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CT child care 'incubator' is building capacity, stability in sector

Erica E. Phillips

November 26, 2024 |

The Connecticut Mirror |

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Response Location: United States, New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain’s Childcare Incubator Project helps home-based child care entrepreneurs launch their businesses through in-depth training, mentorship, and support, including a transitional phase where they start offering care within a shared facility and with the guidance of an on-site coordinator. Four businesses are currently in their transitional phase, and other cities around the state are now considering replicating the program.

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A Tool to Tackle Climate Emotions

Rebecca Randall

November 25, 2024 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

An educational tool called the climate emotions wheel shows a variety of emotions that align with a survey to help guide users through their climate-related feelings. It’s used in schools as a way to address youth mental health concerns amid climate-related disasters and other impacts.

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TaRL: A program transforming learning for Borno's school children

Usman Bashir Abubakar

November 19, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

The Teaching at the Right Level program, or TaRL, provides tailored lessons in reading and math to primary students in Borno, grouping them by their level rather than their grade or age for engaging activities designed to build their literacy and numeracy skills. When it was first piloted, the number of students able to read a simple paragraph grew from 14 percent to 45 percent, while the number of students able to complete subtraction problems grew from 11 percent to 59 percent.

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Nonprofits fill a gap for offering arts and culture in local schools and beyond. They rely on philanthropic support.

Agata Popęda

November 14, 2024 |

Monterey County Now |

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Response Location: United States, Seaside, California

California nonprofits are stepping up to provide young people with arts education opportunities in light of the lack of arts funding and programming at schools. In Seaside, the multicultural organization Palenke Arts offers classes in a variety of dance, visual arts, and a Spanish book club that are accessible to many ages.

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Campus Food Recovery Network Serves Local Community

Laury Li

November 12, 2024 |

Pepperdine University Graphic |

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Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

Pepperdine University’s Food Recovery Network club rescues unconsumed food from events on campus and a local Starbucks and gives it to nonprofits in the area that distribute it to those in need. Since forming in the Fall 2016 semester, the club has rescued 14,603 pounds of food that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.

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Thread and Thrive

Hannah Morgan

November 12, 2024 |

Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

Radio |

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Response Location: Nigeria

Formed in 2019, the Tailor’s Life Coach training initiative has helped over 200 people, particularly women, learn tailoring skills to pursue their passion for fashion design and open tailoring businesses of their own. The skills training from the initiative is free; participants only need to purchase the materials they use.

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An organisation deploys strategic storytelling to transform lives in rural Nigeria

Praise Usoro

November 05, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

The Bonnicare Foundation garners support and funding for people in need of education, healthcare and economic empowerment through visual storytelling on social media. This approach helps humanize the challenges people are facing, encouraging those with the means to donate. With the funding they’ve received through social media donations, the Bonnicare Foundation has helped pay the school fees for more than 1,000 primary and secondary school students in rural areas.

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This app developer is giving displaced young Nigerians an educational lifeline

Nathaniel Bivan

November 05, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Flowdiary is an e-learning platform that offers various digital skill courses in the Hausa language for free or at a very low cost. Flowdiary has more than 8,000 students enrolled across the country, training them in web development, graphic design and other digital skills that help them further their education and secure internships that help them advance their career opportunities.

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In Kano, a Group of Friends are Responding to Community Needs

Abdulaziz Bagwai

October 28, 2024 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Bagwai, Kano

The Bagwai Youth Friendship Association is a community group that pools money together to support locals in need, whether it be paying school fees or providing start-up capital for a new business venture. Since 2019, the group has enrolled 35 children in school, repaired broken water pipes, renovated buildings and provided food to those in need.

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Black women lean into leadership program to build power and sisterhood

Deborah Barfield Berry

October 22, 2024 |

USA Today |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

The Power, Innovation and Leadership executive education program brings Black women together to train them to become strong leaders, spearheading causes around issues like reducing poverty, advocating for reproductive justice and protecting voting rights. 25 women have graduated from the program already, and the next cohort is set to start in January, as they work toward their goal of training 100 Black women leaders.

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