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  • Out of Poverty, Family-Style

    July 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    A non-traditional program called the Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.), uses a radically different approach from the traditional American social service model to empower entire families alleviate themselves from poverty. The results in multiple states thus far have been so striking, that this model of self-sufficiency may be able to have a significant impact reducing poverty nationwide.

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  • The Rewards of Renewal

    June 16, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Poor neighborhoods in the United States lack quality play spaces for children, also known as play deserts. An organization is enabling communities across the nation to build their own playground.

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  • On the Web, a Revolution in Giving

    March 31, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    New crowdfunding options can help even the smallest donor's contributions to have a meaningful impact, bolstering a sense of personal involvement, maximizing knowledge about causes, and inspiring greater participation.

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  • The Revolution Will Be Mapped

    December 28, 2009 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Mebane, North Carolina

    Mapping technology has been used in creative ways to visualize discrimination on the municipal level and hold governments accountable for using methods that are hard to understand or quantify to perpetuate discrepancies. Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities in North Carolina is one of the first to do this kind of work, and their methods and expertise have spread across the nation.

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  • Tibetan Exiles: 'We Shall Overcome'

    February 26, 2009 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    A New York-based nonprofit called Students for a Free Tibet is training Tibetans in "how to stage nonviolent protests." This effort, in conjunction with other Tibetan NGOs, has helped activists in Dharamsala, India to become "more organized, media savvy and technologically sophisticated," which in turn has increased the number of people who have come together to participate in the nonviolent protests.

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  • Coalition eager to apply lessons at home, Milwaukee anti-crime group inspired by its mission to Boston

    May 28, 2000 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Now that a coalition of Milwaukee preachers, police and prosecutors has witnessed firsthand the success of a crime-fighting partnership in Boston, the local coalition is clearing its first obstacle -- putting its ideas into action at home.

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