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  • In Italy, how one cooperative is trying to counter the Mafia's influence

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Italy, Sessa Aurunca

    A cooperative in Italy has repurposed land once owned by the Mafia to produce pasta and organic vegetables, and its employees are using this land to reclaim their lives. Beyond the Dreams’ provides meaningful work for former prisoners, mental patients, and addicts, who cultivate these agricultural products. The revitalization of the ruined land and employment opportunities deliver symbolic blows to organized crime.

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  • These college students moonlight as ‘grandkids' for hire. Seniors love it.

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Papa is a new business that started in Miami, Florida to connect senior citizens with college-students who are willing to provide companionship, combat loneliness, and help with services. The service helps seniors, but it also helps to take pressure off of caregivers.

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  • New Washtenaw County program to offer paid tech apprenticeships, emphasizing underrepresented groups

    June 20, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ypsilanti, Michigan

    The Washington Technology Industry Association started Apprenti, a program to train and place people in tech apprenticeships. After its successful pilot in Seattle, the program is coming to Michigan, supported by the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan. The program aims to include groups of people who are underrepresented in tech jobs. Apprenti is part of a larger strategy to develop and support talent as part of Michigan’s growing mobility ecosystem.

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  • Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style

    June 20, 2018 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: Canada, Lindsay, Ontario

    In Lindsay, Ontario, the provincial government is funding a pilot for a universal basic income that provides monthly stipends to those who are facing poverty to help boost them to at least 75 percent of the poverty line. Although the longterm benefits and costs are yet to be seen, so far participants have reported that it has acted as "a social equalizer, a recognition that people who make little or no money are often doing things that are socially valuable."

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  • Opportunity for Refugees, Nourishment for New Yorkers

    June 20, 2018 |

    WNYC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In New York, non-profits like Eat Offbeat, Emma's Torch, United Tastes of America, and more are working to connect American-born citizens with refugees from other countries, using food as a way to spark conversation while also providing employment and job training opportunities. So far, these organizations have helped welcome refugees while also creating cultural awareness.

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  • A Massachusetts Museum Is Taking a New Approach to Wall Text: Revealing Early American Portrait Sitters With Ties to Slavery

    June 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Worcester, Massachusetts

    In order to call attention to the role of northerners in the history of American chattel slavery and the source of portrait sitters’ wealth, the Worcester Art Museum has begun to add information about a sitters’ slave holdings and participation in the slave trade to wall labels.

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  • Plastic of the Future

    June 19, 2018 |

    Comstock's Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Traditional plastics like those used in disposable bottle production can be broken down into smaller pieces when recycled, but aren't completely biodegradable. Bioplastics, a technology that has recently gained traction the plastic packaging market, is plant-based, making it at attractive option for reducing plastic waste.

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  • Young Nigerians choose to fight Boko Haram with books

    June 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Gathered in makeshift open-air learning spaces, teachers and students in Nigeria are resisting Boko Haram's reign of terror against education. “They don’t like education; they don’t want it,” one 19-year old student says. “So just by doing this, we are all fighting them." Working with UNICEF and other organizations, local educators are offering free education to students who have been forced to stay home for years.

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  • What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool

    June 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    When a group of preschool teachers in Ghana were taught about child-centered and open-ended learning as an alternative to a traditional rote memorization approach, they saw improvements in students' pre-literacy and pre-numeracy scores. The intervention served as a response to revelations of poor performance among early elementary school students. This despite the fact that 80 percent of 3 year olds in Accra, Ghana were enrolled in preschool. While some teachers have successfully rolled out the collaborative style in their classrooms, others have been met with significant cultural resistance.

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  • Youth prisons are standing empty, but are a huge opportunity

    June 19, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Across the country municipalities are repurposing former juvenile detention centers as juvenile incarceration rates have declined and remaking them as places of healing. Each community is different in its approach, with some even knocking down the buildings to start anew, but the Urban Institute found that successful transitions had several core strategies in common, including seeking input from local community members and from those who had been incarcerated in the facilities.

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