Nonprofits frequently complain about how hard it is to get at-risk homeowners to ask for help.
Their Good Time For Schools and Hand2Hand programs get at-risk and marginalised children into circus workshops to foster skills as well as inclusiveness and diversity.
In 2013, Howe helped design Terra, a fitness app, with a company called Funomena and also the University of California, Davis, to get at-risk American youths living in food deserts healthier.
Robyn Petgrave, founder of Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum TAMM), is using aeronautics to get at-risk youth in Compton off the streets and into the air -- educating, inspiring and empowering them to soar high and reach their dreams.
And beyond the walls of government, there's perhaps an even bigger challenge for activists: getting at-risk communities to care.
Hundreds of studies over four decades have shown that Head Start does its job: it gets at-risk children ready for kindergarten.
It is something Head Start has learned over nearly 50 years of service as a War on Poverty program getting at-risk children ready for kindergarten.
That money could be better spent on education, health care, and getting at-risk people the counseling they need so they don't fall back into addiction and petty crime.
Getting at-risk children out of work and into school in the slums of Moradabad, India MORADABAD, India, 29 February 2012 – From ages 8 to 10, Anas spent 10 hours a day, six days a week, working in a smoke-filled metalware workshop in the slums of Moradabad.
We are going to get more at-risk," Mr Livingstone told the Today programme.
"I don't really get comfortable when I haven't got something at risk," he said.
