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  • How a Three Course Meal Gives Dignity for Those Without a Home

    October 17, 2017 |

    EachOther |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

    An organization named FEAST! in London offers a high-quality meal once a week in a homeless shelter using excess food from supermarkets. Not only does this tackle the issue of food waste, but it also aims to fill in the nutritional gaps left in the diets of those who are homeless and provides some dignity in a conversation over a community meal. The program has been running since 2015, and both the volunteers and recipients testify to the impact it has had on their lives.

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  • How Iceland is Fighting the Gender Pay Gap

    October 17, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    Iceland may be "the best country in the world for gender equality" but women get paid 30 percent less than men. Trade unions and businesses united to fix the problem. They reevaluated people's salaries through a point system, regardless of their gender. Now, the government has decided all companies in Iceland will have to implement the system, or pay a fine.

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  • Hospital Beats Federal Bureaucracy to Offer Local Traditional Foods

    October 11, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    The siglaug, is an Inupiaq word for ice cellar. It is also how the Inupiaq people are preserving a part of their culture. The siglaug, opened after the Farm Bill was passed, which allowed for the opening of a food processing center. Prior to that, elders staying at the local hospital ward could only eat federally approved foods like spaghetti. “Since 2015, the sigluaq has provided a facility for Harris and others to process donated meat, fish, and fowl according to government regulations so they can be served to elders in the long-term care.”

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  • See Who Just Pledged $8 Billion to Protect the Ocean

    October 11, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Malta, St. Julian's

    The world's oceans are in serious trouble, facing threats of irreversible ecosystem damage from climate change and reckless human activity; and the scope of the problem is far too vast and complex for any single nation or entity to successfully address. The Our Ocean Conference has provided a platform where governments and companies are coming together to push for collective action, creating a healthy competition to provide solutions and raise resources, as well as a shared source of inspiration for change.

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  • These simple design tricks can help diminish hate speech online

    October 11, 2017 |

    Quartz |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Tech platforms are trying to find a way to battle hate speech while guarding free speech. Various sites have found success by using design elements to de-incentivize incivility, and are promoting more constructive debate in their comments and posts.

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  • Giving Capitalism a Social Conscience

    October 10, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    A disproportionate of the world's money is concentrated in the pockets of a handful. Muhammad Yunus sees the importance of social business in helping change this trend and distribute wealth more evenly.

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  • Science, Interrupted

    October 04, 2017 |

    Discover Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    Thousands of researchers across the world have been displaced by war. They struggle to resume their work as refugees in a foreign country. Yet, numerous organizations are trying to help at risk scholars by offering fellowships to help them continue their work.

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  • US immigration arrests rise — and neighbors sign up to witness ICE operations

    October 02, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    Volunteers, hotlines, community supporting families, these are the basic principles of rapid response networks. A rapid response network is a community led, volunteer response to immigration crackdowns that is being replicated in cities around the country. When people are getting detained, the rapid response networks are activated, volunteers receive a text that a neary neighbor is getting deported and they rush to the house. They take notes, and record with their cellphones. “I feel hopeful that there’s something I can do rather than sitting worried and angry, and I feel like I can be part of something that

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  • He stole a $1 lemonade, smoked pot - then nearly had to die in prison

    September 27, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania has a compassionate release law for inmates who are terminally ill so they don't die in prison, but in practice it has become even more difficult for inmates and their families to take advantage of it. The number of elderly prisoners in the state has soared. Advocates recommend prisoners get an automatic compassionate release when they receive a terminal diagnosis so the family is not burdened with trying to figure out the complex process and paperwork.

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  • Green movement pivots toward minorities

    September 26, 2017 |

    Great Lakes Today |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The largely homogenous demographic of those working in conservation contributes to disparities in representation, which in turn can lead to issues like the Flint water crises. Now several organizations, including the Alliance for the Great Lakes in Cleveland and the Environmental Fellows program at the University of Michigan, are working to include the diverse voices of different races, ages, and backgrounds in the conversation.

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