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  • How El Paso Is Fighting Back Against Book Bans In Texas

    Christian Betancourt

    May 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    In an effort against book bans, the city council of El Paso, Texas, unanimously passed a resolution that mandates every public library in the city to include a section of banned books featuring the stories of historically marginalized people.

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  • Philly's New Violence Intervention Program Focuses On Stability And Support

    Natalie Kerr

    May 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A community violence intervention program modeled after READI is beginning in Philadelphia to connect high-risk individuals who were victims of violence or formerly incarcerated with basic needs services like therapy, employment, and housing assistance to reduce violence and recidivism. Holistic approaches like READI have already proven effective as half of participants are still working full time a year after attending the program and the program’s experimental group saw a 79% reduction in arrests for shootings and homicide.

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  • Local Social Impact Investors Are Pulling Chicago Out Of Junk Bond Status

    Oscar Perry Abello

    May 02, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The city of Chicago is offering municipal bond investors — specifically those interested in ESG investing — opportunities to fund social projects like planting 15,000 trees in historically disinvested neighborhoods over the next three years, converting motels and single-room buildings into housing for people transitioning out of homelessness and replacing the city’s gas-powered vehicles with electric.

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  • The Benefits of Greening Affordable Housing

    Erica Sweeney

    March 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver-based Triple Bottom Line Foundation funds projects to retrofit low-income, multi-family properties that house underserved groups. The projects include energy-efficiency upgrades, solar power installations, and weatherization upgrades among others.

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  • When Wildfires Choke California, This Activist Helps Get Masks To Those Who Need Them Most

    Nina Thompson

    March 29, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Mask Oakland uses donations to distribute masks to overlooked and marginalized committees that need them most when wildfire smoke fills the sky in California.

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  • Can Guaranteed Income Improve The Health Of Pregnant People And Children?

    Claudia Boyd-Barrett

    March 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’s city-run guaranteed income program provided 3,200 low-income participants with no-strings-attached payments of $1,000 a month to address economic inequity and the multigenerational cycle of poverty.

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  • How Mass Bird Death In Philadelphia Catalyzed A Local Lights-out Program

    Bridget Reed Morawski

    March 16, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A light pollution mitigation pledge in Philadephia called Lights Out Philly asks building managers to agree to turn off their lights late at night during bird migration periods to decrease bird collisions with windows.

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  • What It Takes To Shelter Washington State's Housing Insecure Youth

    Neal Morton

    March 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    School districts in Washington State are required to identify students experiencing homelessness and enroll them into a state program in which the district pays for the students' transportation and covers the cost of other necessities with allotted federal funds.

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  • This Juárez Nonprofit Uses Sports To Deter Youth From Violence

    Christian Betancourt

    March 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ciudad Juárez

    Wellness schools, Escuelas de Bienestar, run by a nonprofit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, train physical education teachers to integrate topics like human rights, drug prevention, and emotional health into the play in their school programming. The learning combined with play aims to deter youth from participating in violence and help them build personal connections.

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  • How One City Ended Prison Gerrymandering

    Aaron Mendelson

    March 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilmington, Delaware

    To end prison gerrymandering, the city council in Wilmington, Delaware, counted people who are incarcerated in the local prison at their last address in the city for the 2020 Census. People who are incarcerated there but did not live in Wilmington were not counted.

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