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South Minneapolis grocery store offers a special on helping

Gail Rosenblum

October 21, 2022 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Good Grocer, a grocery store in Minneapolis, is a nonprofit run by volunteers who receive an additional discount on groceries for their work. The store’s food outlet offers discounts of up to 70% and provides affordable, healthy foods to combat food insecurity.

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In Sierra Leone, this initiative is last hope for some children with life-threatening conditions

Kehinde Ogunyale

October 18, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sierra Leone

Volunteers of the Sick Pikin Project raise money for children in need of medical treatment by traveling the streets of Nigeria with postcards about their stories and asking for donations. The program has helped 226 children so far.

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How Volunteers Open Their Homes to Women Seeking Abortions

Ronda Kaysen

October 15, 2022 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Midwest Access Coalition in Chicago and the Haven Coalition in New York are two organizations that have spent years building out a network of vetted volunteers they can rely on to provide a safe, comfortable place to stay for those seeking an out-of-state abortion. In July 2020, the Chicago organization served 40 clients. This July, following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the organization served 200 clients.

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

Josh Cohen

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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How an initiative is providing water to remote communities in northern Nigeria

Misbahu el-Hamza

September 10, 2022 |

Daily Trust |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Water the Needy Foundation uses donations and sponsors to provide rural, remote communities in Nigeria access to drinking water by building wells and boreholes.

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Greece: Dental care for refugees

Marius Reichert

September 05, 2022 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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Response Location: Greece, Chios

A father/daughter dentist duo provides dental services to refugees in need of care by setting up a pop-up clinic at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios. The pop-up clinic provides much-needed dental care to the refugees who haven’t had the ability to care for their teeth during their journey to Europe and dentists from around the world will take turns staffing the clinic on a volunteer basis.

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Konyuhiv hostesses: how female volunteers in the Lviv region made 13,000 canned meat and two tons of dumplings for our defenders

Alice Smahina

August 29, 2022 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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Response Location: Ukraine

Konyukhiv Gazdyni volunteers prepare cans of meat and other foods for Ukrainian soldiers. The women can prepare an average of 300 cans of meat in a day.

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One solution to reduce homelessness is to name each person affected

Michaela Towfighi

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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More than a day at the beach: Piping plover volunteers work to save a species

Peter Feuerherd

August 20, 2022 |

National Catholic Reporter |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A secular community of volunteers formed the NYC Plover Project to watch over a group of the in-danger shorebird species that nests in sand dunes at a local beach. Volunteers scan the nesting ground for threats with binoculars and educate beachgoers about the problem at hand.

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For Some Displaced Kids In Benue, This Makeshift School Is Their Only Chance At Education

Abdulwasiu Olokooba

August 19, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Makurdi, Benue

The Fortress of the Vulnerable Child Rescue Initiative gathers volunteers to provide an education to displaced primary school-aged children from low-income families. The organization can accommodate up to 300 children at a time and is in the process of gathering funds to build an official school building.

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