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  • Want to Address Food Insecurity in Your Community? There's an App For That.

    March 28, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh-based nonprofit 412 Food Rescue is saving food from landfills and feeding those in need by getting produce, with minor bruises or almost past sell-by dates, into the hands of food insecure people. The organization, which partners with government housing authorities and other sites like daycares, uses its Food Rescue Hero app to connect volunteer drivers with grocery stores and restaurants who have excess food to donate.

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  • Santa Fe restaurants work to reduce water waste

    March 28, 2019 |

    The Santa Fe New Mexican |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    Restaurants can reduce water consumption by changing employee behavior and installing new technology, such as faucet aerators, water submeters, and high-efficiency toilets. When Santa Fe conducted voluntary water-usage audits at 31 restaurants, officials discovered that most restaurants did not have a good way to measure their water consumption, but that simple fixes could track and cut water usage.

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  • UPS is now using drones to deliver blood to a hospital

    March 27, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Raleigh, North Carolina

    The United States Postal Service has launched a drone delivery service that has the potential to save lives due to the time it cuts down on providing medical supplies. Currently, the service is only transporting blood and other medical supplies between buildings at WakeMed Raleigh’s medical campus, but has the potential to scale up in the future.

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  • Appy day: could we fix our mental health on our phone?

    March 27, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Seeking treatment for mental health concerns is often associated with a stigmatized perspective, but thanks to technological advancements, the use of mental health apps has helped reduce this viewpoint. Although the apps come with many limitations and aren't a replacement for professional treatment, they do act as an additional resource for those that aren't yet ready to seek in-person options.

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  • Stock photos trade in stereotypes–but they just got more diverse

    March 27, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    The stock photo community is taking steps to offer more diverse options with a partnership by Getty Images, Dove, and GirlGaze to produce 5,000 newly available photographs of 179 women from 39 countries. The photos are their own collection on Getty's website and has customizable tags written by the subjects in the photo (recent ones include “blackgirlmagic,” “confident,” and “bosslady.” Already searches for terms like “strong women” and “women leaders” are up 187% and 202% respectively, and Getty plans to donate 10% of each licensing fee to promote further work in this area.

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  • How this transgender CEO created software that facilitates empathy

    March 27, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States

    A new app is trying to digitally revolutionize the traditionally analog world of diversity and inclusion training. Companies who use the app can ensure anonymity, encourage remote participation, and analyze survey and questionnaire data for facilitators. These added tools allow companies to measure the effectiveness of their training in a way that can be difficult in more traditional settings.

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  • How a laundry room revolutionized a New Jersey high school

    March 26, 2019 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    After high school principle Akbar Cook realized that students weren't coming to school because they were embarrassed about wearing dirty clothing, he created a school laundry room with 5 commercial-grade washers and dryers. He also started a program called Lights On that leaves the school open in the evenings on Friday's to offer a recreational space with warm meals for students who have working parents or have to take care of siblings. Grateful students say that Mr. Cook had a big impact on the school and the neighborhood.

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  • Nonprofit helps reunite homeless with family, friends through digital detective work

    March 25, 2019 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco

    The San-Francisco based organization Miracle Messages has helped to reunited around 200 people experiencing homelessness with friends and family using the internet and a small-but-dedicated group of staff. The team fields requests from people looking for information and the ability to re-connect with friends or family, than uses Facebook, Whitepages Premium, and more to track someone down and make the connection, although some cases are more difficult than others.

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  • MPHS Entrepreneurship Club tackles energy efficiency with light replacement project at high school

    March 24, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand County, Colorado

    The Entrepreneurship Club at a high school in Grand County, Colorado took the initiative— and a $2,000 grant from the Grand Foundation— to replace all of the lights in their school with energy-efficient LED lights. Tristan Schwab initiated the project after learning about the divide in energy efficiency between urban and rural areas. The students reinstalled 200 lights in their building and, once the school has improved its efficiency and saved 40% on electric bills, plan on installing solar panels to further their work.

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  • Waste to Wealth: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps

    March 22, 2019 |

    InfoNILE |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Kisumu County

    Families living in the wetlands of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, Kenya are working together with a nonprofit called Ecofinder Kenya to protect and conserve the wetlands they live on. The crux of the incentive centers around the Eocfinder toilet, which converts human and animal waste to biogas, but they also work with solar lamps, water pumps, and a "farmer-to-farmer" program in which farmers share environmentally-friendly expertise. The program has been going on for 3 years now, and the wetlands have since seen a return of wildlife and growth, particularly with fish and birds.

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