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

    June 08, 2025 |

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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

    May 27, 2025 |

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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

    May 21, 2025 |

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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

    May 16, 2025 |

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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

    May 01, 2025 |

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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.

    April 11, 2025 |

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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.

    April 08, 2025 |

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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

    April 01, 2025 |

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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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  • Pelican Bay offers a model for prison education. Its future is in doubt.

    February 20, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Crescent City, California

    Project Rebound at the Pelican Bay State Prison is a partnership with California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt that provides associate and bachelor’s degree education to incarcerated individuals. Research shows access to higher education in prison lowers recidivism rates and increases the likelihood the person will find a job post-incarceration. Currently, about 14,000 incarcerated individuals in the state are taking classes toward a college degree, or about 15% of the prison population.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    November 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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