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  • LA's City Hall Leads a New Fight Against an Old Foe: Homelessness

    Patrick Sisson

    March 22, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’ Inside Safe initiative is helping to transition people experiencing homelessness into interim housing and, eventually, permanent housing. The program uses local service providers to assist with the transition and provide social services.

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  • Mutually Assured Survival: New Orleans groups are rethinking disaster aid from the grassroots up

    Jake Clapp

    March 12, 2023 |

    Gambit |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Groups like the Mutual Aid – New Orleans Facebook group take a community-focused approach to disaster response and gather volunteers to deliver supplies to those in need in the aftermath of disasters like hurricanes and flooding. Frustrated by slow and oftentimes nonexistent government aid, these communities are taking matters into their own hands to effectively provide relief to fellow residents when disaster strikes.

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  • Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

    Arionne Nettles

    March 02, 2023 |

    The Emancipator |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Tax Sale Benevolence Program reaches out to owners of properties in Cook County, Illinois, with tax debt to help them pay it off and connect them to helpful resources so they do not lose their homes.

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  • Cash-assistance programs are spreading in New York. The jury's out on what's a winning formula.

    Rebecca Redelmeier

    February 20, 2023 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A cash assistance program by the Child Center of NY provides low-income residents with $200 monthly grants to use as they wish. The only stipulation is that they meet with the cohort of others in the program every month, too.

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  • Climate disasters hit poor people hardest. There's an obvious solution to that.

    Sigal Samuel

    February 03, 2023 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    An effective way to help those most vulnerable to climate disasters is by providing just-in-time cash transfers right before a disaster hits for them to use as they see fit for resilience and climate change adaptation.

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  • ‘Mutual aid' is a radical ideal. Some live its communal spirit.

    Cole Sinanian

    January 30, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Community-run mutual-aid groups in Boston are helping neighbors connect and support each other. Volunteers organize and run programs like food pantries, relief fund collections, and connections with lawyers and advocates.

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  • Bishops visit migrant shelter in Mexico as US government seeks to limit record-high crossings

    Lynette Wilson

    January 13, 2023 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Nogales

    In Nogales, Mexico, La Casa de Misericordia y de Todas Las Naciones provides food, shelter, and education to migrants while they work through the process of applying for asylum in the United States.

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  • How One Chicago Organization Is Helping Migrants Being Bussed In From the Border

    Jalyn Henderson

    December 19, 2022 |

    NBCLX |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Erie Neighborhood House welcomes migrants being bussed from Texas to Chicago with resources like food and clothing, medical care, legal support, and case management. The organization has helped more than 3,000 migrants since August 2022.

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  • Flooding in Nigeria: victims help other victims survive difficult times

    Kehinde Ogunyale

    December 19, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Omoku, River State

    The Crowd Funders initiative gathered funding to help feed and shelter families affected by flooding in Nigeria.

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  • Fostering Hope for children in the foster care system

    Nicole Norvell

    November 16, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: Georgia, Jefferson

    Fostering Hope is a community closet that provides new and gently used clothing to children in the foster care system. The organization has helped nearly 2,500 kids get a new wardrobe.

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