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  • Operation Ceasefire: Inside a Community's Radical Approach to Gang Violence

    September 26, 2018 |

    Retro Report |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Operation Ceasefire, known as the “Boston miracle,” abandoned traditional policing’s responses to street violence, which caused severe racial tensions, and created a community coalition that used a carrot-and-stick model of targeting people at risk of suffering or committing violence, threatening them with punishment but offering instead social services if they put their guns down. After dramatically reducing violence in Boston in the early 1990s, it spread nationwide. But this highly targeted enforcement method can fail when it isn’t done by the book or sustained over a long period.

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  • Solving America's painkiller paradox

    September 25, 2018 |

    Vox |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In a recent study, doctors who were told one of their patients had died prescribed 10% fewer opiates than doctors in a control group. The letters came with recommendations from the CDC for not overprescribing painkillers.

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  • LA seniors find housing solution with home share program

    September 25, 2018 |

    KCRW |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, seniors finding themselves unable to pay rising rents on fixed incomes and those attempting to age in place in need of some extra help are being paired together in a new home share program. Organizations that help develop pairing are growing in the area as needs increase, but it isn't always the best solution for everyone.

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  • 78207: America's Most Radical School Integration Experiment

    September 25, 2018 |

    The 74 |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    In just three years, San Antonio superintendent Pedro Martinez has raised the bar for school integration efforts nationwide - in this time, the district, where 93 percent of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, has opened 31 schools of choice that are "diverse-by-design." The curriculum, which ranges from talented and gifted to dual language programs, is intended to attract more affluent students from surrounding areas to fill 25 percent of the classroom spots. Journalist Beth Hawkins says, "In 20 years of writing about failed integration efforts, I’ve never seen anything like this."

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  • Smart Stimulation for People with Dementia

    September 25, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: England

    Jelly drops, board games, and a box that projects interactive images and is sensitive to movement, are all examples if products being created to help people with dementia. “She enjoys that rather than being at home and watching T.V.” Some of them, like the “Tovertafel” or “Magic Table” have shown to decrease apathy levels in people that have dementia.

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  • A Boost for the Worker-Owned Economy

    September 25, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Over two million baby boomers own their own companies, and with retirement looming, the government stepped in with a solution. A portion of a 2018 federal bill included language that will push the Small Business Administration to help baby boomers transition ownership of their companies to their employees if they wish. This will mitigate job loss often associated with a retiring business owner putting the company up for sale. Employee owners on average make a higher salary and have higher job stability, supporting the idea that employee ownership is beneficial for everyone involved, as well as for the econom

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  • England has more than 200,000 empty homes. How to revive them?

    September 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Stockton-on-Tees

    There are an estimated over 200,000 vacant homes across England, and Community Campus 87 is one group attempting to bring those homes back to life. By employing apprentices, some who have experienced homelessness, to learn skills such as house painting, the social enterprise is helping homes as well as homeless people bounce back. This is just one example of a handful of social enterprises that are funding the rebuilding of vacant properties with the goal of filling the old homes with more affordable and sustainable housing.

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  • Nutrition agents increase demand for CMAM services in Borno

    September 25, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

    Being in a conflict zone, primary healthcare in the state of Borno in Nigeria has suffered in recent years. In response to the crisis, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) centers provide Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to treat children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The centers also work in tandem with Community Nutrition Mobilizers (CNMs) to follow up with mothers to ensure that the children are taking the medicine, to educate them on malnutrition in children, and to offer other primary care provisions like immunizations.

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  • Forget autonomous cars — rural Japan is betting on self-driving buses

    September 25, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Japan

    Japan is taking major steps to putting autonomous buses on the roads in rural areas because there is a need for reliable transportation and not enough funding as more young people move to the cities. It has the potential to save labor costs and provide more reliable transportation options while delivering necessary data to companies looking to expand driverless technology. However, this also requires more detailed mapping, which is often not available for smaller and more rural roads.

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  • Switching to LPG for habitat recovery and wildlife conservation

    September 25, 2018 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    In rural communities, firewood extraction hurts both human health and wildlife habitat. In India, a group of conservationists are helping villages switch from wood-burning to liquified petroleum gas. While logistics around refills are still being ironed out, the program has already produced noticeable results.

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