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  • Combating veteran suicides with peers, therapy, housing — and a little horse sense

    August 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Swords to Plowshares is a San Francisco nonprofit providing homeless veterans with a place to live and different types of therapy while working to get them jobs, military benefits, and permanent housing.

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  • Repair Ukraine: How volunteers "clean up after russia" in Chernihiv region

    August 05, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Lukashivka

    Volunteers from the Repair Together project travel to liberated towns in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine to clear rubble, so the residents can rebuild their homes.

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  • Pakistan's Mangroves Are a Coastal Conservation Marvel

    August 05, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Balochistan

    Mangroves are biodiverse growths that provide a variety of benefits to coastal regions including food security, a breeding ground for various species and protection from erosion and storms along the coast. Previously destroyed by deforestation, efforts to regrow mangroves are a cost-effective solution to climate change.

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  • A new way to pay for college

    August 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Income share agreements provide students a new way to pay for college. They receive the money they need by agreeing to give the school a percentage of their future earnings for a set number of years after graduation.

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  • Would an innovative approach to child care work in Knox County?

    August 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Along the Way is filling a crucial gap in the community by providing in-home childcare services to single mothers who work shifts during the nights or weekends. Through a holistic approach, the organization has enabled mothers to enter or remain in the workforce, ensured fair wages to the caregivers it employs, and is going to start partnering with for-profit employers to make this a community effort.

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  • Enabled to Enable: How NGO is changing narrative for PwDs in Cross River state

    August 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Enabled to Enable provides vocational skills training to disabled individuals. So far, the skills training has reached about 129 women and girls, empowering them to find jobs and even start their own businesses despite their disabilities.

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  • From 'Identity Search', She Built A Movement Against Mental Illness

    August 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    Victoria Restored Minds provides therapeutic and emotional support to people facing mental health challenges. With its team of counselors, therapists, and psychologists, VRM has provided counseling, therapy, and general support to about 2,000 people.

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  • Is police accountability working in San Francisco?

    August 04, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    After San Francisco voters approved the creation of a new Department of Police Accountability to investigate allegations of police misconduct, the body recommended discipline for officers at a higher rate than the state average in 2021. But the majority of cases are still settled in favor of officers and 66 percent of civilian complainants reported being dissatisfied with the outcome of their case, an outcome experts and former employees of the DPA attribute to a lack of independent authority and leadership to wield the agency's powers.

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  • Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

    August 04, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Transformation Schools in Dallas, Texas, admit students by lottery to combat concentrated poverty and declining enrollment with more socioeconomically diverse students.

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  • Europe's New Trams Are Reviving a Golden Age of Transit

    August 04, 2022 |

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    Response Location: France, Strasbourg

    The extensive, all-electric tram system in Strasbourg has emerged as a solution to address air pollution and street congestion caused by cars as well as a critical medium of transport as the city expands its low-emission zones. The tramway's ridership has been resilient, even during the pandemic, and its inspiring a revival of the system across France.

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