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  • Getting a Senior Discount? Here's How to Give It Away

    November 21, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Bainbridge Island, Washington

    Not all seniors need the various discounts they receive. The Boomerang Giving project allows them to donate back the difference of the discounts on things like movie tickets to a charity of their choice, benefiting not only a community cause but also their own mental and physical health. Various services also assist them in selecting and investing wisely in different nonprofits.

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  • In India, Latrines Are Truly Lifesavers

    November 13, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Odisha

    In India, 620 million people openly defecate outdoors, causing harm to hygiene, sanitation, food, and water resources. The president of India funded an initiative to build public toilets for the people in his country, but the people did not use them because of traditions and behaviors. The Total Sanitation Campaign is starting to change villagers’ minds by having local leadership persuade those who resist the toilets by holding community activities and creating special committees to maintain the sanitation.

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  • Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston's Poorest Neighborhoods

    November 07, 2014 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    By the 1980s, Roxbury and north Dorchester had been devastated by the disinvestment and white flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Racist banking and housing policies (“redlining”) had segregated people of color from opportunity, barring them from getting home loans except in certain neighborhoods. So the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) brought together residents to develop their own comprehensive plan to revitalize their community, building a community food system along the way.

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  • Big Lottery Fund puts pound-power into the hands of deprived communities

    November 04, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Liverpool

    For 150 areas in the UK needing the most help, support came in the form of 1 million pound grants to fund community-led projects. What sets this funding apart is that 75% of those on the decision-making boards are local residents. The Big Lottery Fund’s grants have already funded communities markets and local revitalization efforts, and more is on the way.

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  • Ebola: How Nigeria and Senegal stopped the disease ‘dead in its tracks'

    October 19, 2014 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    When the Ebola virus struck Nigeria and Senegal the governments of both countries took several steps to prevent an outbreak. Both countries responded to the first reported case quickly, traced all of the people that the patient had come into contact with prior to diagnosis and monitored them twice daily for signs of the virus. This public health campaign aimed to dispel fear and educate communities on prevention of Ebola.

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  • MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias

    October 10, 2014 |

    MIT News |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Santa Maria Nebaj, El Quiché

    MIT's D-Lab is supporting individuals in impoverished, rural areas invent low-cost technologies to address the needs of their communities. In 2009, the D-Lab paired with SolCom, a Guatemalan community organizing enterprise, and an international development fund to bring this model to the isolated area of Nebaj, assisting locals in creating a Makerspace for microentrepreneurs. The collaboration has fostered an environment for sustainable grassroots change, in which the social and intellectual capital needed to create the needed innovations and inventions originates in the community itself.

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  • How to Attract Artists to a Down-and-Out Neighborhood

    October 10, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    Public-private collaborations can promote entrepreneurship and foster economic revitalization. In the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, partnerships between the city of Columbus, the Franklinton Development Association (FDA), and local businesses have led to a flourishing of artist studios, maker spaces, and other community attractions. The initiatives were funded in part by grants from ArtPlace America as well as the city of Columbus.

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  • Everyone Wants to Copy This Pedestrian Bridge (It's Not the High Line)

    October 09, 2014 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

    City officials and nonprofit organizations in Poughkeepsie used extensive research and sustainable financing to revitalize an outdated railroad bridge into a bustling park & walkway. Rather than demolish the suspended tracks, a local organization used city funds to develop a financial and development strategy, which ended up costing the city five times less than the famed New York City High Line.

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  • Is the co-op the future of housing affordability?

    October 01, 2014 |

    Places Journal |

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    Response Location: United States

    There is an escalating housing affordability crisis in America, where even the middle and creative classes are having difficulty finding somewhere they can afford to live. A possible solution could be cooperative housing as explained through several examples around the world where this method has been used.

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  • A Chance to Go From Hard Lives to Healing

    September 18, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    A novel way to help young men growing up in communities in which concentrated poverty, violence and unemployment are well-documented barriers to health and longevity: male youth of color are trained to be the emergency response team to help stabilize street victims before doctors or nurses begin procedures.

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