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  • How an Experimental Service in a Library Prevents Incarceration

    June 01, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    The Tap In Center in St. Louis connects volunteer attorneys with people who have open warrants to work toward recalling them. Since the service launched a little over a year ago, nearly 300 warrants have been recalled.

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  • Chicago Offers a Blueprint for Expanding Urban Internet Access

    May 31, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Connected is a $50 million four-year program that has already provided high-speed broadband to over 40,000 households in need, representing around 64,000 Chicago public school students, and plans to expand. On-the-ground community outreach in multiple languages was key to connecting residents to the program quickly, which was needed as school went virtual due to COVID-19. The public schools helped identify eligible low-income students whose parents were then contacted by outreach workers.

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  • How Georgia's Latinx community is working to 'out-organize' voter suppression

    May 29, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Organizers and community leaders in Georgia are pushing back against restrictive voting laws that disproportionately affect communities of color. The Latinx community is mobilizing against those efforts by empowering its members to “unlock their political power.” Their efforts include voter outreach, translation services, and education.

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  • How poor, out-of-school children gain education in the FCT

    May 28, 2022 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Knowledge Skills Solution and Creativity (KNOSK) N100-a-Day Charity School provides an education to children in the area who can’t afford to attend school. KNOSK provides STEM education, uniforms, books, sanitary supplies for girls and free meals to each student for just 30 cents a day.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento  

    May 25, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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  • 'Community creates change' | New Knoxville nonprofit provides housing, support for homeless LGBTQ+ youth

    May 23, 2022 |

    WBIR-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The nonprofit Bryant’s Bridge gives LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness a place to live and connects them to health insurance and job and life training to help them transition into adulthood successfully.

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  • Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

    May 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Mansfield Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP) helps individuals in recovery programs access housing through its Genesis Row Project. The non-profit currently owns six houses and following some renovations, plans to house 20 people.

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  • Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

    May 18, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

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  • In Barcelona, a group of Roma people is fighting against poor representation in universities

    May 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Through admissions counseling, tutoring and fellowship, volunteer-based association CampusRom is helping get more Roma students into Spanish university classrooms — and stay there. In 2021, 75% of enrolled students passed their courses, many participants return as volunteers after finishing their studies, and the system has been adopted in other Spanish regions of the country as well.

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  • Flint pastor builds laundromat to help families experiencing hygiene poverty

    May 15, 2022 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    Programs that bring laundry services to schools, churches, and community centers drastically improve attendance. A lack of access to laundry services and products can lead to a number of issues such as school absenteeism, which can lead to decreased literacy rates, higher suspension rates, and a higher likelihood of dropping out.

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