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  • Door-knocking neighbors help avert home seizures in Detroit

    January 20, 2020 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In Detroit, volunteers go door to door to talk with their neighbors who have properties at risk of foreclosure. The initiative has contributed to a 90 percent decrease in foreclosures in the city since 2015.

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  • This innovative chorus smashes racial barriers in Columbus. Could it work in Philly?

    January 20, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Founded in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, the Harmony Project brings together people of various musical experience, races, income levels, and professional backgrounds to sing as one. The project aims to get people out of their comfort zones and silos in a segregated city.

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  • Mending Coastal Marshes

    January 20, 2020 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    Martin Ecosystems uses recycled plastic bottles to manufacture artificial islands and shorelines, allowing native vegetation to grow and preventing land erosion, which has restored Louisiana’s wetlands and barrier islands. Plastic mats are layered, injected with Coast Guard approved foam for buoyancy, and planted with native vegetation. Once anchored in rows of up to 20 or more, they act as breakwaters reducing wave height by up to 80% and minimizing erosion. The mats also provide cover for nesting birds and a complex ecosystem for aquatic life. They have withstood years of hurricanes and tropical storms.

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  • This strategy helped stop murders, prosecutors say. But Kansas City police killed it

    January 19, 2020 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    Within a year of its creation, a state-federal collaboration to reduce gun violence in Kansas City seemed to result in a deep decline in killings. But the program, called Kansas City No Violence Alliance, collapsed by 2019 after police pulled their support. The program's approach, called focused deterrence, has been proven effective in multiple studies in other cities. But an analysis of the program in Kansas City found multiple failures in consistently getting targeted people to attend call-ins, where they are threatened with arrest if they commit violence but offered social services to choose another path.

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  • Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers' children

    January 18, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Lost Hills, California

    Owners of the Wonderful Company food conglomerate honed their philanthropic efforts on the community they saw had the most need—their own workers' families—by establishing charter schools to improve the quality of life and education in Lost Hills, California. The K-8 school, one of two, has adopted a "cradle to career'' approach, incentivizing college education through in-school college pathways and renewable college scholarships after completing high school, and integrating parents into its mission through tailored educational sessions aimed at bridging cultural divides.

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  • Nepal: Cafe with cause helps trafficking survivors

    January 17, 2020 |

    Anadolu Agency |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    Nonprofits in Nepal have turned to social enterprise to provide a source of income for the people they typically serve through donations. The enterprise operations help them raise more funding for their projects and reduces their need to rely entirely on donor funding. Job training and employment also provide the beneficiaries with a sense of confidence due to their new-found independence.

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  • Can You Cure a Domestic Abuser?

    January 17, 2020 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Duluth, Iowa

    Duluth’s Domestic Abuse Intervention Project has served for decades as a model for men’s counseling groups that courts often mandate in lieu of incarceration after abuse leads to criminal charges. But a deep look at its methods, which are rooted in challenging men’s patriarchal views and pushing them to take responsibility for their behavior, shows that its rejection of other behavioral influences calls into question its entire approach to truly solving the problem. A solid body of research finds the approach minimally effective, at best, and that other forms of group therapy can be more effective.

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  • The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it's all private

    January 17, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Health care in the Netherlands relies heavily on the collaboration, cooperation, and shared responsibility between private markets and government regulations to achieve affordable, consistent, and quality care for patients. Although the system is not without its limitations, this process has helped the country avoid preventable deaths while also guaranting nearly all residents insurance.

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  • Biometric opioid dispensing machine first of its kind to address demand for safer drug supply

    January 17, 2020 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    In the face of an overdosing crisis, a physician in Vancouver created an ATM-like machine that allows people to pick up pharmaceutical-grade opioids to reduce the chances of people using contaminated drugs. Although this methodology is not a means of addiction treatment, it does eliminate an autonomy barrier for safe injections, requires an initial assessment by a physician, and limits the amount of pills one can request per day which means fewer overdoses.

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  • Coaxing Cops To Tackle Cybercrime? There's An App For That

    January 16, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Training more local police officers in the latest cybercrime tactics poses daunting obstacles. But a pilot project by New York Police Department found the next best alternative: teaching cops how to collect the information an expert will need to solve complex crimes involving the use of technology. Their Cyber Investigative Standards phone app walks an investigating officer through the questions to ask. The experiment showed NYPD that such crimes are indeed more local than assumed, and more solvable if tackled diligently and quickly.

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