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  • "One City" to Cut Poverty

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building helps coordinate anti-poverty programs between different departments and offers a wide range of job services, such as career counseling, vocational programs, work-based learning initiatives, and adult education courses. The office is the cornerstone of the city’s efforts to drastically reduce its rate of poverty, which has decreased by roughly 10 percent over the past 13 years.

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  • Organic Growth: How Turkey's Eco-Markets Took Root

    September 05, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Turkey

    Turkey's Bugday Association created a network of certified organic farmers' markets that directly connects small-scale producers with urban consumers, growing from 24 vendor stands to over 300 while reducing certification costs through group programs and municipal partnerships, though high prices still limit accessibility for lower-income consumers.

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  • Hundreds of bats swarm out of house near San Marcos… but that was the plan

    September 04, 2025 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Fentress, Texas

    The benefits of bat houses are two-fold: they provide safe spaces for the endangered animals to roost, while also encouraging them to take care of pests like insects that can damage farmers’ crops, eliminating the need for pesticides. One Texas farmer had nearly 400 bats roosting in his bat houses at last count, and analysis of their droppings showed they’re eating at least 200 species of insects.

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  • TB: How Champions are Advancing Detection and Treatment in Kenya

    September 04, 2025 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    The Network of TB Champions in Kenya works with volunteer TB survivors to go door-to-door, screen people in public spaces, provide treatment support, trace contacts and link patients to nutritional assistance. Volunteers complete a two-day "Tuberculosis 101" course and then work under the supervision of local health facilities, using their lived experience with TB to build trust and overcome stigma in hard-to-reach populations.

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  • Lessons From New Orleans' Experience as a Charter School Laboratory

    September 04, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans gave control of its schools to a Recovery School District that replaced the majority of the city’s existing schools with public charter schools. Following the reforms, research showed improvements in student achievement, graduation rates, and college matriculation, though the gains have slowed in recent years.

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  • The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

    September 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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  • Çözüm esaret değil, Dijital Hayvanat Bahçesi

    September 04, 2025 |

    Muzir Neşriyat |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Ankara

    Dijital Hayvanat Bahçesi, hayvan esareti olmadan eğitim ve farkındalık sunarak hem hayvan refahını koruyan hem de ziyaretçilerin güçlü bir öğrenme deneyimi yaşamasını sağlayan etik bir alternatif yaratıyor. Bu model, VR/AR ve hologram teknolojileriyle hayvanların doğal yaşam alanlarını gerçekçi biçimde simüle ederek ziyaretçilerin onları yakından tanımasını mümkün kılıyor.

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  • Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow 

    September 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

    Communities in Puerto Rico developed locally-run resilience hubs that combine community kitchens, food stockpiling, and disaster preparedness infrastructure, successfully serving thousands of meals during events like Hurricane Fiona and providing year-round food security while reducing dependence on delayed government aid.

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  • Changing the Narrative: Men in Rano Championing Childbirth Spacing Through Majalisa Forums

    September 03, 2025 |

    Nigeria Info FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Rano, Kano

    The Majalisa Forum model embeds childbirth spacing conversations into existing male gathering spaces, leveraging trained male health educators to discuss reproductive health through storytelling, peer dialogue, and religious references. The approach encourages men to see birth spacing as a joint family decision rather than solely a woman's responsibility. More than 50 men participate daily across different forum sessions, and since the initiative started, local health clinics are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of patients who come in each day for childbirth spacing services.

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  • The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working

    September 02, 2025 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States

    During President Donald Trump’s second term in office, organizations such as Democracy Forward and Democracy Defenders Fund have pulled together attorneys, public-interest groups, unions, and political operatives to file legal challenges to the administration’s sweeping executive orders. As of the end of August, 130 of the 384 cases filed have led to Trump policies being at least partially blocked, including cuts to various government agencies.

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