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  • Philly should offer rewards for shopping local like they do in Akron, Ohio

    July 14, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    Shoppers who are given financial incentives to spend their money on mom and pop stores are boosting local economies. The city of Akron created an app, Akronite, to incentivize local business after the fallout from Covid-19.

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  • Reimagining Public Spaces: The Share-It-Square in Portland, Oregon

    July 13, 2021 |

    Culture Days |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    The Share-It-Square is a public space intended to foster a sense of community. Neighbors started the idea as a way to get to know each other. The intersection in Portland has grown from a simple meeting place to one that now boasts a library, a playhouse, a message board and a kiosk that’s always full of tea.

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  • Hey Siri, Learn to Speak Kinyarwanda

    July 13, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Common Voice is an open-source initiative to capture more languages for voice-recognition software. Users “donate” their voices by recording themselves reading text out loud. They can also validate the accuracy of already donated voices. The platform has over 9,000 hours of voice data for 90 languages contributed by more than 166,000 people. The group runs creative campaigns to encourage native speakers to contribute, like “Digital Umuganda” in Rwanda, which is a play on a national holiday when people engage in community service. The campaign gathered over 1,700 hours of Kinyarwanda language from 840 people.

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  • Cómo las promotoras de salud ayudan a frenar el COVID-19 en las plantas avícolas de Carolina del Norte

    July 13, 2021 |

    Enlace Latino NC |

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    Response Location: United States, Duplin, North Carolina

    Mujeres rurales han trabajado en alianza con organiciones públicas y privadas para convertirse en promotras de salud comunitaria durante la pandemia. Cuando plantas avícolas y otras industrias no presentaron ningún plan para vacunar a sus trabajadores, y barreras culturales y de idioma complicaron la vacunación de poblaciones latinas y Negras, el activismo directo de estas mujeres ha tenido un impacto positivo, y ahora las mujeres desean continuar para buscar mejoras en las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores en general.

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  • As Men Lead Charge Against Period Poverty In Nigeria, More Girls Now Make Their Pads

    July 12, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Feyisayo Sobowale Initiative (TFSI) works to address Period poverty, the lack of access to menstrual products by people who cannot afford them. In the four-hour training, TFSI distributes free sanitary products and teaches girls in schools how to make reusable pads so as to avoid the dangers of using old rags or paper. The girls receive a pattern and pamphlet with the steps to turn locally sourced cotton fabric into a sanitary pad that can be washed and reused for up to a year. The pad consists of two pieces of the cotton fabric sewn together with a pre-cut towel material inserted between them.

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  • Could A Ward Map Drawn By Citizens, Instead Of Aldermen, Become A Reality In Chicago?

    July 12, 2021 |

    WBEZ |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California residents passed Proposition 11, a redistricting reform ballot initiative, in 2008 and in 2010, voters strengthened that reform by passing a bill to allow an independent commission to redraw state and congressional lines. Fourteen people, who were selected from 30,000 applicants, spent a year holding public hearings across the state to make informed decisions on how to fairly redraw district maps. As a result, more than a dozen Congressional incumbents lost their seats, which was not an intentional outcome but rather what resulted from decisions made based on the public testimony they heard.

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  • 'I am not alone:' How a California county is helping Hispanic family caregivers find peace

    July 12, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Ventura, California

    La Buena Vida connects caregivers from Latino households with respite care, training, and support groups. Using federal funding, the program serves as the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging’s resource center for Spanish-speaking family caregivers. The program also provides safety equipment, like ramps and railings. In addition to much needed emotional and physical breaks from their responsibilities, the group connects caregivers to Spanish-speaking professionals who offer counseling and support. The program staff regularly checks in with its 66 clients to see how they are doing and assess their needs.

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  • Financially Challenged But Fierce, Griffin Hospital Innovates Its Way Through Pandemic

    July 12, 2021 |

    Connecticut Health Investigative Team |

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    Response Location: United States, Derby, Connecticut

    Griffin hospital used innovative strategies to test, vaccinate, and care for patients during the coronavirus pandemic. The hospital stocked up early, including with donated ventilators, and repurposed unused spaces and object to help care for COVID-19 patients. They offered large-scale testing, at the height administering 35,000 weekly tests at five drive-through locations. They also provided testing at 124 nursing homes to stem high infection rates. Once vaccinations were ready, Griffin set up clinics where people were, vaccinating thousands in nursing homes, local shops, schools, parks, and at churches.

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  • Keeping People Out of Jail Keeps People Out of Jail

    July 12, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    When prosecutors in Boston and Baltimore stopped prosecuting certain non-violent, minor offenses, crime of all sorts, from minor to violent, went down. Getting prosecuted and jailed can in itself increase the probability that people will get in more trouble. When their mistakes are not compounded by an arrest record that limits their job and housing prospects, they are apt to stay out of trouble. The prosecutors and research found that simply excluding cases of non-violent, minor drug possession, disorderly conduct, shoplifting from the system does not encourage more crime; probably the opposite.

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  • He's 11. By his mom's count, he's had 30+ interactions with armed officers at school.

    July 12, 2021 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver's school board responded to the 2020 racial justice protests by removing the police officers who were stationed in certain middle and high schools. But the police or the district's growing force of armed guards get called thousands of times per year to the schools, including "child in crisis" calls. Their response can escalate tensions and unnecessarily criminalize behavioral problems that could be helped through other means. The schools are exploring ways to use the money they saved on "school resource officers" to improve counseling services and give teachers realistic alternatives.

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