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  • Round Rock ISD credits threat screening technology with saving student lives

    November 25, 2019 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Bloomington, Illinois

    A company called Gaggle works with school districts to screen their software and electronics for messages and text that are cause for concern – including threats against others, sexual content, or mentions of suicide and self-harm. In 2018, they identified over 700 students in danger of self-harm and alerted their biggest client, Texas’ Round Rock Independent School District, to nearly 9,000 potential dangers.

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  • In Minsk, A Hidden Refuge for Battered Women

    November 25, 2019 |

    Transitions Online |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Belarus, Minsk

    The Minsk-based organization Radislava runs a house for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. In a culture and a country that have yet to protect survivors of abuse, this house runs on privacy and anonymity, for safety’s sake. Radislava does more than provide shelter – it also provides psychological and legal support and organizes advocacy events. Since its creation, the home has seen 70% of clients create new lives for themselves.

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  • Where Tech Is Helping People Become Better Neighbors

    November 25, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Napa, California

    From Google's India-focused app Neighbourly to the wellknown Nextdoor app, social media specifically targeted at connecting neighbors is gaining ground. Whether being used to rate neighborhood attractions, encourage borrowing or sharing of resources, report suspicious neighborhood activity or simply to find a way to make connections, these apps are aimed at decreasing social isolation and increasing community interactions.

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  • Inspiring Tale of a Chicago Neighborhood That Would Not Die

    November 25, 2019 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Community members and local organizations on the South side of Chicago collaborate to reclaim their neighborhoods from crime, violence, and poverty by engaging in community conflict resolution, policing and networks of support. Groups like the Southwest Organizing Project and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network banded together to interrupt gang violence in the city, relying on the experience of former gang members and offenders to guide the organizations' missions for non-violence in their communities.

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  • A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

    November 25, 2019 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Liquid morphine offers a low-tech, low-dose alternative to other opioids when it comes to pain management. Uganda has taken steps to increase palliative care by allowing nurses to prescribe doses of morphine to patients, due to the shortage of doctors. The drug is affordable or free to some patients, and the low doses in liquid form prevents patients from developing addictions associated with other opioid drugs.

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  • How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free

    November 25, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Chile, Santiago

    Chile now offers college tuition-free and may have important insights and lessons for free college proposals in the United States. Part of the country's national program includes "gratuidad," which covers economically challenged university students' full tuition, but only for a limited amount of time. "The government has found that Chileans who get free tuition are also slightly less likely to drop out than their classmates who don’t."

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  • Philadelphia's new toy library lets families save money — and the environment — while forming a community

    November 24, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Rutabaga Toy Library in Philadelphia - which was born out of a borrowed idea from Austin, Texas - helps parents afford to checkout donated toys for their kids by offering low-price memberships to families in the surrounding area. The business addresses the common trend that enables parents to throw old toys away and create unnecessary waste; instead, Rutabaga accepts donations to the toy library for other families to use while offering a space for sharing and community gathering.

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  • How this North Salt Lake plant will turn table scraps into natural gas

    November 24, 2019 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Food waste often ends up in landfills, but the Wasatch Resource Recovery facility in Utah transforms the thrown-out food into renewable energy instead. Companies such as Kroger, Dannon, and Nestle send their food waste to the facility on a daily basis, where it is liquefied, broken down by microbes and eventually converted into natural gas.

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  • The recycling program helping migrants cut down contamination in Melbourne's outer west

    November 24, 2019 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne

    Cities in Australia were facing a recycling problem, but realized it was related to a large migrant population and a language barrier with the word "recycling." To help address this problem Melbourne implemented the 'Waste Watcher' program, which provides hands-on education through recycling bin audits.

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  • This Turkish chef is fighting climate change with the help of Syrian refugees

    November 22, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Turkey, Mardin

    The Turkish organization, Living Soil, Local Seed, is working with Turkish women and Syrian refugees to help rebuild and diversify the local agricultural system that was once thriving. Using local knowledge and surveys, the organization has gathered different varieties of native crops which it then uses to work with local farmers and employ women in order to create more complex ecological systems. In 2019, the program yielded over 400 tons of wheat and has proven to be more financially beneficial to farmers.

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