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The world is facing a literacy crisis: A staggering 70 percent of 10-year-olds do not understand a simple written text. This nonprofit is out to build literacy globally by publishing multilingual books on a free digital app and empowering creators to write books in their languages.

A new education center at a riverfront park in Stamford, Connecticut, is connecting the community to nature and teaching applied science to promote sustainability and inspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals.

Consumers are ready to vote with their dollar on environmental, social and governance issues. “It’s a rising tide,” said Tim Clover, founder and CEO of Glow, who has spent nine years digging into the “why” behind consumer behavior with a particular focus on ESG. So how should companies respond?

Not many college students can say they saved a major multinational company time, money and space. A partnership between North Carolina A&T and HanesBrands is allowing senior industrial engineering majors to do just that by solving real-world organizational and time management problems for the clothing giant.