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  • Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

    August 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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  • In Cleveland, fine dining serves up training – and dignity – after prison

    August 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The owner of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, employs formerly incarcerated adults and teaches them the skills they need to work in the culinary industry. Less than 1% of the institute’s trainees are re-incarcerated after graduation.

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  • What can a library card get you? Try a popcorn maker or ukulele.

    August 03, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    A Sacramento library’s “library of things” allows the public to borrow nontraditional things like cake pans and weed whackers in an effort to attract patrons in the digital age.

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  • The Nigerian school with a radical idea: Teaching Boko Haram's kids

    July 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

    Founded in the midst of ongoing violent conflict, the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation offers education to children and orphans from families fighting on both sides of the war between Boko Haram insurgents and the Nigerian government. With this inclusive approach, the organization has so far averted being targeted by Boko Haram, successfully keeping roughly 2,200 children in school without interruption during the peak of the insurgency.

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  • School on Wheels delivers tutoring – and hope – for homeless students

    July 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The nonprofit School on Wheels pairs students experiencing homelessness with tutors to help them catch up, and stay caught up, in school.

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  • Seaweed Inc.: As climate threatens lobster, Maine eyes new cash crop

    July 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    As harvesting lobsters becomes more uncertain along the Maine coast due to climate change, many fishers are turning to kelp farming as a way to diversify their income. Atlantic Sea Farms purchases 1 million pounds of kelp a year from dozens of farmers resulting in The Pine Tree State becoming one of the top aquaculture producers in the United States.

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  • Drinking water in short supply? There's a solution in the air.

    June 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

    As governments and residents wrestle with drought and dwindling water supplies, atmospheric water generation systems are popping up throughout the United States as a way to convert air into water. One product, called WeDew, collects water droplets that are formed when warm air meets a cool surface. That water can be used to water plants or create safe drinking water. These air-to-water generators are being used in places from California to Uganda.

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  • Laughing Bear Bakery has a recipe for a fresh start out of prison

    May 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    At her non-profit business Laughing Bear Bakery, retired chaplain Kalen McAllister hires only those with a criminal record and offers them a chance at employment, gaining work experience, and rebuilding their lives.

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  • Young Nigerians are tackling the stigma of mental health

    May 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Having seen first-hand the impact of colonial-era laws and lack of access to professional help on her struggle with depression, Elizabeth Ita founded the non-profit Stilt NG. Since 2019, it has trained 25 young volunteers familiar with mental health struggles themselves to create awareness on mental illness, reduce stigma, and encourage help-seeking behavior for other youth in the community.

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  • In this Mississippi city, public art points a way forward

    April 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art has designated the city as a public art city, with as many as 46 public art installations across the city, including 35 murals. It intends to grow to 100 public art murals. The city hopes that the public art will attract tourists and economic development, but the primary goal is to develop and beautify communities for the people who live there. Public art raises morale and connects people to one another. It also creates a shared sense of pride in the city and rises the collective mood.

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