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One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

Anjulie Rao

May 19, 2024 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Arts nonprofits across the U.S. are using creative, often complex, financial and organizational models to continue to provide a stable place for artists to thrive despite high real estate prices. In one example, a gallery director in Chicago created a nonprofit and a noncharitable LLC to purchase and redevelop a building that will have space for a retail tenant on the first floor.

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Upcycling Waste Spurs Art, Farming Among Lagos Students

Adebola Adegoke

May 18, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Foundation for a Better Environment partners with public and private schools across Nigeria to make waste reduction a part of the curriculum. It's focused on teaching youth to reuse, recycle, and compost through practices like making art and building gardens.

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How cognitive behavioral intervention is reducing gun violence in Chicago

Patience Hurston

May 17, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is working to reduce gun violence by reaching out to victims and perpetrators immediately after the violence. The organization negotiates peace and offers cognitive behavioral intervention services to help them develop strategies to keep negative emotions from turning into violent actions.

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Minnesota Is Testing a Model To Add More Civility to Politics

Cinnamon Janzer

May 17, 2024 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

Minnesota’s Civility Caucus brings Democrats and Republicans together for monthly sessions where they learn more about each other and their respective districts. Members say having opportunities to get to know their fellow lawmakers helps create a better foundation for working together. At least one bill has been cosponsored by members of the caucus from opposite parties.

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St. Louis Fills a Downtown Void With Soccer

Mark Byrnes

May 16, 2024 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

In an effort to restore a sense of urbanism and community to the city, CityPark repurposed an old manufacturing plant to develop a 32-acre soccer campus, attracting sports teams, fans and other patrons to the city for games, shopping, dining and other festivities. During CityPark’s first season, it brought in an extra $73 million in revenue for the city.

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This Coastal State's Approach to Flooding May Be a Model for Illinois Communities

Laura Stewart

May 16, 2024 |

Illinois Answers Project |

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Response Location: United States, Woodbridge, New Jersey

Officials from Woodbridge Township in New Jersey bought and demolished almost 200 homes to create a flood-absorbing restoration area after Superstorm Sandy. The program assigns each homeowner a case manager to help them through the process from the appraisal to moving. Much of the area is now wetlands, which act as a natural sponge to prevent flooding.

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Nature's Carbon Sponges: Restoring Meadows in the Sierra Nevada

Elizabeth Walsh

May 16, 2024 |

The Hitchcock Project |

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Response Location: United States, California

The Nevada Irrigation District is restoring meadows, and therefore their carbon-sequestering abilities, in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were degraded by humans through things like building dams and mining.

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How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression

Elizabeth Hewitt

May 16, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zambia

StrongMinds provides group therapy run by trained community members to help locals treat and manage their depression, as access to therapists in more rural areas is scarce. Since the organization launched in 2013, half a million people have gone through the treatment program and three-quarters of the participants have been screened as being free of depression symptoms two weeks after completing the program.

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Talking the Talk: How one therapy practice is bridging cultural and language barriers

Doreen Abril Albuerne Rodriguez

May 16, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Latinx Talk Therapy offers bilingual mental health services in English and Spanish from Latinx therapists. These services help bridge the gap in accessing mental health care in Latinx communities. The Center opened in 2020 with a team of four therapists but has since grown to 50, as the services they offer have begun to gain more traction within the community.

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How Vaccine is Boosting Efforts to Eliminate Malaria among African Children

Sharon Atieno

May 16, 2024 |

Science Africa |

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Response Location: Kenya

The world’s first malaria vaccine was introduced in a pilot program in 2019 and found to reduce severe cases of malaria by 22%. Since then, the vaccine has been rolled out to several regions and has administered more than 1.8 million doses throughout the country, which has contributed to reducing prevalence rates from 27% in 2015, to 3.6% today.

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