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In North Carolina, more people are training to support patients through an abortion

Claire Donnelly

December 19, 2022 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Abortion doulas are like traditional birth doulas and provide advice and emotional support to people navigating an abortion. Every three months the Carolina Abortion Fund offers free online classes for aspiring abortion doulas. These sessions used to have 20 signups at most, but now — following the overturn of Roe v. Wade — have 40.

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What Black Jello Says About the Power of Small Enterprise

Peter Yeung

December 19, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Vietnam, Na Po, Thạch An

With support from the Commercial Smallholder Support Project, a Vietnam village is fighting poverty by scaling up the production of a traditional snack, black jello.

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A solution to the housing shortage?

Alana Semuels, Adrian Ma

December 19, 2022 |

NPR |

Podcast |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

Home builders in the United States are producing homes up to 50% quicker with modular housing. This process involves manufacturing different parts of the home in a factory and assembling all of those parts on-site.

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Responding to a mental health crisis without badges or guns

Amelia Arvesen

December 19, 2022 |

The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

CAHOOTS offers counseling, conflict resolution, mediation and referral and transportation to social services and/or basic emergency medical care to people experiencing a mental health crisis. CAHOOTS is available 24/7 and sends out crisis workers and medics as an alternative to uniformed police officers. CAHOOTS has significantly lightened law enforcement’s load, allowing officers to focus more on other public safety issues while preventing unnecessarily sending people through the criminal justice system.

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Credit Where Credit is Needed

Melanie Lenart

December 19, 2022 |

Native Science Report |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, South Dakota

South Dakota State University's Expanding the Circle program provides online graduate courses and tuition support to help faculty at tribal colleges update their credentials in line with new accreditation requirements. Since the program was rolled out, the retention rate for online graduate coursework has risen by roughly 30 percent.

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Cooking class series encourages friendship & healthy eating for seniors

Katie Ellington Serrao

December 18, 2022 |

Richland Source |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

The Idea Works Entrepreneurs Kitchen is a commercial kitchen co-working space that hosts a series of classes to teach seniors how to cook. With the help of grant money, the classes help combat social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, while also helping seniors learn new skills and improve their nutrition.

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How Cleveland's Circular Economy Programs Help Reduce Waste And Build Jobs

Lee Chilcote

December 16, 2022 |

Next City |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Circular Cleveland is a project run by the city and a nonprofit to help Cleveland develop a circular economy. Through community ambassadors, grants, and consultants the program is helping innovators and companies make circular switches.

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UNICEF plans big expansion of program to educate Rohingya children in Bangladesh

Sharif Khiam, Abdur Rahman

December 16, 2022 |

BenarNews |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

The Myanmar Curriculum pilot project allows Rohingya children living in Bangladeshi refugee camps to be educated with the curriculum and language of their native country. The aim to make an eventual return to their home country easier. So far, 200,000 children have been enrolled, mostly in grades 1 through 4. UNICEF plans to scale the program to cover all 410,000 school-age children in the camps.

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How New York Is Giving Residents A Voice In The City Budget

Emily Nonko

December 16, 2022 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York City's Civic Engagement Commission has run two pilot projects implementing participatory budgeting, a process in which local residents help decide how local funding should be allocated. The latest pilot project allocated $1.3 million to 33 projects in "priority" neighborhoods, including youth sports programs and culturally-based mental health workshops.

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Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico's Record-Breaking Wildfires

Sara Van Note

December 15, 2022 |

Inside Climate News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Santa Clara Native Reservation, United States, Gallinas, New Mexico

After fires and floods, the tribe of the Santa Clara Pueblo is restoring Santa Clara Canyon using traditional ecological knowledge to design mitigation and replanting methods using burned trees and strategic seeding. Now, they are sharing that knowledge at other locations needing restoration.

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