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An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

Betsy Froiland

August 29, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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After Hurricane Katrina, moms built new lives by building homes

Jessica Kutz

August 28, 2025 |

The 19th |

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Response Location: United States, Biloxi, Mississippi

Moore Community House’s training program helps women get experience in tradeswork but also offers wraparound support, including childcare and a weekly stipend. However, recent federal funding cuts have significantly reduced the number of students the program is able to service.

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Williamsburg launches street team pilot to combat homelessness

Nick McNamara

August 27, 2025 |

WHRO |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Williamsburg, Virginia

The Houseless Outreach Partnership Engagement, a pilot program, goes straight to encampments and other places people without housing tend to be found to assess their needs and try to connect them with resources. So far, 10 people have gotten into housing as a result of the program, while about 50 have interacted with its staff.

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The invisible 'giant nets' that catch the smallest songbirds

Kylie Mohr

August 27, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: Canada

The Motus network—a collaborative system of 2,200 radio towers across 34 countries that track tiny migratory animals using lightweight tags—has successfully mapped previously unknown migration routes for over 55,000 animals across 450+ species, revolutionizing conservation research for small songbirds and other creatures too tiny for traditional GPS tracking.

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University Brains To Solve City Problems

Malcolm Burnley

August 26, 2025 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

To improve traffic flow, the city of Pittsburgh partnered with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop an AI-powered traffic signal system that helped significantly reduce emissions and idling time at stop lights. The collaboration grew into a long-term initiative called Metro21 Smart Cities Institute that brings academics and public officials together to work on municipal issues.

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Demand high for special education preschools in Maine

Lana Cohen

August 24, 2025 |

The Maine Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Maine

Last school year, the Maine Department of Education began offering speech, physical, and occupational therapy to three- to five-year-olds in 17 public school districts, with plans to roll out the services for preschoolers in 34 more. So far, the state has been able to provide services to all eligible students in that age range, totaling more than 400.

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One Tree at a Time

Peter Yeung, Georgeta Carasiucenco

August 22, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Republic of Moldova

Moldova's National Reforestation Project, launched in 2023 with a €739 million budget, has planted over 10,000 hectares of new forest (36+ million trees) with a 67% survival rate, demonstrating early success in restoring degraded land and supporting rural communities, though it's currently achieving only half of its annual planting targets due to personnel shortages, supply chain issues, and weather challenges.

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'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

Daniel Lampariello

August 22, 2025 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Maine

Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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Fungi and spruce may help solve Alaska's plastic pollution problem

Yereth Rosen

August 22, 2025 |

Alaska Beacon |

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Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

University of Alaska researchers have developed biodegradable insulation boxes and building materials made from local beetle-killed spruce trees and fungal fibers that successfully shipped seafood across the country while offering a sustainable alternative to plastic foam that could reduce Alaska's 1+ million annual styrofoam boxes, create local jobs, and address rural housing quality issues.

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Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

Petro Kotzé

August 21, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Namibia

Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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