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  • Woman's Co-op in Battle Creek's Post-Franklin Neighborhood provides a support system for women

    Jane Simons

    April 04, 2019 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Battle Creek, Michigan

    The Woman's Co-op in Battle Creek, Michigan addresses a wide array of needs for women in the community, including food, clothing, transportation, housing, and childcare. The co-op offers free services, including assistance with utility payments; advocacy in the court system; and better parenting technique.

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  • Fleeing Honduras and what's being done for those left behind

    Marcia Biggs

    March 30, 2019 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Honduras, Rivera Hernandez

    Residents of Rivera Hernandez, Honduras are trying to improve their community in a district that’s under gang control. One such effort is a vocational school to train children and adults in electricity and solar energy. The city – subject to extreme poverty – has also received aid from the United States to fund community policing and day camps for a small number of children, although some of that money has bolstered corruption in the region.

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  • Seasonal employers gear up to hire Maine teens

    David Singer

    March 26, 2019 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    As an effort to bolster the economy and help teenagers join the workforce, the Maine Department of Labor launched a pilot program that gives organizations stipends for hiring teenagers into the seasonal workforce. While the pilot program may not continue due to Department goals and standards, organizations report that the stipends help their organization hire exceptional workers.

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  • Companies helping employees tackle student loan debt

    Amanda Brandeis

    March 25, 2019 |

    KGTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Companies get creative to help their employees tackle student debt by offering loan assistance as well as carrying over unused paid time off into a fund to chip away at debt. In San Diego, Fidelity Investments has found higher employee retention and workplace happiness with the addition of loan assistance as a benefit for employees with student debt.

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  • Inside the Crowdfunded Charity Helping Refugees by Topping Up Their Phones

    Alissa Greenberg

    March 20, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: France, Calais

    For many refugees living in camps and on the move, mobile phones can be a life line to families and the outside world. Phones can help organize political activities, arrange medical supplies, and so much more. But although SIM cards are fairly cheap now, data can be expensive. To address this, a Facebook group called Phone Credit for Refugees and Displaced People, or PC4R, raises funds for refugees to top up their mobile phones to support free and dignified communication.

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  • The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.

    Matthew Desmond

    February 21, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Emeryville

    Economists have often debated the positives of a higher minimum wage in the United States as a matter of productivity, profits, and losses but in this article, Matthew Desmond explores another way that the success of increasing minimum wage can be measured: through public health and impacts on things like depression, anxiety, stress, and more. Studies have shown that higher minimum wages have been connected to lower rates of teenage alcohol consumption and preventing premature deaths.

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  • This grantmaker wants to break white men's stranglehold on philanthropic donations

    Adele Peters

    February 19, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    A grantmaking organization known as The Solutions Project seeks to diversify the traditional white male-dominated world of philanthropy by pledging to invest 95% of its resources in renewable energy projects led by people of color, and 80% to organizations led by women. Recognizing that these populations are often the most affected by dirty energy and climate change, The Solutions Project is building on past investment successes, like a project that turned an old school into solar-powered housing for seniors.

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  • Gig economy platform Thumbtack is helping its users get benefits

    Eillie Anzilotti

    February 19, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The National Domestic Workers Alliance created a platform called Alia to deliver job benefits to home cleaners. Now, the NDWA is partnering with Thumbtack, a gig economy platform, in order to deliver this service to thousands more workers around the country. Alia allows employers to pay into a portable benefits fund for each cleaning session, funding paid time off and other job benefits.

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  • This Country Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here's What Happened.

    Laura Paddison

    February 08, 2019 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Finland

    In Finland, preliminary results from the country's first experiments with Universal Basic Income are being released - and while impacts on employment rates are still up in the air, providing a basic income seemed to improve overall well-being and reduce financial stress amongst participants. It is among a group of basic income pilots taking place across the world, including in countries like Kenya and Canada, but detractors of the expensive program say that the results don't prove it's a success quite yet.

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  • New Platform Gives Black-Led Baltimore Groups a Chance to Shine

    Jared Brey

    February 07, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    New grassroots efforts often struggle to get off the ground due to lack of funding. In Baltimore, a group called CLLCTIVLY aims to fix this problem for black-led non-profit organizations by offering a $1,000 prize every month for a year through its Black Futures Micro-Grant program. CLLCTIVLY has also launched an asset map to connect these smaller efforts to each other.

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