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  • Black Entrepreneurs Lead the Charge in Baltimore's Economic Renewal

    June 18, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    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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  • Want to start a preschool at home? Wonderschool can help

    June 18, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To address the lack of licensed child care centers, a San Francisco startup has helped to start 150 in-home care centers in the Bay area, LA, and New York. Wonderschool works closely with caregivers, providing consultation on the space and structure of the preschool and taking care of the administrative and marketing aspects of the business. "Two of the biggest costs to operate a child care program are real estate and administration,” CEO Chris Bennett says. “By using their own homes and Wonderschool’s administration software, directors are able to cut out those costs.”

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  • What Alabama Can Teach You about Storm Resilience

    June 18, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Mobile, Alabama

    After witnessing the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina, changemakers in Alabama took control of creating a more accountable insurance system that valued weather-resilient home construction.

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  • Helping Nigerians move from the slums to affordable green homes of their own

    June 16, 2018 |

    The Hindu |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

    Comprehensive Design Services (CDS) is a Nigeria-based company that uses traditional Nigerian architectural techniques and Bio-Climatic Design to build housing that is both affordable and green. This approach, which they hope to expand to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, is making a dent in the growing population relegated to slums and poor housing conditions in the face of rapid urbanization.

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  • A World Cup for the people in Russia

    June 16, 2018 |

    The Hindu |

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    Response Location: Russia, St. Petersburg

    Around 30 Russian activists created a campaign for the World Cup called “Cup for the People.” It includes guided tours, a map of responsible consumption, and exhibitions that revolve around topics like LGBTQ rights, environmetal justice, and harassment. “Big sport events are a chance to speak about human rights, about the role of minorities, about diversity – both on the soccer field and elsewhere in society. I see it as an instrument for positive social change.”

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  • Transforming plastic waste into paving stones

    June 16, 2018 |

    The Philippine Star |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    After realizing that the accumulation of plastic bags was a becoming a devastating issue for the environment, a student from Morocco decided to take action by combining his concern with his passion for robotics and science. The outcome was the creation of eco-friendly paving stones made out of a mixture of discarded plastic, sand, and concrete.

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  • Electric Rain

    June 16, 2018 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

    Turning rainwater into electric power may sound farfetched, but it has become a reality thanks to 15-year-old Reyhan Jamalova in Azerbaijan. Appropriately dubbed Rainergy, this new source of renewable energy has the potential to bring power to underprivileged communities as well as be marketed internationally.

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  • After Centuries of Housing Racism, a Southern City Gets Innovative

    June 15, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    In Jackson, Mississippi, a series of community-led cooperatives are creating opportunities for affordable home ownership. This is part of a trend across the country to create community land trusts. They are financed through donations, other community businesses, or commissions. Though each land trust faces hurdles, they are collectively allowing more access to wealth and ownership in historically low-income neighborhoods.

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

    June 15, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    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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  • A Brazilian unimpressed by 'ecological toilets' invents an alternative to flushing

    June 14, 2018 |

    Haaretz |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Flushing a toilet is not only wasteful in terms of water usage, but it is also costly. "Few people know how many liters of water are used, or how much they pay for each liter of water used at home," explains Ezequiel Vedana, the inventor of Piipee - a devise that eliminates the need to flush altogether and has been called a global climate innovation. In fact, when one business tested this devise that emits a deodorizing and decolorizing solution, they saw their water bill cut in half within four months.

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