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  • The Autism Advantage

    November 29, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Thorkil Sonne's experiences with his own gifted, autistic son led him to start a company called Specialisterne, founded on the idea that - given the right environment - some autistic adults could not just hold down a job but also be the best person for it, increasing access to a self-sustained adulthood.

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  • Turning Rural Indians Into Water Entrepreneurs

    November 01, 2012 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: India

    In rural communities throughout India, having access to clean water does not always come easy. Sarvajal, originally a non-profit experiment, believes that water insecurity is a solvable issue, however. By helping those living in the rural communities take ownership through entrepreneurship, common sense, and the patience to reinvent old systems with more efficient technology, the group has achieved the ability to distribute small reverse-osmosis filtration plants and Water ATMs throughout the northwestern Indian states.

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  • When Tragedy Strikes, Come Together

    October 30, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    American families tend to handle grief individually and feel alone after the tragedy of losing a child. In Israel, communities communicate to the bereaving family their support by creating permanent and public memorials.

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  • Social Change's Age of Enlightenment

    October 17, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    We’re getting smarter about the way we’re addressing social problems. Patterns in the most effective solutions are emerging, such as making evidence-based decisions, accepting that humans act irrationally, and bringing people back together to build comprehensive solutions.

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  • Back to School

    September 14, 2012 |

    This American Life |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerging theory about what to teach kids.

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  • For Healthy Aging, a Late Act in the Footlights

    August 15, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Burbank, California

    Through the Burbank Senior Artists Colony - a community created by EngAGE - low-income seniors learn how to become artists. The recreational classes hosted by the community keep people feeling phsyically and mentally young, allowing them to focus on recreation instead of financial hardship.

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  • Repairing the Surgery Deficit

    August 08, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    In Zambia, the need for surgery is just as common as in the United States - doctors, however, are rare. So Zambia is training clinical officers – with no medical degrees – to do C-sections and hernia repairs.

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  • Fighting Depression, One Village at a Time

    July 18, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Different programs in various nations are training ordinary people and creating community groups to effectively satisfy the mental health needs of their communities. In many of these regions, "treatment gaps" – where there are little to no mental health treatment plans or resources – exist, but this new informal infrastructure helps to fill that.

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  • Nepal sees end in sight for trachoma

    June 23, 2012 |

    The Lancet |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    In Nepal, specialty eye hospitals are training staff to travel to remote areas of the country to provide eye care to rural communities. This initiative is aimed to prevent and treat trachoma, a degenerative eye disease, with the goal of ultimately eradicating blindness caused by trachoma.

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  • The Dawn of the Evidence-Based Budget

    May 30, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    When we consider the vast sums that governments spend — and the responsibility public officials bear — it seems crazy that policy makers don’t routinely make good use of evidence. The new White House effort to base spending decisions on hard evidence is a step toward delivering more social good per taxpayer dollar.

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