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  • This non-profit group in Italy uses soccer to give migrants hope

    October 08, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Italy, Roma, Lazio

    While migrants arriving in Europe wait for asylum, they have few opportunities. Liberi Nantes is a non-profit in Rome that aims to build relationships between migrants and Italians through organized recreational activities.

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  • Small Business Survival: Government Gridlock Stymies Solutions

    October 08, 2015 |

    The Lo-Down |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A starting point for addressing the problem of small-business extinction - a description of possible solutions being enacted in New York City.

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  • Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates

    October 07, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    The Bard prison initiative, in New York, allows inmates at correctional facilities to take liberal arts classes and improve their opportunities to find work upon release.

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  • Meet the Giant Rats That Are Sniffing out Landmines

    October 07, 2015 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Belgium

    APOPO, an international nonprofit, has trained Gambian pouched rats to sniff out landmines in countries across the world. These rats have terrible vision, but an amazing sense of smell and have cleared over 13,000 mines since 1997. Training the rats takes about nine months, and includes socializing, teaching them how to walk on a rope in the field, and of course, how to sniff out miniscule amounts of TNT.

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  • Reducing drugs, prostitution via zoning: Costa Mesa's plan to shutter problem motels

    October 07, 2015 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States, Costa Mesa, California

    Illicit activity is rampant in the rundown motel rooms dotting Costa Mesa’s Harbor and Newport boulevards. Officials think they finally have a plan to make some of those motels disappear: Property zoning.

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  • Write a House

    October 07, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    An organization in Detroit is piloting free housing for writers in exchange for staying in the city for three years and revitalizing the community. The program was started through a robust crowdfunding campaign and then later from foundation grants and more crowdfunding. It is transforming foreclosed homes in the NoHam neighborhood and offers community growth, through “neighborhoods and culture.”

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  • For Goldman, Success in Social Impact Bond That Aids Schoolchildren

    October 07, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    In Utah, Goldman Sachs funded the education of preschoolers and was reimbursed by the state once it was shown that the kids would not need special education. Social impact investments, like this one in Utah, can help social programs in the U.S. which are often affected by government cuts.

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  • Here's the disturbing evidence on how the media inspires mass shooters

    October 06, 2015 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Roseburg, Oregon

    Research has shown there are concrete steps journalists can take to thoughtful cover mass shootings in a way that doesn’t spur the motives of potential copycats. These include reducing the amount a shooter is named, running articles without including a picture of the shooter, and avoidance of certain words to describe the event.

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  • A plan to give 5,000 dropouts a second chance

    October 06, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Thanks to new private and public funding, school completion programs in Seattle, which enable distressed youth to achieve high school equivalency degrees, can now expand.

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  • A Peek Inside Three Cutting-Edge Schools

    October 06, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Increased technology in classrooms is popular among schools in the U.S. However, research suggests that its effect is sub-optimal due to low-quality software, implementation, and participants' digital skills.

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