An innovative app helps to reduce food waste and end hunger — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran After a rainstorm washed out attendance at a church event in the Washington, D.C., suburbs last year, Tierney Screen found herself in a room filled with unclaimed paper lunch bags, each containing a sandwich, fruit, chips, and cookies. Had there been a few dozen…

How employees with autism are helping one business thrive — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran When Andrew D’Eri, a silent, withdrawn toddler, was diagnosed with autism, his father, John, was confused. “What is autism?” he asked the family doctor. His befuddlement about his two-and-a-half-year-old boy’s condition soon turned to denial: It can’t be my son, he thought. …

The high school students who battled a giant incinerator — and won — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran Four years ago, when Destiny Watford was a high school senior, she learned that the nation’s largest trash incinerator was going to be built less than a mile from her school and the house where she lived with her family. …

A former inmate’s quest to keep ex-convicts from returning to prison — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran As Susan Burton stood in line to board the bus that would take her back to Los Angeles after her sixth stint behind bars, a guard recognized her. “We’ll see you back here soon,” he chided. “We’ll have a bed waiting for you.” A…

When these wounded vets work out, get ready to be humbled — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran Brian Aft was rolling his wheelchair through a strip-mall parking lot in Dallas with a Styrofoam cup of juice perched on his lap when a pickup truck screeched to a stop in front of him. Out bounded a tall, muscled man with shoulder-length hair. …

One state is revolutionizing the way cops are trained — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran During Susan Rahr’s seven-year stint as sheriff of King County, Washington, she reviewed scores of internal affairs investigations. The ones involving allegations of an excessive use of force attracted her closest scrutiny, and led her to pose her own questions to the deputies involved. …

Utah reduced chronic homelessness by 91 percent with a simple idea — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran There were times, a decade ago, when the Road Home, the largest homeless shelter in Salt Lake City, was so full that families trying to bring their children in from the streets for the night would be turned away. “Heartbreaking,” is how Matt Minkevitch…

College wasn’t in the cards for these high-school graduates — until residents did something remarkable — By Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran Makayla George went on her first college tour when she was in the eighth grade. She took the requisite entrance tests on time. And in the fall of 2015, when she was a senior in high school, she applied to 13 colleges. She got…

When a local Muslim community purchased a plot of land opposite a church, they expected hostility — by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran As the morning sun illuminated his kitchen, Steve Stone poured himself a cup of coffee and picked up the local newspaper. Reading it gave him a chance to cool off after riding his bike, and the articles usually provided him with a thought or…