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  • A program helping parents navigate Arizona's education system as leaders and advocates for their kids

    The Parent Educator Academy provides training in Spanish and English to help Latino parents in Arizona navigate a complex education system and advocate for their children at school. The program is now in its fifth cohort and has served parents from more than 30 schools in three counties.

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  • School alert system gives students added layer of safety

    The Oglethorpe County School System implemented a platform called Anonymous Alerts that allows students and parents to report issues such as bullying, safety concerns, and suspicious activity. The system has logged 66 submissions since it was launched in December.

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  • Glendale permaculture landscape designer grows produce in the desert

    Justin Haddad’s backyard in Phoenix, Arizona, is a food forest he’s cultivated over seven years. Using permaculture methods to imitate nature, he grows a variety of subtropical and desert plants that feed him and his family daily. And he’s expanded the project into a business to help others learn to do the same.

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  • The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities

    Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the first city to pass an ordinance to permanently restrict new dollar stores from cropping up in underserved communities and exasperating food insecurity. The policy included incentives for businesses selling healthy food options and, with funding from a development corporation, a grocer opened in the North Tulsa community as a result.

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  • The ReelAbilities Film Festival: Growing by Inclusion

    The ReelAbilities Film Festival promotes awareness and increases the representation of people with disabilities in movies. The festival, which has expanded to several cities across the country, shows award-winning films by and about people with disabilities and also hosts post-screening discussions to bring the community together to celebrate diversity.

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  • ‘Building an Industry': Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

    When the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act passed in 2022 and launched a new medical-marijuana program there was an unmet need for cannabis testing. To fill the gap, testing labs like Steep Hill Mississippi are emerging to ensure the medical marijuana available is safe to use.

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  • How solar power is keeping Lebanon's lights on

    People in Lebanon are installing their own rooftop solar panels and batteries to have constant access to energy instead of relying on expensive and unreliable community diesel generators.

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  • 'This is ours' - Somaliland women smell success as frankincense business takes off

    Beeyo Maal is a collective of women running their own businesses in Somaliland’s male-dominated frankincense industry. The group, which has about 280 members, allows women to make roughly five times what they were paid when previously working for exploitative companies.

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  • Blue Zones comes to South Phoenix to target longevity

    Blue Zones is a national program that works to improve the health and quality of life in communities by focusing on enhancing aspects of the community like the types of food available and encouraging locals to make healthy lifestyle changes. Blue Zones identifies places around the world where people live longer and study why that is to then replicate those practices in other regions.

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  • Meals on Wheels Delivers Food and Climate Resilience for Seniors

    Local Meals on Wheels programs are known for delivering food to low-income seniors, but during climate disasters, they are in the position to check in on the most vulnerable. The programs’ volunteers and staff do just that, whether that means giving fans to clients during a heatwave, tarping roofs after a hurricane, or making check-up calls.

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