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  • Investing in Local Business to Get an Even Break

    July 31, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, known as Balle, encourages a “localism” approach to decrease wealth disparities. By hosting a fellowship program to share best practices as well as encouraging philanthropic foundations to invest their endowments in mission-aligned organizations, Balle as served 121,650 small businesses and worked with philanthropic leaders representing over $8 billion in assets.

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  • America's doctors can beat the opioid epidemic. Here's how to get them on board.

    July 31, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Primary care providers often decline to learn how to treat opioid addiction because it takes too much time and specialization—it's a complex disease. But ECHO, a New Mexico initiative that links primary care providers with a community of specialists and colleagues, empowers doctors with access to knowledge that allows them to treat tough patients. ECHO began as a resource for Hepatitis C and was so effective, they expanded it for opioid addiction, For some doctors, it breaks down the barrier to getting a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine, am opioid treatment.

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  • From Homeless to Employment in Silicon Valley

    July 31, 2018 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    When tech giants began opening offices in one San Francisco neighborhood without finding local talent, a formerly homeless community leader stepped in. He created Code Tenderloin, a six week coding bootcamp that provides free technical training to locals with the goal of teaching job skills and finding them local employment. So far, the program has been a great asset to the neighborhood.

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  • Two Years Ago, Cincinnati Voted to Fund a $15 Million Pre-K Program for Struggling Families. Now More Than 1,300 Kids Have Gotten a Leg Up on Kindergarten

    July 31, 2018 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    In 2016, Cincinnati, Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a new program that would help more than 1,300 low-income families gain access to quality preschools. Not only does the program, called Preschool Promise, offer financial assistance for tuition, but they also work with additional preschools to get their programs up to speed to qualify for the program. Testimonials from parents say that it has changed their children's lives.

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  • Sperm ‘washing' procedure boosts fight against Aids

    July 31, 2018 |

    Business Daily |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A relatively inexpensive procedure known as “sperm washing” can prevent HIV transmission from a hopeful father to the mother and baby. A spinning device separates sperm from seminal fluid, the primary transmitter of HIV. The procedure can also be helpful for women with endometriosis.

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  • How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women'

    July 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Community of Hope, a health clinic, is offering a prenatal program called “Centering Pregnancy.” Participants meet bi weekly and cover topics related to pregnancy until the end of their term. The goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable populations, in particular black women who face disproportionately higher rates of maternal mortality rates. "137 women came through the Centering program, representing 78 percent of the delivery clients seen by the nurse midwives at FHBC," and "only 5.8 percent gave birth preterm, and 4.6 percent had infants born underweight."

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  • Cómo funciona la red de docentes y familias que se activa cuando desaparece una nena o adolescente en el Bajo Flores

    July 31, 2018 |

    Red/Acción |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    En uno de los barrios populares más grandes de Argentina, a comienzos de 2015, docentes, familias y organizaciones conformaron una red luego de un aumento de casos de niñas desaparecidas. En tres años, acompañaron con éxito a más de 30 familias a buscar a sus hijas desaparecidas por medio de un protocolo de búsqueda que desarrollaron, además de trabajar con las escuelas para que, cuando vuelvan, no sean juzgadas por sus compañeros o maestros.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: Doubling the help for kids

    July 30, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    FAST Forward is a community health program for children that is aimed at keeping them at home rather than in hospitals. The program helps families build community support around their children.

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  • Creative live-work spaces are seen as one solution to area's housing needs

    July 30, 2018 |

    Glenwood Springs Post Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Loveland, Colorado

    Together, the nonprofit real estate developer Artspace and Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), a government program supporting creative industries statewide, are helping support artists through affordable housing and economic development. Artpsace helped build a live-work building for artists in Loveland. CCI is leveraging government resources to provide support as well. Though this addresses just a small segment of those needing affordable housing in the state, it sets a model that can spur more affordable development from other groups.

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  • Training India's Fake Doctors

    July 30, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    A 9-month course is giving India’s rural healthcare workers their first formal education in medicine. The program doesn’t solve the problem of underqualified people casting themselves as doctors. However, it has helped participants offer better care to their communities, which typically don’t have access to licensed doctors.

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