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  • How off-the-grid Navajo residents are getting running water

    June 20, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Thoreau, New Mexico

    In the Navajo Nation, a territory the size of West Virginia that spans counties in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, people live in extreme poverty and lack access to clean water or electricity. A group called DigDeep is now serving the Navajo residents with large water storage systems and solar-powered pumps to bring water directly into the home rather than traveling miles away to carry water home. DigDeep is equipping nearly 300 homes in the area and has since received funding from Rotary International to expand their work further.

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  • Nebraska prisons playing major role in mental health care

    June 20, 2018 |

    Lincoln Journal Star |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Nebraska prisons house many of the state's mentally ill, and they are working on comprehensive care for them. Prisons work to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism through mentorship programs. The Mental Health Association runs programs in Nebraska prisons and trains peer supporters on the inside.

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  • Bare-chest cuddle that saves early born babies

    June 19, 2018 |

    The Standard |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Kenya

    Premature birth is the leading cause infant mortality in Kenya, but skin-to-skin care for premature babies is shown to increase positive health outcomes—outperforming incubator care. It's called Kangaroo Mother Care, and in a country where understaffed hospitals mean that mothers don't always have access to care, this method saves lives. Save the Children is teaching this method in 21 Kenyan counties and it has already saved thousands of lives.

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  • For just $5, you can now start a responsible investment portfolio

    June 19, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Newday Investing is a an app that allows people to begin impact investing with as little as $5. While attempting to engage millennials in socially-conscious investing, the investment firm is hoping small investments will lead to larger investments over time. With funds that focus on areas such as gender equality and climate action, Newday Investing is trying to make impact investing more accessible and interesting to young people as well as to bigger investors.

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  • How a southwest Detroit construction company is building community by building for the future

    June 19, 2018 |

    Model D |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Saldiver-Ali, cofounder of AGI Construction in Detroit, sees construction as “the first step to community development and sustainability.” The company lives out this mission by engaging with long-time residents. Most recently, they have worked on Detroit Future Ops, a community resource center intended to increase employment of and development by minority contractors. Their mission is to ensure their work helps build up the community in an inclusive manner, today and in the future.

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  • Solar Libre: Family Affair

    June 19, 2018 |

    Latino USA |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Hurricane Maria left many properties and people in Puerto Rico completely devastated. One family decided to do what they could to begin the reconstruction process on their own by forming Solar Libre Puerto Rico - a volunteer organizing that brings emergency solar to the region.

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  • Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many?

    June 19, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Doctors at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School are striving to establish new guidelines that are specific to surgical procedure and patient circumstance for prescribing opioids. The general consensus is this: every patient's needs must be assessed individually, alternatives to opiates should always be considered first, and no patients with acute pain should ever be sent home with more than a few days' worth of opiates.

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  • Philadelphia Works to Digitize Paper-Based Processes

    June 19, 2018 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, City Hall is aiming to solve problems by making outdated processes more efficient. After digitizing the Request for Proposal process, a pilot program found an 89% decrease in processing time. The City is also working with a local tech start-up to digitize the position requisition process and has introduced DocuSign to make the authorized signer process easier.

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  • A Massachusetts Museum Is Taking a New Approach to Wall Text: Revealing Early American Portrait Sitters With Ties to Slavery

    June 19, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Response Location: United States, Worcester, Massachusetts

    In order to call attention to the role of northerners in the history of American chattel slavery and the source of portrait sitters’ wealth, the Worcester Art Museum has begun to add information about a sitters’ slave holdings and participation in the slave trade to wall labels.

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  • Young Nigerians choose to fight Boko Haram with books

    June 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Gathered in makeshift open-air learning spaces, teachers and students in Nigeria are resisting Boko Haram's reign of terror against education. “They don’t like education; they don’t want it,” one 19-year old student says. “So just by doing this, we are all fighting them." Working with UNICEF and other organizations, local educators are offering free education to students who have been forced to stay home for years.

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