The location of Jean-Marc Houmard’s latest property—the heart of colonial Granada, Nicaragua, one of the oldest cities in South America—may surprise those who are familiar with its owner from his urbane New York City eateries, Indochine and Acme, but Tribal Hotel remains true to his taste. Whereas Houmard’s restaurants offer a tropical feel in a city environment, Tribal Hotel brings a curated beauty to a quiet place. Designed in the Mid-century Modern ӕsthetic with rural whims, Tribal has an unassuming façade, but is warm, and boasts simple elegance within. Truly a boutique hotel, Tribal offers five suites, each with a terrace and each different from the next, but all hand-designed in a signature style and replete with one-of-a-kind, Nicaraguan artisanal pieces.

It’s been nine years since Ilana Ben-Ari nearly lost her degree trying to design a toy that pushes children to think outside the box.

For Ben-Ari, play is one of our primal instincts. We like to solve problems, we like to be creative, and we like to solve problems in creative ways with each other. But collaborative learning and, more importantly, empathy aren’t just reserved for the playground. They are new hallmarks of the modern workplace.

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It’s hard to believe Eden Full when she says there is no such thing as a child prodigy. Before she could legally buy a drink in her hometown of Calgary, she had already developed a prototype for a solar panel that was forty percent more efficient than standard panels. “It’s really just a matter of hard work,” Full reasons.

That hard work led Full to develop SunSaluter—a solar panel that rotates with the movement of the sun without the need for the active, electrical motors that power conventional solar panels. Designed specifically for developing countries in dire need of extra juice, Full won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship—worth $100,000 over two years—along with partnerships with Siemens and press from the New York Times. But the fellowship was a bit of a gamble, pulling Full out of her college plans.

Much is made of the young person’s imperative to change the world. Startups ought to think sustainably. Artists ought to think globally. Companies ought to give back. And yet how easy it is to do nothing? To head back to our social profiles or photo filters? At a time when people are more connected than they have ever been, we have simultaneously entered an age of narcissism, turning the social world into a tool to self-brand, self-define, and self-promote. And yet there is another groundswell building, one made up of young people who not only want to give back but also see the value in social innovation

Looking out over the mysterious, sculptural cliffs of RiME’s digital coast, one is caught by the beauty and wild imagination allowed to independent video game developers. “Joaquín Sorolla and the light of the Mediterranean were our main inspirations when creating RiME,” says Raúl Rubio Munárriz, creative director of Tequila Works, the company behind RiME. “Salvador Dalí’s negative space and Giorgio de Chirico’s Surrealist architecture contributed to create an eerie yet believable world.”

Creatives are a fickle type, and they’re not without their convictions. Fashion—high fashion in particular—is of a breed of its own, and rightfully so. The market is one in which exclusivity is a core component, a give-and-take in which widespread distribution carries with it a certain risk of guilt by association. Even philanthropic efforts had, until recently, their own political complexity, requiring that givers keep an eye on both the cause and the community behind it.

Fashion Girls for Humanity has made significant strides in overcoming this complexity, creating a remarkable track record in the process. Founded in the wake of the 2011 earthquake in east Japan by four fashion executives—Kikka Hanazawa, Tomoko Ogura, Julie Gilhart, and Miki Higasa—Fashion Girls for Humanity has become the rallying point for philanthropic efforts in the industry, raising millions for various causes along the way. As curatorial as they are effective, the team stands as the center point around which a global network of fashion-industry professionals gather to use their abilities for social good.

We asked longtime Last Magazine collaborator and makeup artist Mark Carrasquillo for his beauty must-haves. He sent over six of his favorites—straight out of his kit.

The story of Krochet Kids Intl. has been an improbable, guts-or-glory story of success following faith, says Kohl Crecelius, one of the nonprofit’s three laid-back founders. “I will tell you, there was a point where a group of about ten of us paused the night before we were going to teach the women in Uganda and we thought, What if they’re not very good at crocheting?”