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  • Transform Cincy provides transgender youth with a personal stylist, fresh wardrobe and a sense of LGBTQ+ community

    Transform Cincy provides free, personalized styling experiences for trans and gender-nonconforming youth who may not be safe or comfortable shopping in public spaces. The organization has helped hundreds of youth find a wardrobe that helps them feel like their true selves and offers events and resources for the local LGBTQ+ community, from board game nights to screen printing classes.

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  • Man Up, Balkans

    The Be a Man initiative facilitates clubs where youth learn to reexamine gender norms, talk about how to prevent violence, address harmful stereotypes, and promote healthy relationships. More than 2,000 young people have participated in Be a Man activities since the program began, and surveys show participants demonstrated greater self-esteem, improved communication and critical thinking, and stronger empathy.

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  • A digital refuge for male survivors of sexual abuse

    Boys Without Borders provides boys who experienced sexual abuse with a support system and educational resources to help them overcome social and mental health issues they may be facing. With the group’s 65 student volunteers, they have helped more than 2,500 boys since launching in 2020.

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  • Partnerships, not parachutes: How Indigenous knowledge and citizen science can enhance climate research

    To fill gaps in climate data, some researchers are using a collaborative tactic known as “ethical space” to solicit and include Indigenous knowledge about climate change. Often, this results in improved conservation outcomes.

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  • Tucson nonprofit Boys to Men helps create a safe space for male youth

    The Boys to Men Mentoring Network aims to create nurturing, intentional spaces for boys to connect to build mindful relationships with safe, trusted men in the community. The Network hosts weekly talking circle support groups in 20 area middle and high schools where male mentors share their life experiences and lessons learned. Group data has shown that boys who participate in the weekly talking circles have improved grades, fewer disciplinary problems, increased emotional intelligence and improved social skills.

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  • This Bronx summer jobs program for undocumented youth also helps migrant families

    Beyond Rising provides internship opportunities to undocumented high school students who are often ineligible for public programs such as New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Participants receive a $2,500 stipend for the five-week internship and also have access to mentorship, skills training, resume preparation, and field trips tailored to their interests.

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  • One congregation's path to carbon neutral offers case study as diocese, denomination work toward 2030 goal

    St. Martin’s Episcopal Church went carbon neutral. After installing an eclectic heat pump system, the California-based parish regained momentum on a years-long renewable energy path, updated all its appliances to eclectic, and installed another solar array.

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  • In some Chicago wards, residents vote on how tax money is spent. Should all Chicagoans get a seat at the budget table?

    In some wards of Chicago, residents are able to directly weigh in on city council spending and projects through an annual participatory budgeting process. Citizen input has helped bring a range of capital improvements to fruition, from public exercise stations in local parks to efforts to replace lead-contaminated water fountains in schools.

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  • How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency

    Trusted and popular community buildings across Los Angeles are being retrofitted with solar panels and batteries, so they can also function as resilience hubs during extreme heatwaves or other disasters. This way, they provide helpful resources outside of disaster protection and people are more likely to use them.

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  • 'Achieve your dreams at home'

    In 2019, Montana’s Blackfeet Community College launched its first four-year bachelor’s in nursing degree program with the goal of helping to address care shortages in the local Indigenous community. The program’s first graduate, who received her degree in 2023 and is now working as a long-term care nurse, said the college’s relationship-based approach helped her stick with her studies even through the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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