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  • Want to start a preschool at home? Wonderschool can help

    June 18, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To address the lack of licensed child care centers, a San Francisco startup has helped to start 150 in-home care centers in the Bay area, LA, and New York. Wonderschool works closely with caregivers, providing consultation on the space and structure of the preschool and taking care of the administrative and marketing aspects of the business. "Two of the biggest costs to operate a child care program are real estate and administration,” CEO Chris Bennett says. “By using their own homes and Wonderschool’s administration software, directors are able to cut out those costs.”

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  • Poachers become protectors: How tigers bounced back in an Indian park

    June 18, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Kumily, Kerala

    With poaching on the rise in the South Indian Periyar Tiger Reserve, officials turned to the poachers themselves to see if they could turn their problem into a solution. In lieu of facing charges, the poachers became the protectors and the reserve saw a reduction in poaching all while offering an alternate form of income for the former full-time poachers.

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  • Want to go green and get in shape? Try 'plogging'

    June 18, 2018 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    Small changes to routine activities can have a large impact when everyone participates. Plogging, the act of picking up trash while jogging, is one such instance that has recently garnered widespread attention for its many benefits including improving both the health of the environment and individuals participating.

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  • Growth and taxes: Can Alaska's local option sales tax system prove a model for Montana?

    June 17, 2018 |

    Bozeman Daily Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In Alaska, there is no statewide sales tax. Instead, individual municipalities vote on and control their own levies. In the capital city of Juneau, sales tax revenue covers about half of the city’s annual budget with more than 17 percent coming from the pockets of tourists. This system could make sense for Montana as well.

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  • In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

    June 15, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Sylvia Acan, co-founded Golden Women vision, an organization that teaches Ugandan women to bake cakes with the aim of helping them improve their social economic status. Many of the women, like Acan, became victims of sexual assault or gender based violence during the Ugandan war insurgency. Now, Golden Women Vision has “61 members: widows, single mothers (some whose children were abducted and never returned), domestic abuse survivors and former abductees.”

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  • Prevention Strategies By And For Local Communities

    June 15, 2018 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    The University of New Mexico’s Prevention Research Center is a leading example of community engagement. The Center has undertaken a variety of health-focused initiatives, each with a common core: prioritizing community-centered knowledged and solutions. Their programming is based on years of dissemination and implementation research – figuring out how to take research into communities and prioritizing evaluation.

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  • This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

    June 12, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    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 from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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  • 'We no longer die in childbirth': how Indian villages saved their mothers

    June 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Purabgaon, Uttar Pradesh

    Villages in India were recording record high rates for maternal mortality due to a combination of factors such has poor diets and lack of education, but a women's group has started a grassroots approach to mitigating this. Known as Save a Mother, this group "aims to educate rural women about pregnancy, nutrition, immunization, delivery and care of the child," and has already seen a significant decrease in the mortality rate throughout villages.

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  • A Worldwide Teaching Program to Stop Rape

    June 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    A program that trains girls and young women how to defend themselves against rape has proven highly effective in Kenya and is spreading to other countries, including Canada and the U.S. No Means No Worldwide trains girls how to identify risk and escape, and also to stand up for themselves verbally and physically, countering the socialization they get to be accommodating and nice. It also trains boys to respect girls and to intervene when girls or women are in danger and participants were able to stop assaults most of the time.

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  • How Kayakers Saved a River and Started a Movement

    June 08, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Albright, West Virginia

    The Cheat River spans roughly 78 miles, running through eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. It was once regarded as one of the most polluted rivers in America due to consequences of heavy mining in the region. As the whitewater adventure industry increased, however, so did the desire to clean up the river, which was how a group of kayakers formed what is now known as Friends of the Cheat.

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