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  • How giving entrepreneurs 30 days of free retail space revived a North Avenue storefront and built a collective

    April 12, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Pop-Up MKE was a pilot program that provided a risk-free way for artists to see if their products would sell in a retail space by giving 19 urban entrepreneurs 30 days of free retail space and mini-grants up to $2,000. Four participants formed The Bronzeville Collective MKE LLC and, after negotiating to stay in the retail space, they doubled their own sales and feature products from other creatives, particularly entrepreneurs of color. They split the rent four ways and collect a 20% vendor fee. Other participants in the pilot moved to permanent storefronts and/or expanded their retail presence.

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  • Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments

    April 12, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, Greater London

    When people don't show up for an appointment, it can cost hospitals a lot of money and also unnecessarily increase wait times for other patients. A hospital in London is trying to reduce both the cost and wait problems by using artificial intelligence to predict which patients are most likely to be no-shows.

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  • Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago

    April 12, 2019 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Boone County, Kentucky

    With the average age of the American farmer at 57.5 and the number of farmers over 65 outnumbering farmers under 35 by a factor of 6 to 1, many are worried about a severe shortage of ecologically-minded young farmers to take over from the older generation. To address this gap, states and institutions are launching initiatives like debt-free agricultural college, tax incentives, and loan programs.

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  • LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It's Showing Promise.

    April 12, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    One year after LeBron James' I Promise School opened its doors, its students, picked for being some of the worst performing in Akron, Ohio, have shown significant improvement on district assessments. I Promise is funded like other public schools, but also benefits from an additional $600,000 from the James' foundation for more teaching staff, after-school programs, and a family resource center with G.E.D. preparation and career counseling. Teachers say these add-ons have been the key to the school's early success.

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  • This company uses AI to flag racist and sexist comments from potential hires

    April 12, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    A company called Fama Technologies has developed a tool for businesses to analyze a potential candidate's public digital footprint for problematic comments or behaviors around sexual harassment, bigotry, and bullying. The company's analysis does not give a yes or no, nor does it provide a score. Rather, it surfaces the examples of bigotry and lets the company decide what to do. Fama also reports a 99.98% accuracy rate with its artificial intelligence-driven tool.

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  • How Norway designed a more humane prison

    April 12, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Norway, Halden

    Halden Prison in Norway has re-designed itself so that the look and feel of prison life isn’t an added punishment to restricted freedom. Designers took into consideration the role campus design plays in promoting or disrupting guard-inmate relations and created a campus that promotes community rather than violence and isolation. Also included was landscaping, more natural light, and the use of softer materials, like glass and wood, instead of metal and brick.

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  • What happens when students are given a say in school budgets?

    April 12, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    This year, New York City's Department of Education introduced participatory budgeting in 48 public schools to bolster civics education and create a more transparent budgeting process. At Veritas Academy in Queens, students conducted research, consulted teachers, and prepared pitches in pursuit of the $2,000 of the annual budget available; in the end it was a close race between a greenhouse, multi-purpose studio, and filtered water fountain.

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  • Denver Builds Out Pioneering Gun Crime Investigation Unit

    April 12, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver has formed a law enforcement collaborative, called the Regional Anti Violence Enforcement Network (RAVEN), to bring together eleven agencies to solve gun crimes in the surrounding cities and counties. RAVEN was borne out of Denver’s Crime Gun Intelligence Center – an earlier collaboration – and uses the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network to share information, technology and resources, and identify regional patterns of crimes rather than local, isolated events.

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  • NH recovery centers model how to treat recovering employees

    April 11, 2019 |

    New Hampshire Business Review |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    When people begin treatment for addiction, it can impact how they are viewed as an employee at their place of work. New Hampshire is working to change this stigma through the Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative that focuses on seeing treatment as a strength rather than weakness and also builds in practices to the workplace environment including trainings and evidence-based health and safety practices.

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  • Cost of the Crossfire: Forum discusses solutions to gun violence in Chattanooga

    April 11, 2019 |

    Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

    Chattanooga’s Times Free Press convened community leaders from across the city to discuss gun violence. Beyond exploring the many forces causing gun violence, like toxic masculinity and social media, the forum provided a platform for participants to voice what needs to happen to explore what’s possible. Citing interventions such as decreasing mental illness stigma and teaching conflict resolution at a young age as possibilities, underpinning each idea was the need for people to be active in their communities.

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