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Black Entrepreneurs Lead the Charge in Baltimore's Economic Renewal

Kevon Paynter

June 18, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

The #CommunityTakeBackChallenge in Baltimore “aims to inspire Baltimoreans to revitalize neighborhoods by pooling resources to acquire neglected city-owned and privately owned properties.” This initiative, along with CityWide Youth Development, is part of a wave of Black-led projects to redevelop the city. By training youth, redeveloping vacant properties, and creating new community spaces, these entrepreneurs are creating new opportunities for city residents.

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In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

Sarita Santoshini

June 15, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Sylvia Acan, co-founded Golden Women vision, an organization that teaches Ugandan women to bake cakes with the aim of helping them improve their social economic status. Many of the women, like Acan, became victims of sexual assault or gender based violence during the Ugandan war insurgency. Now, Golden Women Vision has “61 members: widows, single mothers (some whose children were abducted and never returned), domestic abuse survivors and former abductees.”

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They Make Gourmet Products and Pull Women Out of Poverty. Meet the Women's Bean Project.

Jennifer Oldham

May 22, 2018 |

Slate |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver

The Women's Bean Project is a successful social enterprise that helps women experiencing poverty - for whatever reason - to gain the skills necessary to retain jobs through classes and experience on an assembly line. Approximately 93% of program graduates have retained a job after a year, an impressive statistic for most social enterprises.

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An Unusual Way to Rescue a City From Blight—Bees

J. Gabriel Ware

May 17, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Hives has a twofold mission of reducing urban blight and protecting bees. The nonprofit organization purchases low-cost vacant lots and transforms them into farms for bee hives. Its creative partnerships with local businesses have provided honey for restaurants and flowerbeds to the farm, all while making Detroit more beautiful.

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Library of Things: borrow power tools, ukuleles, and ice cream makers alongside books

Lucy Purdy

May 10, 2018 |

Positive.News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: England, London

In south London, a crowdfunded campaign by residents has brought a "Library of Things" to the neighborhood where people can rent out items like lawn mowers and pressure cookers for affordable rates. The project began in 2014 and also offers skill-sharing events and volunteer opportunities.

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The shopping centre where the currency is hope

Aditya Chakrabortty

May 09, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-Lyme

York Place is one of a growing number of shopping centers that are closing down as trends like online retail and changing consumer habits mean fewer people going to shopping malls. But York Place is doing things differently: the shopping center’s main tenant is the YMCA, which sells crafts by local artists. The local cafe is a social enterprise, and residents can earn “CounterCoins,” essentially rewards points, for volunteering. A UK-based professor said, “It’s no ordinary shopping center. It’s a laboratory.”

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Solutions for Peace

Harriet Noble Elizabeth Davies

April 21, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Israel, Jerusalem

As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues, peace and hope breaks out in unexpected places. People are bridging religious and cultural divides at a backgammon parlor, a school, a fashion company, and during peace talk simulations.

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Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

March 27, 2018 |

In These Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Cafe ULU is the first business started by the Us Lifting Us Economic Development Cooperative, a co-op funded by membership fees. The coffee shop is hoping to serve as a community gathering space for the local African American community, demonstrating the power the black community can have when it bands together economically. The co-op is hoping to open businesses across the country.

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Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture

Kate Lyons

March 15, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

Instead of throwing broken items away, what if those items could be repaired? The Edinburgh Remakery and the Reading Repair Cafe are attempting just that. Different remake shops have different approaches: some rely on volunteers and provide repair services for free, others charge a fee to make the company more sustainable. What they all have in common is a passion for remaking what is old into what is new again and helping the planet at the same time.

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One hive at a time, backyard beekeepers try saving Detroit, the world

Frank Witsil

March 14, 2018 |

Detroit Free Press |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

With the bee population decreasing from 6 million hives to about 2.5 million hives since the 1940s, there has been an increase in discussion around the necessity of bees to the ecosystem. To help play their part in sustaining this vulnerable population, community members in Detroit formed a non-profit that cultivates urban beehives while partnering with small businesses to promote the use of the bees' honey.

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