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  • Costa Rica modernized without wrecking the environment. Here's how.

    December 15, 2016 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, San Jose

    Unlike other countries suffering with an impoverished population, Costa Rica has not destroyed the environment while modernizing its economy. Costa Rica has created a coffee alliance, a collective effort between the government and local farmers to grow and cultivate sustainable coffee agriculture through public policy and land distribution. The coffee alliance has given economic empowerment to the people, while being environmentally green.

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  • 15 countries, other states use social impact bonds, too Audio icon

    December 13, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Peterborough

    A project launched in the United Kingdom uses social-impact bonds to reduce recidivism among prisoners, bringing together public and private resources to implement more effective and cost efficient social programs. Their success is inspiring other countries to follow suit.

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  • Interrupting Chicago's Gun Violence In A Historically Awful Year

    December 12, 2016 |

    Newsy |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    CeaseFire Illinois have worked for years on the streets of Chicago intervening as “violence interrupters” to stop problems escalating into tragedy. Some volunteers are former gang members and they use community connections and personal relationships to stop shootings and retaliations before they happen. The group was the focus of a documentary called “The Interrupters.”

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  • Nature Might Hold the Secret to Healing Police-Community Relations

    December 05, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    After charged discussions and protests around racial injustice within police departments, Baltimore set out to find a solution to bridge the divide created between the city's police force and the kids that lived in stereotyped neighborhoods. Using nature as a common ground, the Outward Bound Police Youth Challenge was born to bring the two sides together and teach them that they have more in common than they may think.

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  • Lessons from Christchurch: 4 key ways Seattle can prepare for earthquake devastation

    December 02, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Christchurch

    A magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011 laid waste to much of the city and killed 185 people. Although on the opposite side of the world, Seattle is home to strikingly similar buildings and structures that have been identified as at-risk to the shallow faults under them. There is opportunity for the Washington city to learn from the disaster in New Zealand - before it's too late.

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  • Behind Broken Doors: Domestic violence summit exhibits local progress

    December 02, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Corpus Christi, Texas

    In Nueces County, new local programs, projects, and partnerships - spurred by a particularly deadly year for women - are demonstrating how improved assessment by law enforcement and engagement by community members is helping to reduce abuse and homicides while preventing domestic violence overall.

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  • Memphis Looks to Medical Manufacturing to Cut Poverty

    December 02, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Small-Scale Manufacturers See New Markets Tax Credits as Future Hope

    November 30, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    As major manufacturers keep "pulling the rug" from under urban areas, low skilled job loss increases. Nevertheless, small-scale businesses have instrumental in their ability to counteract job loss in improvised urban areas. Small businesses are using tactics such as creative tax cut regulation to cut corners to pay livable wages to low-income workers.

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  • Hospitals Can Be Key to Healthy People, Healthy Economies

    November 29, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    Hospitals in the United States spend over $340 billion on health services, but with those funds, they could also help the numerous neighborhoods struggling with poverty. The Democracy Collaborative is a research center that helps hospitals link up with local institutions to encourage job growth, buy regionally produced food, and reinvest into their local economy.

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  • How Nashville is training a new generation of local leaders from its immigrant communities

    November 22, 2016 |

    Citiscope |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    A changing demographic can create barriers between government and new residents. Nashville is tackling that with a program that teaches immigrant leaders what the city has to offer.

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