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  • 'It's everyone's business.' In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility.

    July 18, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Finland

    Finland’s approach to national security focuses on creating a comprehensive culture, emphasizing the idea that defending the country is a shared responsibility. Regular citizens can take volunteer courses in everything from using firearms and recognizing disinformation to surviving in the wild and interpreting maps, and the country’s men are conscripted at 18 for military or community service.

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  • Building Empathy Through the Sounds of 'a World in Motion'

    July 18, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Crossing Borders Music is a group of classically-trained Western musicians who perform music from Haitian, Palestinian, Rohingya, Native American and other marginalized communities via free concerts held in libraries, cultural centers and university spaces. The goal is to not only showcase diverse cultures and musical traditions, but to build a deeper understanding of immigrants and other communities that are often overlooked. The group reaches about 10,000 people in-person and online each year, and hosted 27 free concerts in 2024.

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  • Coconino County, federal agencies team up on backcountry alert system for Grand Canyon

    July 18, 2025 |

    Arizona Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Coconino County, Arizona

    The Grand Canyon River Alert System is a first-of-its-kind system in the U.S. that uses satellite messaging technology to deliver flash flood warnings and emergency alerts to travelers in the remote wilderness areas. Users subscribe by texting from their satellite devices and receive real-time alerts about imminent flash flooding, hazardous conditions, and other emergencies within five minutes of detection. During its test phase, the system successfully issued 29 alerts, and has since made plans to expand.

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  • How One School Turned Career Training Into a Turnaround Strategy

    July 17, 2025 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    DeWitt Clinton High School offers formal career pathway programs that allow students to gain real-world work experience and sometimes even earn industry credentials while completing their high school diploma requirements. There are pathways available for everything from visual arts to agriculture to health care careers, and the high school has seen its graduation numbers go up and absenteeism rates drop since establishing the programs.

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  • Comment financer les luttes écologiques ?

    July 16, 2025 |

    Socialter |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France

    Le Fonds des luttes soutient les efforts des citoyens contre les projets de développement néfastes, dans le but de rendre la collecte de fonds plus équitable et d’encourager la coopération entre les causes liées. Le fonds a soutenu une vingtaine de projets sur deux ans.

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  • Even in uncertain times, local farmers are focused on making produce affordable

    July 16, 2025 |

    GBH |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Around Boston, local farms and community markets are using creative financing and marketing tactics to reach and incentivize lower-income communities to benefit from access to fresh, local Massachusefts foods.

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  • Local Volunteers Lead the Way in Closing Taraba's Maternal Healthcare Gap

    July 15, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sardauna, Taraba State

    Women volunteers with PHC Kara are going into the community to share important healthcare information with pregnant women, in an effort to improve maternal and infant mortality rates and health outcomes. The group has also received support and recognition from UNICEF’S Mama2Mama healthcare initiative and Rural Health Mission Nigeria, providing them with clean birth kits and other supplies to distribute to women.

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  • "From pity – nothing; from dignity – everything": How domestic and care workers changed Spanish labor law

    July 14, 2025 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Spain

    Over decades, domestic care workers in Spain garnered political power by building community and solidarity between different activist groups and using music, theater, and self-expression to help strengthen connection and trust within the movement. Their efforts and protests led to the passage of laws granting these workers social security coverage and protecting them from unfair dismissal and unsafe working conditions, though many with irregular residency are still not able to benefit from these provisions.

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  • The Aromatic Roots Indians Turn to for Cooling Relief

    July 14, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Bharuch

    Khus (vetiver grass) curtains are a traditional, climate-friendly cooling method in India that is seeing a revival as extreme temperatures rise. Locals hang woven curtains made from dried vetiver roots in doorways or windows and spray them with water throughout the day. As hot air passes through them, evaporative cooling reduces indoor temperatures. This low-cost, low-energy solution has been implemented in homes and public areas like bus stops to combat the heat.

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  • How German Cities Are Rethinking Women's Safety — With Taxis

    July 10, 2025 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Some German cities have created voucher programs that subsidize the cost of taking a taxi for women who feel unsafe walking or using public transit at night. In Cologne, 1,500 vouchers were used within days of their release, and Munich has more than tripled the number of vouchers it provides due to demand.

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