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  • Prisoners hope that education can erase a stigma

    November 26, 2021 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Cottonwood, Idaho

    Idaho's nine prisons have more than 30 postsecondary educational programs geared to helping incarcerated people get hired in career-track, technical jobs after their release from prison. The prisons focus on jobs in demand and woo potential employers with tours of their well-equipped classrooms. They also focus on education that produces certifications that carry more weight in industry. Studies show those credentials produce better odds against people returning to prison. Such programs nationwide have suffered from inadequate funding, but more federal money is in the pipeline.

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  • How single mothers in the remote areas of Kibuku district have been Financial empowered through Mushroom growing

    October 26, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kibuku

    A church in Uganda teaches single mothers and widows to grow mushrooms to increase their household incomes. They keep the mushrooms to use at home, sell them outright, and use them to create other food products like biscuits and soup powder to sell.

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  • Co-op restaurants: pipe-dream or practical solution?

    October 14, 2021 |

    The Counter |

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    Response Location: United States

    Worker-owned cooperative restaurants are giving employees ownership of, and a voice in, their workplace while removing the single-person dependency of the traditional restaurant structure.

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  • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Through Regenerative Ocean Farming

    October 08, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    The Native Conservacy, a Native-owned and Native-led land trust, created a program to support and train Indigenous farmers to create their own kelp farms. Kelp is nutrient-rich, grows in the ocean, and requires no land or fertilizer. The Native Conservancy has seven sites, grew 4,000 pounds of kelp, and helped Indigenous farmers secure low-interest loans so they can start their own operations.

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  • Building a Black-Owned Food Ecosystem in Detroit

    October 07, 2021 |

    Belt Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Programs like Motor City Match and Grown in Detroit help entrepreneurs launch Black-owned food businesses in Detroit. The businesses sell healthy foods in neighborhoods often lacking in nutritious options or in the infrastructure needed to support startup businesses. The supportive programs offer grants and training that have nurtured dozens of new businesses, which themselves have formed a supportive network among their peers.

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  • Planting a Life—and a Future—After Prison at Benevolence Farm

    September 30, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Graham, North Carolina

    Benevolence Farm hosts a small number of formerly incarcerated women as live-in laborers growing herbs that end up in body-care products. The farming experience teaches marketable skills, as the women learn the finer points of horticulture. It also provides outdoor, hands-on experiences that are therapeutic to women after they spent months or years locked up in a sterile prison. The rural location poses some challenges, but the dozens of women who have spent 12-18 months living and working there have shown much lower-than-average rates of recidivism.

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  • Why 'Work from Anywhere' Works for Refugees

    September 20, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The prevalence of remote work has benefitted workers who previously did not have access to many opportunities. Refugees, who typically need paperwork and work permits that are not readily available, have been able to tap into online work options that eventually improve their quality of life.

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  • Tribal Solar Projects Provide More Than Climate Solutions

    September 16, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Alabama

    Indigenous groups are establishing energy sovereignty on tribal lands while simultaneously providing economic development. The transition to solar power has environmental, political, and financial benefits for indigenous communities.

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  • RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

    September 14, 2021 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States

    A regional cap-and-trade program in the northeast United States has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and led to overall job gains in the economy. Up to 50 percent of the region’s CO2 reductions are attributable to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program and nine of the states participating report training more than 8,000 workers.

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  • Masking opportunities amid ravaging COVID-19

    September 01, 2021 |

    Sayansi Magazine |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Compassion International Organization trained over 100 women so that they have the skills and equipment to produce masks for the coronavirus pandemic. The first contract was for 900,000 masks, and women were provided with all materials, including sewing machines, and a workshop where they can work. The women, most of whom struggled to make a living because of COVID-19, earned money for each mask they produced. Their enterprises have improved the economies of local communities.

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