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  • Building a just energy business future in Detroit

    October 27, 2021 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    WeSolar makes solar power accessible to low-income residents by building and investing in community-solar farms and signing residents up for credits from investor-owned utilities. The startup, the first community solar business led by a Black woman, saves customers as much as $250 on their utility bills by signing up for community solar. Convincing residents, many of whom have had bad experiences with predatory utility schemes, requires working with church and community groups to earn trust. Community solar also requires legislation that allows for shared renewable energy projects.

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  • A pilot program in Iowa produces encouraging results for foster kids

    October 27, 2021 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    By putting a priority on rescuing children from danger in their homes by reducing the danger or placing the children in relatives' care, Iowa courts have greatly reduced the traumatizing use of emergency foster care placements with strangers. The program, which began with seven judges and has since spread statewide, starts with a simple list of questions that judges or social workers ask to identify specific solutions to problems other than the default mechanism of sending children to live in foster care, which can make their emotional problems worse.

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  • To Fight Rising Murder Rate, More Cities Find, Mentor and Pay Likely Shooters

    October 27, 2021 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Advance Peace Fresno tries to turn youth away from violence through mentoring, job training, and by paying them a monthly stipend of up to $1,000 if they hit certain benchmarks in their rehabilitation. The program has recruited 19 young people for its fellowships, following a model that is associated with violence declines in Richmond and Sacramento, and is spreading to multiple other cities. Opponents of the stipends say the agency should not pay people to obey the law. But Advance Peace's strategy is based on using the promise of legitimate income to keep people engaged.

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  • For Afghan arrivals, a taste of the US at an air base in Germany

    October 26, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban were given a warm welcome at the American Air Base in Germany despite logistical challenges. The new arrivals have stepped up to help one another with everything from teaching to haircuts.

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  • Electric school bus helps Latina moms combat air pollution

    October 26, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    There are about 480,000 school buses in the country, less than one percent of them are electric. Replacing diesel school buses with electric ones would reduce greenhouse emissions by 5.3 million tons a year, it would also be better for students lungs. More than 4 in 10 people in the country live in neighborhoods with unhealthy air. In Arizona, a group of mom's organized and were able to convince the school board to purchase and electric bus. Then, they garnered votes to help pass a bond to purchase the bus.

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  • How single mothers in the remote areas of Kibuku district have been Financial empowered through Mushroom growing

    October 26, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kibuku

    A church in Uganda teaches single mothers and widows to grow mushrooms to increase their household incomes. They keep the mushrooms to use at home, sell them outright, and use them to create other food products like biscuits and soup powder to sell.

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  • Animation Films, Storybooks Spark Anti-corruption Interests Among Nigerian Children

    October 26, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Step Up Nigeria’s "Catch Them Young Initiative" uses children’s storybooks and animated films to teach school children how to become anti-corruption ambassadors. The books, which have recently been adapted to animated films, address the dangers of corrupt practices like vote-buying and bribery. The organization not only distributes the books and films, but also trains teachers to give the lessons. Over 250 teachers have been trained and at least 20,000 children have received anti-corruption education materials.

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  • How a Cincinnati domestic violence survivor got the help she needed to break the cycle

    October 25, 2021 |

    Cincinnati Enquirer |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Dvert is a partnership between Cincinnati police and Women Helping Women, a social services agency that puts domestic-violence survivors in touch with an advocate from the moment they report abuse. Advocates can provide for survivors' immediate needs, including childcare and safe shelter. They provide counseling and support to survivors throughout the prosecution of a case, should the survivor choose to pursue that remedy. More women have found the strength to pursue prosecutions, which advocates hope will ultimately keep more women safer than if they drop a complaint and reconcile with an abusive partner.

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  • Philadelphia is fighting street violence through hospital and doctor visits

    October 25, 2021 |

    WURD |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Healing Hurt People helps the survivors of gun violence and other assaults starting bedside in hospitals and continuing during a patient's recovery. The group, partnering with other services providers, treats mental trauma with cognitive therapies led by peer counselors – people with the street credibility that earns trust among the young people who are the target of these services. When people better understand their experience, they can learn from it and find safer, healthier ways to live.

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  • A ‘shoot to incapacitate' policy puts Georgia police chief and town in the spotlight

    October 24, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, LaGrange, Georgia

    The police chief in majority-Black LaGrange, Georgia, thinks the standard shoot-to-kill training police receive is unnecessarily lethal and lies at the heart of the breach in police-community trust. So he has trained his department's officers with a Shoot to Incapacitate strategy to give them an alternative when confronted by someone not armed with a gun. The department's skeptics were won over, and one managed to save the life of a machete-wielding man by the way he shot him. External critics say this approach is impractical, though it was copied from what's worked in other countries.

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