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  • North Dakota may hold key to Wyoming's prison woes

    November 13, 2018 |

    WyoFile |

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    Response Location: United States, Bismarck, North Dakota

    Criminal justice reform succeeds when states prioritize rehabilitation and over punishment. In North Dakota, the Free Through Recovery program increases the number of stakeholders in a parolee’s success, creating multiple levels of behavioral health support. The program is part of a criminal justice legislation package that included sentencing reforms and alternatives to incarceration. The state has been successful in beginning to reduce its overcrowded prison populations and serves as a model for other states.

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  • This new fund will help retiring baby boomers turn their businesses into worker co-ops

    November 13, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Evergreen Cooperatives, a network of worker-owned businesses in Cleveland, Ohio, has seen success in keeping business structure flat and wealth at the local level. Now, they’re growing. They recently acquired the Cleveland Clinic laundry. Different than a traditional business acquisition, Evergreen Cooperatives helped transition employees to become worker-owners. Called the “acquire-convert-support strategy,” Evergreen hopes to add more businesses with the help of several local foundations.

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  • Tanzanian Farmers Crack the Code for Fighting Land Grab

    November 13, 2018 |

    OZY |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Indigenous people in Tanzania are using “legal expertise, political pressure and smart solutions like land mapping to win back plots — and then secure them — from corporations they accuse of using loopholes to grab territory.” While indigenous people live in most of the world’s land, they legally own less than ten percent of it. By mapping their territory and publically registering land, it is much harder for corporations to take control.

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  • Building a Cross-Border Food System in San Diego and Tijuana

    November 13, 2018 |

    Food Tank |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tijuana

    Collaborative efforts between chefs and activists at the San Diego-Tijuana border are inspiring those in the region to better understand cultural similarities. Amid the backdrop of stricter immigration policies in the U.S. these efforts help bridge a divide through a "unified food system."

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  • This tool helps you make sure your 401(k) is supporting gender equality

    November 13, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Gender Equality Funds is a tool that makes it possible for people to know if the mutual fund companies in their 401(k)’s are gender inclusive. The tools pulls data from 4,000 mutual funds companies and gives them a gender score. The aim is to empower people to invest their money in socially responsible funds. “I believe this is going to be a tsunami of capital shifting away from companies that are not responsive on gender equality.”

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  • Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

    November 13, 2018 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Tajikistan, Faizobod

    To restore degraded lands in Tajikistan, farmers are turning to agroforestry, a traditional cropping method that more closely mimics natural systems. An estimated 45 gigatons of carbon is sequestered by agroforestry systems globally. Add that to the benefits of reforestation, erosion control, and the return of wildlife habitat.

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  • I looked for a state that's taking gun violence seriously. I found Massachusetts.

    November 13, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Massachusetts' strict gun-licensing laws make gun buyers jump through many hoops before they can buy and possess a firearm, part of a broader set of policies and factors that give the state the lowest gun death rate in the U.S. A permit-to-purchase law treats guns much like cars, with license and registration required. Police can deny gun permits even when applicants pass all background checks and meet other requirements. All guns, even those sold in private transactions, must be registered with the state and are subject to confiscation under the state's red-flag law for disarming dangerous people.

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  • So many innovations, little uptake to boost health

    November 13, 2018 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Medical innovations in maternal and child health could save thousands of lives in Africa if more governments adopted them. A Kenyan doctor with an international nonprofit that works to transform global health through innovation offers key examples such as oxytocin tablets that don't need refrigeration and can stop women bleeding to death after birth, dipsticks to detect pre-eclampsia and skilled birth attendants. These solutions can stop women and children dying from preventable causes.

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  • Firearms And Dementia: How Do You Convince A Loved One To Give Up Their Guns?

    November 13, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    With the rate of dementia expected to double in the next 20 years and estimates that nearly half the people over age 65 own guns, advocates are working to get dementia patients and their families to focus on gun safety. Like driving, guns can represent independence so creating a non-threatening way to talk about removing guns is key. One suggestion by advocates is to create a version of an advanced directive specifically for guns that can include transferring them to a trusted caretaker.

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  • When a man kills his wife in India, what happens to the children?

    November 12, 2018 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: India, Tamil Nadu

    Global Network for Equality grew out of sociological research of men imprisoned for killing their wives. Researcher KR Raja saw how many children had been effectively orphaned by such killings, and how the men's rehabilitation in prison depended in part on knowing their families were provided for. GNE helps hundreds of children up to age 18 with living expenses, emotional support, and college applications and costs. While the effects on prisoners aren't shown, the program clearly improves the lives of the affected children.

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