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  • Is California saving higher education?

    December 03, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    Defying the national trend, California is increasing its higher education budget through innovative solutions. Opening food banks on campus and an online community college, are just some of those ways the state is using to stretch its budget.

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  • Turning kids into entrepreneurs Audio icon

    December 03, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In Uganda, which has high youth unemployment rates, schools are starting to incorporate entrepreneurship lessons into traditional curricula to prepare students for life and an unstable job market after school.

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  • This senior center is helping Mexico's ‘invisible' LGBTQ seniors

    December 02, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    Vida Alegre, Spanish for "Happy Life," is a nonprofit in Mexico City that was founded by Samantha Flores, a transgender woman in her eighties. It's primary purpose is to serve as a source of community for transgender and LGBTQ senior citizens, many of whom have no other social contact. The center is an "oasis" that relieve many mental health issues for LGBTQ seniors that stem from lonliness, but the founder's next project is to create a residential home where "LGBTQ seniors can live together and have access to medical treatment and counseling."

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  • What happens when people win this basic income raffle? They have time to find meaning in their lives Audio icon

    December 02, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    A nonprofit in Berlin tests the success of the Universal Basic Income structure, which is founded on the idea that a monthly stipend awarded to all individuals can create an invigorated labor force and allow people to do what they love. The organization called Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), has found that recipients of the monthly cash stipend have become less anxious and more curious and willing to reimagine their dream job.

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  • Boston's free CultureHouse pop-ups may be on their way to Philly

    December 02, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    A Boston nonprofit is transforming vacant properties into free community spaces. Now, Philadelphia is considering opening up similar "public parks inside."

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  • Tulsa Officials Used Data to Help Solve the City's Problems


    December 02, 2019 |

    AARP Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a group of city employees use data to drive decisions in city government ranging from the use of tennis courts to which job applicants will be awarded positions. In one project, the group analyzed 911 call center volume data and optimized the number of employees needed for different times of the day. Their adjustments helped the 911 call center to answer 90 percent of calls in less than 10 seconds.

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  • How to reduce suicides on the psychiatric ward

    December 01, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Implementing checklists to prevent suicide risks can reduce the number of deaths by suicide in psychiatric facilities. Since 2007, Veteran’s Affairs medical facilities across the country have successfully reduced the number of suicides in their facilities by taking measured steps to reduce risks. The checklist includes removing dangerous items from rooms and ensuring that patients are monitored by nursing staff. Increasing the data available has also led to new recommendations and standards.

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  • Chasing Secrets

    December 01, 2019 |

    Mountain Outlaw |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Scientists are working with houndsmen and houndswomen to track mountain lions in Montana to understand their behavior and to better estimate their population. By forming this partnership and using GPS collars, the team is learning about these animals’ habitat use and where they rest, hunt, and feed. Houndsmen and houndswomen have been crucial in the success of cougar conservation in the state.

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  • One Bay Area organization found a radical and surprisingly simple approach to helping former prisoners start over

    December 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Homecoming Project pays homeowners to rent their spare bedrooms to people just released from long prison sentences, providing welcoming, free, stable housing option to people whose re-entry is often hamstrung by housing instability and grim, restrictive halfway houses. Only 12 formerly incarcerated people were served in the project’s first year, but the service providing its clients with six months of housing hopes to serve as a pilot for other organizations outside the Bay Area. All 12 have jobs and six have gone on to live independently.

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  • Fix It and They Will Come

    December 01, 2019 |

    The Progressive |

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    Response Location: United States, Orange, New Jersey

    Around the United States, small-town institutions are shuttering and communal ties are weakening, all less than positive signs for the fate of democracy. But in Orange, New Jersey, Mindy Fullilove and other congregants at the First Unitarian Universalist Church used a crowdfunding platform called ioby and asset-based community development to keep the doors of their church open and their community flourishing.

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