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  • Finding family services is hard. How South LA built a one-stop shop for people with young kids

    December 04, 2024 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Partners for Children South L.A. brings together more than 40 organizations that work with families in need to make it easier for parents to get the services they’re seeking without having to go to multiple different providers before getting help. Over the past 10 years, the collaboration has served more than 10,000 families.

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  • Are high efficiency stoves the solution to Keene's wood smoke pollution?

    November 29, 2024 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    In New England, government incentives and education are supporting and encouraging residents to swap their wood-burning stoves for high-efficiency models that burn less wood and emit less smoke. The aim is to reduce air pollution and its public health and climate impacts.

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  • The Value of Mental Health

    November 28, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    The Zruc Mental Health Team for Children and Young People provides free mental health care to youth in schools in the Czech Republic's Kutna Hora district. These teams of traveling psychologists are making mental health care more accessible by meeting students where they are and are helping to reverse the standard method of labeling children with mental health issues as “problematic,” instead ensuring they get the care they need.

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  • The Denver Nonprofit Tackling Food Waste and Hunger at Once

    November 26, 2024 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    We Don’t Waste serves more than 100 hunger relief organizations across the city and has saved and redistributed 220 million servings of food to date. The team of staff and volunteers who recover and distribute food to the community has not only helped prevent food waste, but also greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental consequences, all while feeding locals in need.

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  • CT child care 'incubator' is building capacity, stability in sector

    November 26, 2024 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, New Britain, Connecticut

    New Britain’s Childcare Incubator Project helps home-based child care entrepreneurs launch their businesses through in-depth training, mentorship, and support, including a transitional phase where they start offering care within a shared facility and with the guidance of an on-site coordinator. Four businesses are currently in their transitional phase, and other cities around the state are now considering replicating the program.

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  • Driving unlicensed: The impact on South Dallas residents and the academy working to help

    November 26, 2024 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The South Dallas Driving Academy offers a free driver’s education course for residents between the ages of 18 and 40 who are applying for their license for the first time. The month long program started three years ago and has since graduated 160 students, even offering a CDL license program for those who are interested.

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  • Congress has one month to save a key Medicare benefit

    November 25, 2024 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States

    In 2020, Medicare temporarily expanded its coverage to include telehealth appointments for all specialties, allowing patients to receive care without the added health risk of travel. About one in four telehealth appointments are made by Medicare recipients, and diagnostic accuracy fell between 77 percent and 96 percent during one period studied in 2020.

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  • First year of early voting a success; Midland County voter turnout second highest in history

    November 21, 2024 |

    Midland Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Midland, Michigan

    In its first presidential election with state-mandated early voting, which allowed voters to cast their ballots in-person for nine days before election day, Midland County, Mich. saw roughly 20% of its voters utilize early voting and had high turnout at 70.05%. Officials reported that they were able to streamline the early voting process with Ballot on Demand equipment that allowed voters to print their ballots on-site rather than requiring the county to print ballots in advance.

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  • 'Fight for it to be better'

    November 13, 2024 |

    Southern Science |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Capacity Collaborative and Thriving Earth Exchange are working together to establish volunteer community science hubs to support environmental justice projects in communities around the United States. The organizations connect communities with scientists and experts who volunteer their time to help move their projects forward.

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  • Thread and Thrive

    November 12, 2024 |

    Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Formed in 2019, the Tailor’s Life Coach training initiative has helped over 200 people, particularly women, learn tailoring skills to pursue their passion for fashion design and open tailoring businesses of their own. The skills training from the initiative is free; participants only need to purchase the materials they use.

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