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  • Seattle's urban farmers are reclaiming public space

    November 17, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s urban agriculture community saw a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. BIPOC-led urban farms — like YES Farm and Black Star Farmers — had an increase in volunteers and people wanting to help provide food security, agricultural education, and land access to communities who don’t have their basic needs met. In the first half of 2020, the city of Seattle assigned plots of land to 439 new gardeners to pursue urban farming, with nearly half of them going to underrepresented populations.

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  • Coronavirus vaccine: How will poorer countries get a fair shot?

    November 17, 2020 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    As the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine continues, many officials are preemptively discussing how the vaccine will be disseminated, especially as richer countries have already "staked their claim to the first doses." The solution may be an advance market commitment – a concept employed in the early 2000s by GAVI to more equitably distribute the pneumococcal vaccine.

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  • Program in Montrose County Helps Homeless Families Pursue Self-Sufficiency

    November 17, 2020 |

    Mountain Grown Community Radio (KVNF) |

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    Response Location: United States, Olathe, Colorado

    Haven House, a faith-based provider of transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness, offers a safe place to live while working to reunite families that face possible loss of child custody over their housing or substance-use status. Required classes in parenting and budgeting, plus job-search services and other classes, have helped more than 370 families over the past decade. Families, who often are referred to the program from the county's Child Protective Services agency, can remain at the house for up to two years if they comply with the rules.

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  • How SU survived a COVID-19 fall semester

    November 17, 2020 |

    The Flyer |

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    Response Location: United States, Salisbury, Maryland

    When Salisbury University faced the likelihood of having to enact a campus-wide lockdown due to the rapidly increasing prevalence of COVID-19 cases, the school took steps to revise protocols and mandate further regulations in order to keep operations running. From hybrid classrooms to "mandating negative tests on file every 30 days for university members to retain access to campus facilities," the university has recently been touted as a model for successfully staying open amid the pandemic.

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  • Gold star for you: New Zealand council puts stickers on bins of best recyclers

    November 16, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Christchurch

    Officials in Christchurch use a public reward and shaming system to motivate proper recycling sorting after only 48% of recycling was able to be accepted. Residents who correctly sort contents receive a large gold star on their bin while those who do not are given a warning. After three warnings, bins are confiscated and residents must sign an agreement to recycle properly to get their bin back. 155,000 bins have been spot checked, with 26% receiving gold stars, 61% receiving warnings, and 246 bins have been removed. The percentage of recycling content that can be accepted has increased to almost 80%.

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  • Native history is WA history, and tribes are helping schools teach it

    November 16, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    In order to better educate students about indigenous history, in 2015, Washington passed the “Since Time Immemorial” (STI) curriculum, the law requires schools to teach a tribally developed curriculum. This has led to some school districts collaborating with local tribes and more students learning about indigenous people. “There are still Native people around today — we’re here.”

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  • Manhattan Mental Health Court offers lifeline to those with serious mental illness — but they have to get in

    November 14, 2020 |

    New York Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Manhattan Mental Health Court was created in 2011 to divert felony criminal cases to treatment, and away from prison, for people in need of mental health treatment. But few people with serious mental illness ever benefit from it. Too few defense lawyers know to request the intervention or do it correctly. Prosecutors act as gatekeepers in deciding who gets the help, and many do not see its value. And, once cases are admitted to the court, they can sometimes take years to be resolved. Covid restrictions on the courts have only aggravated these problems.

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  • Youth advocacy groups kept voters safe and informed on Election Day

    November 13, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Civic participation by youth advocacy groups registered tens of thousands of young voters and educated many more on election-related issues, including local and state ballot initiatives. Events held on zoom provided registration information and helped students connect with their peers, where they made pledges and plans to vote. Arizona PIRG Students New Voters Project educated 10,000 students this way, while CALPIRG Students' 500 volunteers registered 10,000 students, provided voter information to over 150,000 students, and made over 90,000 peer to peer Get Out the Vote contacts.

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  • Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

    November 09, 2020 |

    70 Million |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Even while Los Angeles police criminalize homelessness with "sweeps" to clear encampments from public property, state and local programs have helped thousands of people find housing and receive services like counseling and criminal record expungement. Programs like LA DOOR and Project Roomkey use public-health and housing-first approaches to address people's underlying problems rather than subject them to endless cycles of arrest and incarceration, all of which cost far more than the helpful strategies while remaining far less effective. Street outreach is done without police escorts, to build trust.

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  • Bosnian Seniors Fight Loneliness Through Arts and Crafts

    November 09, 2020 |

    Inforadar |

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    Response Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zenica

    Nas Most uses artistic and cultural initiatives to combat loneliness among seniors. Over seven years, informal weekly meet-ups turned into formal painting and handicraft courses and membership grew from 30 to over 100 seniors. The association also organizes events to exhibit members’ works and partners with other groups to create and share podcasts, organize concerts, and offer other artistic events for seniors. Cultural exchanges with organizations in Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and Serbia also help build social connections, which provide physical and mental health benefits for seniors.

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