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  • For Students With a Mission, a Little Capital Goes a Long Way

    September 11, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    At a time when university students lack opportunities and financial help to test their innovative business ideas, the Resolution Project supports higher education students who have ideas for socially responsible businesses and charities. Resolution offers small awards to start businesses as well as mentor opportunities that enable networking and business collaboration with experts.

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  • Open Access: How a Nonprofit is Giving Techies Without Tuition Their Shot

    July 23, 2015 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Access Code is a nonprofit in New York that gives young adults, particularly those from minority groups, instruction and resources to learn coding. This education promotes greater access to lucrative careers in the world of technology.

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  • Beer and business: the unexpected benefits of water access in Cameroon

    July 07, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    Cameroon was plagued by droughts, water-related illnesses, and an influx of refugees--all of which required a surplus of clean water. The government devised solar panel water distribution systems, which brought fresh water for irrigation. The surplus also inspired citizens of Cameroon to start small businesses that used the water, including brewing beer.

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  • Cleveland Wants to Make Sure the Next Wright Brothers Come From the Rust Belt

    June 22, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Northeast Ohio and other former industrial regions are finding a new way to bounce back: investing in hardware startup companies. Technologies from improved 3D printers to tools for livestreaming to aerospace applications are showing that not all investment dollars need to go to Silicon Valley software companies. In fact, cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh can play on their strengths in manufacturing and are seeing that investment dollars are more likely to flow to hardware companies.

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  • Where Dreams Come True

    June 18, 2015 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    Community colleges were originally designed to be affordable and accessible, yet the myriad pressures on students means that the best intentions often don’t lead to positive results. But the University of Central Florida and its partners are proving a new model called DirectConnect—heavy on individual attention and clear academic goals—that paves a surer path.

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  • New data reveals which approach to helping the poor actually works

    June 17, 2015 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Korom

    For years, policymakers have debated different approaches to helping the poor , but new data offers resounding evidence for a strategy that works: an approach known as a “Graduation” program. This method offers participants a “productive asset” to generate income with training on how to use it, as well as the resources (such as healthcare, food, loans, and coaching) to maintain the asset while building a pathway out of poverty.

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  • Zanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles

    June 05, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Matemwe, Zanzibar

    In Zanzibar, hundreds of households too poor and remote to have access to the electrical grid are getting low cost solar power for the first time, from a group of local female engineers trained by and Indian NGO. It's the first of several "solar mamas" projects planned for parts of rural Africa, and it's turning some traditional gender roles on their head.

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  • Peru's Ancient Stone Canals

    May 25, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Peru, Huamantanga, Lima Metropolitan Area

    Climate change has led to shorter, more violent rainy seasons in the highlands around Lima, Peru, meaning that - even though there is theoretically enough water during the rainy season to sustain the local population, it flows downhill too quickly, leaving residents short of clean water during the dry season. Now, an organization called Condesan is helping the community to restore ancient stone canals from the seventh century that will help to store water from rainfall through the dry season and supply residents with a steady water source.

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  • Japan's Future Farms

    May 25, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Japan, Fukushima, Tōhoku

    At the Fujitsu factory in Japan, a significant decline in demand for semiconductor computer chips meant the company had large empty factory space sitting unused. A new business approach allowed them to dually address both the need to evolve their business model with a global decline of viable agricultural space needed to grow the world's food. Now, the factory houses indoor vegetable gardens, soil free and less resource-heavy than traditional farmland.

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  • The Power of a Calm Sea

    May 18, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland

    As the global demand for energy continually increases, the strain on natural resources and the detrimental effects of fossil fuels become more problematic. But new developments in renewable energy technologies may provide new solutions. Minesto, a company based out of Northern Ireland, has a new device - structured something like an underwater kite - that allows for the constant harvesting of tidal power, regardless of current weather or wave conditions.

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