conflicted places than here are greatly in need of help. And for those of us who want to help, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Enter, the easiest way to help refugee families ever: Miry's List.
The Human Kind Podcast is Ready to Binge!
One of our first projects is a podcast. You guys like podcasts right? You’re hip, you’re now, you’re happenin’? Well...anyway...it's called “The Human Kind Podcast.” It’s a 12-part series that features conversations between two guests of varying racial backgrounds sitting down to talk about one thing and one thing only: race.
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
It’s Black History Month here in America and when you think about the folks who put their lives on the line in order to form a more perfect union, you can not help but think about the Godmother of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks. She came, she sat, she conquered.
But what you might not know is that in 1994, our great American hero was robbed in her home and assaulted, leaving her in great need. Something else you might not know is that this quiet patriot came to her aid in a huge way and never, ever told anyone about it.