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  • How Funding Black Businesses Can Help Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap

    December 14, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    An Oakland nonprofit incubator, The Runway Project, addresses racial and economic injustices in entrepreneurship by offering flexible loans for people of color and low-income individuals looking to start a business. Borrowers benefit from flexible loan terms and qualifications, both of which are usually barriers to entry for people of color in the business world.

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  • Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

    December 12, 2018 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Río Sarstún

    After initially not involving the indigenous Q’eqchi community in designating land for the Río Sarstún Multiple Use Area – land that this community lives on – the government and the Q’eqchi since partnered together to advance conservation efforts and land management. Over a decade later, the two stakeholders work together on things like overfishing and ecotourism, part of a larger global trend of governments and local communities working collaboratively toward conservation.

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  • Philly Goes to School; Lessons in Inclusive, Universal Pre-K

    December 10, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia looks to Oklahoma and New York City to close the achievement gap for kids from low-income areas. Both Oklahoma and NYC have implemented universal Pre-Kindergarten programs and have increased kindergarten readiness levels for children attending pre-school -- including children from disadvantaged communities that otherwise would not be able to attend.

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  • Elsa and Nosipho: they both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds

    December 06, 2018 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In many countries, sex work is illegal which means that those working in the industry have very few rights when it comes to sexual abuse. Amsterdam is one of the few places where this line of work is legal, however, and because of this, workers not only have rights, but are able to also advocate for better practices.

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  • In rural Appalachia, can health care become the new coal?

    December 03, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Pikeville, Kentucky

    Pikeville, Kentucky, like many towns in Eastern Kentucky, used to be entirely dependent on the coal industry. With the decline of coal, the town has shifted its focus to healthcare. City leaders are hoping investment in the regional hospital system will provide jobs and economic growth.

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  • How Temporary Tiny Homes Could Solve Dutch Cities' Housing Crises

    November 26, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam

    While more permanent housing is built to meet demand in the Netherlands, the stopgap answer is to build “tiny homes.” Completely built in a factory, these tiny homes still provide all basic housing amenities. They will be laid out in clusters of four and in larger communities to overcome what some worry will be isolating for many people who have nowhere else to turn. As an interim solution, these tiny homes are perfect-but they aren’t built to last, so the goal is to get residents into more permanent housing.

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  • Why Raj Jayadev is helping Philly's criminal justice system adopt participatory defense

    November 21, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Participatory defense, is a model that integrates the family into the legal defense of someone being prosecuted for a crime. Loved ones can bring in evidence like photos and records that speak to the character of the accused person. In Philadelphia, the model is being implemented and already helped reduce someone’s bail from $500,000 to $0. Nationally, the method has been proven to be highly effective. “Over 10 years, participatory defense hubs have popped up in 20 other cities and reduced people’s sentences by 4,218 years.”

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  • Rhode Island Prisons Push To Get Inmates The Best Treatment For Opioid Addiction

    November 19, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

    In order to reduce opioid related deaths, Rhode Island has taken a rare step among state prisons: offer medication and drug counseling to opioid addicts. The Rhode Island Department of Corrections gives small doses of either methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to inmates, as well as drug counseling. "I still have to fight the other drugs… But at least I have something to help with one of the ones that's brought me closer to death than anything else." Evidence show the program is working. There was "a significant drop in overdose deaths among people recently released from prison."

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  • Alaska Native students pursue STEM, with great success

    November 19, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Middle and high school students of Alaska Native descent enrolled in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage outperform most of their peers in the rest of the country on math and science standards. The program encourages collaboration, hands-on learning, and community building and fights back against negative stereotypes of Alaska Natives that have been shaped by generations of repeated trauma.

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  • Black scholars find support, success in Highline College pilot program

    November 16, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    On college campuses across California and Washington state, the Umoja Community program groups black freshman in small classes that focus on historic and present issues affecting black communities. While 33 percent of one college's black students outside the program have completed an English course by their freshman year, 47 percent of Umoja students, who benefit from additional mentoring and academic advising, have done the same.

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