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  • The cleaners who won fair wages and a way to belong

    July 18, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Professors, workers’ rights advocates, and workers themselves united to change the standard for the compensation of cleaning staff at local universities. Low paid service jobs, including cleaning, tend to be outsourced. This leads to lower pay and a lack of job security. Now there is a trend for universities to bring cleaning services in-house, increasing wages for workers and creating a better work culture for all.

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  • Pop-Up Kitchen Counters Mainstream Narratives about Food in Detroit

    July 18, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Community dinners can highlight locally sourced ingredients, shine a light on food systems and their impact, and create solidarity among cooks and attendees. The Dream Cafe, a pop-up restaurant using food from Detroit’s urban farms, highlighted the impact of food systems on communities of color and brought together organizers from different sectors for a meal.

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  • How Penzance became Britain's first ever plastic-free town

    July 18, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Penzance, England

    “There were bottles, cocktail sticks, coffee cup lids, razors, toothbrushes," recalls Rachel Yates, a Penzance community member, in describing the looks of a Cornish beach she volunteered to clean up with marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage. Shortly after, she joined the charity and led the Cornwall community to achieving plastic-free status through awareness and campaigning efforts, unifying the town in the fight against single-use plastics.

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  • Innovation schools are a cross between public and charter. Could they come to Rochester?

    July 18, 2018 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Recent reports show steady improvement for students attending Indianapolis’ Innovation Schools - a unique model that “marries the autonomy of charter schools with the resources and scale of a school district.” While Innovation Schools are controlled by an outside nonprofit or board of directors and are free to make their own curriculum decisions, they rely on the public school system for a number of key resources and their test scores count towards the district's overall performance. Could this structure work in other states with varying political cultures surrounding charters and unions?

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  • The Private Cities of Honduras

    July 18, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Honduras, San Pedro Sula

    To attract foreign investment, Honduras is creating privatized cities with Western-style laws and foreign judges. The development initiative is bringing in money and creating jobs, but the enclaves are tailored to please private companies and may undermine Honduran sovereignty and social cohesion.

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  • Parents Behaving Badly: A Youth Sports Crisis Caught on Video

    July 18, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    New supports are being put into place for the referees of youth sports leagues in order to stop or punish harassment. These include signs, monitors in the stands, and a Facebook page that publicly shames out of control patients.

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  • How little investments can lead to big community change

    July 18, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Seward, Alaska

    Wellness for All, a community organization in Seward, Alaska, provides funding for community members to take action on projects they think will improve their city. Funding from the Seward Community Foundation supports these community-led ideas, such as an urban garden and a hospice program. The Alaska Community Foundation, which funds projects across the state, has distributed over $1 million in grants over the last decade.

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  • A New Child Psychiatry Fellowship Could Make Midland A Boomtown For Mental Health Services

    July 18, 2018 |

    Texas Standard |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Most Texas counties don't offer psychiatry services, so Texas Tech University is sponsoring an $8 million fellowship that trains psychiatrists and then incentives them to remain in the area. In an effort to get immediate services in the hands of rural patients, doctors are also offering telepsychiatry options to augment in-person services.

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  • It Takes Consultation to Help a Village

    July 17, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Harlandville

    To succeed at international development, consult the locals. It seems obvious, but too many failed development projects show community buy-in is not the biggest priority. Two groups are leading the way to change this. Village X and Spark MicroGrants rely on locals’ opinions to direct projects that are actually needed and desired, creating better long-term outcomes for the communities in which they operate.

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  • In Kotzebue, Alaska, Hunters Are Bringing Traditional Foods—and a Sense of Comfort—to Their Local Elders

    July 17, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Kotzebue, Alaska

    In the northernmost nursing home in the U.S.,the Hunter Support Program has existed for more than two decades in an attempt to provide traditional foods to Kotzebue, Alaska's elders. While the program has faced roadblocks, the program's model of person-centered care has been hailed as a clear positive for the elders and the overall community. So much so that, in 2014, an amendment titled "Service of Traditional Foods in Public Facilities" was passed as a way to formally recognize the necessity of traditional food in the nursing home.

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