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  • Mansfield follows lead of cities transformed by America in Bloom

    It is often hard to build up cities when they are filled with blight. Three cities in Ohio are benefitting from America in Bloom, a program that gives awards based on community improvement initiatives. Already in Mansfield, Logan, and Gallipolis, America in Bloom awards encourage volunteerism and garner enthusiasm around community beautification initiatives.

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  • Taking the bull by the horns? Men learn how to treat women better

    Group sessions, workplace videos, badges, these are just some of the ways various people around the world are addressing sexual, and physical assault. In light of the #MeToo movement in the U.S., the Christian Science Monitor chronicled four international efforts that attempt to curb toxic masculinity.

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  • The chewing gum you don't mind stuck to your shoe Audio icon

    Did you know that the main ingredient in most chewing gum is a synthetic rubber, which resembles a close relationship to plastic? "It's called polyisobutylene," explains Anna Bullus, a British designer, "the same stuff you find in the inner tube of bicycle wheels." After realizing this, Anna decided to embark on a mission to recycle used chewing gum as a means of cleaning up the streets. What resulted was a way to create everyday products that include at least 20% gum, while simultaneously saving institutions money on what otherwise would have gone toward cleanup efforts.

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  • How College Campuses Are Trying to Tap Students' Voting Power

    Universities are using competitions, music, and prizes to encourage civic engagement among students. Efforts are aided by a national study that allows schools to see how many of their students voted either locally or absentee.

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  • Champions of the Vote

    In Fairhill, a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, voter turnout was a mere 12% in one recent election. Fairhill Neighbors, a coalition of neighborhood groups, is seeking to combat lower turnout rates with a personal engagement program. “Voting Champions” are community members who will work to register voters, drive them to polls, and generate excitement about voting, with the hopes of transforming civic participation in their area.

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  • Two mothers, a son's death, and the struggle for forgiveness

    Two women travel on a journey seeking to heal pain through forgiveness with the help of a program in Baltimore that brings together mothers who have lost sons to violence. One woman's son was murdered and the other woman's son is standing trial for that crime. This article shows how complex and long such a process can be and doesn't sugarcoat the difficulty of reconciliation.

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  • Supporting families so kids aren't pulled from home

    To help families stay together and decrease cases of child abuse and neglect, programs around the country are using evidence-based solutions to prevent the crises that require government intervention. Solutions like Arizona's "Healthy Families" provide intense parent education and home visits to help families dealing with poverty and related stresses and traumas.

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  • A Cure for Disconnection

    The antidote to loneliness is meaningful contact, which means time and space where you are your authentic self with other people. Roughly 40 percent of Americans report regularly feeling lonely, so many individuals and groups are working to create communities that deliberately foster close social bonds, such as cohousing developments.

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  • U.S. Group Matches Refugees With Employers

    Talent Beyond Boundaries is helping refugees find jobs. The U.S. based aid group “helps displaced people obtain work visas and tries to match companies with workers who can meet specific needs.” TBB also helps people with their resumes, and interview skills.

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  • Saving The Future, One Kid At A Time

    A program in Philadelphia created to divert students who get in trouble away from the juvenile justice system is poised to grow into the first Juvenile Justice Hub in the country with help from a competitive grant program through Bloomberg Philanthropies. The hub would be based on successful program created in the city's schools that has cut the number of kids arrested in half and is designed to address students' behavior by understanding the environment in which students live and connecting them to social services.

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