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  • Transforming the Delta

    December 20, 2024 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Next California project, a collaboration between AgLaunch and WWF, is helping transform the Mississippi Delta into a sustainable and prosperous agricultural economy. Working with local farmers across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the organizations are helping agricultural operations incubate projects, diversify assets, and grow distribution networks.

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  • With 'Giving Circles,' Anyone Can Be a Philanthropist

    December 20, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Giving Circles allow average people to make a larger impact with their philanthropy by pooling donations from members for larger gifts to chosen causes and organizations. Between 2017 and 2023, there were nearly 4,000 of these groups in the United States, with total donations totaling $3.1 billion.

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  • How Government Buses Are Transforming Girl Child Education in Kano

    December 20, 2024 |

    Nigeria Info FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    To help address low school attendance and retention among girls, Kano’s state government launched a transportation initiative with buses that bring students to and from school for N50 per trip, a much lower cost than arriving by commercial rickshaw. Both students and teachers report that the program has made it easier and less costly to arrive at school on time.

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  • How One City Cut Its Poverty Rate By More Than a Third

    December 19, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building acts as a hub for connecting the city’s many anti-poverty programs and organizations, with partnerships that holistically tackle everything from job training and guaranteed income initiatives to community health programs. Since 2014, the city’s poverty rate has dropped from nearly 27 percent to 17.1 percent.

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  • When AI Meets Conservation

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Gabon

    Okala, a technology company, has developed smart camera traps equipped with a mini-computer and a satellite connection that, with the help of artificial intelligence, send researchers real-time notifications about which species pass by. Real-time camera alerts are not only helping researchers, but also surrounding communities intent on keeping people and crops safe from wild animals.

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  • How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

    GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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  • Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here's How

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Farmers markets, supported by federal, state, and private food assistance programs, are helping to bridge gaps left by disparate food access by offering a direct distribution model.

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  • How Foundation Tackle Open Defecation Using Pet Bottles 

    December 18, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Womio

    In an effort to increase access to clean water, Rockians Medical Foundation rehabilitated a hand pump borehole and constructed four toilets made out of recycled materials in a rural village for community members to use.

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  • 'We have to be leaders': Jordanian tech entrepreneur on inspiring the next generation amid Middle East war

    December 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Jordan

    Robotna provides free education programs in robotics, coding, and AI to the public and students at government-funded schools in Jordan with the goal of expanding access to careers in technology. One of its initiatives provides practical training to graduates of IT and engineering programs, and roughly 70 percent of participants obtain an interview or a full-time job within six months of completing the training.

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  • Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

    December 17, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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