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  • Forget profit. It's love and fun that drive innovation like Parkrun

    Aditya Chakrabortty

    August 29, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Teddington

    Paul Sinton-Hewitt, founder of the charity Parkrun, never set out to create a revolution. All he wanted was a low-pressure space to run. Now, his organization supports over 1,600 community running events around the globe, with an expected one million participants by 2023. This is part of a trend of “people’s innovation,” or the idea that innovation can come from users rather than just executives. Parkrun exemplifies the inclusive spirit of people’s innovation and the positive impacts it can spread all around the world.

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  • ‘You can't teach a child without family': It's the magic ingredient at one preschool

    Jackie Mader

    August 26, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Christopher House, a nonprofit organization in Boston, believes wraparound services and family support are key to running a successful preschool. “You can’t teach a child without family,” says Karen Ross-Williams, director of early-childhood and youth development for Christopher House. “This is what makes the difference, when you’re able to partner with the family." In return for free services such as trauma counseling and parenting classes, the nonprofit asks that parents stay as actively involved as possible in the school community.

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  • Empowering Teenage Girls in a Traditional Village and Across Morocco

    Marjorie Olster

    August 17, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Douar Laadam

    Project Soar is trying to get more young girls in Morocco to finish school, and it’s working. The nonprofit offers after school programs and tutoring to teenage girls, in hopes they continue their education and don’t get married at a young age. “This academic support has increased the passing rate for girls in Project Soar to 73 percent compared with the average passing rate of 44 percent for ninth grade girls in the Marrakesh region, according to the American Embassy in Morocco.” Around 475 girls have benefited from the project.

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  • Nonprofit's double-decker bus puts eco-education on the road

    Jessica Peralta

    August 16, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Juan, California

    The San Juan Capistrano-based Ecology Center has taken its "green"-centric experiences on the road in the form of a 32-foot-long, 14-foot-tall double-decker bus called Road Trip. It has a prep kitchen and multiple stations designed for hands-on ecological workshops.

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  • The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling

    David Bornstein

    August 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Recycling is having a moment of reckoning across the United States as many people continue to dispose of garbage in recycle bins. Mitch Hedlund, executive director of Recycle Across America, explains that a lack of public outreach and education is to blame. Through implementing a labeling system, however, the organization has seen an uptick in people successfully designating their trash to the correct bin.

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  • Closing the ‘Perception Gap': With 3 in 5 Teachers Saying Students Are Not at Grade Level on First Day of School, New Digital Tool Offers Parents a ‘Readiness Check'

    Esmeralda Fabián Romero

    August 13, 2018 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States

    A new "readiness check" digital tool, available in English and Spanish, gives parents realtime feedback about whether their child is prepared to enter the next grade level and provides resources and activities to practice if a child is behind in English or math subjects. By offering a concrete, standardized assessment, the tool gives parents the data they need to advocate on behalf of their child and ensure teachers are aware of areas where a child may need extra support before they even enter the teacher's classroom on the first day of school.

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  • School Started by Refugee Students Now One of Uganda's Best

    Tonny Onyulo

    August 09, 2018 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In 2005 refugee youth at the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, founded the Coburwas school in order to provide students with a better education. Now, it is one of the best performing schools in the camps, ranking in the top four nationally, and has about 530 students. More importantly, students get a quality education, which is hard to come by at the camp where many of the schools are low performing.

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  • What San Diego High School Faculty Learned After a Year of Personalized Learning

    Michael Elsen-Rooney

    August 08, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    A year after a San Diego high school was awarded $10 million to scale a successful personalized learning pilot model, administrators and teachers have seen improving attendance rates and certain academic positives and they have some takeaways to share. Changes run the gamut -- from furniture adjustments to the restructuring of students into smaller communities of houses to the addition of wellness courses. And from these, teachers emphasize two important characteristics essential to the success of personalized learning -- gradual implementation of changes and the right balance of technology.

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  • 'A perfect circle of helping': 3 nonprofits join forces to feed people in Kensington

    Michaela Winberg

    August 08, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, a collaboration between three nonprofits is providing 500 free lunches, both filling a gap in nonprofit service on Friday afternoons and giving those recently entered into recovery for addiction a task and sense of purpose. How does it work? The Sunday LOVE Project, a hunger nonprofit, delivers extra food to First Stop Recovery, an addiction recovery center, where residents assemble and pack lunches. Those lunches are then delivered to people with addictions at Prevention Point Philadelphia.

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  • Preschool playgroups offer rural families a head start on school

    Liz Bell

    August 08, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

    In rural North Carolina, an organization holds bi-monthly playgroups to teach parents about the importance of "basic interactions between parents and their kids." Based on the principle of "child-directed play," the research-backed programming allows parents to connect and share and helps students prepare for the unfamiliar social setting of kindergarten.

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