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  • Ethiopia's Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

    February 07, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Awra Amba

    The Awra Amba community is founded on broad values such as gender equality of labor, women’s rights, children’s rights, and caring for the elderly and vulnerable, and residents work together on 15 democratically elected committees to make key decisions. Research shows that the community has achieved higher life expectancy, literacy rates, and measures of gender equality than the country’s national averages.

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  • With 'Giving Circles,' Anyone Can Be a Philanthropist

    December 20, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Giving Circles allow average people to make a larger impact with their philanthropy by pooling donations from members for larger gifts to chosen causes and organizations. Between 2017 and 2023, there were nearly 4,000 of these groups in the United States, with total donations totaling $3.1 billion.

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  • Restoring a Cornerstone of the Local Grain Economy

    November 20, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    A new generation of entrepreneurs is reestablishing local grain mills across the United States, drawing on historic processes to bring back a system that benefits local economics while providing fresher, more nutrient-dense flour. The group, the Craft Millers Guild, meets virtually to share advice, learn from experts, and advocate for change.

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  • 'Fight for it to be better'

    November 13, 2024 |

    Southern Science |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Capacity Collaborative and Thriving Earth Exchange are working together to establish volunteer community science hubs to support environmental justice projects in communities around the United States. The organizations connect communities with scientists and experts who volunteer their time to help move their projects forward.

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  • Thread and Thrive

    November 12, 2024 |

    Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Formed in 2019, the Tailor’s Life Coach training initiative has helped over 200 people, particularly women, learn tailoring skills to pursue their passion for fashion design and open tailoring businesses of their own. The skills training from the initiative is free; participants only need to purchase the materials they use.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: More Worker-Owned Businesses

    November 12, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Democracy Brewing is a worker cooperative, which means worker-owners split the profits and have an equal say in business decisions that affect working conditions. Studies show that this type of business structure results in higher wages and household wealth for workers of color, and these workers also tend to stay in their positions longer.

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  • To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

    October 30, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States

    Residents of mobile home communities are coming together to collectively buy the land their houses are on and establish cooperatives. It ensures their rent stays affordable long term, and some state governments are making it easier to do so to help address housing affordability crises.

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  • Europe's plan to fix its massive e-waste problem

    October 11, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Repair bonuses pay for part of the repairs necessary to keep electronics working as a way to reduce e-waste. Research calculates that the repair program in Berlin helped prevent more than 400 tons of electronic waste from entering landfills from 2021-2023.

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  • North Center's Common Pantry Provides Free Nutritional Education Amid Increased Demand

    September 06, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Common Pantry provides assistance to those facing food insecurity, and recently opened a new facility to offer housing information and assistance with job searches, government benefits, health care and other services. The Pantry also started a nutrition program, teaching people about the science between food and health, as well as how to cook healthy meals at home.

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  • El Paso solar cooperative helps homeowners save thousands on rooftop solar. It may be back next year.

    August 25, 2024 |

    El Paso Matters |

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    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    Several nonprofits are running a solar cooperative in El Paso, Texas, that helps homeowners come together to buy and install solar panels in bulk, which makes them more affordable.

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