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  • How to Win Elections in a System 'Not Set Up for Us'

    July 30, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    120 people attended the second annual Black Campaign School, a training program created by the Collective PAC, a progressive political action committee that is trying to get more black candidates into office. The Collective also trains and recruits candidates. In 2016 the Collective backed five candidates, four won. “It was the kicking-off point to say we want to bring folks together on the local, state, and federal level to share and learn, build a community, and hopefully help folks win.”

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  • 'Deck parks' restore community ties in neighborhoods divided by highways

    July 30, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Communities, often low-income neighborhoods or communities of color, that were separated by the construction of highways across America are reconnecting by building "deck parks." The parks include room for public green space and new homes, but most importantly, they're intended to recreate a sense of home while mitigating the environmental impacts of interstates.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Doubling the help for kids

    July 30, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    FAST Forward is a community health program for children that is aimed at keeping them at home rather than in hospitals. The program helps families build community support around their children.

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  • Creative live-work spaces are seen as one solution to area's housing needs

    July 30, 2018 |

    Glenwood Springs Post Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Loveland, Colorado

    Together, the nonprofit real estate developer Artspace and Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), a government program supporting creative industries statewide, are helping support artists through affordable housing and economic development. Artpsace helped build a live-work building for artists in Loveland. CCI is leveraging government resources to provide support as well. Though this addresses just a small segment of those needing affordable housing in the state, it sets a model that can spur more affordable development from other groups.

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  • New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Death

    July 30, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals will implement implicit bias training and the city will work to improve its data collection. Hospitals will also receive funds for health coordinators to make sure women are accessing care.

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  • Training India's Fake Doctors

    July 30, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    A 9-month course is giving India’s rural healthcare workers their first formal education in medicine. The program doesn’t solve the problem of underqualified people casting themselves as doctors. However, it has helped participants offer better care to their communities, which typically don’t have access to licensed doctors.

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  • Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

    July 30, 2018 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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  • Can Green Space Be a New Mental Health Treatment?

    July 30, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, a study has found that turning vacant lots into parks and green spaces helped reduce rates of depression in the poorest neighborhoods. These findings complement previous evidence that providing access to nature and greenery can impact mental health.

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  • The Power of a Theater Performance in Prison

    July 29, 2018 |

    Rolling Stone |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Creativity activities in prisons can provide inmates with an emotional outlet, a way to process their life experiences, and an opportunity to constructively work in a group. The theatrical performances staged at New York's Sing Sing prison by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program provides inmates with these benefits as well as a sense of skill and pride in their accomplishment.

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  • Yoga, herbs and sunshine: New Zealand opens 'humane' jail for most violent inmates

    July 29, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Auckland

    New Zealand is opening a new prison for its most dangerous inmates, but it will feature more space and holistic therapies in the vein of prisons in Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany. The majority of people in New Zealand's prisons have a mental illness or addiction diagnosis and more than half are Maori. The new facility will focus on helping people eventually reintegrate back into the community and officials hope this will curtail the steadily rising incarceration rates in the country.

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