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  • Standup comedy course for men at risk of suicide wins NHS funding

    May 09, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Comedy on Referral is a course that teaches trauma survivors how to do standup comedy, giving them a new way to process their trauma and feel empowered.

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  • Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

    May 09, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

    Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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  • ¿Cómo salvar la ganadería? Un grupo de productores en Guanacaste le apuesta a la regeneración del suelo

    May 06, 2022 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

    Ganaderos de la zona de Guanacaste, tradicionalmente conocida por esta producción agrícola, aplican ganadería regenerativa para mejorar la rentabilidad de sus fincas y disminuir la huella de carbono de las mismas.

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  • What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Unite Here, a 300,000-member labor union of hotel and restaurant workers, has organized mass protests to pass voting rights legislation. In 2020 they ran a huge door-knocking operation with 500 full-time paid canvassers. The weekly salary helped canvassers, many of whom were hotel workers that lost their jobs due to the pandemic. And the well-organized ground campaign that encouraged over 48,000 infrequent voters in Arizona to vote for Biden, likely helped push Biden to a narrow and surprising victory in that state.

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  • A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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  • Una cocina que libera: las raíces de la gastronomía costarricense y sus productores

    May 06, 2022 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, San José

    Los cocineros y productores que conocen las tradiciones culinarias de los pueblos originarios en Costa Rica están creando nuevas cadenas de valor y, poco a poco, sensibilizando a más personas sobre esta herencia gastronómica. La iniciativa Sikwa Restaurante ha contribuido a ese proceso desde un barrio en la capital.

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  • How Violence Interrupters Help Brooklyn Heal

    May 06, 2022 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Kings Against Violence Initiative places intervention specialists at hospitals to prevent future violence and help trauma patients get back to their daily lives.

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  • At these US colleges everyone works and there's no tuition

    May 06, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States

    Work colleges are providing an affordable path to obtaining degrees by requiring all students to work 15 hours a week in exchange for no tuition fees. The funding for the colleges comes from “a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants, and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.”

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    May 05, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • New England Program Helps Low-Income Communities Join the Green Energy Revolution

    May 05, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Revision Energy is bringing affordable solar energy to residents of New Hampshire. Nonprofits and investors have joined forces to bring environmentally-friendly energy to homes at a price that is cheaper than traditional energy. Investors are able to reap the solar tax credit.

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