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Forget Game of Thrones: The master of the cliffhanger is back

Olivia Cuthbert

June 18, 2019 |

Middle East Eye |

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Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

Building community around storytelling preserves cultural heritage. Across Lebanon, individuals and institutions like the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and the Theatre Monnot in Beirut are working to preserve oral culture as a medium for storytelling. Initiatives, including the long-running International Storytelling Festival and Beirut’s Hakaya, bring together storytellers, known as hakawati and hakawatiye.

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School's out, but lunch is still served in Ignacio

Mary Shinn

June 14, 2019 |

Durango Herald |

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Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

Funded by a grant from the Colorado Health Foundation, several nonprofits are working to fill the summer food security gap for children who rely on school meals. Several groups, including Pine River Shares and Friends with Food, have partnered with the Education Literacy Health and Inspiration Community Center to provide free lunches to needy schoolchildren. When the school district ceased operating the meal program, ELHI took over the operations, serving the children of families who already come to the center for other activities.

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LGBTQ activist hopes attack, liaison committee can unite community

Laura Smythe

June 12, 2019 |

Philadelphia Gay News |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia’s LGBT Police Liaison Committee serves as an intermediary between the city’s LGBTQ community and police force, creating a safe place for LGBTQ people, many of whom are fearful of police, to report crimes. Besides being liaisons, the committee also does community outreach and education to both bring awareness to their services and create a more inclusive city.

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Volunteers team up to investigate deaths of moms in Alabama

Anna Claire Vollers

June 11, 2019 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Alabama

To combat pregnancy-related deaths, a coalition of "doctors, nurses, public health leaders and others" have created a Maternal Mortality Review Committee to act as a statewide task force and investigate the reasoning behind such deaths. This type of committee has proven to work in other states, including in California where the review committee was able to identify hemorrhage and pregnancy-induced high blood pressure as two leading causes of maternal mortality.

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The mighty mediator: IMP's Clara Barby

Anna Patton

June 07, 2019 |

Pioneers Post |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London

A nonprofit initiative called the Impact Management Project identified ways to measure impact in the nonprofit and social enterprise worlds. Using intense crowdsourcing and measurement of their own success, the initiative created a checklist of five dimensions of impact that could be applicable on a global scale.

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The Dirt on Waste: Understanding College Recycling Programs

Mary Margaret Davis Griffin Finck

June 06, 2019 |

Pepperdine University Graphic |

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Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

Pepperdine University is having some trouble as they try to go about achieving the goal set by the California government stating that 75% of waste must be diverted by 2050. This article covers the specifics of the conservation efforts at Pepperdine, and also looks at more successful programs going on at UCLA and Santa Clara University. Some effective tactics include a comprehensive education plan on recycling, requiring faculty and staff to dispose of landfill waste themselves by only collecting recyclable waste, and partnering with athletic teams to champion conservation.

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A Simple Change That Can Reduce Student Absenteeism

J. Brian Charles

June 06, 2019 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States

During the 2013-2014 school year, about 14 percent of students in the U.S. were chronically absent. In San Mateo County, the school district changed the language on letters sent home to parents about truancy, deemphasizing legal jargon and warnings about possible punishments and instead encouraging collaboration. The district saw a 15 percent reduction in chronic absenteeism.

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Murtaugh defies the odds with early learning and math improvements

Devin Bodkin

June 05, 2019 |

Idaho Education News |

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Response Location: United States, Murtaugh, Idaho

Once classified as "needing improvement," Idaho's K-12 schools in Murtaugh successfully turned around their lagging math scores with the help of a state-sponsored professional development program. As part of the program, Idaho's four-year universities connect teachers with training and extra resources and provide spaces for collaborative lesson planning.

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Childhood Hunger Rampant in Parts of Western North Carolina

Emily Weaver

June 03, 2019 |

Carolina Public Press |

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Response Location: United States, Cherokee, North Carolina

Individuals, churches, and nonprofits are joining together in North Carolina's food deserts to help address childhood hunger throughout the state. In one particularly food-insecure county, an alliance between three community churches as well as pop-up markets has helped to more equitably distribute produce to neighborhoods and communities where resources are scarce.

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Herd Immunity: Jigawa's community-driven approach boosts immunisation coverage

Bashar Abubakar

June 03, 2019 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

Enrolling community members as Volunteer Community Mobilizers (VCMs) dramatically increases the effectiveness of public health campaigns. In Nigeria, the Jigawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has made progress with regard to immunization rates through its health ambassador program. The VCMs act as links between the localities and the public health services, ensuring that each that child receives vaccinations on schedule. The state has also used VCMs to increase the frequency of home visits and outreach efforts.

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