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  • Breaking barriers, building businesses: Inside the Kano program empowering marginalized youth

    January 29, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The GIRL-H program provides skill training and business assistance to youth from marginalized communities. Participants receive education and training in an area of their choosing and once they complete the training, they receive start-up capital to help them start their own businesses. The program has helped over 6,000 youth learn a new skill and start an entrepreneurial venture.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    January 29, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals

    January 29, 2024 |

    The Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Sacramento’s Cannabis Opportunity and Racial Equity program is helping people who were adversely affected by discrimination during America’s war on drugs to start businesses in the regulated cannabis industry. Qualifying entrepreneurs receive wraparound support including funding and small-business education. So far, 10 dispensary licenses have been awarded to participants.

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  • The race to build climate-resilient coral reefs

    January 29, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Researchers and conservationists around the world are finding ways to help coral reefs grow quicker and survive the warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change. The Australian company Coral Maker is using artificial intelligence and robots to mass produce concrete skeletons for coral to grow on, and the Coral Restoration Foundation is growing coral on floating "trees."

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  • More states offer health care coverage for certain immigrants, noncitizens

    January 26, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    The OmniSalud program provides zero-premium health care coverage to low-income immigrants without documentation, helping make health care more accessible for those who normally struggle to get it due to their legal status. This year, the program expanded to 11,000 slots and hopes to continue growing.

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  • This German village is embracing integration

    January 26, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hebertshausen, Bavaria

    The Heberthausen Asylum Support Group helps incoming migrants and refugees find housing, jobs and learn the German language to integrate with society and work towards citizenship.

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  • Student loans: How a new White House forgiveness plan works

    January 26, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is helping more student loan borrowers achieve forgiveness. The program reduces monthly payments based on the person’s income and family size and covers interest costs to stop the overall amount from ballooning.

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  • NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

    January 26, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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  • How An Englewood Artist And Activist Is Helping Black Families Keep Their Homes

    January 25, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Englewood, Illinois

    unBlocked Englewood, in collaboration with the Chicago Bungalow Association, works to help Black people own and keep their longtime homes in their families by addressing the racist practices that prevent Black home ownership and helping provide funds to cover costly home repairs.

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  • A Ranch, Rewilded: The Transformation of California's Next State Park

    January 25, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A floodplain restoration project in California’s Central Valley is preventing flooding, replenishing groundwater, and providing habitat for wildlife. Most of the restoration work involved rewilding the land after removing the berms that protected the area from flooding when it was an agricultural field.

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