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  • Cuando el terremoto y las tormentas se juntan: las alertas de Sarapiquí

    Alfie Gatgens

    June 30, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica, Sarapiquí, Heredia

    Al norte de Costa Rica, en el cantón de Sarapiquí, las inundaciones son comunes, pero su realidad se agrabó después del terremoto del 2009. Después de estas emergencias, se instaló el sistema de alerta temprana en la comunidad que permite alertar a los pobladores antes de que las aguas les impidan salir de sus hogares de manera segura.

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  • A social initiative shows that remote working could feed the relocation to small villages

    Alfredo Casares

    June 30, 2021 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Spain

    Urbanites get the taste of small-town living through an initiative that is bringing digital workers to the countryside. Rooral is tapping into the remote work market to increase rural development while connecting people from cities to a way of life that emphasizes community and connection.

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  • Co-Op Owned by Formerly Incarcerated Women Embarks on Next Step, Thanks to Surprising Money Source

    Oscar Perry Abello

    June 29, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A worker-owned cooperative in Chicago got the financial boost it needed to secure a commercial space for expansion through a city fund. The Chicago Community Trust allowed ChiFresh Kitchen to make their business plan a reality while simultaneously reducing the blight caused by vacant, dilapidated commercial buildings.

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  • Helpline Fills Gaps in Local Housing Assistance

    Kathleen Shannon

    June 29, 2021 |

    KDNK Community Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado

    Bridging Resources is a helpline launched by a group of nonprofits that connects residents to existing services. Bilingual operators field calls and connect callers to agencies that can provide food, rental assistance, childcare, and legal advice among other services. The operators actually call the agencies with residents on the line to ensure the connection is made. Seventy-eight callers received assistance in the helpline’s first ten weeks, split almost evenly between English and Spanish speakers, which reinforced the importance of providing bilingual assistance.

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  • Nutrition Interventions Securing Livelihoods in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Borno

    Patrick Egwu

    June 29, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

    Doctors Without Borders treats malnutrition in areas of Nigeria facing food shortages due to violence and insurgency. When safe, it runs a mobile clinic to provide basic health care, including nutritional support, particularly to children. When communities are not safe enough to enter, the organization trains community members in basic patient care and provides them the tools to run basic tests and treat malnutrition. Community health workers are also trained to treat patients, dispense medications, and educate caregivers about child nutrition.

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  • The tree cutting emissions from Brazilian beef

    Ellen Nemitz

    June 29, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    A company in Brazil has found a new way to cut carbon emissions from growing beef by planting more eucalyptus trees. According to research, planting eucalyptus trees among the grazing areas reduces the carbon footprint, helps cows fatten faster, and offsets the cows' methane emissions.

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  • Get There Fast or Safe? A Crowdsourced Map Gives You the Option

    Chandni Doulatramani

    June 29, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Gurgaon

    In 71 cities around the world, users of the My Safetipin mobile app can decide whether to visit a particular neighborhood or plan a travel route based on how safe others deem those places. While the 100,000 or so users, more than half in India, constitute too small a user base to make the mapping app truly universal, its crowdsourced data already have prompted the Delhi and Bogota governments to improve street lighting on streets deemed unsafe because they are not well lit. The app's primary goal is to make the streets safer for women.

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  • A New Project Is Bringing the Gay ‘Green Book' Online

    Marianne Dhenin

    June 29, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    In 1965 a traveling salesman published a series of travel guides with gay or gay-friendly businesses across the U.S. that became survival guides for the LGBTQ community. “Mapping the Gay Guides” has digitized those collections, allowing users to explore the original descriptions and added historical content written by graduate students. Reasons for why locations appear and disappear from year-to-year are provided, which sometimes intersect with LGBTQ hate crimes. A $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will allow them to continue to preserve and make the forgotten history accessible.

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  • The career where it helps to have a criminal past

    Jo Mathys

    June 29, 2021 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    All people between the ages of 14 and 21 in Washington, D.C., who are placed on probation for criminal convictions get assigned a probation officer, social worker, and a "credible messenger" – a mentor, usually with his or her own criminal past, who is paid by the city Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to help ensure a successful probationary period. The cost is far lower than youth detention and is associated with a much lower rate of re-offending. The work is so intense that the highly trained messengers often need their own counseling to cope with the stress of turning lives around.

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  • Post-Derek Chauvin, Police Are Training to Intervene When They Witness Misconduct

    Zusha Elinson Denise Blostein Rob Alcaraz

    June 28, 2021 |

    Wall Street Journal |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    After videos showed two Minneapolis police officers did nothing to stop Derek Chauvin from killing George Floyd, more than 130 police departments raced to sign up to train their officers on how to intervene to prevent fellow officers from using excessive force or committing other misconduct. A course called Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) trains officers who then take the training to the officers in their departments. The training seeks to overcome the insular culture of policing, teaching an escalating series of tactics to stop misconduct on the spot.

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