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  • Asian Ride-Sharing Apps Speed Up to Cut Men Out of Equation

    December 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Across Asia, ride-sharing startups are being created to provide women with safe transportation options. From India to Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, these companies starting all-women teams of drivers or offering women the option to hire female drivers. These companies are part of a larger, global trend as a – albeit short-term – response to the #MeToo culture.

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  • An Affordable Housing Complex Houses One of The District's Most Ambitious Maker Spaces

    December 13, 2018 |

    Washington City Paper |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    On one floor of an affordable housing building in Washington, D.C., the NonStop Art Makerspace has made creativity more accessible. The makerspace was a group effort between Capital One, the Community Preservation and Development Corporation, and NonStop Art. Nehemiah Dixon, CEO of NonStop Art Makerspace and a D.C. native, hopes to replicate this model throughout the city.

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  • How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons Into Urban Farmers

    December 06, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    An entrepreneur and activist in Atlanta, GA runs an urban farm and employs former prisoners in an attempt to tackle Georgia's incarceration and recidivism problems. The program, called Gangstas to Growers, employs folks regardless of previous experience and aims to keep up with the rapidly gentrifying community.

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  • Nigeria's Tech Startups Defy the Odds

    December 06, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    In Nigeria, entrepreneurs are overcoming the hurdles of an underdeveloped tech ecosystem to solve problems at the bottom of the pyramid, from health to education to access to money. It’s attracting the attention of investors. New venture capital firms in Nigeria are helping local technology spread. Entrepreneurs are being elevated to the international tech scene, while making sure their solutions still help their own country.

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  • A New LIFE: Helping Refugees Become Food Entrepreneurs

    December 05, 2018 |

    Culinary Backstreets |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    For refugees fleeing Syria, a new career path is possible: become a food entrepreneur. A program in Turkey provides Syrians and other refugee groups with basic entrepreneurial skills, as well as access to mentors and a commercial kitchen. Food can sustain jobs while also bringing people together.

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  • In Nigeria, a green stove addresses health, the environment and employment

    December 03, 2018 |

    Ventures Africa |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Green Energy Biofuels was created when Femi Oye wanted to find a cookstove that minimizes harm. The cookstove uses biofuel, which reuses waste, and the stove is also safer and more energy efficient. He estimates it has reduced carbon emissions by over 600,000 tons since the company began. Still, one challenge is convincing Nigerians to pay more, albeit for a safer appliance.

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  • Guild Education's twist on college is working for cashiers, sales clerks and others who abandoned the idea of a college degree

    December 03, 2018 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    By partnering with employers in the service industry and Silicon Valley investors, Guild Education, an innovative Denver, Colorado-based startup, helps adults in service-level jobs attend college at a significantly discounted rate. Some think this arrangement could soon "become as ubiquitous as 401(k)s."

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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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  • A DU student withdrew from school to change the charity world, quarter by quarter

    November 27, 2018 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    A web browser extension called PocketChange allows people to donate small amounts of money to social causes and have their donations matched by “cause-aligned” brands. The software taps into the desire of news readers and social media users to take action in the moment that they learn about social causes, as well as companies’ growing interest in marketing around social causes. The startup has partnered with about 70 charities and six online sites so far, including The New York Times, Google News, and Facebook.

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  • House That! Your Dream Home Could Be Made Out of Plastic

    November 25, 2018 |

    News18 India |

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    Response Location: India, Hyderabad, Telangana

    A social entrepreneur in India is taking plastic waste and using it to make housing structures. Prashanth Lingam takes the waste and turns it into roofing sheets, tiles, and other objects. For example, he built a house for parking staff at a local metro station and 5 million plastic bags were used just on the roof. The cost of these structures are higher than regular houses, but repurposing plastic into other objects could be a potential sustainability solution for the country.

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