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  • Annoyed by Robocalls? This One Can Save Lives

    July 01, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Non-profit organization Reliefwatch is addressing supply chain breakdowns for developing world health clinics by sending them robocalls asking about procurement needs. The information updates a database in real time, allowing suppliers to get the drugs in the hands of the clinics in need and avoiding expiration of excess stock. “The whole idea in terms of the system is that the data goes up into a cloud system that can then be accessed by a manager, the supplier, whoever is relevant,” Yu says.

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  • Now Blood Donors Can Get a Text When They Save Lives

    July 01, 2015 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Gothenburg

    When Swedish blood blanks were faced with a blood shortage, one hospital turned to text messaging in order to reach potential donors. Relying on the value of personal connection, the campaign texts donors when their blood has been used and also reminds individuals to regularly donate.

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  • Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong

    July 01, 2015 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, South Berwick, Maine

    Disciplining schoolchildren has led many students down the “school-to-prison-pipeline” because teachers have focused on controlling students rather than instilling problem solving skills. Ross Greene has developed Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS), which is a method that trains staff at schools to develop relationships with disruptive kids and help them problem solve. With the CPS method in practice in 2012, Central School has reported fewer students sent to the principal’s office and no suspensions.

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  • Prison Born

    July 01, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Bedford Hills, New York

    More women are being incarcerated around the United States and that has spurred more institutions to create prison nurseries, which allow women to be with their newborns. It's not a new idea, but it's finding support among prison advocates as well as budget hawks because research shows nurseries can lower recidivism rates among mothers. The idea of children in prison remains controversial however.

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  • A Peek into Silicon Valley's Newest Bet: AltSchool

    July 01, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    AltSchools use a completely different education system - interconnecting technology and hands on experiments - to help students achieve a higher degree of learning. Students are grouped into small, personalized cohorts so they can be both mentors and mentees for their fellow peers, creating a collaborative learning space for all.

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  • A Mother Forgives the Man Who Raped and Killed Her Daughter

    June 30, 2015 |

    Slate |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Restorative justice emphasizes accountability and making amends by facilitating meetings between people who committed a crime and those who were hurt by that crime. Victims can get their questions answered and express to the offender how their lives were impacted and the offender apologizes and presents specific ways they will make amends, such as community service or drug treatment. The method improves recidivism rates and gives victims a small sense of control. One participant, Linda White, was inspired to become a vocal and active advocate of the approach after speaking with a man who killed her daughter.

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  • This Isn't Your Average Home Ec Class

    June 30, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Culinary and agricultural education can sometimes take a backseat to the more academic side of high school. But Blue Hill is teaching high school students the importance of healthy cooking and home grown produce through a cooking class that was recently instituted in Manhattan high schools.

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  • Language is the great equalizer at this school in Louisiana

    June 30, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    A program at a public school in Baton Rouge is using bilingual education to attract middle class families back into the public school system to increase diversity among the student population.

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  • 7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

    June 30, 2015 |

    Reveal |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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  • The ‘win-win-win' Tompkins could use to help jailed veterans

    June 30, 2015 |

    The Ithaca Voice |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Over 220 Veterans Treatment Courts have been created across the United States, each of which helps provide services like rehabilitation and support groups instead of jail time to veterans. Courts in Ithaca, New York are thinking about implementing such programs and are looking to places like Buffalo, which has seen a decreased recidivism rate to just five percent.

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