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  • The ambitious effort to piece together America's fragmented health data

    Nicole Wetsman

    October 19, 2020 |

    The Verge |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and the health impacts it may have for different people prompted doctors from across the U.S. to create a national patient database to better study and understand how the virus interacts with other underlying conditions. Although the database itself is adaptable and researchers hope it can also be used in the face of future pandemics, they also say "five years from now, the greatest value of this data set won’t be the data. It’ll have been the methods that we learned trying to get it working."

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  • Billions in COVID Relief Has Gone to Farmers. Just Not Black or Family-Owned Farms in Appalachia.

    Beth Ward

    October 19, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Several organizations — including the Kentucky Black Farmer Fund, Community Farm Alliance, and Black Soil: Our Better Nature — are working together to provide disaster relief funds during the COVID-19 pandemic to Black farmers. They’ve been able to award 43 small farms with a one-time payment of up to $750, which was used to purchase equipment or personal protective equipment. That amount can only help them so much, but it’s a step in helping Black farmers receive federal aid, which they historically have been left out of.

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  • Lessons learned in real time at rural hospitals during pandemic

    Lyle Muller

    October 16, 2020 |

    IowaWatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Osceola, Iowa

    Small hospitals in rural regions in America have quickly had to learn how to cope with the influx of COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. While many lessons have been learned, in Iowa, hospital personnel have seen success from joining forces with municipal, school district, business, and other civic leaders, as well as allocating stimulus funding toward safety steps.

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  • Standing in the gap: grassroots efforts to tackle inequities in education

    Chris Nelson Josh Hinkle Laney Valian Catenya McHenry Ben Friberg

    October 16, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    This T.V. segment showcases multiple solutions used by school districts and nonprofits across the nation, from creating cell phone towers so students have access to reliable wifi, to curbside meals, to learning pods. Overall, the hosts emphasize that the solutions highlighted in this segment involve a process that begins before a student even enters the virtual classroom and often involves many people working together.

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  • The 4 simple reasons Germany is managing Covid-19 better than its neighbors

    Julia Belluz

    October 14, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    A combination of luck, learning, local responses, and listening has kept Germany's coronavirus cases manageable, even as the pandemic continues to impact much of the world. In particular, the ability to enact decentralized approaches and locally scale-up testing in conjunction with a high rate of trust in public health departments proved to be especially impactful.

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  • This police officer has made it her mission to end domestic violence

    Kate Snow

    October 14, 2020 |

    NBC News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Thibodaux, Louisiana

    In southern Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, sheriff's deputy Valerie Martinez Jordan used her history as a domestic violence victim to create a countywide program to legally seize the guns of people convicted of domestic violence or whose gun rights are suspended under a protective order. The program, since expanded statewide by legislation she inspired, took more than 200 guns out of circulation in her parish alone since last year and is credited with preventing any domestic homicides by people disarmed through her program's efforts.

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  • Equality of Opportunity

    Sarah Aronson

    October 13, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Crow Indian Reservation, United States, Montana

    Legal challenges have protected Native voting rights since the 1980s, when districts diluting native votes were ruled unconstitutional and redrawn. In 2012, three tribes sued to increase access to registration and polling sites. The county settled, agreeing to open offices on two reservations two days a week. In 2018, tribal leaders challenged a law limiting the number of ballots someone could collect on behalf of others. A judge agreed that, by disproportionately suppressing Native votes, it was unconstitutional. The legal challenges increased voter turnout and helped elect more Native representatives.

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  • Fruits of shared labour: the Indian women joining forces for food security

    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

    October 13, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Tamil Nadu

    A grassroots organization in Tamil Nadu, India has helped women farmers throughout the region to create "small informal farming groups" so that they can collectively lease land for their agriculture businesses. This collective farming venture, which has culminated in 89 collective farms with nearly 700 members, ensures "nutrition and food security for landless women at the household level."

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  • How Fishers Became Data Scientists to Strengthen Their Marine Protected Area

    Nick Dall

    October 08, 2020 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Kleinmond

    A research project in a marine protected area (MPA) off the coast of South Africa brought fishers and scientists together to understand the abundance of fish and rock lobster in the waters. The project paid fishers to lower baited remote underwater video stations and got youth involved to review the video footage. By bringing fishers into the project and building trust with the community, they were able to demonstrate the importance of a MPA and empower them to be part of the decision-making process.

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  • Community lending helps African businesses in Philly stay afloat during COVID-19

    Miles Bryan

    October 08, 2020 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia's community of African business owners has created its own security net in the wake of the shutdown, which left many businesses closed or in debt. A traditional African system known as "susu" provided the mutual aid entrepreneurs needed to stay afloat. Susus provide an informal loan network in which members contribute regularly and take turns tapping into the group funds. During the lockdown, financial support was given to those participants who were most in need. The informal loan clubs were crucial to the owners who are typically immigrants and were denied federal aid at greater rates.

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