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  • Thai massage therapists find community and mental health support in self-defense classes

    November 21, 2025 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In an effort to protect Thai massage therapists from sexual harassment and assautl, the Asian Pacific Counseling and Treatment Centers partnered with R-A-W Power to deliver self-defense training at Hollywood Career College, teaching 34 massage therapists physical techniques and boundary-setting skills to handle inappropriate client behavior during sessions. Beyond self-defense, other community organizations are also providing education, legal advocacy and working on policy reform efforts to further protect workers.

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  • Foundations Community Childcare: How one nonprofit addressed affordable child care needs for its residents

    November 19, 2025 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

    With childcare shortages keeping women out of the workforce, the Ashland County Community Foundation's Women's Fund launched a four-year collaborative initiative that raised $4.8 million to create Foundations Community Childcare from the ground up, offering a place to address the gaps in childcare with extended hours, making care more accessible. Since opening in June 2024, Foundations has enrolled 118 students at 83% capacity and expanded from four rooms to seven due to demand, and has even inspired similar centers in other areas.

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  • How Baltimore became a rising star in America's worker cooperative movement

    August 08, 2025 |

    Baltimore Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives like the bookstore/cafe Red Emma's partnered with other organizations to create Seed Commons, a national financing network that provides loans without requiring individual collateral. Seed Commons has distributed over $100 million in loans supporting 15,000 workers nationwide. In the Baltimore region specifically, the network has invested $25 million, created 250 ownership-track jobs, and supported 23 cooperatives.

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  • Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized

    March 17, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    Nearly 90% of Icelandic workers enjoy a four-day, 36-hour workweek, with no loss in pay compared to the traditional 40 hours. Despite initial concerns about a drop in productivity, reports indicate that productivity remained stable and even increased in some sectors. The four-day workweek also leads to less stress and improved work-life balance, and countries like Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom are currently testing four-day pilots.

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  • Slaughterhouse Workers Seek a 'Brave New Life' but Challenges Remain

    September 24, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Greeley, Colorado

    The volunteer-run Brave New Life Project is helping slaughterhouse workers in Colorado find less-grueling jobs that are meaningful and pay as well as the slaughterhouse. The nonprofit helps them create resumes, get transportation to new jobs, and access translation services.

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  • Farmworkers in the US cultivate their own heat safety standards

    July 09, 2024 |

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    The nonprofit Coalition of Immokalee Workers started the Fair Food Program to appeal directly to consumers and large brands about worker safety while policies and regulations are held up in government processes. The initiative strikes deals with large companies that pledge to protect farm workers in a variety of ways, particularly stringent heat protections as heat records are repeatedly increased.

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  • The little-known but successful model for protecting human and labor rights

    July 05, 2024 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed the first worker-driven social responsibility program in 1993, and since then they’ve advocated across industries for corporate social responsibility and preventing worker exploitation. The CIW also created the Fair Food Program which has helped add more than $45 million to farm workers’ paychecks.

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  • Ugandan Women Team Up To Change 'Men-Only' Real Estate And Construction Industry

    March 19, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Mutindo Women aims to increase representation in the construction and real estate industries by connecting women to networking and job opportunities. Mutindo Women has built over 15 houses across the country since forming in 2019, and has even collaborated on projects with men in the field.

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  • Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

    December 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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  • Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food

    August 31, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil is fighting for land access for rural workers and is breaking up unequal land monopolies by squatting on privately-owned vacant land. This practice attracts the attention of the federal government, which assesses whether it can buy the land and provide it to the movement to live and farm on.

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