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  • Affordable, Flexible Childcare Helps Indian Mothers Earn More and Worry Less

    The largest central trade union in India, the Self Employed Women’s Association, runs affordable, flexible childcare centers across the country to combat the lack of accessible childcare options creating gender inequality in the job market. Now, women who are members of the union can go to work knowing their children are well cared for and older children can stay in school instead of caring for their siblings.

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  • How Colorado training programs aim to cut mental health care stigma among farmers and ranchers

    The Colorado Agricultural Addiction and Mental Health Program (CAAMHP) works to make mental health care more accessible by offering residents six free counseling sessions with licensed behavioral health professionals who have completed culturally relevant training in order to better connect with farmers and ranchers facing mental health issues. So far more than 30 clinicians have completed the training and there are about 15 therapists working with CAAMHP, helping to provide care and reduce stigma surrounding mental health in the farm and ranch industry.

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  • First days of Driver's Licenses for All bring relief to Minnesotans

    Local legislature passed Driver’s Licenses for All in February, which ended the 20-year requirement that driver's license applicants must show proof of legal residency. This new legislation, which recently went into effect October 1, opens the door to the estimated 81,000 undocumented individuals living in the state to apply for their driver’s licenses.

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  • In California, doctors from Mexico help fill the need for some patients. ‘As good as any doctor.'

    The Licensed Physicians from Mexico Pilot Program allows Mexican doctors and dentists to work in non-profit clinics across the state on a three-year work visa to help address both the shortage of doctors in the area and the lack of culturally relevant care from Spanish-speaking providers. Currently, there are more than 30 Mexican doctors working across several counties and there are plans to expand the program to more counties and to include providers who speak Mexican indigenous languages like Mixtec.

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  • Nonprofit "New Vecinos" program helping migrants in Chicago move in to permanent homes

    The Chicago-based nonprofit New Life Centers helps asylum seekers at city-run shelters move into and furnish new permanent homes anywhere in the state.

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  • Miles4Migrants has flown more than 43,000 refugees to safety through donated airline miles. Now its future is at risk.

    The United States-based nonprofit Miles4Migrants has flown over 43,000 migrants around the world to safety by pooling donated frequent flyer miles, credit card points, and cash.

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  • The Rise of Indigenous Doulas

    In an effort to reduce maternal mortality for Native mothers, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services provides free physical, emotional, educational and spiritual support to Indigenous mothers and their families throughout the entire pregnancy and birth process. Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services emerged in 2019 and since then its team of five Indigenous doulas has provided culturally-relevant care to more than 150 pregnant Native women with a maternal and infant mortality rate of zero.

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  • Community land trusts can help improve local housing affordability

    Through a land trust, Community Partners in Affordable Housing sells homes to buyers at a fixed cost while maintaining ownership of the land they’re built on, allowing those who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford market rate housing to become homeowners. Some of the homes are even built by high school students enrolled in a local Geometry in Construction program.

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  • The Guaranteed Income Program That's Helping Black Moms – and Trying to Change the World

    In Jackson, Mississippi, the nonprofit-run Magnolia Mother’s Trust is a guaranteed income program providing a no-strings-attached monthly stipend of $1,000 to Black mothers living in affordable housing to help them combat poverty.

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  • ‘A good place:' Queer youth seek acceptance at state's first foster home for LGBTQ+ teens

    Lawrence Hall’s transitional housing in Chicago is a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the foster care system to live and receive wraparound support while they get ready for the next step in their lives, whatever that may be. Many of the staff also identify as LGBTQ+ and help them learn to cook, keep a job, or answer questions about things like hormone therapy and gender-affirming care.

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