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Vision of Hope: Free Surgeries Illuminate Lives of Underserved Children in Lagos

Risikat Ramoni

June 01, 2023 |

HealthNews.ng |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Restore Foundation for Child Sight provides free eye care, including eye exams, medications, glasses and surgeries to children in underserved communities. The Foundation hosts outreach events to connect with children in need of care and has helped over 5,000 children so far, distributing 455 pairs of glasses, 1,200 eye drops and about 35 free eye surgeries.

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Turning the Tide on Gun Violence

Evan Cobb

May 31, 2023 |

Belt Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Community-based intervention programs such as Cure Violence in Grand Rapids, Mich. focus on strengthening collaboration among different organizations and leveraging outreach workers with existing relationships in the community. Cure Violence's south service area saw an 11.5% decrease in violent crimes after the program was implemented.

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Can Guaranteed Income Prevent Gentrification?

Oscar Perry Abello

May 30, 2023 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, partnered with community organizations to launch a guaranteed income program for young adults. The program distributed monthly $500 payments to participants for one year with no strings attached to help ensure financial stability, reduce community violence, and combat displacement.

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Where The Community Owns The Real Estate

Lucas Grindley

May 29, 2023 |

Next City |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Kensington Corridor Trust acquires properties along three blocks in its Philadelphia neighborhood to give the community agency and control over how that real estate is used, with an emphasis on keeping housing affordable. The trust has acquired 16 properties so far and has signed its first commercial tenant, providing space for a local business owner.

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Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC's Canopy

Brian Roewe

May 25, 2023 |

National Catholic Reporter |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

A collaboration between tree-planting organizations in Washington D.C. helps Catholic church properties to plant and care for trees. The free trees are an effort to combat urban heat and benefit the local environment.

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"Not everyone needs a psychologist, but everyone should know how to help themselves and others:" Kyiv Resilience Center teaches how to cope with trauma

Olga Stukalo

May 24, 2023 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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Response Location: Ukraine

The Stress Resilience Center provides critical workers — like doctors and law enforcement — opportunities to learn psychological self-help skills. The goal is to equip the public with psychological wellness skills to prevent the number of people who need to seek psychological help from getting too high. Amidst the war, the Center also provides individual and family therapy for those experiencing loss, burnout and those with loved ones in the military.

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Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

Nancy Marie Spears

May 24, 2023 |

The Imprint |

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Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Francesca Mari

May 23, 2023 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Response Location: Austria, Vienna

Vienna’s public housing is affordable, full of economically diverse residents, and extremely popular. The housing units are open to almost anyone, as 80 percent of residents qualify, and once you sign a rental contract it doesn’t expire even if your income increases. Plus, the rent can only go up based on inflation if it increases by 5 percent in a year.

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Sacramento outperforms other major cities in affordable housing production but misses state quota

Ken Magri

May 23, 2023 |

Sacramento News & Review |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Sacramento, California, is increasing the number of affordable housing units built in the city by implementing deed restrictions that limit prices and require occupancy by low-income residents, providing free permit-ready building plans for accessory dwelling units, and prioritizing quick approvals by the city government.

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The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities

Aallyah Wright

May 17, 2023 |

Capital B (National) |

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Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the first city to pass an ordinance to permanently restrict new dollar stores from cropping up in underserved communities and exasperating food insecurity. The policy included incentives for businesses selling healthy food options and, with funding from a development corporation, a grocer opened in the North Tulsa community as a result.

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