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  • How Communities of Practice Make a Difference in Middle Neighborhoods

    October 22, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    Community development groups are working closely with "middle neighborhoods" - areas "that aren't distressed today, but they may become so sooner than anyone expects." From Cleveland to Milwaukee to Chicago, CDCs are improving the lives of long term homeowners and helping interested parties generate the capital to move into these neighborhoods: “You're investing to a place that is on the edge, still has assets, still has people who want to be there, but need a nudge to get over the top, versus investing 60 homes in a non-functioning market."

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  • This Radical Bank Will Free People Of Debt By Literally Blowing It Up

    October 10, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: England, London

    The Hoe Street Central Bank is an artist run project that raises money through events taking place in a former bank and sells prints designed to mimic paper money. Through the money they raise, the organization buys and eliminates private debt as well as makes donations to organizations affected by austerity measures.

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  • What happens when a food bank is a grocery store?

    October 08, 2018 |

    Curbed Seattle |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The White Center Food Bank has transformed its storage space to mimic a normal grocery store setup, complete with shopping carts, volunteer baggers, and stocked shelves. This has made all the difference for some of the one in five Washington state residents who rely on food banks: with the new model, patrons report reduced stigma and shorter lines.

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  • Can Zoning Actually Save Manufacturing Space in San Francisco? Audio icon

    October 03, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Kate Sofis created SFMade in San Francisco to find creative ways to support local manufacturing. The organization has helped push the local government to create more inclusionary industrial zoning, which incentivizes developers to build manufacturing space along with traditional office space. Funded by grants and a New Markets Tax Credit, SFMade has opened 150 Hooper, a manufacturing hub. Its challenge now is how to maintain a sustainable funding source in the pricey city.

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  • The Power of Student Peer Leaders

    October 02, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    PeerForward, a youth leadership development organization, taps into the power of peer networks to increase the number of students in low-income schools applying to college and submitting FAFSA forms. Working with teachers, elected students develop their own custom action plans to achieve PeerForward's common goals. For instance, at some schools, student leaders required a completed FAFSA for admission to a dance.

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  • For refugees, the best solution is often just cash

    September 27, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    The International Rescue Committee’s cash transfer program has seen success most recently in Colombia, by helping Venezuelan refugees start fresh in a new place. For the Del Carmen family, cash transfers of $66 per household member for three months provided the capital necessary to create a new income stream - a mini market that allows Yoleima del Carmen, the mother, to feed her family. This is part of a broader trend in the international development space in which more and more funding is allocated to cash transfers.

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  • Program helps Colorado teens coming out of foster care system

    September 22, 2018 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Junction, Colorado

    In Grand Junction, Colorado, Foster Alumni Mentors is working to connect young adults in or leaving the foster care system with others who have gone through the same person, giving them a mentor to help them with applying and paying for college, finding jobs, and more. The program create 19 mentorship relationships during its first year of existence and the personal connections manifest in more ways than one.

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  • What does a more thoughtful disaster response look like?

    September 20, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    A new coalition of nonprofits is working to change the way corporations and philanthropists think about disaster assistance. Most efforts and money funnel to communities in the early days and weeks after a disaster, while very little goes toward long term recovery efforts. The coalition has created a framework to guide more effective assistance to minimize waste and get appropriate resources to communities when they need them.

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  • This new coalition protects protesters' right to civil disobedience

    September 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Protect the Protest is an initiative created by more than 20 of the world’s largest nonprofits to address SLAPP lawsuits. SLAPPs often target nonprofits and activists in order to derail them from protesting. “The goals are to communicate about common types of SLAPP suits and how to avoid or dismiss them, campaign together when such salvos are lobbed against both Protect the Protect members and smaller pods of activists or organizers that might not have the resources to defend themselves.”

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  • Recycling can be a hard sell in rural Colorado. That hasn't discouraged a resourceful nonprofit effort in Swink.

    September 18, 2018 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Swink, Colorado

    Recycling doesn't come easy for small, rural towns where the cost to export recyclables often realistically outweighs the benefits of this sustainably practice. Clean Valley Recycling, a nonprofit launched by local community members in the tiny town on Swink, Colorado, has gone against all odds though and serves not just as a recycling resource for the town, but for the surrounding region as well.

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