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  • Douglas County woman strengthens democracy through ballot pickup service

    September 15, 2022 |

    Nebraska News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    In Douglas County, Nebraska, a volunteer effort called Ballot Buddies collects sealed mail-in ballots from voters and delivers them to official Election Commission drop boxes. During the 2020 presidential election, vetted volunteers delivered hundreds of ballots at a time when the U.S. Postal Service was experiencing significant delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

    September 14, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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  • Paying attention: Boston hospital helps breastfeeding Black moms, babies thrive

    September 12, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative provides a 10-step approach to hospital-based breastfeeding support in an effort to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce the racial disparities Black women often face during breastfeeding initiation. Breastfeeding has been shown to have a significant impact on a baby and mother’s health outcomes and the breastfeeding medicine clinic is available to anyone who is interested, including Medicaid patients who wouldn’t be able to afford the services otherwise.

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  • How to Fix America's Confusing Voting System

    September 12, 2022 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Center for Civic Design helps states simplify ballot and registration forms to make their voting processes more accessible for people with low literacy, who are more likely to struggle with the complex language of most election materials. Such reforms have led to fewer ballots being rejected, including in New York, where a redesigned absentee ballot helped the number of rejected ballots drop from 22 percent to just 4 percent.

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  • Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty

    September 11, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Between 1993 and 2019, government aid for working families in the United States grew, with federal spending on low-income children roughly doubling. This expansion of the safety net coincides with significant declines in child poverty, with research showing that child poverty fell 59 percent during that time period.

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  • Nehemiah: Making the American Dream possible for first-time homeowners

    September 11, 2022 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Nehemiah project began in the 1980s building privately-owned homes on land that nobody wanted in East Brooklyn and sold the homes at prices that were affordable to working class families. Church and community organizers mobilized local politicians to sell the land for almost nothing and provide subsidies for community members and raise money that could be used for loans. The program has built 6,500 homes and created an estimated $1.5 billion of wealth for first time Black and Latino homeowners.

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  • Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City

    September 10, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A universal basic income pilot program in Los Angeles provides monthly payments of $1,000 for a year to those in need who meet specific criteria. More than 48 guaranteed income programs have been started in cities nationwide since 2020, and the L.A. program, which is one of the nation’s largest programs thus far, benefits 3,200 people.

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  • They lost their chance at education once. Then it came knocking on their doors

    September 09, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Rafin-Guza, Kaduna

    The Yasmin El-rufai Foundation's Women Literacy Programme offers training and instruction to women who have not had the opportunity to pursue a formal education. Each cohort completes 13 months of coursework to support literacy, numeracy, oral English, public speaking, civics, and information and computer technology.

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  • Mental health professionals of color are in the vanguard of the fight against burnout

    September 08, 2022 |

    NowKalamazoo |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    The mental health profession can lead to intense burnout, specifically for mental health professionals of color. Some facilities are launching efforts like the Stay Well program to address burnout including promoting cultural competency among all professionals, recruiting and training more practitioners of color, limiting the hours worked per week, emphasizing self-care and providing virtual work options and vacation days.

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  • Sacramento's new Lavender Courtyard keeps its promise of safe, comfortable housing for LGBTQ seniors

    September 08, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Lavender Courtyard is a three-story apartment complex that serves LGBTQ+ seniors who pay affordable rents based on income, which caps rents at 30% of their monthly-adjusted income. With the housing crisis running rampant, the Lavender Courtyard provides seniors with affordable housing and a space where they can safely live comfortably and authentically.

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