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  • Western Massachusetts helpline a Call for Change seeks to end intimate partner violence where it starts—with the people causing the harm

    December 31, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    The Call for Change Helpline in Massachusetts takes phone calls from across the country to help prevent domestic violence. The line is confidential and anonymous. Most callers are people causing harm, and responders are trained to help them change abusive behavior.

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  • In Seattle, Community Land Trusts Are Allowing Low-Income Families To Buy A Home

    September 23, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Homestead Community Land Trust and the local Habitat for Humanity specialize in helping lower-income residents become homeowners. They have portfolios of homes available to lower-income residents who make less than 80% of the area median income. To date, the community land trust model has been implemented at a small scale relative to the need and Habitat plans to build almost 300 new homes in the coming years.

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  • One solution to reduce homelessness is to name each person affected 

    August 21, 2022 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    A national nonprofit, Community Solutions, works to reduce homelessness with a name-by-name list strategy in which communities create profiles for people experiencing homelessness to track their housing history, attempts to find new housing, and their current needs. The information is shared across all applicable community organizations to organize and speed up the assistance process.

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  • Combating veteran suicides with peers, therapy, housing — and a little horse sense

    August 06, 2022 |

    Local News Matters |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Swords to Plowshares is a San Francisco nonprofit providing homeless veterans with a place to live and different types of therapy while working to get them jobs, military benefits, and permanent housing.

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  • Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

    August 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade wants to place wild horses in select wilderness areas of California to graze as a way to prevent wildfires.

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  • The new labor market: No bachelor's required?

    July 08, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Employers across the United States are dropping the bachelor’s degree requirement from job listings, but workers need an alternative way to build necessary skills. The nonprofit Social Finance helps workers take time for skills training with financial aid for things like child care, rent, and transportation.

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  • 'Community creates change' | New Knoxville nonprofit provides housing, support for homeless LGBTQ+ youth

    May 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The nonprofit Bryant’s Bridge gives LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness a place to live and connects them to health insurance and job and life training to help them transition into adulthood successfully.

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  • ‘I had to be broken to be fixed': the courses trying to change abusive men

    May 09, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cheshire County

    LifeLine is an intensive, multi-week course that works with perpetrators of abuse to encourage behavior change in them. It is run by My CWA, one among a growing number of non-profits that have been accredited by Respect, UK's lead organization for programs for perpetrators, to run similar courses that follow carefully drafted principles. The aim has been to support survivors of domestic abuse more holistically by addressing the root cause, and now with compelling evidence to show that the approach works, the Home Office has also come aboard.

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  • Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

    May 09, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

    Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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  • Nonprofit Teaches Water Safety to Youth

    April 18, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    SwemKids teaches children of color how to swim and increases access to water freedom while also helping them overcome fears and trauma they may have in regard to swimming.

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