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  • Uber partnership helps patients cut costs

    May 31, 2018 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Ride service hailing can help increase access to healthcare for those without reliable transportation. Partnering to reduce ride fares, Uber and hospitals are working to increase patient access to transportation. Millions in the US are unable to receive medical care due to the issue of inadequate transportation.

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  • How chopping off their horns helps save rhinos from poachers

    May 31, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    As rhino populations continue to decrease at an alarming rate due to poaching, wildlife managers in South African reserves have begun to take matters into their own hands with emergency solutions such as dehorning. Although not financially sustainable for all reserves, the practice of dehorning aims to make rhinos a less attractive commodity to poachers by eliminating what they're after most.

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  • Living Homeless in California: Dignity Is a Hot Shower

    May 31, 2018 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    While Los Angeles works to build permanent housing for the homeless community, trailers have popped up around the city offering free showers and restrooms to homeless folks in LA County. The showers offer a sense of dignity as well as a gateway to longer-term resources, like substance abuse support.

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  • Dick's Sporting Goods overhauled its gun policies after Parkland. The CEO didn't stop there.

    May 31, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Parkland, Florida

    In a response to the 2018 Parkland, Fla. shooting that killed 17 people, Dick's Sporting Goods removed guns from several locations around the country and carried on conversations with Congress about tighter gun laws. The sporting goods company, which sold a shotgun to the Parkland shooter before the shooting occurred, has taken a comprehensive approach in looking at the school shooting crisis around the country by reducing gun sales and working with legislators on firearm legislation.

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  • Mansfield vs. Hamilton: An examination of two Midwestern legacy cities

    May 30, 2018 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Hamilton, Ohio

    Hamilton, Ohio has achieved recent success and growth by focusing on “placemaking,” investing money so they city is a place that will attract jobs and talent. This is part of Vision 2020, the city’s plan for decision-making that will promote public-private partnerships and economic development. Mansfield, a city that is by some metrics struggling to catch up with Hamilton, is looking to Hamilton for ideas it can try, too.

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  • Virtual power plants are now powering electrical grids without fuel

    May 30, 2018 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Belgium

    Batteries have begun replacing power plants. Instead of fueling up a plant when electricity demand peaks, networked batteries can kick in and deliver stored energy, reducing emissions and saving money. The technology is increasingly affordable and reliable.

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  • Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty

    May 30, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Journalist Marcella Bombardieri calls community college "one of America's largest and most important anti-poverty programs." The president of Amarillo College in Texas is testing just how far community colleges can go to fight systemic issues - day care, social workers, and emergency funds for students' daily expenses are part of his plan. Other administrators are looking on at the dramatic experiment with mixed views and takeaways.

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  • Where to turn when your child has a mental health crisis? In Kent County, help comes to you.

    May 30, 2018 |

    Michigan Radio |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Kent County, Michigan

    Network180 manages the Children's Crisis Response Team in Kent County, Michigan, a program that is serving as a resource for parents to call if their children are experiencing a mental heath crisis. If parents are in need of immediate assistance, they can call the response team and they'll be met by mental health clinicians instead of by police or other emergency services, where it would take longer to treat the issue.

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  • Equipping Women to Stop Campus Rape

    May 30, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Windsor, Ontario

    Flip the Script is a program utilized on college campuses that trains women to prevent sexual assault. The program educates young women on setting their own personal boundaries, recognizing the early signs of a sexual assault, and training them to respond effectively to a dangerous situation. The program encompasses physical and verbal training and has proven so effective that Evidence-Based Programs rated it as the only program in violence prevention to date that earns a Top Tier score.

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  • Thousands of refugees can't prove they have degrees — this scheme could help

    May 29, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Greece

    First piloted in 2017, the Qualifications Passport allows refugees to apply for a document certifying their education background earned in their home country. The Council of Europe is working to spread awareness of the document and encouraging universities to accept the passport not only as a social symbol but as a formal recognition capable of leveling the playing field for refugees in the job market.

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