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  • Schools use yoga to improve behavior

    November 28, 2018 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Schools around the world are increasingly teaching yoga as a stress management tool. And students are responding enthusiastically -- in one district, over 70 percent of kids chose to also use the techniques at home.

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  • Let's Chat About Sex: Tech Platforms Target FCT Youth with Sexual Health Info

    November 28, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    In a nation that traditionally does not believe or address that adolescents have sex despite overwhelming data, Nigerian web- and mobile-based platforms are expanding access to quality sexual education for youth. Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a non-governmental organization, in particular has seen success with a set of three apps called LinkUp, Frisky, and DIVA that provide anonymous, accurate, and nonjudgemental sexual and reproductive information/counseling. Since 2007, EVA has received over 900,000 text messages, 28,433 voice calls and 800 emails/web entries.

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  • Florida's Counties Grapple With the Rotten Harvest of Red Tide

    November 28, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Red Tide that hit the coast of Florida in 2018 resulted in a massive amount of waste and dead sea species washing ashore. With no protocol in place to clean up the toxic mess, counties had to learn while doing. From failures to successes, the state is now better equipped to mobilize should a similar event happen in the future.

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  • Separated by travel ban, Iranian families reunite at border library

    November 28, 2018 |

    Reuters |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Derby Line, Vermont

    Iranian families are sidestepping the U.S. Muslim ban inside a library. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is located in both Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec. Dozens of Iranian families have briefly reunited in the library, which acts as unofficial political gray zone. “You don’t need your passport. You park on your side, I’ll park on my side, but we’re all going to walk in the same door.”

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  • This Swedish Mall Is The World's First Ever Secondhand Shopping Center

    November 28, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Eskilstuna

    ReTuna, a new Swedish shopping mall, features exclusively items that are used, secondhand, or made sustainably. The mall is hoping to help consumers save money, as well as decrease waste and improve the shopping experience for secondhand goods. It is also employing many immigrants through a government training program. Though this specific shopping mall model is new, countries around the world have slowly started new methods to reduce waste.

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  • How VA-trained psychiatrists are bringing their skills to civilians with PTSD

    November 28, 2018 |

    Marketplace |

    Radio |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    PTSD impacts more people than just veterans, but not many services are set up for civilians to seek treatment. To widen the scope of treatment, some academic institutions and psychologists that have been trained to work with veterans are taking the lessons they've been taught and applying them to treating those with complex PTSD.

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  • On college campuses, planning for a post-Millennial future

    November 28, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The University of Maryland - Baltimore County is known for its higher number of masters and doctoral graduates of color, and for having the greatest number of black graduates with a combined MD-PhD in the country. The school has made a concerted effort to acknowledge the changing demographics of college students and is leading university-specific efforts to promote and support diversity.

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  • With growing mental-health needs, colleges look to professors for suicide prevention

    November 27, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Faculty and staff at Philadelphia’s LaSalle University are being given crisis training to recognize, engage, and refer students with suicide ideation. With the number of students seeking mental health care increasing, this program expands the safety net of people students can reach out to in a time of need.

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  • How the Ghana ThinkTank Challenges the White Savior Complex

    November 27, 2018 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Ghana ThinkTank connects planners in the so-called “first world” to planners in the so-called “third world” to challenge notions of development and spread ideas from overlooked sources. For a recent project, planners in Detroit worked with a think tank in Morocco to adapt a staple of Moroccan architecture to promote the use of public space.

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  • Foundations Have a Not-So-Charitable Secret

    November 27, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Traditionally, private foundations have been required to give away only 5% of their wealth each year. Beyond that, the majority of funds have typically been invested in Wall Street funds, sometimes funds that fundamentally contradict their mission. This is changing. The F.B. Heron Foundation has shifted to a more socially conscious investing strategy, as have parts of the Gates and Ford foundations. Impact investing is relatively new, but it is growing in a field where the potential for impact is huge.

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