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Larchmere Homes: 30 new affordable lease-purchase homes near completion

Lee Chilcote

July 11, 2023 |

The Land |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The CHN Housing Partners’ lease-purchase program builds affordable homes for low-income individuals to rent. Residents live and pay rent in the homes for 15 years while taking homeownership and financial counseling courses to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to become homeowners. Over the past 30 years, CHN has built more than 1,700 lease-purchase homes and more than 1,600 of them have been sold to owner-occupants.

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Everyone's tired of homelessness in California. Are you willing to rent your extra room to help?

Ethan Ward

July 11, 2023 |

AfroLA |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Homecoming Project helps provide housing for formerly incarcerated people by matching those in need with homeowners offering spare bedrooms. Since starting in 2018, The Homecoming Project has placed nearly 100 people in host homes and has helped those individuals connect with employment and long-term housing.

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India's Community Radio Brings Its Villages Crackling to Life

Charukesi Ramadurai

July 11, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India

The Mann Deshi Tarang Vahini community radio station aims to educate and broadcast important information, like weather alerts and COVID-19 resources, to rural areas in the country where access to information is often lacking. Listenership varies by region, but in some areas the radio station has over 100,000 listeners across more than 100 villages.

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Mental Health Respite Facilities Are Filling Care Gaps in Over a Dozen States

Cheryl Platzman Weinstock

July 11, 2023 |

KFF Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Dewitt, Iowa

Rhonda’s House is a respite program that provides a nurturing living environment for people experiencing mental health crises that don’t require immediate medical attention. Trained professionals at respites care for patients, making it so they don’t have to visit ERs or psychiatric institutions. There are 42 community-based respite programs across 14 states and Rhonda’s House specifically has cared for 392 people over the past five years. Those who seek respite have seen positive effects like reduced hospitalizations.

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The safe space for Nigerian girls facing period poverty

Ogar Monday

July 11, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

Brencare Foundation’s Safe Space Project meets once a week within local schools to provide menstrual health, hygiene, sexual and gender-based violence education to girls in need. So far, the Foundation has reached about 5,000 women and girls across several communities with its education efforts.

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More cities are offering no-strings-attached cash to residents. Here's what Philly can learn.

Layla A. Jones

July 10, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

Funded by a philanthropic donation and funds raised by the city, a guaranteed income program in Durham, North Carolina, provided people who were formerly incarcerated with a monthly stipend of $600. The no-strings-attached payments are meant to decrease recidivism by helping recipients meet their needs.

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The latest cash-bail reform plan: Give everyone a lawyer

Zaid Jilani

July 10, 2023 |

NewsNation |

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Response Location: United States, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

In 2017, a Pennsylvania county court system began to expand its offerings of free legal support, and now in 2023 the county provides defendants with public defenders at all arraignments 9am to midnight. In the first two years of its more-limited services, a study proved defendants with lawyers were more likely to be released without cash bail. Also, chances that a defendant would be in jail three days after their hearing dropped. Research also showed, however, increases in some costs and one type of crime.

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Drones Are Delivering Medical Supplies To Hard-To-Reach Clinics In Nigeria

Nathaniel Bivan

July 08, 2023 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

High-tech drones from the organization Zipline are delivering medical supplies — from vaccinations to blood and other necessary equipment — to hospitals in traditionally hard to reach areas. The drones can make an hour long trip in 10 to 30 minutes, making the delivery service a valuable tool in emergency situations.

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How Non-Profit Organizations Help to End Avoidable Blindness in Kano

Victor Christopher

July 07, 2023 |

Nigeria Info FM |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

With the help of several nonprofit organizations, the ECWA Eye Hospital provides free cataract surgery to help those in need who can’t afford the expensive surgery. The Hospital began providing free surgeries in 2016 and has since restored the sight of 5,800 people.

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As states hunt for new voters, Massachusetts adds thousands via Medicaid applications

Zachary Roth

July 06, 2023 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

After Massachusetts added automatic voter registration to its Medicaid application process, the number of people in the state who registered through social service agencies jumped from roughly 30,000 to more than 160,000. Residents are given the option to opt out of voter registration when applying for health benefits rather than opting in.

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