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8 August 2018
San Diego, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A year after a San Diego high school was awarded $10 million to scale a successful personalized learning pilot model, administrators and teachers have seen improving attendance rates and certain academic positives and...
8 August 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Under 800 Words
In Philadelphia, a collaboration between three nonprofits is providing 500 free lunches, both filling a gap in nonprofit service on Friday afternoons and giving those recently entered into recovery for addiction a tas...
8 August 2018
Zambia
Video
5-15 Minutes
Poachers are causing the population of lions in Zambia to decline at rapid rate. Conservationists working with the Zambian Carnivore Program are not only actively tracking the lions, but also teaching students about t...
7 August 2018
New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the past few years, an influx of oil field workers to Jal, New Mexico has put pressure on the town's child-care offerings. Several teachers are pioneering a creative solution. By using funding from several sources,...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jill Harkins
2 August 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
Philabundance, a nonprofit organization aimed at fighting food insecurity, has a sustainable and creative solution. They launched a line of cheeses, known as Abundantly Good, and proceeds will help pay farmers to turn...
1 August 2018
United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emiss...
Chicago Tribune
Alison Bowen
1 August 2018
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Under 800 Words
Though homelessness is an entrenched and complex problem, small solutions can make a difference in the daily life of homeless individuals. Lockers for overnight cell phone storage in a homeless shelter in Chicago are ...
1 August 2018
Seward, Alaska, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
At Spring Creek Correctional Center, profits from the prison store are shared among seven prison clubs. The clubs operate like nonprofits, bringing educational opportunities, music, plants, and more to inmates and don...
1 August 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Two Detroit-based entrepreneurs are determined to help minority youth become stakeholders in community real estate development. Targeting communities that experience gentrification, Project Destined empowers young stu...
Concentrate
Claire Charlton
25 July 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Brilliant Detroit is a nonprofit that aims to create “kid success neighborhoods.” It reaches this goal by building over 70 partnerships with organizations throughout the city. From working with Eastern Market to provi...
20 July 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
Project Feed the Hood, a community effort to increase food access and security for lower-income families, has established gardens and pilot programs at ten schools in Albuquerque. The program originally aimed to conve...
CityLab
Haniya Rae
14 July 2018
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
Tiny homes, proposed across the world as a solution to housing problems, come in many forms. Baltimore is trying its own model. A creative partnership under the non-profit Civic Works is connecting people who want aff...
9 July 2018
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Cleveland has been quietly building a network of book clubs, libraries, and empowerment groups "using literature to empower marginalized groups, foster economic dynamism, and bridge social divides." From workplace and...
2 July 2018
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Two federally-funded Seattle tech training programs tasked with increasing diversity in the industry returned dramatically different results over the course of one year. Experts credit Apprenti's employer-driven natur...
28 June 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Teaching people about the harmful impacts of social media and tech addiction are a crucial first step in mitigating its consequences. The Center for Human Technology (CHT) has partnered with Common Sense Media to laun...
26 June 2018
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
Renting Partnerships organizes affordable housing communities that stay affordable. By meeting the expectations of the community, such as paying rent on time, residents can earn and cash out financial equity after sta...
22 June 2018
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Los Angeles-based group Across Our Kitchen Tables is hoping to overcome the underrepresentation of women of color in the food industry. The group connects women, helps them discuss ideas and recipes, and hosts wor...
20 June 2018
Kentucky, United States
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1500-3000 Words
An internship program in rural Kentucky takes a bottom-up approach to reproductive health education. All Access EKY hires young female interns to create media and social media campaigns about teenage pregnancy and bir...
20 June 2018
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
In New York, non-profits like Eat Offbeat, Emma's Torch, United Tastes of America, and more are working to connect American-born citizens with refugees from other countries, using food as a way to spark conversation w...
Christian Science Monitor
Stéphanie Jacob
14 June 2018
MARRAKESH, Morocco
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Under 800 Words
The Marrakesh-based Amal for the Culinary Arts offers Moroccan women from disadvantaged backgrounds free training in order to become culinary chefs. Through the program they get hands on experience. They also help the...
12 June 2018
Pyongyang, North Korea
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800-1500 Words
More than 2,000 North Koreans have accessed entrepreneurship training through a Singaporean nonprofit called Choson Exchange, gaining exposure to market concepts such as pricing and branding -- often for the first tim...
12 June 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Cooperation Group is a Detroit-based nonprofit that consults for worker-owned cooperatives. They also give advice to organizations even if they think a cooperative is not the best model, as they did with the nonpr...
12 June 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support...
8 June 2018
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able t...
University of Oregon
Bryana Sena
7 June 2018
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
Composting reduces the waste that fill landfills, but it's not always a common practice. Food For Lane County and Compost Crew are two operations in Oregon that are working to change this through local control operati...
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