Giving Compass' Take:

• Mashable takes a look at how innovators, activists, and organizations worked together in 2018 to create many innovations to help people around the world with various challenges. 

• How can we help fund more innovations such as these? How can we track how these innovations will actually be beneficial?

• Learn about collaborative innovations from 2018. 

In no particular order, here are 14 innovations that made the world a more inclusive, safe, and all-around better place this year. To learn about other ingenious innovations, check out this list from 2017:

  1. Starbucks opened its first U.S. store for Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers in Washington, D.C.
  2. A benefits platform for domestic workers
  3. An armband that helps diagnose malnutrition
  4. An expo for sanitation technology
  5. This Xbox controller was designed to meet the needs of gamers who have limited mobility
  6. Code for America clears marijuana convictions
  7. A new taxonomy for language about sexual violence at work
  8. Using Alexa to donate to charity
  9. New emoji for people with disabilities
  10. An initiative to collect data to help refugees
  11. Gender-neutral shopping floor
  12. Massive 3D printer that can construct a house
  13. 3D "organ on a chip"
  14. Duel-purpose car mat that provides sidewalk accessibility

Read the full article about 14 innovations from 2018 at Mashable.