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  • The Rise of the ‘Carebnb': Is This Home-Based Model the Future of the Childcare Industry?

    October 21, 2020 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Tech entrepreneurs are franchising childcare services and helping small providers match with those in need of local, home-based childcare. These franchises provide administration services such as payroll, insurance, scheduling, billing, and even mentorship which allows smaller providers to focus on their day-to-day operations. With offices shuttered in the wake of the pandemic, parents look to smaller local childcare options in order to minimize exposure to COVID-19. The franchises have also been involved in reversing local policies that have adversely affected their home-based childcare providers.

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  • Their App Sends Free Mail to Incarcerated People. Now They're Helping Prisoners Register to Vote

    October 20, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Ameelio is a technology startup launched by Yale students to facilitate free communication between people who are incarcerated and loved ones. In their first six months, the group went from sending 300 to over 4,000 letters a week to facilities in the United States. Their initial goal was to provide a not-for-profit alternative to the oftentimes predatory prison telecommunications industry. Recently they began a voter registration initiative where they send registration instructions, a blank voter registration application, and ballot request form to people who are incarcerated and eligible to vote.

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  • How Colorado became the model for running an election by mail Audio icon

    October 20, 2020 |

    The Fulcrum |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado is a successful model for voting by mail. Anti-hacking security measures, results audits, and frequent updating of the voter database using multiple sources increases confidence in the system. Voting by mail increased turnout, making the state among the top in the country. It also decreased election-related costs by 40%. Ballot rejections remain low (less than 1%) because the state relies on voters’ honesty and does not require a witness’ signature. Voters can also track their ballot and resolve any issues over the phone. Voters can return ballots by mail or at one of the many official drop boxes.

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  • Musical Empowerment bridges technological divide to teach local students

    October 20, 2020 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Musical Empowerment provides mentors for children who do not have access to music education in their community. About 160 student-teachers mentor children in instruments like guitar, piano, violin, brass, saxophone, and even voice. The group uses grants and donations to help with technological and internet disparities, as well as provide instruments if needed. Learning music helps young people in many areas of their lives, including self-confidence and self-discipline. Mentors are paired with a mentee based on instrument interest and compatibility, and also experience personal growth from the relationship.

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  • Billions in COVID Relief Has Gone to Farmers. Just Not Black or Family-Owned Farms in Appalachia.

    October 19, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Several organizations — including the Kentucky Black Farmer Fund, Community Farm Alliance, and Black Soil: Our Better Nature — are working together to provide disaster relief funds during the COVID-19 pandemic to Black farmers. They’ve been able to award 43 small farms with a one-time payment of up to $750, which was used to purchase equipment or personal protective equipment. That amount can only help them so much, but it’s a step in helping Black farmers receive federal aid, which they historically have been left out of.

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  • Citizens' Assemblies let everyday people make important city decisions. Let's bring them to Philly.

    October 19, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Citizens' assemblies, where a randomly selected representative sample of people work together to make decisions and find policy solutions to social issues, is an effective approach to decision-making that bridges polarization. It also minimizes the influence of special interests in decision making. America In One Room gathered 500 people in Texas to address topics such as immigration and healthcare, among others, and it showed that people tend to find common ground after deliberative discussions. Citizens’ assemblies have successfully informed policy decisions in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France.

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  • Firefighters work through PTSD with peer support, counseling

    October 19, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Glendale, Arizona

    A counseling program introduced at Glendale Fire Department has now spread to a handful of other departments across the state after reporting that a significant percentage of firefighters were using the counseling services and had used fewer sick hours. The program offers individual counseling, group support, and training on peer counseling.

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  • Unlike Vermont, New Hampshire state police don't collect racial data for arrests

    October 18, 2020 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    New Hampshire's official response to nationwide protests of racial bias in policing lacks a critical element: a statewide database showing the race of drivers and passengers in police stops and arrests. Unlike neighboring Vermont, which since 2014 has kept a data-informed eye on racial disparities in policing, New Hampshire officials say they cannot afford to integrate such data from local agencies. Instead, those local agencies are now under a legislative mandate to report what they track to their communities. Advocates say statewide analysis would better inform police training and policies.

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  • New York City's Right to Counsel law helps stem the epidemic of evictions, and provides a blueprint for Milwaukee

    October 16, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York's Universal Access to Counsel Law gives tenants who are facing economic hardship a right to free legal advice which increases the chance of winning their case in housing court. Landlords typically have legal representation in court but the overwhelming majority of defendants do not - leaving them at a distinct disadvantage and more likely to experience housing instability. The NY law has been a model for several cities with high eviction rates and can also serve as a blueprint to decrease high eviction numbers in Milwaukee. Of the tenants who utilized the legal services, 84% kept their housing.

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  • Standing in the gap: grassroots efforts to tackle inequities in education

    October 16, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States

    This T.V. segment showcases multiple solutions used by school districts and nonprofits across the nation, from creating cell phone towers so students have access to reliable wifi, to curbside meals, to learning pods. Overall, the hosts emphasize that the solutions highlighted in this segment involve a process that begins before a student even enters the virtual classroom and often involves many people working together.

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