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  • This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

    Michaela Winberg

    June 12, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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  • A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

    Doug Smith

    June 08, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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  • From Trash to Table: A Viable Food Ecosystem

    Bryana Sena

    June 07, 2018 |

    University of Oregon |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Composting reduces the waste that fill landfills, but it's not always a common practice. Food For Lane County and Compost Crew are two operations in Oregon that are working to change this through local control operations that help the environment and get food into the hands of those that need it.

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  • The Opioid Solution

    Gregory Kantor

    June 05, 2018 |

    The Muhlenberg Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Allentown, Pennsylvania

    Although the opioid epidemic has spread across America, this story argues that local solutions are needed. In Allentown, when somebody overdoses on opioids, they get a visit from a Blue Guardian, a trained volunteer that connects the individual to treatment. The outreach program also focuses on reaching out to the families of addicts. In 2017, the program aided nearly 1,000 addicts to get treatment.

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  • The teen parents who teach other young people about healthy relationships

    Nicola Slawson

    May 31, 2018 |

    Positive.News |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: England, London

    Straight Talking is a "peer-to-peer education initiative" in London using interactive workshops led by teen parents to show the reality of teenage pregnancy. The charity has operated for about 20 years, and studies show that it's working to discourage teen pregnancy while also helping peer educators prepare for new opportunities.

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  • Saving Africa's wildlife

    Kevin Sieff

    May 18, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    Africa's wildlife have made headlines time and time again, as species find their way closer to extinction. There are some pockets of the continent, however that have provide refuge for species and allowed them to not just populate, but thrive. Recognizing this, a group known as African Parks found a way to use these growing populations to repopulate other areas of the continent by transporting animals to newly protected areas.

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  • The only scheme proven to end poverty – but too bespoke to scale?

    Thomas Graham

    May 16, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Bangladesh

    An intensive, long-term approach to solving poverty, piloted by an NGO in Bangladesh, has shown serious promise since its start in 2002. However, as the program is piloted in countries across the world, questions about how to emulate results while keeping costs down have kept the program from being effectively scaled.

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  • The shopping centre where the currency is hope

    Aditya Chakrabortty

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-Lyme

    York Place is one of a growing number of shopping centers that are closing down as trends like online retail and changing consumer habits mean fewer people going to shopping malls. But York Place is doing things differently: the shopping center’s main tenant is the YMCA, which sells crafts by local artists. The local cafe is a social enterprise, and residents can earn “CounterCoins,” essentially rewards points, for volunteering. A UK-based professor said, “It’s no ordinary shopping center. It’s a laboratory.”

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  • These Citywide Behavioral Science Experiments Are Paying Off

    Ben Paynter

    May 08, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design firm, has advised cities such as New York and Chicago on creative ways to use behavioral design to improve the quality of city life. From helping students sign up for financial aid to decreasing traffic after a sporting event, these creative design tweaks are inexpensive and have clear benefits. If the cities can continue to improve their design successes, other cities will soon follow their lead.

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  • Coal miners being taught HTML coding as a second career

    Maryalice Parks Enjoli Francis

    May 07, 2018 |

    ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Mined Minds, a nonprofit founded in 2015, is providing training and job connections for former coal miners in West Virginia and Kentucky who are now out of work. Take seventh-generation coal miner Billy Buzzard. He underwent the free 30 week boot camp and is now doing remote coding work for an organization in Seattle.

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