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  • Austin is training staff to help parents find affordable housing so that kids don't have to switch schools

    March 28, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Austin Independent School District created a system to prevent low-income families from being displaced by rising rents around the city. The system, which includes a website that tracks affordable housing options and a network of staff ready to help families, allows students to stay in-district and progress their learning within the same community. In gentrifying Austin, low-income families are getting pushed out. The district trained staff to help them find new, cheaper homes close to school.

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  • DAs Have This Blueprint for Rethinking Criminal Justice

    March 28, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Formerly incarcerated individuals, community leaders, and members of San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office, have joined forces to create a collaborative advisory board. The board meets to share re-entry challenges and successes, discuss the DA's work, and develop a deeper understanding of systemic crime in the city. From conversations about mental health to poverty, members are helping create new policies and opportunities for those still incarcerated.

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  • Santa Fe restaurants work to reduce water waste

    March 28, 2019 |

    The Santa Fe New Mexican |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    Restaurants can reduce water consumption by changing employee behavior and installing new technology, such as faucet aerators, water submeters, and high-efficiency toilets. When Santa Fe conducted voluntary water-usage audits at 31 restaurants, officials discovered that most restaurants did not have a good way to measure their water consumption, but that simple fixes could track and cut water usage.

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  • Trump pledged to end the HIV epidemic. San Francisco could get there first

    March 28, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Thanks to a proactive three-part approach, San Francisco, California is on track to become the first city in the nation to reduce new HIV transmissions and thus HIV-related deaths. Now a model for other major metropolitan cities to follow, the city has seen success from rapid testing and antiretroviral therapy, actively prescribing PrEP, and an implementation of a network of outreach workers.

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  • Slum gods: the Kenyans steering young radicals away from terrorism

    March 28, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

    A new program from London’s Royal United Services Institute takes a hyper-local approach to ending violent extremism. While many efforts across the world are focused on deradicalizing current members of extremist groups, this program seeks out the most vulnerable populations to provide support and mentorship in order to prevent them from radicalizing in the first place. By using indicators that can identify those at-risk, the program funds mentors from the same neighborhood to step in and offer support and guidance.

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  • Dying sustainably

    March 28, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, Gainesville, Florida

    In Florida, a funeral home is specializing in green burial practices – such as hand-digging graves and using biodegradable urns – as a way of lessening the environmental impact that is often associated with both burials and cremation services. Although their methodologies are not entirely earth-friendly, they are still just one of a few burial cemeteries that is "abiding by strict laws that focus on reducing carbon emissions and land restoration."

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  • Want to Address Food Insecurity in Your Community? There's an App For That.

    March 28, 2019 |

    Route Fifty |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh-based nonprofit 412 Food Rescue is saving food from landfills and feeding those in need by getting produce, with minor bruises or almost past sell-by dates, into the hands of food insecure people. The organization, which partners with government housing authorities and other sites like daycares, uses its Food Rescue Hero app to connect volunteer drivers with grocery stores and restaurants who have excess food to donate.

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  • The Fight For Lights In SE Albuquerque

    March 28, 2019 |

    KUNM |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    After years of asking the city of Albuquerque to light their streets, the community group, Light the District has started doing it on their own. Recognizing that unlit streets can lead to crime and injuries, the group funds and installs their own streetlights to make neighborhoods safer.

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  • Appy day: could we fix our mental health on our phone?

    March 27, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Seeking treatment for mental health concerns is often associated with a stigmatized perspective, but thanks to technological advancements, the use of mental health apps has helped reduce this viewpoint. Although the apps come with many limitations and aren't a replacement for professional treatment, they do act as an additional resource for those that aren't yet ready to seek in-person options.

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  • ‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?''

    March 27, 2019 |

    The California Sunday Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Five Keys Charter School was the first in the U.S. to open in a jail. Now, the school operates a bus, or traveling classroom, that parks in San Francisco's most under-resourced communities to offer residents, many offenders, a second or third or seventh flexible chance at earning a high school diploma. Journalist Elizabeth Weil writes, "The school was created with the understanding that incarceration is part of life for their students." The director of the Bard Prison Initiative adds that Five Keys uses the infrastructure of jail “to do positive good rather than just mitigate harm.”

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