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  • What Happens After a Highway Dies

    April 13, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    After the highway’s removal in 2014, Rochester’s Inner Loop was transformed into Adventure Place, as part of the new Neighborhood of Play, which reimagined the urban landscape, featuring retail spaces, bike lanes and affordable housing options. Since the highway was filled in, more than $200 million in new investment has been generated. Moreover, several other cities, including New Orleans and Baltimore, are beginning to follow in their footsteps.

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  • Program seeks to get Maldivian women into the swim of things

    April 12, 2024 |

    Nikkei Asia |

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    Response Location: Maldives, Rasdhoo

    Ocean Women is a training program by women, for women that teaches swimming and snorkeling and empowers them to become instructors to teach others. Five women have participated in the program and completed the Scuba Schools International exam to earn their swimming and snorkeling instructor certificates and have taught 19 children and five adults in the community how to swim.

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  • Sala de consumo | Consumption Room

    April 09, 2024 |

    Radio Ambulante |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, Mexicali, Baja California

    La Sala is a community center that provides harm reduction services to those in need. People can come in to exchange used needles for clean ones and other supplies to make drug use safer. The Center also provides naloxone and testing for HIV and other diseases, all for free. The Center reopened in mid-2019 and has had about 1,900 visits since then.

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  • Distressed hotels turned into apartments for affordable housing

    April 08, 2024 |

    Solutionaries |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    The “Lodging to Living Fund” at Saul Urban identifies vacant or problematic commercial properties — like old hotels — acquires them and converts them into affordable housing. Repurposing existing buildings cuts project costs in half, allowing developers to offer affordable rates to renters. The Heights at Gateway Park is the first such project and has converted 180 hotel rooms into 88 new apartments.

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  • South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

    April 04, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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  • Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns

    April 04, 2024 |

    The Trace |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Inspired by successful public health messaging campaigns of the past, the U.S.-based nonprofit Project Unloaded is using a bottom-up approach to promote gun violence prevention among young people. The nonprofit is working with highschoolers to develop social media messaging campaigns debunking the common misconception that owning a gun makes you safer.

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  • New Indigenous-led shelter provides help to those in need

    April 02, 2024 |

    ICT News |

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    Response Location: United States, Rapid City, South Dakota

    Pejuta Waste O’Tipi is an indigenous-led resource that provides support to the local homeless community, including shelter, meals, cultural healing, peer support and leadership training to help them reenter the community. The shelter serves meals to over 100 people each day, and more than half of the participants have maintained sobriety since visiting the shelter.

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  • The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb

    April 02, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Several cities have fully banned or passed ordinances regulating Airbnb and other short-term rentals to prevent the cities from being overrun by tourists and rental properties. These policies combat the “Airbnb effect” that has been seen in cities from Irvine, California all the way to Bed-Stuy in New York. Cities that have passed these ordinances see lower rent rates, more equitable housing markets and a more sustainable tourism economy.

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  • Volunteers make big impact on African healthcare

    March 31, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Local community health volunteers make healthcare more accessible in rural areas by providing services like ambulance taxi rides, which quickly transport people in hard-to-reach areas to clinics when there’s an emergency. These volunteers also share medical information to promote healthy behaviors among those living in villages. There are currently about 100,000 volunteers serving rural communities across the country.

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  • Invisible struggles of lower-income Asian Americans gain spotlight

    March 31, 2024 |

    Chicago Sun-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Chinese American Service League’s (CASL) Change InSight coalition surveys communities in more Asian languages to allow for more inclusive data collection, particularly among low-income AAPIs. Better data collection increases the visibility of the challenges under-resourced AAPIs face, allowing the CASL to launch social service programs to address challenges in the community, like food insecurity.

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