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  • A private sector 'productivity tool' to eliminate poverty is catching on around the world

    April 27, 2017 |

    Devex |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Paraguay, Asunción

    Fundación Paraguaya is helping drastically redefine the way that poverty is identified, defined, and addressed. Through a simple, interactive, mobile-based survey called "Poverty Spotlight", workers can self-assess their level of poverty. They are then paired with microfinance agents to develop a plan to tackle their own unique challenges, with assistance in the form of training, technology, or small loans.

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  • How do you solve half a century of bloodshed in Colombia?

    April 27, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia

    Local civil society groups are at the forefront of rebuilding Colombia. With decades of armed conflict officially ended, efforts to support a lasting peace focus on inequality and land issues and work to advance sustainable rural development.

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  • Participatory Budgeting: The People's Budget

    April 26, 2017 |

    WNYC |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, North Shore, Staten Island, New York

    Participatory budgeting is a way for citizens to directly influence government spending. The idea is taking off in New York with city councils in all five boroughs now putting money into these “people’s budgets.” Citizens propose ideas of how to spend the money, usually one million dollars or more, then vote. Past projects have included creating a teen space, planting trees, and building a community recording studio.

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  • Terms of Service: Rethink Kitchen

    April 25, 2017 |

    DigBoston |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    One restaurant's profit-sharing business model has removed tips entirely from their establishment, replacing it with benefits and business training. Giving employees a stake in the success of the restaurant has reduced staff turnover, created a better working environment, increased morale, and made employees more financially and emotionally invested in the success of the business. Employees are paid a baseline hourly rate in addition to splitting quarterly profits.

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  • The people making films above the 60th parallel

    April 25, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    By leveraging technology, artists living above the 60th parallel are increasing indigenous representation in filmmaking. In Yellowknife, Canada, aRTLess Collective’s Dead North Film Festival uses live streaming to reach thousands of residents across remote—and otherwise largely inaccessible—northern areas. The film festival connects and empowers indigenous northerners to represent themselves and their culture through film.

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  • Some States Are Making It Easier To Get Birth Control

    April 24, 2017 |

    FiveThirtyEight |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Loma Linda, California

    With the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, the issues of birth control access and reproductive rights have become increasingly polarized and volatile. Some states are taking it upon themselves to improve access to birth control, without the federal mandate, through policies such as allowing pharmacists to re-prescribe certain types of birth control, and to distribute up to 12 months of birth control at a time, which has been proven in some cases to increase a woman's likelihood to use birth control, as it reduces costs and time for the patient.

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  • Inside the Women-Led Global Alliance to Save the Planet

    April 24, 2017 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris, Paris Region

    Women4Climate is a new alliance of women mayors from major cities who are determined to act against climate change with or without federal support. Instead, they mentor each other in innovative solutions, cross-promote important causes, and share best practices to help stem the negative effects of greenhouse gas emissions, empowering women everywhere to participate.

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  • Mansfield in need of a 'food systems intervention'

    April 21, 2017 |

    Richland Source |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    Community leaders are working together to address the issue of food insecurity in Mansfield, caused not just by lack of access to grocery stores and fresh food sources, but also often by unemployment, high housing costs, low wages, poverty, and health care costs. The North End Local Foods Initiative is installing food gardens in these communities, creating access to fresh produce, to educational opportunities, recreational activity and more.

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  • A Focus on Health to Resolve Urban Ills

    April 19, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Social and economic factors are increasingly being linked to health circumstances and outcomes. This article highlights the city of Richmond, California, which has responded to this correlation, integrating issues of health into all levels of policy.

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  • Two Old Theaters, One New North Shore

    April 11, 2017 |

    WNYC |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Staten Island, New York

    To help develop the arts scene and also increase economic development in the North Shore area of Staten Island, one family formed a non-profit organization to renovate the St. George Theatre and build it up as a revitalized performing arts space. Since 2004 when the theatre was reopened, the area has seen economic growth, and data supports the idea that cities with arts and cultural resources make for healthier and happier communities.

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