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  • In an Effort to Diversify Museum Staffs, a New Program Offers Paid Internships at Museums Across the US

    July 12, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Two new initiatives are working to create greater diversity in all levels of museum staffing. They include an Association of Art Museum Directors paid internship program for minority college students and a grant program run by private foundations to recruit people from underrepresented populations into mid-level and senior museum management positions.

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  • When traditional banking isn't an option, try this out instead

    July 11, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Palmer, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Knik Tribe’s Community Development Financial Institution is offering financial opportunities to individuals in low-income communities who wouldn't have them otherwise. The organization, and others like it, are working to retain families in rural Alaska while providing the financial resources necessary for them to succeed.

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  • 'It means everything': the university opening its doors to asylum seekers

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: England

    The Compass Project, based out of the UK, provides one year of education for asylum seekers that serves as a foot in the door into the national higher education system. In the sometimes years before they can gain refugee status, asylum seekers living in the UK lack many of the rights and much of the access other citizens take for granted. Now, activists are considering how the Compass Project and other scattered university aid programs can band together to enact more systemic change.

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  • How to help struggling young readers

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Researchers have pointed to third grade as a make it or break it point for young students learning to read so several nonprofits are now focusing their energy on improving student literacy rates in the grades prior. To help students learn better, nonprofits send reading coaches to sit in on classrooms and advise teachers on how to teach reading most effectively. The nonprofit Early Reading Matters reported an 11 percent increase in the number of students reading at grade level over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year.

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  • You've Served Your Time. Now You're Told You Can't Cut Hair.

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    A number of states have passed reforms aimed at helping people coming out of incarceration get licenses that are key to well-paying jobs, which in turn help people stay out of prison. But there are still numerous hurdles in other states around criminal histories and background checks that keep people with felony records from entering those professions. Those requirements have cost the economy nearly three million jobs according to one report, and disproportionately affect people of color.

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  • What If the Teen City Council Is Better Than the Grownup One?

    July 05, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Takoma Park, Maryland

    Takoma Park’s youth council may be the most powerful teen legislature in the nation. The city was the first to lower the voting age to 16 years old, so council members are not only communicating youth perspectives but also voting in local elections.

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  • German women can now find out what men earn — why don't they?

    July 02, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    The early impact of Germany’s wage transparency law has been limited because it only applies to large companies and, while it permits an employee to inquire whether she is paid differently than her male colleagues, she must still sue her employer herself in order to rectify the situation. In the fight for fair pay, it’s more effective to put the onus on companies to demonstrate responsible behavior rather than leave individuals to battle entrenched power structures by themselves.

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  • How Denver's Disability Activists Transformed the City

    July 01, 2018 |

    5280 - The Denver Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Disability activists have used nonviolent direct action for decades, including lying in the street to protest inaccessible public transit and crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capital to support the Americans with Disabilities Act. “We have never gone out a door that we do not have a solution for,” says ADAPT member Dawn Russell. “That’s ADAPT 101.”

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  • None of the Above

    June 30, 2018 |

    Kerning Cultures |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Because Middle Easterners are classified as “white” in the U.S. Census, their specific needs and identities are not disaggregated. This lack of visibility may prevent discriminatory treatment, but it also impacts the allocation of government resources and leaves many feeling unrepresented in their country. The Arab American Institute is again pushing for change ahead of the 2020 survey, an effort that has now spanned decades.

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  • Brazil's audacious plan to fight poverty using neuroscience and parents' love

    June 29, 2018 |

    Quartz |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    Criança Feliz (Happy Child), is a parent-coaching program that was launched in Brazil in 2017 to help parents and children build healthier relationships. The program works by sending skilled social workers to the most financially disadvantaged regions of Brazil to help parents learn the importance of play, emotional interaction and well-being, and how to stimulate intellectual development through interactive activities. The program has already reached 300,000 families.

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