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Bruised South Sudan Employers Figure it Out: Bring Attitude, not Diplomas or Skills, to Job Interviews

Richard Sultan

August 26, 2022 |

TIME of the World |

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Response Location: South Sudan

Employers like the St. Partick Clinic in South Sudan are hiring based on attitude and trainability instead of technical skills and knowledge to find employees that are trustworthy and reliable.

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How fintechs, nonprofits engage students during incessant ASUU strikes

Olanshile Ogunrinu

August 24, 2022 |

AFAS Press |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

TeqProject provides free training for Nigerian students interested in developing skills for the growing tech industry.

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Taking Each Person as They Are: Gender-Inclusive Housing Provides Support for LGBTQ+ Students

Samantha Torre Alexander Payne

August 23, 2022 |

Pepperdine University Graphic |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Gender-inclusive housing at Occidental College in Los Angeles allows students to live together regardless of gender. This gives transgender and non-binary students the opportunity to choose the living space they are most comfortable with.

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Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

Jodi Hausen

August 22, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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How a high-risk California town learned to live with fire

Hilary Beaumont

August 22, 2022 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: United States, Topanga, California

Residents of a California town with a high fire risk collectively increased the fire resistance of their homes through actions like brush removal, landscaping, and renovations.

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When students don't show up, attendance detectives are on the case

Ann Schimke

August 22, 2022 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

High schools in Colorado are using federal COVID funding to hire Zero Dropouts. The company finds students not attending school and helps get them back on track.

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With an Affinity to Care

Zinta Aistars

August 12, 2022 |

Watershed Voice |

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Response Location: United States, Centreville, Michigan

In an effort to reduce incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization, Affinity House provides people with mental illness a free place to form social connections and work their way towards employment one step at a time with the clubhouse staff.

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How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

Israel Olatunji Tijani

August 10, 2022 |

The Nation (Nigeria) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

Elizabeth Hewitt

August 09, 2022 |

Sierra Club |

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Response Location: Scotland

The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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In Cleveland, fine dining serves up training – and dignity – after prison

Stephen Humphries

August 09, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The owner of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, employs formerly incarcerated adults and teaches them the skills they need to work in the culinary industry. Less than 1% of the institute’s trainees are re-incarcerated after graduation.

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