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This Bias Training Changes How Angel Investors Think

Zoe Sullivan

March 29, 2019 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A membership organization called Pipeline Angels helps women and nonbinary femme entrepreneurs find investors and start their own businesses. Pipeline Angels addresses the investment disparities between businesses owned by men and women.

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With $6 Rides, L.A. Rideshare Program Helps Under-Served

Doug Zanger

March 25, 2019 |

Adweek |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

FlexLA, a local rideshare program in Los Angeles, offers discounted and even free rides for folks looking for affordable alternatives to Lyft and Uber. While the battle to stand out among transportation behemoths proves difficult, this rideshare program looks to cultural roots of LA for advertising and marketing ideas to spread the word.

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Forget plastic bans: Colorado mountain towns try volunteerism, bootcamps as solutions to single-use

Tamara Chuang

March 22, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Telluride, Colorado

In the mountain towns of Telluride and Mountain Village, locals are going beyond banning plastic bags and are thinking bigger about how to reduce single-use plastic. The Telluride Venture Accelerator focuses on bringing “startups in the plastics-alternative market” to Colorado. A local committee is also finding ways to encourage businesses to change their plastic habits, and together the local government initiatives and environmental startups will change consumption habits regionally.

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Chobani's secret ingredient for backing new food companies

Ben Paynter

March 22, 2019 |

FastCompany |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

Yogurt company Chobani's semi-annual business incubator brings funding and support to minority business owners around the country. The program helps CPG and beverage business owners promote their sustainable, innovative products, and focuses on diversity of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

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Do it yourshelf: the Jakarta libraries with book nooks on tuk-tuks

Sian Cain

March 19, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Indonesia

Only 30 percent of villages in Indonesia have their own libraries. Many citizens are stepping up to provide books for children in creative places in their communities: on boats, the back of vegetable carts, strapped to horses, and more.

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Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?

Steve Lohr

March 15, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A nonprofit in Queens trains low-income New Yorkers to work in successful tech companies. The program, which focuses on training folks without four-year degrees to provide access to higher wages, places graduates in the software engineering industry's top companies, like JP Morgan Chase and GrubHub.

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How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Adele Peters

March 15, 2019 |

FastCompany |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The technology company Pachama has developed a way to combine “satellite, drone, and lidar images” to estimate the size of trees and forests around the globe. Its founders were motivated by the carbon offset industry. If companies want to offset emissions, the rationale goes, it is better to know precisely where forests need to be restored. Pachama’s technology can do just that.

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This free program trains people how to start a business —but without debt

Paul Solman

March 14, 2019 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

A program called the PopUp business school spreads free entrepreneurship advice around the world, enabling people from a spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds to start their own business with very little initial capital. Though of course not every business becomes a booming success, the course teaches individuals how to invest in their ideas -- with free resources like website design and social media training -- without imposing too much of a financial risk.

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How South Africa used soccer to help end domestic violence

Terry O'Reilly

March 14, 2019 |

CBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: South Africa

Changing a culture of domestic violence begins with acknowledging the issue. The beer brand, Carling Black Label, generated a surge of media coverage and discussion surrounding the issue of domestic violence in South Africa. Acknowledging the link between alcohol use and domestic violence in South Africa, the company used the reach of a major sporting event to send a message about the culture of domestic violence—“no excuse.”

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Cove launches the first 100% biodegradable water bottle

Dawn Hammon

March 07, 2019 |

Inhabitat |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Cove is a new water bottle brand hoping to disrupt dependence on single-use plastics. Cove is made of PHA, which is compostable and biodegradable. Still in its early stages, it hopes to manufacture across the U.S. to minimize distribution costs.

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