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https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/lawrence-bartley-marshall-project-news-inside-pris?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Daniele Selby
Global Citizen
17 May 2019
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After receiving parole following a 27-year sentence, Lawrence Bartley started News Inside – a print publication that is distributed in jails and prisons across the United States. As part of the Marshall Project, News Inside provides incarcerated individuals with stories and information about criminal justice. The founder cites access to information as a predominant barrier for people re-entering society after incarceration and hopes this will give people the hope and information they need upon release.
https://qz.com/1604065/clinton-foundations-laundromat-libraries-aim-to-boost-literacy?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Annabelle Timsit
Quartz
5 May 2019
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The average American family spends more than two hours at the local laundromat. The Clinton Foundation and other partners have set up "Reading & Play Spaces" in 250 laundromats across the country to encourage literacy and parent-child interactions: "This project is part of a much larger vision to reinvent everyday spaces to encourage the kinds of experiences that help children thrive."
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2019/4/24/participatory-grantmaking-for-teens-the-funders-who-trusts-girls-to-make-grants?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Julia Travers
Inside Philanthropy
24 April 2019
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Nine philanthropic organizations, including Plan International and Comic Relief, make up the With and For Girls Collective, which asks teenage girls worldwide to select girl-led initiatives to fund, a process known as participatory philanthropy. Since 2014, the collective has funded 60 organizations across 41 countries for nearly $3 million.
http://nationswell.com/guns-garden-tools-nonviolence?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Monica Humphries
NationSwell
23 April 2019
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For people wanting to dispose of their firearms, RAWtools offers a unique opportunity. Understanding that the process can be challenging and emotional, they recycle weapons into gardening tools through their Swords to Plowshares initiative. By offering this, the faith-based organization seeks to shift the narrative around gun ownership and find new ways to address conflict.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/immigration-the-grassroots-groups-helping-asylum-seekers-on-the-border?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Sarah Tory
High Country News
22 April 2019
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The Kino Border Initiative is a volunteer binational organization that provides food, aid, and shelter for migrants crossing the border between Mexico and Arizona. The rate of asylum-seekers is steadily rising, and this organization makes sure that they have a safe place to live while they wait for their day in court. Every day up to 60 volunteers conduct services that range from preparing meals to translating Indigenous languages.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/family-search-missing-indigenous-women-20190418?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Janice Cantieri
Yes! Magazine
18 April 2019
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The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Drone Search Team is a group of volunteers in British Columbia, Canada that use a combination of indigenous knowledge and drones to search for missing women. Indigenous women are 12 times more likely to be murdered than other women in Canada, and although there is some police help, the lack of progress and transparency drove this group to take the matter into their own hands. The group has varying success in finding evidence that is being used in on-going investigations, but along the way they also provide solace and answers to the families still searching.
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