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  • Toyota Opens a 'Megasite' for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden's IRA

    June 01, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Liberty, North Carolina

    Toyota is building a battery plant in the small town of Liberty, North Carolina, and ushering in an economic revival. Along with the thousands of jobs it is expected to bring to the area, the company is working with community colleges and paying students to complete programs in which they learn the necessary skills to work at the plant.

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  • Brooklyn Nonprofits Tailor Mental Health Care To Their Immigrant Clients' Cultures

    May 31, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Nonprofits Mixteca, RaisingHealth, and Brave House are providing safe spaces for migrants to receive culturally relevant mental health care through workshops that incorporate cultural traditions and common mental health and self-care practices. The workshops help provide a sense of community and combat the stigma surrounding mental health in the immigrant community.

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  • Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

    May 29, 2024 |

    Sapelo Square |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: Free Childcare for Women's Health

    May 29, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Fund provides free childcare for families who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level and serves about 18,423 children a month. Access to free childcare has also impacted parent’s health, particularly mothers, as they’re often the ones taking time away from themselves and their jobs to handle the majority of childcare tasks.

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  • Connecting for Impact: An African Women Movement Changes HIV Trend Through Mentorship

    May 23, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Zambia, Lusaka

    Mothers to Mothers trains and employs local women living with HIV/AIDs to become community health workers, providing care and services to under-resourced clinics and direct to communities through door-to-door initiatives. Since forming in 2001, Mothers to Mothers has connected more than 15 million people with access to health services and has trained 1,200 women to become community health workers.

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  • How cognitive behavioral intervention is reducing gun violence in Chicago

    May 17, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is working to reduce gun violence by reaching out to victims and perpetrators immediately after the violence. The organization negotiates peace and offers cognitive behavioral intervention services to help them develop strategies to keep negative emotions from turning into violent actions.

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  • The WPA-inspired, living wage program for artists offering much needed stability and support

    May 08, 2024 |

    The Art Rebellion |

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    Response Location: United States

    The workforce resilience program Artists at Work is helping artists continue focusing on their practice by providing them with a stipend, benefits, and stability. Participants are required to log their working hours, which must include working with a local social impact organization for about a third of their week alongside their own projects.

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  • Street to Class: NGO Provides Free Education, Transforms Lives

    April 29, 2024 |

    African Change Stories |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Magboro, Ogun State

    Dolly Stars School is a tuition-free school run by the Dolly Children Foundation, which helps students who have been out of the education system get back on track with their studies. The foundation has programs in 30 communities that have reached more than 23,000 out-of-school children.

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  • A lifeline for orphaned children in Taraba

    April 26, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jalingo, Taraba State

    The United Methodist Church in Nigeria Orphanage provides children who have lost their parents with a place to live, education, and healthcare.

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  • In 2 years since Russia's invasion, a U.S. program has resettled 187,000 Ukrainians with little controversy

    April 24, 2024 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennington, New Jersey

    Uniting for Ukraine allows U.S. citizens to sponsor Ukranian refugees, welcoming them to the U.S. to escape the war and Russian invasion of their home country. Over two years, the program has helped resettle 187,000 Ukrainians.

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