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Opportunity Through Data
UROC – Demystifying the Research Process
ALPS: Accelerated Lead Pipe Scale-buildup
ArboSol
Trash to Tiles
Better Journey
TextTrainer: a dialog system to train crisis helpline counselors
Artists in Residents
VIDI
Codi
Acarí
Loo Lab
Scaling Dost Education (UC Berkeley)
SAFR: Scalable and Affordable Fluoride Removal (UC Berkeley)
Paladin Drones (UC Berkeley)
Information for Action (UC Berkeley)
Reach 1600 Foundation (UC Berkeley)
PairWalk (UC Berkeley)
BearCare: Comprehensive Student Mobile Health App (UC Berkeley)
React!: A Board Game that Makes Organic Chemistry Fun (UC Berkeley)
CourseExplorer: Helping Students Uncover Hidden Gems
ULAB: Undergraduate Lab at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
InPrint: Parkinson’s Tremor Tracker (UC Berkeley)
Tabla: Pneumonia Detection Device (UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco)
HopeAssist (UC Berkeley)
KNO2 Sensor: A Wearable Device for Oxygen Saturation Monitoring in Low and Middle Resource Settings (UC Berkeley)
Planet Murple (UC Berkeley)
Farmview: New Power for Tenant Farmers (UC Berkeley)
HomeSlice (UC Berkeley)
Bio-inspired Desalination for Off-Grid Water Treatment (UC Berkeley)
ZestBio Orange Bottles (UC Berkeley)
Movement Exchange: Free Education and a Stage for Cross-Cultural Understanding (UC San Diego)
MigRadio Podcast (UC Berkeley)
Scaling Up the Biodiesel Project (UC Berkeley)
Feces to Fuel (UC Berkeley)
The Somo Project (UC Berkeley)
Dost: A Mobile Platform to Promote Parent Engagement and Early Childhood Education (UC Berkeley)
PillPal (UC Berkeley)
et al. Health (UC Berkeley)
Wildfire (UC Berkeley)
LiftEd (UC Berkeley)
SafeSpace (UC Berkeley)
FloGlow: Low Cost Spirometer (UC Berkeley)
PictoKit: Retirement Toolkit (UC Berkeley)
SocialForce (UC Berkeley)
MÄk (UC Berkeley)
Project Numa: Low Cost Disposable Battery for the Developing World (UC Berkeley)
The Alternative Iron by Ferrous (UC Berkeley)
FITE Film and Resource Connection (UC Berkeley)
OhMyCause! (UC Berkeley)
India Smiles (UC Berkeley)
Amplify Impact (UC Berkeley)
Preparing Future Leaders: The Community Health and Development Internship Project (UC Berkeley)
Responsive City Lights: Urban Streets as Public Spaces (UC Berkeley)
Special Lessons in Neuroscience (UC Berkeley)
SeedEd Capital (UC Berkeley)
Adelante – Youth Empowerment Program (UC Berkeley)
Hombres Verdaderos (UC Berkeley)
USeeData (UC Berkeley)
Visualize: Saving Lives with Training for Cervical Cancer Screening (UC Berkeley)
The Somo Project (UC Berkeley)
A Novel Approach to Remediate Groundwater Fluoride Contamination in Nalgonda, India (UC Berkeley)
Equa (UC Berkeley)
Transcense – Seamless Deaf/Hearing Conversations (UC Berkeley)
Piezoelectric Shoe Sole GPS Tracker (UC Berkeley)
Emmunify: A Simple Tool to Save Lives with Vaccination (UC Berkeley)
Bahay Kubo – Gardens of Living Tradition (UC Berkeley)
Highland Health Advocates (UC Berkeley)
Feces to Fuel: Saving Trees, Budgets, and Lungs (UC Berkeley)
Kuy Kuitin: Mitigating Indigenous Conflicts Through Education in Chile (UC Berkeley)
Visualizing the Invisible (UC Berkeley)
Bacteriophage-based Generators for Portable Electronics (UC Berkeley)
Catalyst@Berkeley Expansion Program (UC Berkeley)
The Biodiesel Project (UC Berkeley)
AfroArt East Africa: Artist Stories (UC Berkeley)
Gyaan (UC Berkeley)
Art to Heart: Addressing the Empathy Blind Spot of the Cal Community (UC Berkeley)
The Pachamama Project (UC Berkeley)
ReMaterials (UC Berkeley)
East Bay Youth Against Trafficking (UC Berkeley)
Near Zero: Mechanical Flywheel Battery (UC Berkeley)
Transparent Living: Using Data to Bring Transparency (UC Berkeley)
Sign UP (UC Berkeley)
Aeolus: Detecting Narcotics-Induced Respiratory Depression (UC Berkeley)
Sahay (UC Berkeley)
Dropsense (UC Berkeley)
Glucose ENOSE (UC Berkeley)
The Phoenix Scholars (UC Berkeley)
CloudCreations (UC Berkeley)
LuxWalk (UC Berkeley)
PowerTower: Empowering Global Communities (UC Berkeley)
Mosquitoes Suck! Malarial Hotspots and the Opportunity for LAMP (UC Berkeley)
Spot-It! (UC Berkeley)
ElectroSan: Recovering Nitrogen from Urine in Nairobi, Kenya (UC Berkeley)
InversionParaTodos.com.ar (UC Berkeley)
The Employment and Life Skills Academic Competition (UC Berkeley)
Documentary Movie about Adopted Kids (UC Berkeley)
The Food Bikery (UC Berkeley)
Heart Connection: An Interactive Multimedia Website for Adults (UC Berkeley)
Solidge: An Off-Grid, Solar-Powered Refrigerator (UC Berkeley)
Youth Empowerment Centers for Marginalized Mexican Communities (UC Berkeley)
Berkcycle (UC Berkeley)
m3d: Mass Minable Medical Data (UC Berkeley)
Near Zero (UC Berkeley)
Wallflower Ventilation (UC Berkeley)
PT-E Generator (UC Berkeley)
Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa with Mobile Phone Interface (UC Berkeley)
India Smiles (UC Berkeley)
Cash FLOW (UC Berkeley)
Push Me, Pull You: O-Chem, the Fun Way! (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Communities to University Research (UC Berkeley)
100 Strong (UC Berkeley)
Vision From the Bottom: Providing a Brighter Future (UC Berkeley)
Building a Youth Leadership Association in Rabinal, Guatemala (UC Berkeley)
From Farm to People: Connecting People to Their Food Source (UC Berkeley)
Nossa Communidade, Nossa Historia: Our Community, Our Story (UC Berkeley)
The Secret Life of Urban Animals (UC Berkeley)
ParkExperienceMap (UC Berkeley)
Extending a Helping Hand as Volunteer Tax Preparers (UC Berkeley)
GoodWheels (UC Berkeley)
Tekla Labs (UC Berkeley)
Truth as Freedom: Promoting Human Rights and Accountability through Access to Information in Sierra Leone (UC Berkeley)
The Pachamama Project (UC Berkeley)
Free Ventures (UC Berkeley)
Fruitful Minds, Stage Two: Crossing County Lines (UC Berkeley)
Flowbit (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley City College Service Community (UC Berkeley)
Cashify (UC Berkeley)
Pop-Up Radio Archive (UC Berkeley)
Emmunify (UC Berkeley)
AMASS Media (UC Berkeley)
Haath Mein Sehat (UC Berkeley)
Portable, Affordable, and Accurate Means of Assessing Hemoglobin Levels in Resource-Poor Settings (UC Berkeley)
Campus Insight (UC Berkeley)
Footstep Energy (UC Berkeley)
Rotors in Motion: Solar Vehicle Motor Design (UC Berkeley)
Smart Building (UC Berkeley)
Haath Mein Sehat Community Health Worker Program (UC Berkeley)
Light From Below (UC Berkeley)
Salud, Igual para Todos (Health, Equal for All) (UC Berkeley)
Youth Leadership Now (UC Berkeley)
TxtWorker (UC Berkeley)
The Pika Pen (UC Berkeley)
Bare Abundance (UC Berkeley)
Vietnam Tooth Project: The Children’s Oral Health and Nutrition Project in Vietnam (UC Berkeley)
A Healthy Smile (UC Berkeley)
Acopio (UC Berkeley)
Politify (UC Berkeley)
Nuestra Agua Safe Water Franchise (UC Berkeley)
Solving the world's biggest problems in energy healthcare gender equality education food security clean water sanitation
The Blum Center for Developing Economies leverages the talent, enthusiasm, and energy of the University of California, Berkeley community to address the grand challenge of global poverty. Our interdisciplinary problem-solving approach draws on students and faculty dedicated to facing this challenge through innovative initiatives, education, and research.
The Blum Center offers the following academic programs and initiatives:
BIG IDEAS is an annual innovation contest that provides funding, resources, mentorship, and validation to student-led social ventures. Based out of the Blum Center at UC Berkeley and open to all 10 University of California campuses, Big Ideas seeks out novel ideas and offers targeted training and support to social entrepreneurs as they navigate the earliest stages of the ideation process. Learn more…
GLOBAL POVERTY AND PRACTICE (GPP), one of the largest and most popular minors on the UC Berkeley campus, gives students an opportunity to examine contemporary forms of poverty, wealth, and inequality through academic coursework and practical experience. To date, 19,200 students have taken GPP courses and over 1,000 have graduated from the minor. Learn more…
DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING is an interdisciplinary training program launched in 2014 for UC Berkeley graduate students who aim to use technology to address the needs of people living in poverty. The program is the first of its kind in the country. Now featuring InFEWS, a food-energy-water concentration of Development Engineering, and a forthcoming professional master’s degree program. Learn more…
AFFINITY GROUPS celebrate the diversity of our student cohorts, while also offering a space to share, support, and learn about/from each other.
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DEVELOPMENT IMPACT LAB (DIL) was founded in 2012 with a $20 million investment from USAID and is a global consortium of researchers, nongovernmental organizations, and industry partners committed to advancing international development through science and technology. Learn more…
THE SOCIAL INNOVATOR ONRAMP helps students grow their ideas for social impact while still in school. The OnRamp course and its online resource guide are designed to bridge the gap between early stage ideation and off-campus implementation. Learn more…