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  • App connects users with native-owned businesses

    February 17, 2020 |

    Marketplace |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tuba City, Arizona

    In the Navajo Nation, more than 70 percent of local income leaves the tribal area, but one effort is helping native-owned businesses expand their reach. Change Labs, a business incubator, helped birth Rez Rising, an app that helps people find and shop with native-owned businesses, which often find obstacles to entrepreneurship like listing a physical address or operating a website.

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  • Young Somalis Step In Where Government Fails

    February 16, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Somalia, Mogadishu

    After three decades of war and famine, Somalia's capacity to respond to emergencies and rebuild its country has been significantly diminished. To pick up the slack, young Somalis, many of whom have returned home from abroad, are stepping in to volunteer their services, from rehabilitating child soldiers, sparking tourism, addressing humanitarian crises, and even organizing book fairs.

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  • The community built by women who fled violence

    February 16, 2020 |

    BBC |

    Photojournalism |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Colombia, Cartagena

    The League of Displaced Women built “The City of Women" in 2003. The city has about 100 homes for women and their families, including men, who faced and/or fled murder, rape, and other forms of violence during the conflict in Colombia. The community is self-sufficient with a school, stores, restaurants, and other services. Egalitarian gender norms are followed by its residents, and the group helps women heal from past emotional and physical traumas. The women in the city tried to get justice for the crimes committed against them, but none of the 159 cases of gender-based violence have been resolved.

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  • Crazy Mascots Flooded Japan. Can This Grouchy Boar Survive?

    February 16, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Japan

    Kumamon, a black bear with rosy cheeks, is a mascot for a Japanese town who helped sell millions in merchandise, drive up tourism, and increase tax revenue because citizens can direct some of their income taxes to the locality of their choice. As a result, hundreds of towns rushed to create mascots to cash in on the approach to enticing visitors and investment. Towns spent a lot of money on these oftentimes whacky characters, however there has been no evidence that the vast majority of characters deliver any economic benefits, and therefore most are quietly being discontinued.

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  • Finding patients where they live: Street medicine grows, along with homeless population

    February 16, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Doctors from USC have formed a small street team that travels to homeless communities to treat medical concerns and help provide assistance. Part of a growing trend around the United States, these teams are playing a vital role for the homeless by eliminating barriers such as the need to "schedule an appointment, find transportation to the clinic, pick up prescriptions, or pay for their treatment."

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  • Poor credit is a barrier to affordable housing. Lending circles are a tool for those in poverty

    February 14, 2020 |

    Desert Sun |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Coachella Valley, California

    Lift to Rise, a Coachella Valley nonprofit that pushes for housing and poverty policy change, launched a local lending circle program aimed at serving minority residents break the cycle of poverty. Partnered with San Francisco-based Mission Asset Fund, the lending circle helps those with poor credit or no credit at all to build up a spending history, have access to loans, create a savings account, improve their score, and more. Since 2008, Mission Asset Fund has partnered with more than 50 organizations across the U.S. to provide lending circles to more than 9,000 clients.

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  • Mending broken Nigerian talent

    February 14, 2020 |

    The Mail & Guardian Online |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Sports medicine has been an underutilized field in Nigeria, but a sports medicine physician and the head of surgery at a local hospital in Lagos are working to change that through education and partnerships. “We already have established professional players coming from outside the country to get care here in Nigeria,” Onimisi Salami, the head of surgery said. “It’s a slow process, but we are on track.”

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  • Can restorative justice bring peace to the schoolyard?

    February 14, 2020 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada

    A Catholic high school in Ontario is leading Canada's efforts to use restorative justice and mediation strategies in the classroom. The school has found that students who go through this process often don't get in trouble again.

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  • Seattle nonprofits and Zillow launch affordable housing search tool

    February 14, 2020 |

    HousingWire |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The City of Seattle partnered with Zillow to create a searchable database of affordable vacant rental units. Case managers are using the tool to get homeless residents into housing.

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  • Meet Pakistan's Barefoot Entrepreneurs

    February 13, 2020 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Pakistan, Sindh

    Pakistan's poorest citizens, who previously panhandled for their basic needs, were launched onto an entrepreneurial path by the Heritage Foundation Pakistan. Eight impoverished communities have been trained in the craft of glazed tile work and terracotta art to lift the participants out of poverty. The program also created a market of interdependence, so the villages can purchase goods from one another, freeing them from relying on cities for their livelihood.

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