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  • How Violence Interrupters Help Brooklyn Heal

    The Kings Against Violence Initiative places intervention specialists at hospitals to prevent future violence and help trauma patients get back to their daily lives.

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  • ¿Cómo salvar la ganadería? Un grupo de productores en Guanacaste le apuesta a la regeneración del suelo

    Ganaderos de la zona de Guanacaste, tradicionalmente conocida por esta producción agrícola, aplican ganadería regenerativa para mejorar la rentabilidad de sus fincas y disminuir la huella de carbono de las mismas.

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  • At these US colleges everyone works and there's no tuition

    Work colleges are providing an affordable path to obtaining degrees by requiring all students to work 15 hours a week in exchange for no tuition fees. The funding for the colleges comes from “a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants, and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.”

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  • What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy

    Unite Here, a 300,000-member labor union of hotel and restaurant workers, has organized mass protests to pass voting rights legislation. In 2020 they ran a huge door-knocking operation with 500 full-time paid canvassers. The weekly salary helped canvassers, many of whom were hotel workers that lost their jobs due to the pandemic. And the well-organized ground campaign that encouraged over 48,000 infrequent voters in Arizona to vote for Biden, likely helped push Biden to a narrow and surprising victory in that state.

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  • A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

    Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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  • How San Antonio prioritizes helping low-income residents with their water bills

    San Antonio’s water discount program has a higher enrollment rate compared to other cities, making it a successful initiative worth emulating. An emphasis on outreach to increase enrollment, a donor-funded emergency relief program, simpler applications, and bilingual representatives have all helped to increase the number of households enrolled in the program.

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  • New England Program Helps Low-Income Communities Join the Green Energy Revolution

    Revision Energy is bringing affordable solar energy to residents of New Hampshire. Nonprofits and investors have joined forces to bring environmentally-friendly energy to homes at a price that is cheaper than traditional energy. Investors are able to reap the solar tax credit.

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • Paid training, tuition assistance may be key to solving New York's nursing home staffing crisis

    In an effort to boost staff and retain current healthcare workers, Catholic Health and McGuire Group's nursing homes are working with D’Youville University to fund the education of those interested in becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Participants are paid for their time spent training and taking courses and are guaranteed a job once they complete the program. Catholic Health and the McGuire Group hired 29 CNAs from the program in 2022 across its nine nursing homes in the Western part of the state.

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  • One fact check at a time: Asian Americans wage war on digital misinformation

    Fact checking and media literacy organizations are taking on the misinformation wars rampant on social media. A number of Asian-American groups are concerned about the growing falsehoods that pervade “ethnic media platforms where Asian immigrants connect.” These groups have created fact checking campaigns that have attracted high volume online, produced newsletters in multiple languages, and created a bilingual COVID-19 tracker.

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