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  • Direct primary care cuts out insurance companies. Could it gain traction under Trump?

    February 03, 2025 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    Direct primary care clinics offer more affordable healthcare and direct access to doctors without added costs or long wait times. Though direct primary care isn’t a replacement for traditional insurance, it makes healthcare — including doctor visits, medications and even X-ray imaging — more accessible and affordable, particularly for those who can’t afford or qualify for traditional coverage.

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  • Demand for immigration legal services spikes at California colleges

    February 03, 2025 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In the University of California and California State University systems, undocumented students have access to Dream resource centers where they can get support with financial aid, mental health services, community-building, and legal aid for immigration cases. These services have seen demand skyrocket since the 2024 presidential election and subsequent executive orders around immigration.

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  • Building Food Sovereignty in San Francisco and Detroit

    February 01, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Black Community Food Sovereignty Network and the Native Foodways Program strengthen community connections to food, not only enhancing access, but also restoring culturally significant relationships with the Earth, supporting local economies, and healing historical traumas.

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  • Neighbors Build Climate Resilience in Their Watersheds

    February 01, 2025 |

    Everyday Climate Champions |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Watershed Project works with residents to protect and restore landscapes that drain into waterways—creeks, rivers and ultimately—around the San Francisco Bay. Strong community outreach aims to connect people, the environment, and government agencies, municipalities, legal firms, and private and public investors.

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  • Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors

    January 31, 2025 |

    Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Machhapuchhre

    A local government initiative has helped over 30 farmers to buy hand tractors in the last six years, with most of the beneficiaries being women. The hand tractors make farming more accessible and profitable for women.

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  • Miami Community Responders Work to Ease Mental Health Crises

    January 31, 2025 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Dream Defenders takes hotline calls and calls from law enforcement asking for outreach workers to intervene on crisis calls. Teams consist of mental health and medical specialists, as well as an experienced crisis counselor trained in de-escalation tactics, aiming to respond to crisis calls with more care and empathy.

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  • Blind Bungee Jumpers Welcome

    January 30, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Durham

    Traveleyes offers tours catered to blind and visually impaired travelers by pairing them with sighted guests to accompany them on their travels, who describe the details of what they’re seeing and experiencing. Traveleyes has hosted over 1,000 tours, taking over 20,000 guests to locations around the world.

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  • Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

    January 28, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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  • In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire

    January 27, 2025 |

    Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Orleans, California

    The Karuk Tribe of Northern California is revitalizing its ancient practice of cultural burning as both a proactive wildfire management strategy and a revival of crucial cultural traditions. Through coordinated, culturally-focused prescribed burns called KTREX, the tribe is restoring the ecosystem, improving community wildfire resilience, and strengthening traditional ecological knowledge.

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  • Cómo comunidades de Miami encontraron soluciones climáticas con un modelo de participación comunitaria

    January 27, 2025 |

    El Tiempo Latino |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Usando herramientas de ciencias sociales, como el "design thinking" y el "photovoice," más la participación de funcionarios del condado de Miami-Dade y socios locales, proyectos estan transformando la planificación de adaptación climática en Miami. acercando los datos, y empoderando a las comunidades en la toma de decisiones.

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