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  • Black Lives Matter Is Making Single Moms Homeowners

    In West Louisville, the local Black Lives Matter is working and crowdfunding to buy homes for low-income single mothers and and transient families - and offering homeowner, where the only expense is taxes and utilities, to those who might not otherwise have the opportunity to own their homes. The organization hopes to address the the historical and institutionalized racism that has made homeownership a distant dream for many African Americans in the highly segregated city.

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  • Australia's Corporate Boards Shrink the Gender Gap

    In Australia, 29.7 percent of the top 200 companies in the Australian Securities Exchange are women. While other countries are finding it more difficult to increase the number of women represented on company boards, Australia has seen a cultural shift. Rather than imposing quotas, which often have negative effects, Australian investors have recognized the positive effects of diverse boards, and pushed companies to recruit and retain in exchange for their votes and continued investment.

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  • Poverty Forces People to Surrender Their Pets. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way.

    Across the nation, animal shelters are doing more to offer services and solutions for people giving up their pets, not because of any malicious intent, but because they can no longer afford to take care of it. In L.A., for example, Downtown Dog Rescue has been connecting low-income pet owners with resources like low-cost veterinarian care to help people keep their pets.

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  • Women Who Dare To Bicycle In Pakistan

    In Karachi, Pakistan, a group of women gathers every week to bike around the city, an act that works to bring awareness to equal rights between men and women. Despite backlash from men in the community, the bicyclists encourage each other to stand up to societal norms and ask the question, "If they can ride, why can't we?"

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  • Overhaul of Utah's public defender system ‘a huge benefit' for Juab County

    In 2016, the state of Utah took control over the funding model for individual county's legal defenders in order to better use resources. Thanks to the restructuring, in just a year, counties have seen noticeable increases in both manpower and budgets which not only betters the public defenders, but also those they're defending.

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  • Violent area of KCK sees big drop in crime after police start business checks

    Parts of Kansas City were once regarded as high-crime areas, but thanks to a change in police practices, those crime rates have significantly decreased. Using a form of proactive policing that has officers on foot patrol and interacting with local business owners, these business checks have improved community moral while making the areas safer.

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  • On-the-ground pollution data spurred stricter zoning in Los Angeles

    In Boyle Heights, a working class neighborhood of Los Angeles, members of the community have taken to the streets armed with clipboards and pens to document environmental hazards, zoning violations, and and other things that endanger their fellow residents. They then took this on-the-ground information, which they called "ground truths," to local politicians to advocate for change.

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  • Hopeworks Mixes Tech and Life Skills in Camden

    An organization in New Jersey called Hopeworks combines trauma-informed practices with career and life-readiness skill-learning. Teens who enter the program are equipped with a team of mentors (academic and life) to help guide them along the way, and they have a range of classes teaching tech skills such as web design or data management. Students testify to the importance of the community and the self-confidence it builds.

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  • Building the Prison-to-School Pipeline in California

    Providing those experiencing incarceration with educational services has shown to reduce recidivism by 28%. While many prisons offer GED or higher education classes, the opportunities are still hard to come by consistently, so organizations like Underground Scholars help recruit individuals after prison to colleges. Looking forward, those pushing for criminal justice reform hope to overturn a 1994 legislation that banned incarcerated individuals from being eligible for Pell Grants, which could help drive more people from prison to school.

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  • What a medical school on a Rwandan hilltop can teach the United States

    In rural Rwanda, a new medical university is offering coursework that understands that health care and health outcomes are deeply intertwined with issues of discrimination and equity. Classes include in-depth looks at history and social justice, and teach the students the skills they need to treat patients in rural areas, without high-tech machines and abundant resources.

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