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Safe Streets celebrates a year with no homicides in a South Baltimore area they serve, with hope for rest of the city

Jessica Anderson Phillip Jackson

June 26, 2021 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

South Baltimore's Cherry Hill neighborhood enjoyed its third homicide-free year since the violence intervention program Safe Streets began operation. While a formal evaluation of the program's nine neighborhood sites is yet to be completed, community members credit it with lowering violence by putting "violence interrupters" on the scene of conflict or in hospitals to counsel gunshot victims against retaliation. Safe Streets mediated more than 400 disputes in Cherry Hill in the past year, most of them involving people armed with guns and likely to commit violence. Violence citywide has remained high.

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The problem fueling the essential housing crisis and how to fix it

Jamie Boll Jessica Dyer

June 25, 2021 |

WBTV-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte's tight housing market can prove unaffordable to young professionals, with high rents equal to half a person's income. The "essential housing" niche, a middle ground between luxury homes and lower-cost "affordable" housing, provides an opportunity to economize on construction costs and pass those savings on to renters. Fewer apartment floor plan options and fancy amenities can translate into rents up to $700 less, a marketing strategy that has given the developer a strong rental business – and its younger customers a relative bargain in an expensive market.

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Addressing unemployment and preparing residents for a career

Megan Sanctorum

June 25, 2021 |

WRTV-TV |

Multi-Media |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Community Alliance of the Far East Side is providing job training and resources to residents in need of jobs. The initiative is spurring economic growth by connecting community members to jobs.

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Espacios seguros para la comunidad LGTBIQ+ en Costa Rica

Mónica Quesada Cordero

June 25, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Costa Rica

El artículo hace un recuento de cuatro proyectos que existen en Costa Rica para proteger a la comunidad LGTBIQ+ en condiciones más vulnerables, el impacto que han tenido, las dificultades que han encontrado y cómo las han enfrentado.

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Farm cooperatives allow Latinos to grow and sell food on their own terms

Victoria Bouloubasis

June 25, 2021 |

Southerly |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Henderson, North Carolina

Tierra Fertil Coop in Henderson County, North Carolina is helping the Latino community in the area grow their own food. Residents are able to keep what they grow at no cost, tend to their gardens and build community. The coop also operates as a business by selling excess fruits and vegetables at local markets.

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Una lata de agua en Barrio Nuevo

Carlos Bello

June 25, 2021 |

Historias que laten |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Venezuela, Caracas

El proyecto Una Lata de Agua es una inciativa que busca instalar en las comunidades de Caracas, Venezuela, sistemas de recolección de agua que permitan abastecer a las familias de agua potable, porque en el norte del país la escases del agua es crítica. Con el proyecto instalado en Barrio Nuevo se benefician más de 1600 familias.

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Video 150 organizaciones migrantes

Nadia Sanders Ximena Natera

June 24, 2021 |

Conexión Migrante |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York

El video relata la experiencia de algunas de las organizaciones migrantes que trabajaron activamente durante el 2020 y 2021 en atender las necesidades primordiales de la comunidad mexicana en Nueva York durante la Pandemia por COVID-19.

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Phoenix hotel turned homeless shelter is seeing success

Melissa Blasius

June 24, 2021 |

KNXV-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Arizona

The Central Arizona Shelter Services, with help from the City of Phoenix and federal CARES Act COVID relief money, contracted a local hotel to turn 100 rooms into a shelter for the growing number of seniors experiencing homelessness. Known as Project Haven, the rooms help people remain socially distanced and restore people’s dignity. The success of the model brought in other partners, such as behavioral health services and on-site caseworkers to assist with job searches, family reunification, or rental assistance. In the first year, 70% of the 217 seniors it served found positive housing outcomes.

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How a Richmond nonprofit is breaking barriers to mental health access among youth

Shannon Lilly

June 24, 2021 |

WTVR-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

ChildSavers is a Richmond-based nonprofit offering students access to mental health services. The organization has group therapy sessions specifically focused on race and race-based stressors, along with telehealth and outpatient services.

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LGBTQ Refugees Carving Out Their Path to Integration

Federica di Saro

June 24, 2021 |

Are We Europe |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Cologne

Spektrum, a self-organized LGBTQ+ migrant organization, provides a space of belonging to queer migrants, who often feel out of place and ill-served by traditional organizations that do not understand the violence and trauma they have endured. Spektrum has a non-hierarchical leadership structure and provides members with practical and relevant activities, like a bicycle repair workshop, which is important as many migrants rely on bikes as their main mode of transportation. The group was invited to help organize Cologne Pride and has advised the city on the lack of social services in some neighborhoods.

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