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  • Families find ways around Taliban restrictions on girls' education

    December 12, 2023 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan, Kabul

    Amidst Taliban restrictions on girls’ education, several people are looking for alternative options to further their education. One solution includes the University of the People, a free, online U.S.-accredited university. The virtual university helps make education more accessible and currently has 100,000 participating students worldwide.

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  • Black Investors Take Back a Legal Tool to Restore Affordable Housing

    December 07, 2023 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Community Receiver Program works with real estate professionals of color to rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed properties. These properties are then resold to local homebuyers — to preserve generational wealth — or rented out at affordable rates. The program trains people to be community receivers for free, teaching them how to acquire and rehabilitate the buildings, as well as how to leverage grants and local funding programs. Since 2020, the Program has trained about 520 people, rehabilitated 16 buildings and contributed about $4.5 million in restored property value.

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  • Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

    December 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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  • Inside the fight to add gender-affirming care to university health insurance plans

    November 30, 2023 |

    Xtra |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Insurance provider GreenShield, in collaboration with university insurance broker Studentcare, provides lifetime coverage of up to $10,000 for gender-affirming care procedures not covered by provincial health insurance. This insurance benefit provides care to more than 200,000 university students across 20 participating schools in the country.

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  • The Beacon Prison Books Project Provides Free Books to Those Behind Bars

    November 29, 2023 |

    The River |

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    Response Location: United States, Beacon, New York

    The Beacon Prison Books Project provides free books to incarcerated people through a group of volunteers who take book requests, order the books and then display them in participating bookstores for patrons to purchase as sponsored gifts for those in prison. The program has expanded to several bookstores in the state and has sent over 3,000 books to incarcerated people since February 2020.

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  • Kashmir: Female coppersmiths excel at male-dominated trade

    November 22, 2023 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    Despite it being a historically male-dominated field, women in Kashmir are learning copper smithing to become both socially and financially independent. Women who have mastered the skill then teach it to others, allowing more and more women to not only learn a valuable skill, but to secure income to support themselves.

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  • A Model for Disability Justice in Emergency Shelters

    November 21, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Edison, New Jersey

    The Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) started working with people who have disabilities to create better disaster preparedness measures that consider disabilities, ensuring support and shelter are accessible to anyone and everyone. ACI held an overnight shelter simulation exercise that allowed them to practice each step of an emergency shelter response with people who have disabilities to identify any areas that could be improved. These simulations have become a model for other counties across the state, inspiring more shelters to make improvements to their accessibility.

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  • The Black Women Who Fought for Ohio's Historic Abortion Win

    November 21, 2023 |

    ELLE Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Ahead of a ballot measure to guarantee access to abortion and reproductive health care in Ohio, the Black-led Ohio Women’s Alliance spoke with more than 1.3 million young female BIPOC voters, framing the campaign as a fight for a wide range of reproductive services. Residents approved the constitutional amendment with 60 percent of female voters and 83 percent of Black voters voting in favor.

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  • Power Plays

    November 15, 2023 |

    Democracy in Danger |

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    Response Location: Belarus

    Following a fraudulent election and violent backlash against demonstrators, activists in Belarus used open source photographs and documents, as well as those submitted by journalists and citizens, to expose police and state actors participating in human rights violations via a secure Telegram channel.

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  • How San Francisco is addressing the challenge of Trans homelessness

    November 12, 2023 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Several community organizations and municipalities like the Office of Transgender Initiatives (OTI) have come together to decrease homelessness rates among the transgender population. OTI formed a Trans Advisory Committee which focused on budget and policy advocacy based on input from the transgender community to address homelessness and partnered with efforts like the Transgender District. All in all, these combined efforts have decreased transgender homelessness by 15% since 2019.

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