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  • Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

    September 30, 2025 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Volunteer groups such as Citizen Historians and Save Our Signs are documenting artifacts and displays at museums and national parks as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to modify or remove vital historical information. So far, Citizen Historians has taken more than 31,000 photographs in the Smithsonian museum system, while Save Our Signs has collected more than 10,000 photos of signs in national parks.

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  • Budgeting for Equality: How Local Councils in Cameroon are Including Women

    September 24, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Cameroon requires local councils to include women in budget planning and allocate resources to meet their specific needs, resulting in over 500 women in Tiko and Limbe councils gaining access to market infrastructure improvements, vocational training, agricultural support, and business grants that have enabled them to generate income and support their families.

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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

    Overstory |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • University Brains To Solve City Problems

    August 26, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    To improve traffic flow, the city of Pittsburgh partnered with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop an AI-powered traffic signal system that helped significantly reduce emissions and idling time at stop lights. The collaboration grew into a long-term initiative called Metro21 Smart Cities Institute that brings academics and public officials together to work on municipal issues.

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  • Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

    August 21, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Namibia

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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  • City food forests offer a chance to experience nature — and eat it

    August 19, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    In some cities, empty urban lots transformed into multilayered "food forests" that mimic natural ecosystems are providing free, accessible fresh produce to city residents through strategically designed edible plantings that feature native and adapted fruit trees, nut trees, and berry bushes.

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  • Federal cuts to AmeriCorps could make it harder for recent graduates to find jobs

    July 30, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    The AmeriCorps program places students and recent graduates in community service positions across the country, helping to fill local needs for everything from tutoring to wildlife management while also allowing participants to build valuable professional and academic skills. But recent federal cuts to the program's funding have put its future in jeopardy, with some participants being forced to leave their positions early.

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  • Finding election workers is hard. Arizona is doing something about it.

    June 09, 2025 |

    Votebeat Arizona |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    The Arizona Fellows in Election Administration program taps college students to work in county and state election offices, with the goal of creating a pipeline for positions that are often difficult to fill. During the 2024 presidential election cycle, 18 students and recent graduates participated in the program, and three went on to take permanent positions in their respective election offices.

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  • How worker-ownership helped California Solar create good jobs

    June 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Grass Valley, California

    At worker-owned cooperatives such as Cal Solar, a California-based solar company, the worker-owners shape company policies and report a greater sense of accountability, comraderie, and more resilience in the face of industry challenges, compared to their non-cooperative model peers.

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  • Know Your Rights: Community forums as a solution to immigration enforcement changes

    May 28, 2025 |

    Hilltop Views |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    CAMINA ATX, a grassroots initiative founded by immigrants, hosts “Know Your Rights” forums that draw hundreds of people. Their approach to prioritizing cultural competency, accessibility and community ownership has emerged as an effective community-based response that provides critical information, resources and support networks for immigrants, mixed-status families, concerned citizens and anyone seeking to better understand constitutional protections in the current enforcement climate.

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