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Lost your USAID funding? These aid matchmakers have a solution.

Ogar Monday

August 06, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Vinikilang

Following the closure of USAID and the loss of funding for its projects around the world, Project Resource Optimization was formed to help match projects in need of support with potential funders. Though the organization is not able to make sure every USAID-funded project is able to continue, it has helped secure roughly $26 million for 24 projects so far.

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'It's everyone's business.' In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility.

Mark Sappenfield

July 18, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Finland

Finland’s approach to national security focuses on creating a comprehensive culture, emphasizing the idea that defending the country is a shared responsibility. Regular citizens can take volunteer courses in everything from using firearms and recognizing disinformation to surviving in the wild and interpreting maps, and the country’s men are conscripted at 18 for military or community service.

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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Stephanie Hanes

June 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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This Nigerian nonprofit brings former foes together through the power of storytelling

Nathaniel Bivan

May 27, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

The Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse, or Yiavha, brings together Nigerians from ethnic groups with a history of conflict and violence to help them find common ground through community storytelling. The organization has held more than 60 storytelling sessions in Nigeria’s Plateau state and has trained more than 300 youth to become peace ambassadors tasked with organizing their own storytelling events.

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For the few right whales left, technology and teamwork are showing promise

Nate Iglehart

May 21, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

A collaborative coastal network of signaling devices called StationKeepers is enabling ship operators to receive real-time whale location alerts directly on their navigation screens, resulting in significantly reduced collisions and greater protection for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

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'Motivated and inspired': California inmates are improving mental health behind bars

Francine Kiefer

May 16, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles County Jail, a peer-to-peer mental health program called Forensic Inpatient (FIP) Stepdown has incarcerated individuals trained as mental health assistants supporting fellow inmates struggling with severe mental illnesses. Started by inmates themselves, the program has significantly reduced self-harm incidents, improved hygiene and social functioning, and restored dignity to inmates who participate.

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With ‘Green Islam,' climate action is a religious duty – and an act of community

Sara Miller Llana, Lindsey McGinnis

May 01, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

Green Islam is an Indonesian grassroots movement combining Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship with community-driven actions such as eco-boarding schools, green-certified mosques, and interfaith dialogues to address climate change and ecological crises.

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The cure for congested cities? Kenya is building new ones.

Erika Page

April 11, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Kenya, Tatu City

Satellite towns like Tatu City are cropping up near major cities in Africa, offering an alternative to the overcrowded metropolises locals are used to. When developed effectively, these satellite cities become hubs for economic growth. Over 100 businesses have opened in Tatu City, employing about 25,000 people.

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Can giving cash, no strings attached, help end poverty? In Malawi, they're finding out.

Erika Page

April 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Malawi, Chigowo

GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that works to improve conditions in impoverished areas by distributing direct cash transfers to residents. In one of the organization’s projects in Malawi, participants received a lump sum of $550 to be used however they saw fit, and many chose to start businesses or make investments for the future.

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How bitcoin drives cheap green energy production in Kenya

Erika Page

April 01, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Kenya

To use up excess renewable energy and help finance the expansion of power grids, companies such as Gridless are connecting energy producers in African countries with cryptocurrency miners that are eager to buy up unused power. By selling off energy to cryptocurrency companies, one hydropower system was able to expand its electricity service to 500 more homes.

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