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  • A Library of Good Ideas

    August 02, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Bend, Oregon

    Staff members at a library branch in central Oregon take steps toward community engagement and participation by crossing the barrier from employee to neighbor. By building personal relationships with other community members, offering "maker" spaces and other public engagement opportunities, and listening to the desires of the community they are serving, the 6-branch Deschutes Libraries make a name for themselves.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

    July 29, 2015 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica has instituted regulations to protect farm laborers from an increasing risk of kidney disease by mandating that employers in tropical conditions provide water, rest and shade, with higher levels of relief correlated to increasing temperatures. There has been surge in chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers along the Pacific Coast in Central America and in India and Sri Lanka and a recent study fund it's highest among workers laboring between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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  • LA Sheriff plans dramatic expansion of mental health policing

    July 23, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The struggle of police in properly dealing with mentally ill citizens has been highlighted in recent news. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department plans to dramatically beef up its mental health policing capabilities, according to a newly-released report that provides a county-wide roadmap for county law enforcement's handling of suspects experiencing a mental health crisis.

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  • Open Access: How a Nonprofit is Giving Techies Without Tuition Their Shot

    July 23, 2015 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Access Code is a nonprofit in New York that gives young adults, particularly those from minority groups, instruction and resources to learn coding. This education promotes greater access to lucrative careers in the world of technology.

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  • D.C.'s Education in School Reform

    July 16, 2015 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The ecosystem of D.C. charter schools that has evolved over the last two decades represents a cornucopia of creative and nontraditional approaches to education, in addition to fairly traditional college-prep schools, and is now producing some of the highest graduation rates, college acceptance rates, and average test scores in public schools in the nation.

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  • Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster

    July 14, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka Division

    In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, Bangladeshi civilians—often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries–are being trained to support emergency teams.

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  • A College in Maine That Tackles Climate Change, One Class at a Time

    June 30, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Bar Harbor, Maine

    As institutions look for ways to fight climate change, the College of the Atlantic has made the search for solutions a central part of its curriculum.

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  • Watch Out for Refugees

    June 21, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

    Bavaria has integrated thousands of refugees into the public sphere by helping them learn German, find housing, and maintain employment through apprenticeship programs and other volunteer-run organizations in the community. Now, with Bavaria as an unlikely example, the Czech Republic looks to these program models in the wake of its own refugee crisis.

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  • Pozor, uprchlíci

    June 21, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

    Česko odmítá uprchlické kvóty. Místní politici říkají, že společnost není na příchod a integraci utečenců připravená. Budují v lidech strach z toho, že migrace rozvátí zemi. Zcela odlišný obraz uprchlické krize nabízí sousední Bavorsko. Tato spolková země integrovala tisíce uprchlíků, kterým pomohla naučit se německy, najít si bydlení i najít a udržet si zaměstnání. Využívají k tomu dobrovolníky, kteří téměř po celém Bavorsku organizují vzdělávací a volnočasové aktivity.

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