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  • Vernal takes a 'pretty big step' to help add businesses and homes to its downtown

    April 08, 2025 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Vernal, Utah

    In 2021, Vernal, Utah, created a new mixed-use zoning ordinance, allowing developers to build commercial space on ground floors with residential units above. The ordinance led to two major downtown projects, each featuring 10,000 square feet of commercial space and 18 residential units. 14 of the 36 condos sold within three weeks at prices in the low-to-mid $300,000s, and most commercial spaces already secured tenants.

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  • USAID enabled 208 Afghan women to defy the Taliban ban on college — until now

    April 08, 2025 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan

    A scholarship endowment from the U.S. Agency of International Development supports the American University of Afghanistan, which provides courses to Afghan women who are not allowed to pursue education in their home country. In all, 208 scholarships have been awarded, including funds for 120 women to relocate and attend college in person, but the future of the program is uncertain due to federal cuts to USAID’s programs.

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  • Knitting, cheerleading, fishing: This is what a cellphone ban looks like in one school district

    April 08, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

    When Spokane Public Schools banned cellphones in classrooms and at recess, it also paired the new rules with an engagement program designed to get more students involved in clubs and extracurricular activities. Since removing cell phones, expanding activity options, and hiring “engagement navigators” to help match students to activities, the number of students participating in extracurriculars increased by 19 percent and principals began reporting fewer phone confiscations.

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  • Two Men's Mission to Restoring Eye Sights amid Searing Temperatures in Kwara State

    April 07, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    Working closely with Opeyemi Mega Eye Clinic, two local men created a grassroots outreach program to provide free and discounted cataract and glaucoma surgeries, and have successfully restored vision for hundreds of residents between 2021 and 2024.

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  • Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland's similar effort

    April 07, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services help support youth in crisis by connecting them with a mental health professional to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits or police calls. New Jersey’s system has been an inspiration to other states looking to implement similar services, and it served over 32,000 youth in 2023 alone.

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  • Beyond Cash Transfers: Assessing The Kanyashree Prakalpa In West Bengal 

    April 07, 2025 |

    Feminism in India |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    The Kanyashree Prakalpa conditional cash transfer scheme helps support economically marginalized unmarried girls between the ages of 13 and 18 so they can stay in school and delay child marriage. Since launching, the scheme has helped increase enrollment in school and reduce the rate of child marriage in the region.

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  • How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations

    April 07, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Yemen

    In Yemen, incorporating the age-old practice of seasonal beehive migration, known as Tazeeb, increased the number of hives in the country by over 100,000 between 2017 and 2020.

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  • La batalla científica para salvar «el glaciar del juicio final»

    April 07, 2025 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Arête Glacier Initiative, un grupo de científicos del MIT y del Dartmouth College, ha recaudado 5 millones de dólares para mejorar las previsiones de la subida del nivel del mar y estudiar la posibilidad de volver a congelar los glaciares en su lugar. Han usado los fondos para dar becas a cientificos que trabajan en soluciones críticas al cambio climático.

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  • An Art Form That Makes Silent Voices Heard

    April 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Panjim, Goa

    Visual Vernacular helps make the art industry more inclusive and accessible for deaf artists in India with workshops and community events to help them improve their artistic skills and gain greater visibility in the mainstream art space.

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  • How One Lawyer's Helping Farmers Navigate Trump's Policy Landscape

    April 04, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Dãnia Davy, the one-woman team behind Land and Liberation LLC—a company that supports farmers with funder relations, PR, policy and risk mitigation, and public educational sessions—only charging institutions for services and provides them to farmers pro-bono.

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