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  • Adopt-a-Lot Program Converts Newark's Vacant Lots into Gardens

    June 05, 2013 |

    CivicStory |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    To minimize the problem of abandoned lots, the city of Newark created a program called Adopt-a-Lot. This urban gardening program allows city residents to use a lot to grow flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and the city is working with the Greater Newark Conservancy to provide gardening supplies to residents. Together this program is not only reducing blight, but it is also empowering community members.

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  • Lobbying for the Greater Good

    May 29, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Big money has big lobbyists - but small lobbyists can also bring about big changes. Groups like Results and the Citizens Climate Lobby train ordinary people to approach and make arguments to politicians and journalists.

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  • Breaking the Silence

    May 28, 2013 |

    Sojourners |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Clergy abuse in the Catholic church has been rampant and was often swept under the rug. Until Barrett Doyle and others started 'Bishop Accountability' to keep a record of clergy abuse, and a support group and blog have also been created as a path for healing and sharing stories that will also hopefully help prompt change in the church.

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  • A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

    May 22, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Nyanza

    For-profit companies are making good private schools available even to Africa’s poor. They can do it – and can do it on an enormous scale – by hiring neighborhood residents to teach, and scripting out every word of every lesson on an e-reader.

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  • Doctors Transform How They Practice Medicine

    May 15, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, El Dorado, California

    The Affordable Care Act’s provisions to increase health care while decreasing costs have caused physicians some economic uncertainties. Two physicians have transformed their practices into business models that offer more services than what the insurance companies cover. The physicians report that patients spend less money on medication and hospital visits, while providing more holistic care.

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  • In Paris's Banlieues, New Recipe for Success Is Local

    May 14, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    The impoverished communities in Paris had high unemployment for adults and youth. The French government has offered financial incentives to hire people from the banlieues. Talents de Cités, a governmental program, offers cash prizes to young entrepreneurs.

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  • Where Private School Is Not a Privilege

    May 08, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive NGOs, has built new schools addressing all the reasons, at home and school, that were preventing children from attending.

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  • When Food Isn't the Answer to Hunger

    April 24, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Aceh

    In a lot of places, food is available and the market is working but people are too poor to buy it, so cash donations are more effective than food. Previously U.S. aid laws did not allow cash donations but a new proposal could change that.

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  • When Deviants Do Good

    February 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Hanoi

    Tuft University is training global organizations a new approach to create long lasting change. The process teaches locals to identify positive deviance in their community and design a way to spread the behavior, with only local ideas and administration.

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  • Malawi's Leader Makes Safe Childbirth Her Mission

    February 06, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    The vast majority of births in Malawi still happen under the care of traditional birth attendants, who are often unequipped to deal with potentially lethal complications. But new president Joyce Banda is helping Malawi’s women to abandon dangerous childbirth customs by working with the custodians of local practices: village chiefs.

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