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  • Ordinary Heroes: Urban Volunteers To The Rescue

    June 19, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    When disaster strikes, ordinary citizens are often the first people on the scene. Bangladesh is helping people prepare for emergencies by offering free three-day trainings in search and rescue techniques, first aid, and other skills. The program reached roughly 30,000 people in the first four years, but keeping it funded is a challenge.

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  • How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

    June 11, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States

    If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

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  • Guess Which State Has The Best High School Graduation Rate?

    June 09, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa City, Iowa

    At 90 percent, Iowa's high school graduation rate was the best in the nation in 2015. The NPR Ed Team looked at Iowa City's lowest performing schools to get a sense of how the state differentiates itself. Scavo, an alternative high school for at-risk teens, caters to students' schedules and home lives, offering flexible class times, professional training programs, and child care facilities within the same building.

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  • Climate Change-Ready Rice Keeps Farmers' Fields Fertile

    June 04, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Soil in Bangladesh is becoming increasingly saline and infertile due to climate change. Bangladeshi farmers have begun using a saline-tolerant rice seed in order to produce an abundant crop despite salty soil.

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  • DACA Doctors

    May 15, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Going to medical school might be impossibly hard for undocumented students. That's why a group of DREAMers created Pre-Health Dreamers. The organization connects undocumented youth who want to go to med school, to each other, making med school a more feasible option.

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  • Why A Philadelphia Grocery Chain Is Thriving In Food Deserts

    May 14, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Brown's Super Stores operates seven profitable supermarkets in traditionally food desert neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The founder says it's because they brought together a group of community leaders and asked them exactly what they were looking for in a neighborhood grocery store, and used the information to truly create a space for the broader community that often includes health care clinics, banking services, event space, and more.

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  • Montana Offers A Boost To Native Language Immersion Programs

    May 02, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    Montana, home to nine Native American languages, becomes the second state to fund indigenous language immersion programs in public schools. The same languages were once forbidden, but now they are helping to preserve a disappearing culture and closing the graduation rate gap for Native American students.

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  • Why Not Start Addiction Treatment Right In The ER?

    April 29, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    For those addicted to opioids, getting treatment can take a long time because not all emergency rooms offer buprenorphine and counseling interventions. Yale-New Haven Hospital has shown that if patients receive buprenorphine at their initial emergency room evaluation, then the immediate action improves the person’s chances in receiving addiction treatment.

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  • Did That Restaurant Pass Its Health Inspection? Now Yelp Will Tell You

    March 27, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Yelp has partnered with city public health departments to display health inspection scores on a restaurants Yelp page. In this way, inspection information is more readily disseminated to consumers and diners can make better informed choices.

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  • How 'Flower Beds' Give Love And Lentils To Moms And Babies

    March 02, 2015 |

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    Response Location: India, Chhattisgarh

    Fulwaris—meaning "flower beds"—are a network of nurseries run entirely by moms in the community who take turns feeding and caring for each other's children, allowing the community to raise children in a tough environment.

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