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Chain reaction: How an intervention led to women helping women in Wassa IDP Camp

Lama Queen Godoz

June 13, 2022 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

Grants for women living in refugee camps have helped recipients start businesses and learn new skills, allowing them to improve their quality of life. Additionally, the women created an informal cooperative and take turns investing a percentage of proceeds from each successful business into another member’s business.

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What happens when the people decide?

Jenna Spinelle

June 13, 2022 |

When the People Decide |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Michigan

In a truly grassroots effort, organizers of a campaign to end partisan gerrymandering in Michigan mobilized more than 10,000 volunteers to rally support for establishing an independent redistricting commission. Through building meaningful relationships with everyday voters in each of the state's 83 counties, the campaign successfully gathered more than 400,000 signatures to get the proposal on the ballot, and the constitutional amendment was ultimately approved in 2018.

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Why Rent Relief in Hawai‘i Became a National Model

Noelle Fujii-Oride

June 13, 2022 |

Hawaii Business Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hawaii

To get COVID-19 relief funds into the hands of landlords and renters, Hawai'i relied on the expertise of people who have experienced housing instability and homelessness to build a streamlined assistance program. Using established nonprofits as intermediaries, the program distributed nearly $59 million to 13,700 households in three months, allocating more funds per capita than any other state.

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Fire Returned: Fire is for everyone

Sarah Bohannon

June 13, 2022 |

North State Public Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Butte County, California

The Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) brings people together to learn how to conduct controlled and prescribed burns to prevent explosive wildfires. The organization also works with local prescribed burning associations to enhance their capacity to conduct trainings in local communities and strengthen collaboration with local landowners. Part of the group’s curriculum includes lessons on ecology more broadly as well as the cultural importance of prescribed burning in indigenous communities.

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Kalamazoo-area police want closer ties with mental-health experts. Now they try to make that happen.

Julie Mack

June 12, 2022 |

MLive.com |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

County’s police chiefs are joining forces with local mental-health experts to devise a countywide collaboration to strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental-health system by creating a four-pillar approach to crisis intervention training. Each pillar is designed to handle a different issue and build resources within the community to help those in need.

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On a mission to save seniors from nursing home horrors

Jen Cutts

June 10, 2022 |

GuelphToday |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Peterborough, Ontario

After witnessing burnout and substandard conditions in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, personal support workers in Peterborough, Ontario established a co-op to provide home-based care directly to seniors. The worker-owned organization now has 17 caregivers who are able to spend more time learning about their patients' needs and are paid higher wages on average than in traditional care homes.

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Fire Returned: Neighbors helping neighbors

Sarah Bohannon

June 10, 2022 |

North State Public Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

To help reduce hazardous fuels that make forestland more susceptible to dangerous megafires, a group of volunteers in Butte County, Calif. helps private landowners manage prescribed burns on their properties. Since launching in 2021, the Butte County Prescribed Burn Association has conducted 11 burns on roughly 58 acres of property, drawing on land management techniques that have been in use in Indigenous communities for thousands of years.

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Makala Mazingira Baharini

Hussein Mdune

June 10, 2022 |

Radio Kaya |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya

Wavuvi kutoka eneo la Wasini Kaunti ya Kwale wanapanda miamba ya matumbawe mbadala baharini.Hii ni baada ya wao kupata mafunzo kutoka kwa watafiti wa sayansi kutoka shirika la KMFRI. Wanachukua mbegu kutoka baharini.kisha wanazipanda kwenye jiwe walilolitengeneza kwa kutumia simiti baada ya wiki 3 ikiwa imekauka vijana 18 wanapiga mbizi baharini na kupanda.

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How citizens' assemblies are revitalizing democracy

Phila Back

June 09, 2022 |

Waging Nonviolence |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ireland

Citizens’ assemblies bring together a sample of the population that reflects the overall demographic composition. The group gathers in person or virtually, is generally compensated in some way, receives information from experts, and then deliberate together to craft policy recommendations for government officials. Several countries, like Ireland and France, have achieved success with this form of participatory democracy.

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As Youth Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work to Bolster Students' Sense of Connection

Eleanore Catolico

June 08, 2022 |

MindSite News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Michigan

Amid a shortage of school counselors and social workers, Michigan school districts are emphasizing social-emotional learning with a new curriculum that draws on cognitive behavioral therapy. Through short lessons about how to disrupt negative thoughts and emotions, small-group sessions with mental health professionals, and expanded teacher training around suicide risk management, schools are creating a "culture of empathy" that students say has improved their sense of self-efficacy.

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