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Ideas We Should Steal: More Worker-Owned Businesses

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

November 12, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Democracy Brewing is a worker cooperative, which means worker-owners split the profits and have an equal say in business decisions that affect working conditions. Studies show that this type of business structure results in higher wages and household wealth for workers of color, and these workers also tend to stay in their positions longer.

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Michigan's most vulnerable rescued by kinship caregivers

Hayley Harding Sarah Rahal

November 10, 2024 |

The Detroit News |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Various programs and organizations, like Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Grandparents Parenting Again, are helping seniors navigate and understand kinship care, providing them with guidance and support to transition to caring for loved ones.

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The dogs who bring the fallen home

Lois M. Collins

November 10, 2024 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States

Volunteer cadaver dogs are specially trained to find the bodies of missing persons to give grieving families answers and the chance to bring them home.

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Michigan's election results can't get much faster

Hayley Harding

November 08, 2024 |

Votebeat Michigan |

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Response Location: United States, Sterling Heights, Michigan

During the 2024 election, Michigan clerks were allowed to pre-process absentee ballots for the first time, meaning they could open the ballot envelopes, verify signatures, and feed ballots into the tabulators before the polls closed on election day. More than 200 cities opted to pre-process their absentee ballots, and in one city, Sterling Heights, election workers were able to handle more than 20,000 ballots by midday on election day.

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Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.

Nate Iglehart

November 06, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

Spurred by federal and state incentives, farmers in Massachusetts are adopting agrivoltaics, the practice of installing a solar array on the same land they use for crops and livestock.

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Girls in Rural Uganda Turn to an Organic Solution to Navigate Period Pain

Chidera Eze

November 06, 2024 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Uganda, Mpigi

She Deserves Uganda provides menstrual hygiene education to young girls and an organic aromatherapy solution to pain from period cramps they call The Cramp Relief Droppers, as a safer and more affordable alternative to traditional over-the-counter painkillers. The group has provided menstrual health education to over 10,000 girls across 50 schools and has distributed over 1,540 units of The Cramp Relief Droppers.

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CJID's Press Attack Tracker gives Nigerian journalists shield against press freedom violations

Phillip Anjorin

November 06, 2024 |

Dubawa |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Press Attack Tracker by the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development records, verifies and intervenes in instances of press freedom violations. The organization uses data from the Tracker to push policymakers to enact change and to ensure journalists know what areas may pose a higher risk to their safety while also providing psychosocial support and covering medical expenses when needed.

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An organisation deploys strategic storytelling to transform lives in rural Nigeria

Praise Usoro

November 05, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

The Bonnicare Foundation garners support and funding for people in need of education, healthcare and economic empowerment through visual storytelling on social media. This approach helps humanize the challenges people are facing, encouraging those with the means to donate. With the funding they’ve received through social media donations, the Bonnicare Foundation has helped pay the school fees for more than 1,000 primary and secondary school students in rural areas.

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Why Utah Is Bucking One of the West's Oldest Water Rules

Nina Elkadi

November 05, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

Utah is ditching the “use it or lose it” water rights doctrine to encourage farmers to conserve water amid severe water shortages. Instead, it’s encouraging farmers to use less water while allowing them to keep their rights to it. The government is awarding funding for efficiency upgrades and creating a system for farmess to lease out the saved water.

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A Colorado Groundwater Experiment Tackles Urgent Conservation Needs

Jennifer Oldham

November 04, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

Farmers in arid, drought-prone regions are creating groundwater conservation easements with nonprofits to reduce their water use in a financially feasible way. For these agreements, farmers reduce the acres they grow crops on in perpetuity in exchange for payment and tax benefits.

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