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  • Closing the Preschool Gap at Home

    Anne Kim

    February 06, 2017 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

    Mounting evidence points to an increasing disparity in the educational achievements of those children who attend and complete pre-school, and those who do not. The Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program is a national home visiting initiative for low-income families that is working to bridge the gap. They provide learning curriculum, guidance, and parenting support for disadvantaged families in their homes, so that their children can be equally prepared to succeed in school.

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  • USPS Could Tackle Food Insecurity

    Jen Kinney

    January 27, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    While the USPS has seen a drastic decline in revenues and capacity in recent years due to growing competition from the private sector and social changes, First Class Meal is reimagining the role that this institution has to play: improving national access to healthy food. Using the existing USPS app to connect organizations and food banks that struggle to distribute donations, postal drivers out on their normal routes would pick up donations, deliver to food banks or pantries, and store food in post offices with excess capacity.

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  • N.J. food stamp recipients can shop online this summer

    Nicole Leonard

    January 16, 2017 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey

    New Jersey was one of seven states chosen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to participate in a pilot program for SNAP recipients, where eligible participants can use food stamps for grocery purchases online for the first time.

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  • How Nepal got the electricity flowing

    Bikash Sangraula

    January 16, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    Over the last seven years, Nepal's electricity use has remained under the control of the Nepal Electrical Authority (NEA), a monopoly that has been illegally supplying electricity to certain industries 24/7 leaving the public in darkness during blackout hours. Due to the ingenuity of Kul Man Ghising, the electricity has been redistributed and can be utilized for up to 20 hours per day in consistent and publicly known time blocks. It is possible that in the coming years, 24 hours of electricity a day will be available to all in Nepal.

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  • Kenya's booming digital sharing economy?

    Harriet Constable

    January 05, 2017 |

    African Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Though the big players in the sharing economy like Uber and Airbnb are eyeing growing middle class markets like that of Kenya, the concept of shared access to goods and services is nothing new for Kenyan communities. Whereas in the West, the shared economy structure arose largely from a desire for flexibility, in Kenya, much of it arose from need. Now platforms like Lynk and Little Cabs are helping connect Kenyan customers to a broad range of service providers.

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  • The Map That Lets You Listen to Radio Everywhere

    Adrienne LaFrance

    December 12, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    By mapping links onto satellite imagery, Radio Garden provides an easy way to listen to the online broadcasts of radio stations around the world. Through these broadcasts, a listener can expand their cultural awareness in a direct, entertaining way that reinforces common humanity while retaining distinct individuality.

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  • Mobile Restrooms Offer Solution for Lower Polk's Homeless Community

    Libby Leyden

    December 09, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    With the homeless population in San Francisco in crisis, the lack of a safe clean place for the homeless to relieve themselves has caused concerns over sanitation in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Now the city offers a mobile City Resource Relief Center, a van that offers not only a toilet but also clothes, hygiene kits, food, and coffee. The project has documented many uses of the bathroom each night.

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  • Four-Legged Medical Care Helps San Francisco's Homeless

    Brittany Hosea-Small

    December 09, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    For homeless people, their furry companions give them comfort as well as a sense of purpose and security. However, living in poverty prevents them from giving medical care and play toys to their pets. San Francisco’s Veterinary Street Outreach Services is a pop-up clinic that offers free veterinary services to homeless people’s pets twelve times a year.

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  • This drug can break opioid addiction. Why aren't we using it?

    Julia Laurie

    December 07, 2016 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Opioid addiction has increased throughout the United States. A clinic in San Francisco has been offering an opioid replacement drug called buphrenorphine to help wean addicts away from opioids. The clinic’s success at healing addicts has served as a model for clinics in other cities around the country.

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  • Can Oakland's Compassionate Communities program serve as a model for others?

    Rob Arias

    December 07, 2016 |

    E'ville Eye News |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Under increasing pressure to remove the homeless from encampments, the San Francisco bay area has had difficulty addressing the problem of where the homeless can find refuge. Oakland has established Compassionate Communities, a piloted program lead by local government officials, which pipelines funds not toward the dissolution of encampments but rather to the creation of permanent housing. So far, the program has successfully transitioned twenty-five residents of encampments into permanent housing and is projecting to dissolve the encampments by April 2017.

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