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  • Abolish the police? Organizers say it's less crazy than it sounds. Audio icon

    August 25, 2016 |

    The Chicago Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Police abolitionism, an idea that strikes many as fanciful and dangerous, lies at the root of many community projects in Chicago that have demonstrated on a small scale the ways that problems can be solved without police involvement. Run by acolytes of Mariame Kaba, these projects provided dispute resolution services, mental health responses, and a bond fund that uses donated money to bail pretrial defendants out of jail. The key idea is to demonstrate ways to scale back police powers, rather than wait for institutions to reform themselves.

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  • This Slaughterhouse Will Let You Watch What Actually Happens Inside

    August 25, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

    Photojournalism |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Springfield, Vermont

    As skepticism increases around the health of consuming meat products due to inhumane ways the animals are being reared and raised, this Vermont packinghouse is embracing transparency by letting the public see all. From tours of the facility to learning how the animal was raised and later killed, this slaughterhouse is trying to change the narrative around the secrecy behind the meat on your table.

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  • The Tiny NGO That Changed Reporting on Rio's Favelas During the Olympics

    August 24, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Catalytic Communications provides resources to reporters to help them move beyond stereotypical ideas and present a multifaceted perspective of life in favelas. This is especially important during times like the Olympic Games when thousands of journalists arrive to cover a country they often know very little about. CatComm provides journalists with tools such as a list of underreported subjects and community leaders to contact and has actively informed over 200 articles. CatComm is also developing tools for their model to be created in other cities.

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  • Public art to revive a community

    August 24, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States

    Urban decay has left a "physical legacy" of past economic hardships in cities. Many cities across the world are now implementing programs that promote public art that rebuilds and reimagines neighborhoods.

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  • Nextdoor Rolls Out Product Fix It Hopes Will Stem Racial Profiling

    August 24, 2016 |

    Buzzfeed |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The location-based social network Nextdoor responded to criticism about racial profiling on its site by revamping the platform. The company collaborates with many public agencies and Oakland’s mayor said the city’s departments should stop working with Nextdoor until it addressed these issues. Nextdoor subsequently changed how people can report crimes or suspicious activity so that race is de-emphasized and this has reduced racial profiling on the site by 75 percent, although some activists who helped Nextdoor say they were left out of the process and there is more work to do.

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  • Busting the billion-dollar myth: how to slash the cost of drug development

    August 24, 2016 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    When the population in need of a new dug is very poor, the private sector has little incentive to create and test new drugs. Through product development partnership, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative keeps the costs of drug development down. For example, the non-profit pays for and runs clinical trials under the name of the drug company, helping their image, in return the drug company doesn’t patent the drug and sells it to the people in need for a much a cheaper price.

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  • California Court Helps Kids By Healing Parents' Addictions

    August 24, 2016 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Signs indicate that a recent surge in the number of children entering the foster system is related to the opioid epidemic. Using the power of keeping families in tact as motivation, the Early Intervention Family Drug Court in Sacramento County works with addicted parents to receive comprehensive early addiction intervention in an attempt to prevent their children from being entered into the foster system.

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  • Microsoft: No Single Organization Can Close Skills Gap

    August 24, 2016 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States

    Microsoft and Boys and Girls Clubs of America are partnering to expand access to computer science education. A pilot program in 25 clubs across the country exposed 1,000 kids and teens to the first two levels of a four-part coding series. Despite its promise, the program faces impact limitations and scaling challenges including a lack of experienced instructors.

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  • Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above

    August 23, 2016 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Technology developed in the military to find who was planting roadside bombs to take out American soldiers has been adapted for civilian use by a former member of the Air Force, whose company seeks to work with police departments to use it to solve crimes. The airborne cameras provide hours of consistent surveillance and have proven highly effective at tracking down perpetrators so police can arrest them. But civil libertarians are alarmed what this widespread surveillance means and how it will be used, particularly since Baltimore officials did not tell the public about it for months.

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  • Is universal preschool the answer? Britain says ‘yes'

    August 23, 2016 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    Since 2004, the national government in England has paid for all three-year-olds to receive 15 free hours of child-care per week. Since the program was implemented, the academic achievement gap between high-income and low-income children has been shrinking and more children are performing well upon entering primary school on both academic and non-academic measures. Can the United States, where the average family with children under 5 spends 9% of its annual income on child care, translate any parts of the UK's model to its own early education policies?

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