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  • Aging states to college graduates: We'll pay you to stay

    October 04, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    As their workforces age, states across the United States are offering student loan repayment to incentivize college graduates to stick around. Now Maine and Vermont are the first to offer it to those with degrees in any field with very few caveats.

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  • Colorado Shows Impact, Challenges of Billions in Federal Clean Energy Spending

    September 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Federal tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and added incentives from the state of Colorado and its municipalities is drawing in clean energy companies, creating new jobs, and helping the state meet its decarbonization goals.

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  • Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar

    September 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Zanzibar

    The nonprofit Marine Cultures is teaching single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar, Tanzania, to farm sea sponges to increase their income and improve gender equality. Sea sponges are a better option than typical seaweed farming because they are more resilient to climate change impacts like increasing water temperatures.

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  • This Organisation is Helping Women to Win Against Unemployment

    August 10, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ilorin

    To combat unemployment, the Girls2Women Initiative runs 6- to 12-week training programs for girls and women in underserved communities in Nigeria. During this time they learn skills they can use to find a job or start their own business in industries like graphic design, decor, and tailoring.

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  • Loaves of bread bring happiness 

    August 08, 2023 |

    Amjambo Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The ADAMÂ Bakery trains and employs refugees in Uganda to make bread. This way they can earn a living while also feeding unaccompanied minors in the refugee settlements.

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  • To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to grow your own programs

    August 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Morgan City, Louisiana

    “Grow your own” programs, like Reach University’s, are working to address teacher shortages, particularly in rural areas, by recruiting school employees who don’t have college or education degrees and giving them a chance to earn an undergraduate degree in education at just $75 a month. Participants take courses online and take 15 hours out of their work week to spend time observing and training in classrooms. So far 84% of all parishes across the state have signed up to take Reach trainees, which could put a significant dent in the statewide teacher vacancy issue.

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  • A Campus Community Is Empowering Students With Sustainable Blockchain Skills

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    Blockchain UNN is a student organization and campus tech community that focuses on educating the next generation of blockchain leaders. Through both physical and online training and tutoring, the group teaches students valuable tech skills like web development, crypto trading and financial market analysis for free. Since forming in 2021, the organization has trained more than 3,000 students, helping them to secure good jobs in the tech sector.

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  • Out of The Jungle

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Breakthrough Institute |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Having already eliminated the worst parts of slaughterhouse work by not using meat, the plant-based “chicken” company Rebellyous HQ is designing an autonomous system that will ease the physical demands of making its food. Developed with feedback from employees, the new machine will do the heavy lifting and repetitive scooping of ingredients for them.

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  • Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

    July 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

    The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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  • The money wives in Cross River State

    June 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in Cross River State, Nigeria, teaches women who were forced into marriage and slavery as young girls the skills necessary to start their own businesses and support themselves and their children.

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