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The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

Peter Yeung Melanie Pérez Arias

September 18, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Peru

El Movimiento Peruanos sin Agua is leading an initiative to install fog catchers in communities across Peru that lack access to water as they continue to face a drought. The nonprofit provides communities with a netted device, a network of tubes, and storage containers that they put together to harvest water from fog.

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Alternate-Route Education Programs Target Mississippi's Teacher Shortage

Torsheta Jackson

September 15, 2023 |

Mississippi Free Press |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Mississippi

Alternative licensure programs such as the Mississippi Teacher Corps allow people with a bachelor’s degree to earn a teaching license in the classroom through a combination of hands-on experience, coursework, and mentorship. Since its founding in 1989, the corps has placed more than 600 teachers in districts designated as “critical-shortage areas.”

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The Initiative Enabling Nigerian Farmers To Grow And Earn More

Nathaniel Bivan

September 15, 2023 |

HumAngle |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kubau, Kaduna

Babban Gona is an agriculture company that helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria produce bigger yields and increase their incomes. The company offers training, fertilizer, herbicides, and seeds in exchange for some of the farmer’s harvest. When the produce sells, the farmers get some of the profit and a bonus if it sells for more than expected.

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Why Iowa farmers are turning to irrigation during drought. And why some are not.

Brittney J. Miller

September 15, 2023 |

The Gazette |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

Farmers in Iowa are slowly turning to irrigation systems instead of relying solely on rain to combat more frequent droughts.

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Greater Cleveland Congregations is reaching "depressed" voters

Frank W. Lewis

September 15, 2023 |

Signal Cleveland |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Through the Better for Democracy campaign, which is organized by Greater Cleveland Congregations, neighborhood “captains” are tasked with contacting low-propensity voters in their area at least five times each with phone calls, door-knocking, texts, a printed voters’ guide, and a follow-up thank you call. This relational approach to organizing resulted in 56 percent of those who were contacted showing up to vote in 2022, as compared to a 30 percent turnout rate for the city as a whole.

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'Future' of voting unrealized: Few counties adopt vote centers and e-poll books

Makenzie Huber

September 15, 2023 |

South Dakota Searchlight |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, South Dakota

For some counties in South Dakota, switching to centralized vote centers and electronic poll books helped increase turnout and cut the costs of running an election. However, for other counties the cost of implementing vote centers initially has been prohibitive, and not all vote centers have resulted in increased turnout.

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Social Business Profile: Saving 9 – the first aid pioneers in Pakistan

Hamna Iqbal

September 15, 2023 |

Pioneers Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Pakistan, Pind Begwal

Saving 9 bridges the gaps between rural areas and emergency medical care by providing essential training to locals, transforming them into medical personnel. Saving 9 also has an ambulance that connects rural villages to medical facilities in the capital city and also offers a female-led ambulance service to provide culturally sensitive care to women in more conservative, rural communities. Since forming in 2017, Saving 9 has saved more than 900 lives.

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How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

Soreath Hok

September 15, 2023 |

KQED |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

The Fresno Center provides immigration services and culturally relevant mental health care to members of the Southeast Asian community. The Center provides therapy in native languages and works to destigmitize mental health in an effort to heal decades of generational trauma.

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A Different Kind of Grief

Larry Beresford

September 14, 2023 |

MindSite News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philly HEALs is a free bereavement support program for people who have lost a loved one to a fatal overdose. The program offers grief counseling and peer support groups for families, teens and children, allowing them a safe space to talk about their experiences and find community among others who can relate.

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Chesterfield Mobile Home Park Could Be a ‘Model' for Revitalization

Mark Robinson

September 14, 2023 |

Economic Hardship Reporting Project |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

Project:HOMES bought a local mobile home park, Bermuda Estates, to renovate the units and provide higher-quality, affordable housing. The group raised $4.2 million to repair each unit, build a new community center and host events in the park, all while not increasing rent costs.

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