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  • The Latest Innovation in Student Retention at Colleges: ‘Food Scholarships'

    November 12, 2019 |

    EdSurge News |

    Podcast |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Policymakers and college students and faculty are testing a range of approaches to address food insecurity on campuses. One nonprofit provides small grants to students and professors to cover the cost of food, transportation, or other expenses.

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  • After cyclone Fani, women in a migrant fishing community start resilience fund

    November 12, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Penthakatha, Odisha

    After an unexpected summer cyclone in the Indian state of Odisha, hundreds of women from slums across the region formed a community fund for disaster preparedness. The women all try to contribute 10 rupees per month to the fund, slowly building their security net in case of another natural disaster.

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  • In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests

    November 12, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Borneo

    Those who live on the island of Borneo understand that their well-being comes from the Gunung Palung National Park, but logging remained rampant because it was the only way to make money to pay for healthcare. Thus, an organization named "Health in Harmony" was borne through "radically listening" to locals to find out what they needed. This organization accepts creative forms of payment for healthcare and offers incentives to cease logging, including a chainsaw buyback program. As a result, ten years later they saw a 90% drop in logging households and a re-growth of 52,000 acres of forest.

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  • The Way America Votes Is Broken. In One Rural County, a Nonprofit Showed a Way Forward.

    November 12, 2019 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Ackerman, Mississippi

    In Mississippi, a recent election went off without a hitch thanks to new voting machines built by nonprofit VotingWorks. The machines, which were not approved by federal or state regulators, were easy to use, set up, and take down, and improved security of votes.

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  • 'The woods, they hide so much': Animal Cruelty out of sight out of mind?

    November 12, 2019 |

    WXIA-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    To address animal cruelty in Pennsylvania, a team of law enforcement officers are receiving special training to better identify and prosecute the guilty. This effort gives limited enforcement powers to those trained and allows them to be hired by animal welfare groups to serve search warrants, charge and arrest those involved, and appear in court.

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  • Healing a Divided Nation Begins Face to Face

    November 12, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, South Lebanon, Ohio

    Personal connections contribute to more productive discourse, reducing polarization and divisiveness. Outreach projects such as those led by the Better Angels nonprofit and KUOW-FM in Seattle encourage conversations between individuals with differing political points of view. KUOW has run several “Ask A…” programs, including “Ask a Muslim” and “Ask a police officer,” which focus on building conservations. The Better Angels program, which includes workshops centered on discourse, has spread nationwide.

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  • Safer at sea: The unexpected benefit of traceability for small-scale fishers

    November 12, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Philippines, General Santos City

    Efforts to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing also make fishermen safer at sea. Vessel Monitoring Mechanisms (VMM) and electronic catch documentation (eCDT) track the origin of fish headed to market, part of an international effort to ensure sustainable and equitable practices. Data transmission also makes fishermen safer, relaying their locations from hundreds of miles out at sea. In the Philippines, a partnership between Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise (FAME) and USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership helps cover subscription fees for FAME radio transmitter service.

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  • Free the Floodplains!

    November 11, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    There is a unique, homegrown local flood buyout program in Charlotte, NC that helps homeowners on floodplains relocate safely and with financial security. This came as a result of the city and county of Charlotte forming a joint storm water utility in the 1990's, which generated money by fixing aging pipes and other storm water needs—funding the local “Quick Buy” program. This gets the aid to the homeowners much quicker than FEMA money does and has since relocated 650 families and saved $25 million in losses.

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  • The boys learning anti-sexism in India

    November 11, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Pune, Maharashtra

    A program launched by the Equal Community Foundation (ECF) in 2011 called Action for Equality (AFE) educates more than 5,000 teenage boys in Pune, India about violence against women. They spend 43 weeks learning curriculum designed to help them spot gender-based violence, how to intervene and be a model for change, and how to disrupt gender norms. The program is especially effective, because it is coordinated by young men in their 20s whom the teenage boys look up to. About 80% of participants graduate, and many families testify to their son/brother/nephew's changed behavior.

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  • Are D.C.'s Streets Finally Getting Safer?

    November 11, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, bike and pedestrian advocates in Washington turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results.  

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