Working for the good of the hood - the inaugural episode of The Grid looks at three businesses concerned with where they are.

Contributors to the episode:

- Andreas Förster, co-founder of FragNebenan. Based in Vienna, Austria, FragNebenan is a social network aimed at empowering neighbours and neighbourhoodswww.fragnebenan.com

- Carmen van der Vecht and Andres Talledo Pacheco at Rambler in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Rambler is a social venture and fashion brand that enables troubled street kids and school dropouts to try their hand at fashion www.rmblr.com

- Casey Dilloway at CommunitySourcedCapital in Seattle, USA, a platform that helps businesses to generate money from within their communitieswww.communitysourcedcapital.com

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For more of the neighbourhood-oriented businesses, make sure to check out Konnektid in Amsterdam (www.konnektid.com), Halfway Up the Stairs in Berlin (www.aufhalbertreppe.de), and HandUp in San Fransisco (www.handup.org).

Are there any interesting companies doing something for their communities that you think we have left out? Drop us a line at [email protected] or share it on Twitter with the hashtag #thegrid01

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Produced and presented by Alexei Korolyov, co-produced by Milo Tesselaar.

Logo and visual identity - Lilit Asiryan, graphic designer and visual communicator based in Stockholm www.asiryan.com

Music and sound identity - Alexander Forstner, musician and composer based in Viennawww.sneezingbeaver.com

Music sample: "In The Hood" by Kool & The Gang