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  • For some students, certificate programs offer a speedy path to a job

    May 25, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Delaware

    Community colleges such as Delaware Technical Community College and Lorain County Community College offer short-term certificate programs that are more accessible to adult learners and students with families. In 2022, the Delaware college awarded roughly 4,500 certificates and credentials.

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  • Cross River State Government in Partnership with Zipline International Explore Use Of Drones in Medical Supply Delivery

    May 25, 2023 |

    Sparkling 92.3 FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Zipline International partnered with local government to use drones to deliver medical supplies to rural health facilities to ensure everyone has access to the resources they need, from hospital supplies to vaccines, drastically reducing the amount it takes to get much-needed supplies.

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  • Feeling sick? The lawyer will see you now.

    May 25, 2023 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    The Child Health-Law Partnership (Child HeLP) is a collaboration between health and legal professionals to treat a patient’s “health-harming legal needs” together. The original medical-legal partnership began 30 years ago in Boston, but has since expanded to other cities to look at all aspects of a patient's health. To administer the best care, patients are asked questions about housing quality and stability, delays or denials of public benefits, unmet educational needs and mental health.

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  • Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC's Canopy

    May 25, 2023 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A collaboration between tree-planting organizations in Washington D.C. helps Catholic church properties to plant and care for trees. The free trees are an effort to combat urban heat and benefit the local environment.

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  • Oakland University becomes 1st US campus to return land use to Native American community

    May 25, 2023 |

    WDIV-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, Michigan

    After Indigenous students and faculty advocated for stolen land at Oakland University to be returned to the native community, the university made the land a heritage site, bypassing legal issues tied to development requirements and ensuring that the institution would have no say in the future of the site. The land is now home to a pawpaw orchard, a wildflower garden, and a fire pit for cooking and ceremonies.

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  • Detroit resident 'leads with love' in local climate resiliency

    May 25, 2023 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Tammara Howard founded and runs the What About Us? community hub to serve the Detroit neighborhood she lives in. She plans community-building and educational events and distributes essential resources when problems like power outages occur.

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  • Jewish teens, led by Ezra Beinart, are gathering on Zoom to meet prominent Palestinians

    May 24, 2023 |

    The Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    High school junior Ezra Beinart founded an initiative that invites Palestinians to speak with young American Jews via video chat. The goal of the project, which has hosted six speakers so far, is to introduce Jewish teenagers to perspectives on Israel-Palestine that they may not be exposed to within their communities.

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  • Affordable and Accessible Health Care Remains an Issue in Nigeria, but Atayase Initiative Devises a Means, Helping the Underserved Age Groups

    May 24, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Atayese initiative makes healthcare services more affordable and accessible for underserved age groups including young children, pregnant women and elderly people. The initiative launched in 2013 and runs clinics and hospital services in several states and communities where they’ve provided treatment to hundreds — in some areas, thousands — of patients.

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  • A Powerful Climate Solution Just Below the Ocean's Surface

    May 24, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    A project at the Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve has restored 10,000 acres of seagrass meadow. For two decades, scientists and volunteers have worked together to collect, process, and plant seeds to grow the carbon-storing underwater plants.

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  • How Conecta Arizona is Fighting Mis- and Disinformation in Latinx Communities in the United States

    May 24, 2023 |

    Aidóni |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Conecta Arizona is a WhatsApp-based Spanish-language news service originally created to help combat misinformation in migrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years since its launch, the service reaches more than 100,000 people and partners with freelance journalists and experts to provide information on voter registration, mental health resources, immigration laws, and more.

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