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In its efforts to oust authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s Tisza Party established “Tisza Islands” across the country to recruit and engage volunteers, with more than 20,000 members as of January 2025. Through these outposts, the party was able to staff its campaign stalls with volunteers, distribute an independent newspaper highlighting information not reported in pro-Orbán media, and deploy election monitors to polling stations on election day. Tisza’s candidate, Péter Magyar, defeated Orbán with more than 53 percent of the vote.

KRAPAVIS has restored 249 sacred groves in Rajasthan through a community-led model where villages share restoration costs and appoint local custodians. They've successfully reviving water sources, wells, and biodiversity while securing a 2024 Supreme Court ruling that protects these community-conserved ecosystems across India.

The Bayanga Human Rights Center in the Central African Republic has helped restore Indigenous Ba'aka people's access to justice, administrative documents, and political participation. They've done this through a combination of grassroots legal assistance, mediation, awareness campaigns, and grievance mechanisms—resulting in criminal convictions for serious abuses, reduced conservation-related complaints, and Ba'aka members now serving on local councils.

In western Illinois, ComEd's flexible interconnection program uses collaborative workshops and data-sharing agreements to allow community solar projects to connect to the grid without costly upgrades.

The Azure Bouré's Traditional Food and Medicine Program provides culturally relevant medicines to Suquamish tribal members and builds community trust while teaching future generations to adapt ancestral knowledge in real-time. As they respond to climate change, the Program has adapted traditional plant harvesting through flexible curriculum adjustments, strategic land partnerships, and transparent education about shifting growing cycles.

Copenhagen, Hoboken, and other cities have implemented "sponge city" approaches that combine nature-based infrastructure like absorbent parks and green spaces with traditional engineering to reduce flooding while creating popular public amenities.

Thanks to a 2022 ballot proposal, Michigan voters can "cure" mail-in ballots with missing or mismatched signatures until 5 p.m. on the Friday following an election, giving them an opportunity to ensure their votes count. Some campaigns have mounted efforts to encourage voters to cure their ballots, with one mayoral election in a city of less than 28,000 people seeing roughly 120 voters fix such signature issues.

Project New Village operates a solar-powered mobile farmers market, community garden, and backyard growers' network in Southeast San Diego that has been serving residents with affordable fresh produce since 2022.

Urban Alchemy specializes in stepping in to help cities when their efforts to address homelessness have reached an inflection point, rapidly scaling new programs such as “safe sleep sites” and emergency shelters while tapping formerly incarcerated people to serve as staffers. However, the organization’s methods are sometimes controversial, resulting in a handful of lawsuits and canceled contracts.

The Centre for Family Health Initiative aims to improve sexual and reproductive health for young girls by bringing educational programs into the schools and connecting students to important health services through primary health care providers. Its year-long education program, Dreams Girls, covers everything from puberty and menstrual health to STI prevention and discussions of consent. The program has been offered in 22 secondary schools so far and partly credits its success to building relationships with community gatekeepers who can help encourage community buy-in.