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  • Can ‘Tennessee Promise' of free tuition offer lessons for Seattle and Washington?

    June 01, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan looks to Tennessee's initiative that offers free community college education for every high-school graduate in the state. Only one year after Tennessee became the first state to offer such assistance, the college enrollment rate by five percent.

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  • With Shootings on the Rise, Schools Turn to 'Active Shooter' Insurance

    June 01, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    With the rise in mass shootings around the United States, more municipalities and schools are buying active shooter insurance so they can handle costs that come from mass casualty incidents and not go bankrupt. Some insurance companies also offer risk assessment and their advice often contradicts some of the recent popular suggestions, such as arming teachers. Many insurers say the most effective steps are behavioral interventions with potentially violent students.

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  • The Power of Coaching

    June 01, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Women’s Way, a new Philadelphia-based program, aims to promote economic equality through women’s financial empowerment initiatives. Based on a successful model in Delaware, the program uses financial coaches to help participants reach personal finance goals. It is also part of a broader initiative to decrease poverty while also changing the narrative about how people talk about the issue.

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  • A Blueprint for Human-Centered Change

    June 01, 2018 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In Michigan, private design firm Civilla successfully pitched a human-centered redesign of the state's unwieldy and redundant public benefits form. By highlighting and emphasizing the experience that applicants had with the old firm, Civilla convinced the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to make a change, and the new form is now 22% more likely to be completed.

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  • Kenyan farmers embrace new and sustainable way to build resilience

    June 01, 2018 |

    Down To Earth |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nakuru

    Motivated by crop devastation from a severe drought, farmers in parts of Kenya took action to prevent a similar event from impacting them in the future. Working together, these small-scale farmers implemented conservation agriculture practices to ensure crop viability during even the harshest climate conditions.

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  • Leave No Worker Behind

    June 01, 2018 |

    Earth Island |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A decades-old principle called “just transition” has made international headway in the fight against climate change and toward equity and sustainability. Fundamental to the principle is transitioning from a capitalist system to a localized one that prioritizes cultural inclusion, local economies, decarbonization and environmental justice, and food sovereignty. But as this idea reaches prominence on the global stage, those that have been involved for years worry that its core meanings, morals, and actions will be co-opted.

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  • San Francisco's new bot will downgrade marijuana crimes

    June 01, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Writing laws to be machine-readable could have huge payoffs. San Francisco is designing a computer program to read through the city’s prosecution records and automatically downgrade applicable marijuana possession convictions from felonies to misdemeanors. Such a change became possible in 2014, but the downgrading process proved too expensive and complicated for most individuals to take on themselves. Software developers face hurdles that include needing to teach computers to read inconsistent language and paperwork formats.

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  • In Search of the ‘Just City'

    June 01, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Toni Griffin has gained recognition for spreading the concept of “just cities,” an approach to urban planning that involves values, justice, and equity as priorities in any project. Now director of the Just City Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Griffin is teaching about the concepts of just cities and implementing them into projects, as well. Most recently, her design won a competition in St. Louis that will use green space to create more racially inclusive spaces in the city.

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  • The Lionfish Have Invaded, But a Ragtag Army of Divers and Chefs Are Fighting Back

    June 01, 2018 |

    Smithsonian |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Pensacola, Florida

    Regions across the Caribbean and Atlantic coasts are taking multi-pronged approaches to what some have called a lionfish epidemic. In Pensacola, Florida, the entire community has rallied behind a comprehensive strategy: lionfish catching tournaments. The tournaments challenge teams to catch as many lionfish as possible, while providing supplementary education for residents on how to cook and prepare them for eating and environmental responsibility.

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  • Conquer Bilharzia in Lake Zone

    June 01, 2018 |

    Star TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Dawa za tiba kinga zinasaidia kupunguza madhara ya ugonjwa wa kichocho katika kizazi kipya maeneo ya Lake zone nchini Tanzania. Serikali inakinga watoto kutokana na madhara za ugonjwa huu kupitia mradi wa kupeana dawa za Prazequantel na albendazole bure katika shule za msingi na zahanati. Licha ya haya, wanafunzi pia wanapewa maji safi ya kunywa mashuleni ili kuwaepusha na maambukizo mapya.

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