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  • Ditch Democracy: Northern New Mexico's Acequia Culture

    May 14, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    An acequia irrigation system depends on an indigenous coordinated community governance designed to sustainably manage water for agriculture and daily life. Via democratic control, shared participation in annual cleaning, Mayordomo authority, and cooperative decision-making, the system fosters community cohesion and ecological sustainability.

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  • Could This Arizona Ranch Be a Model for Southwest Farmers?

    May 12, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Oatman Flats Ranch has implemented regenerative organic farming practices—including cover cropping, drought-tolerant crops, indigenous agricultural knowledge, and rotational grazing—to successfully restore degraded desert farmland, significantly improving soil health, biodiversity, and water conservation in a climate-stressed region.

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  • AmeriCorps workers are doing good all over Colorado. Why is DOGE cutting its funding?

    May 11, 2025 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Mile High Youth Corps, part of the AmeriCorps program, allows participants to earn a GED while completing service-related positions in construction trades and health care, helping to provide essential services for the community while also preparing them for future careers. In 2023, 192 members completed the program and 161 went on to find jobs, but the program’s future is threatened by federal cuts to funding that supports AmeriCorps.

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  • Providing Disabled Students With Skills and Support for Finding Work

    May 06, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Pre-employment transition services are designed to support high school students with documented disabilities by helping them explore potential careers, gain valuable work experience, and develop crucial life skills they’ll need to succeed in the workplace. For one student in Utah, participating in the program helped him secure a job on the path to becoming a mechanic after graduation.

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  • The Future of California's Climate-Smart Farming Programs

    May 05, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California’s climate-smart agriculture programs—funded via the state's Cap-and-Trade revenues—provide grants enabling farmers to adopt sustainable practices like drip irrigation, soil regeneration, and manure management, significantly reducing water use, greenhouse gases, and economic vulnerability to climate change while boosting long-term farm resilience.

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  • Colleges partnered with an EV battery factory to train students and ignite the economy. Trump's clean energy war complicates their plans

    April 28, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    To quickly build a skilled workforce, two Kansas community colleges and Panasonic created an accelerated 8-week apprenticeship, funded by the company and featuring tailored classroom and practical training. The program aims to fast-track workers into Panasonic's new EV battery factory while providing clear career pathways through stackable credentials.

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  • ‘A Safe Place to Go': New Alamance crisis hub provides free mental health services that keep people out of jails, ERs

    April 21, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, North Carolina

    The Alamance Behavioral Center aims to be a “one-stop shop” for mental health services, with a walk-in clinic, an urgent care facility, outpatient appointments, an on-site pharmacy, a mobile crisis team, monthly support meetings, and a peer living room where people can connect with peer support specialists without needing an appointment or screening. In January, nearly 1,000 people visited the center, and roughly 90 percent of people who have used the services would have otherwise ended up in the emergency room or jail.

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  • Knitting, cheerleading, fishing: This is what a cellphone ban looks like in one school district

    April 08, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

    When Spokane Public Schools banned cellphones in classrooms and at recess, it also paired the new rules with an engagement program designed to get more students involved in clubs and extracurricular activities. Since removing cell phones, expanding activity options, and hiring “engagement navigators” to help match students to activities, the number of students participating in extracurriculars increased by 19 percent and principals began reporting fewer phone confiscations.

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  • How a young beekeeper's initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

    March 31, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Bangs Circular practices sustainable beekeeping across eight communities, launching the Tiwai Honey Project, which builds hand-made beehives to support the native bee population. This practice allows beekeepers to closely monitor the bees’ well-being, thus leading to more honey production and reforestation efforts. So far, the group has trained more than 400 local beekeepers.

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  • Need help finding housing or financial aid? Minnesota's growing number of hubs support families.

    March 30, 2025 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    Minnesota’s community resource centers are one-stop hubs where families and soon-to-be parents can get help with everything from applying for benefits to finding child care, housing or transportation. The state now has 16 centers in seven counties, though continued state funding for these facilities is uncertain.

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