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  • Medicaid Is a New Tool to Expand Healthy Food Access

    December 15, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Project Bread is a local food-assistance organization that provides medically-tailored meals to people in need, specifically those with diseases or ailments that worsen with poor nutrition. Organization coordinators can send grocery store gift cards and kitchen supplies or sign the patient up for cooking classes or nutrition counseling. In its first two years, the program served 5,000 patients, and a recent evaluation found that 25% were no longer food insecure after participating for six months.

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  • Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico's Record-Breaking Wildfires

    December 15, 2022 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: Santa Clara Native Reservation, United States, Gallinas, New Mexico

    After fires and floods, the tribe of the Santa Clara Pueblo is restoring Santa Clara Canyon using traditional ecological knowledge to design mitigation and replanting methods using burned trees and strategic seeding. Now, they are sharing that knowledge at other locations needing restoration.

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  • Union Health Plan Provides Much-Needed Safety Net

    December 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

    The Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan makes healthcare for union workers more affordable and accessible, providing workers with a much-needed safety net. The RFK plan covers about 3,000 members of the United Farm Workers — which consists of about 7,500 people, including spouses and children.

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  • ‘Plastic Roads' Are Paved With Good Intention

    December 14, 2022 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Pilot programs across the United States are testing recycled plastic and asphalt mixtures to pave roads and keep plastics out of landfills. A program in California saw success in their mixture’s durability.

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  • Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss'

    December 14, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Central Falls, Rhode Island

    Originally developed to help students succeed academically during the pandemic, learning pods in a Rhode Island community continue to help students through in-person school. The pods create job opportunities for community members and give students a place for one-on-one help.

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  • Boden gut machen

    December 14, 2022 |

    Relevant |

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    Response Location: Austria

    Kein anderes Land verbraucht im Verhältnis zu seiner Fläche so viel Boden wie Österreich. Die politischen Rahmenbedingungen verstärken das Problem. Dennoch gibt es viele Möglichkeiten gegenzusteuern, wie Beispiele im In- und Ausland zeigen.

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  • 10 years after Sandy Hook, Moms Demand Action volunteers are turning activism into political power

    December 14, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense was founded following the Sandy Hook shooting to advocate for gun safety reforms. Thanks in part to the group's support and training, roughly half of Moms Demand Action volunteers who ran for office in the most recent election cycle won their races, including several who flipped seats previously held by Republicans.

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  • Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India

    December 14, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Odisha

    A conservationist dedicated 1.7 acres in Odisha, India, to farm and conserve native rice varieties in an effort to revive resilient crops and food systems in the country after many were abandoned for high-yield varieties. The seeds are shared with small farmers across several states.

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  • Brighton's holistic approach to housing aims to break the cycle for the next generation

    December 14, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Brighton, Colorado

    The Brighton Housing Authority uses a holistic approach to help those experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. The organization provides tutoring to kids, runs a domestic violence program that provides temporary housing, and gives out rent and gas vouchers to those in need.

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  • The rate of out-school children in Nigeria is alarming, but one initiative is taking children off the streets in Gombe

    December 14, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

    The founder of the Uncle Muhsin Education Support Initiative uses his own resources to offer in-person and virtual classes for free to young Nigerians who are out of school. He also offers classes for children in school who do not understand all of their subjects.

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