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  • Turnover solutions are varied

    March 29, 2017 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    In Jackson Hole, many employees struggle to afford both housing and higher education, and as a result, job turnover is high. The town is trying several initiatives to tackle these problems. The local government is subsidizing more housing units, and the St. John’s Hospital Foundation has been successful at funding nursing scholarships. “What we’re really trying to cultivate is long-term, engaged employees,”says the head of the foundation.

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  • How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire

    March 29, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Concordia, Kansas

    RedTire, short for Redefine Your Retirement, is helping small businesses stay afloat by facilitating transitions in business ownership and acting as a non-profit business broker. The service helps rural communities thrive since small businesses are essential to the vitality of small towns. In its five year history, RedTire has brokered sales that collectively total over $22 million.

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  • The Website That Tells Kids To Go Out And Play

    March 29, 2017 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the age of iPhones and laptops, parents are always looking for ways to get their kids to ditch the screens and spend more time outside. One startup is turning to the very technology that has been critiqued as a solution to the dangers of "nature-deficit disorder." Tinkergarten is using an app to get kids and their parents to take the initial step out the door at which point, the startup's founders say, the technology fades to the background.

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  • Hartford, Conn., experiment shows challenges, rewards of diversity in schools

    March 28, 2017 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Starting in the late 80s, Hartford school officials implemented programs to reverse the de facto segregation present in the district. Chief among these programs was developing 42 magnet schools, many of which provided specialized education in topics popular with students and relevant to the workplace. Currently, around half of Hartford’s students attend integrated schools.

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  • How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive

    March 28, 2017 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    In many parts of the United States, people struggle with economic mobility and achieving the American Dream. Salt Lake City’s rate of economic mobility is at the highest in the country. An investigative journalist explores the Mormon-influenced structure of charitable giving and various social factors that have created this socio-economic anomaly, and discovers that compassionate conservatism and some government welfare programs have contributed to the state being a unique case.

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  • Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways

    March 28, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Cap-Haïtien, Department of Nord

    Haiti is currently battling the biggest cholera epidemic in recent history caused by lack of access to clean drinking water. Soil is an NGO which delivers dry, compost toilets to peoples’ homes - alternatives to water guzzling flushing toilets, which need infrastructure such as sewers - to help keep sewage from contaminating water sources and provide dignified, safe toilet facilities.

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  • A Surprising Path Out of Domestic Abuse: Entrepreneurship

    March 28, 2017 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States

    Women are often stuck in an abusive relationship due to poor financial situations. Programs are beginning to help abused women by giving them support and helping them become entrepreneurs in order to become financially independent.

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  • At College, a Guided Path on Which to Find Oneself.

    March 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Community College Students, an often overlooked demographic, often suffer from low completion rates. Colleges across the country are using a guided pathways model, emphasizing features like full time enrollment, block scheduling, and meta majors to address specific completion barriers this demographic faces.

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  • How 3 Women Are Changing The World With Solar Energy

    March 27, 2017 |

    Worldwatch Institute |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako

    Three women have embraced the use of solar technology to become clean energy entrepreneurs. They are helping bring light, efficient cookstoves, and energy to their communities, while reducing carbon emissions and empowering other women along the way.

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  • School Lunch Share Tables Fight Food Waste and Hunger

    March 27, 2017 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Leftover food from publicly-funded school meals is not simply an issue of wasted tax dollars and environmental concern, it is a detrimental misallocation of much needed food for many students who still go hungry in schools across the country each day. The Share Tables program is helping to more equitably distribute food by providing a space where unopened items from one student's lunch may be deposited on a designated table (or tub, or shelf) for hungry peers to take - not only reducing food waste and child hunger, but helping students develop empathy and healthier eating habits.

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