determining the impact of integral ecology practices and establishing a research hub

Assessing organizational structures to support farmers and sustainable agriculture

Diversifying incomes and regenerating the land

Impacting financial inclusion via a FinTech application

Leveraging property assets for financial and community impact

Empowering rural Ugandan women in tech fields

Harnessing Indigenous wisdom and energy for strategic and operational success

Creating jobs through apparel and textile reuse and recycling

Opening up opportunities via an Empowered Employers Network

Promoting Peace, Substituting Illicit Crops and Strengthening Ag Commercialization

Strengthening Educational Systems in Uganda

Working to Enhance Community-Managed Savings Groups

Supporting an Emerging Green Construction Ecosystem

Sustainable alternative livelihoods via mining biodiversity offsets

Strengthening economic, social and environmental impact for peacebuilding

Co-creating a strategic plan for regenerative agriculture and better livelihoods

Identifying and Reversing Economic Migration

Evaluating and Scaling a Workforce Development Tool 

Building Trust and Generating Engagement for Community Development

Exploring Childcare Options to Increase Women's Participation in the Workforce

Co-creating a Farmer Financing Program

Cost Analysis of Nursery and Anchor Farm

Boosting Sales for a Social Enterprise

Co-creating Financial Sustainability to Achieve an Education Mission

Catalyzing Social Enterprises for Economic Development in Appalachia

Textile Recycling as a Social Enterprise

Supporting Efforts toward Economic Soveriegnty

Formalizing and ensuring sustainability of a Community Education Volunteer model

Promoting Peace through Commercialization

Building a Tech Ecosystem with Green Solutions

Co-creating Agribusinesses with Women Farmers

All Projects

Increasing Textile Warehouse Capacity for a Social Enterprise

Adjusting to Labor Cost Shifts in a Social Enterprise

Exploring Opportunities for Franchising and Expansion

Improving Neighborhood Financial Literacy

Co-creating a Long Term Strategy for Sustainable Energy

Trauma Healing through Dignity of Work in eCommerce

Co-creating Ways to Strengthen Organizational Structure

SEED Funding to Create and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Developing Innovation Hubs for Social Entrepreneurs

Identifying Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurs in the GBAO Region

Building the Business School that Puerto Rico Needs

Empowering Talented Refugee and Low-Income Artisans in the West Bank

Designing a Strategy for Economic and Societal Impact

Building an Agriculture Value Chain and Developing Education Opportunities in Honduras

Building livelihoods in the Amazon through sustainable tourism

Trauma Healing through Access to Nutritious Meals

Societal and Environmental Transformation through Tourism

Creating Career Pathways for Young People

Setting Conditions for Economic Growth through Renewable Energy

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Developing Strategy to Support Long Term Livelihoods in the West Bank

Cáritas Madre de Dios

Connecting Young Tech Talent to Potential Employers

Designing Business Education to Foster Economic Development

Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) 

Developing sustainable alternatives to coca cultivation 

Sustainable business development in the Amazon with Acai

Exploring Opportunities in Urban Farming

Building new livelihoods in Appalachia

Reduce Human Trafficking though Increased Volunteerism in Schools

Overcoming the Barriers to Growth for Small Businesses

Increasing Market Opportunities for Disadvantaged Women in the West Bank

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

Exploring Sustainable Local Agricultural Supply Chains

Developing a Path to Self-sustainability

Insights from the Frontlines

Exploring Opportunities to Leverage Education for Economic Development

In Kinship

Developing Community Approaches to Economic Development

Research from the REEL Lab indicates integral ecology’s potential for bringing environmental and social change

Sustainable business development in the Amazon with Guarana

Exploring renewable energy from agricultural waste

New Faculty Director for Meyer Business on the Frontlines Program 

Strategic Planning for Continuing Operations

Rebuilding the Santurce Neighborhood

Close to home

Cultivating and Commercializing Cacao for the Mayan Q'eqchi' People

Do what you can, no matter how small

Sustainable business development in the Amazon with Farinha de Mandioca

Exploring expanding construction capabilities in education

Inclusive Bridge Building: Community-Based Learning

Increasing market opportunities for disadvantaged women in the West Bank

Developing livelihood opportunities for indigenous populations

Team Philippines Helps Empower Entrepreneurs Through a Community Managed Savings Group Program 

Development of peaceful livelihoods for FARC ex-combatants

Sustainable business development in the Amazon

Team Ghana helps Newmont Mining Analyze Biodiversity Offset Solutions 

Launching the First Development Impact Bond for Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fighting child labor

Intentional inclusion and peacebuilding: PASO Colombia

Combating malnutrition

Ensuring the livelihood of a community once a mine closes

Business on the Edge

Enhancing business strategy and operations to serve isolated communities

Post-civil war youth reconciliation & employment

 “Frontlines has been a distinctive, mission-focused component of the Notre Dame MBA since the program began in 2008," said Mendoza College of Business Dean Martijn Cremers. "Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez will strengthen Frontlines’ research while continuing the program’s contribution to building stable and prosperous communities worldwide.” 

Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez

Meet the new director

New leadership for Frontlines Program

Voices

Partner Stories

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Looking back on four years of the Frontlines -- Homeboy Industry partnership.

Homeboy Threads

Integral ecology's potential

Drew and REEL teams in Peru

Childs Cup Full

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Team Philippines helps empower entrepreneurs through community-managed savings groups

BOTFL XVI Philippines

Frontlines in America partners with Summit Lake Paiute

FIA Team Summit Lake visits the Tribe's reservation and the lake it's named for.

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