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  • FS Investments takes its poverty-fighting work nationwide

    Philadelphia Financial Scholars is bringing financial literacy to students and their families as well. Students are taught about credit scores, bank accounts, and budgets, as well as entrepreneurial skills through an experience that could culminate in a $1,000 prize and help starting a business if it wins. Adults are invited to come in on weekends and weeknights to learn the same curriculum. Local companies have financed the program which strives to take the first steps towards bridging the racial wealth gap.

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  • How Creative Thinkers Are Reinventing Local News in the Midwest

    Local news is undergoing a transformation in order to stay viable. Innovations in the local journalism industry in Akron, Ohio, have resulted in a variety of solutions from niche newsletters, to solutions journalism newsrooms, and even a news outlet owned by the readers it serves.

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  • How cutting trees can raise Detroiters' wages

    An energy company in Detroit is providing jobs, training programs, and wraparound services such as childcare and transportation, to residents who want to become woodsmen and tree cutters. The program is "geared to support 200 job candidates by 2024."

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  • "قاوم".. مبادرة لدعم ومساندة ضحايا الابتزاز الجنسي في مصر

    تدعم مجموعة فيسبوك محلية النساء ضحايا الابتزاز الجنسي، اللاتي لا يمكنهن طلب مساعدة الشرطة خوفا من الفضيحة. إذ يجمع متطوعون محليون معلومات عن المبتزين، ويحاولون الوصول إلى أقاربهم لفضحهم إن لزم الأمر، ويطلبون من المبتزين أن يصورا أنفسهم وهم يحذفون الصور ومقاطع الفيديو.

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  • 'What most kids need': How one school community got SMART when its rural hospital closed

    School Health Model for Academics Reaching All and Transforming Lives (SMART) clinics are school-based clinics that fill in rural healthcare gaps. SMART clinics are fully funded for three years and then must be self-sustaining. Nurse practitioners and physicians provide routine medical care, like checkups and treating minor illnesses and injuries. Licensed social workers assess the needs of each student and provide onsite counseling, which has reduced the stigma of seeking mental health treatments. Care is free to all students, while community members who use the clinic are billed a co-pay.

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  • Local experts offer free classes, resources to create water efficient landscaping

    Localscapes is a program in Utah promoting more water-efficient landscaping. The program includes state-based horticulturists, landscape professionals, and water experts who help interested people make the most sustainable use of their yards and lawns. "The program focuses on five techniques: a central open space, gathering areas, activity zones, paths and planting beds."

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  • San Juan del Obispo: una puerta al cielo en el pantano del subdesarrollo

    En San Juan de Obispo, a 150km de Antigua, Guatemala, la Asociación Nacional del Níspero (ANAFENÍ), constituida por más de 150 productores del níspero en el 2021, recupera la organización comunal que tuvieron entre 2003 y 2013 como cooperativa, para promover la venta del fruto y de productos derivados. Este tipo de economía comunal no sólo mejora los ingresos pero crea comunidad. Además, el artículo es una oportunidad para conocer sobre los graves problemas de tenencia de tierra que existen en Guatemala.

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  • The Everglades Experiment: Florida's First 'Incentivized' Prison Redefines Punishment

    Two years into an experiment in "incentivized prison" management, Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution is considered the state's safest prison. An incarcerated journalist reporting from inside writes that by rewarding good behavior instead of only punishing bad behavior, the prison has expanded the classes it offers incarcerated men who can participate if they have a trouble-free record for four years. Separating men from the general population based on their desire to work toward their own rehabilitation and success once they leave prison has reduced stress and violence in the prison.

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  • Techos Seguros: Una salida para mujeres víctimas de violencia

    En México existe una red llamada Red Nacional de Refugios (RNR), aprobado por el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inmujeres) desde 2011, que cuenta con un modelo de cuatro espacios seguros que proveen atención integral a mujeres víctimas de violencia. Este especial de tres artículos, infográficos y audiovisuales explica esta red, su impacto y limitaciones. En el 2020 la Red resguardó a 10 mil 135 mujeres que ahora son sobrevivientes de violencia.

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  • How Does Treating Gun Violence As A Public Health Crisis Work? One Bronx Program Offers A Potential Flagship Model

    Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly incarcerated people to intervene before arguments turn deadly. Hospital-based intervention work puts counselors and mediators at gunshot victims' bedside to start the intervention, and offers of services, at the earliest stage. In a four-year span, the areas covered by Stand Up, based at Jacobi Medical Center, saw many fewer shootings and instances where victims got shot again.

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