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  • What's Working (and who isn't)

    Businesses and initiatives across the country are looking to support employees, employers, and unions together. One example is the Ironworkers Apprenticeship Program, a paid training program that is open to anyone regardless of their skills or previous experience. At the end of the four-year program, participants are completely certified for the ironworking trade at no cost. In fact, program participants are able to earn money while they learn and set themselves up for union jobs that provide good salaries and benefits, while filling the growing number of ironworking jobs.

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  • HelpMum is training traditional birth attendants to mitigate maternal mortality

    HelpMum works to reduce maternal and infant mortality by training community birth attendants on modern and safe delivery methods, as most traditional birth attendants lack proper training. Along with training sessions, the group also provides birth kits, or resources to help with the delivery process. So far, HelpMum is present in six states and has trained over 2,000 community health workers.

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  • Forced Marriage, Domestic Violence: Kashmiri Women Reach Out To A ‘Close Friend' For Help

    Mehram, a woman-led collective in India, provides legal aid and counseling for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

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  • Reshaping the Corn Belt: Ohio farmers are changing how they farm to be more climate-friendly

    Farmers in Ohio are implementing regenerative farming practices like growing pollinator plots and cover crops for improved soil health, increased yield, and economic benefits.

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  • Free community college in Virginia for in-demand industries

    Virginia’s G3 grant program provides tuition assistance to community college students pursuing credentials in high-demand fields such as health care, information technology, early childhood education, and skilled trades. Since 2021, more than 11,000 students in the state’s community college system have received nearly $14.9 million in tuition support.

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  • Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

    Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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  • ‘This is the place for him': A bilingual preschool's effect on one Memphis community

    At Su Casa Preschool in Memphis students are taught the usual curriculum plus second language development. The program focuses on helping Spanish-speaking immigrant children access quality education.

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  • Meet the women fighting air pollution in Delhi's slums

    The Mahila Housing Trust initiative and the social impact agency Purpose are raising awareness of the dangerous air pollution women are exposed to when working in construction in Delhi. They’re working with locals to educate the public, encourage mask-wearing, and teach women to use air-quality monitors and report issues on an app.

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  • Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

    Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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  • How this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

    The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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