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How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town

Audra Burch

January 21, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Newnan, Georgia

The small Southern city of Newnan, GA considered themselves to be a fairly open and accepting place. This attitude was shattered when 17 huge portraits of ordinary people who make up Newnan were hung across the city and prompted a racially-tinged backlash. The purpose of the portraits was to open up a dialogue around the diversity in the city, but it also exposed new and hidden racial tensions. The portraits were ultimately allowed to stay up, but the conversations surrounding the issue are ongoing.

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This innovative chorus smashes racial barriers in Columbus. Could it work in Philly?

Jill Harkins

January 20, 2020 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Founded in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, the Harmony Project brings together people of various musical experience, races, income levels, and professional backgrounds to sing as one. The project aims to get people out of their comfort zones and silos in a segregated city.

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Students in the U.S. and Iraq Discover Common Ground

Olivia Cuthbert

January 20, 2020 |

Al-Fanar Media |

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Response Location: Iraq, Mosul

A program that was inspired by rising racial tensions is helping students from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Mosul in Iraq erase misconceptions about each other’s cultures. Participants of the “World in Conversation Program,” gather for virtual conversations and talk about their issues, concerns, and daily life. The program is helping them dismantle stereotypes they might have of Arabs and Americans. “I want to show them who we really are, beyond the stereotypes in the media.”

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The Mitrovica Rock School: bridging the divide between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo

Louis Seiller

January 20, 2020 |

Equal Times |

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Response Location: Kosovo, Mitrovica

Music can bridge cultural divides. The Mitrovica Rock School in Mitroviva, Kosovo, encourages young musicians of Albanian and Serbian backgrounds to create music together. The culturally “mixed” bands play across Kosovo. The rock school was founded through a collaboration between Musicians Without Borders and Community Building Mitrovica after Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia.

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Youth Teaching Tech To Seniors Fosters Generational Connections

Megan Kamerick

January 20, 2020 |

NPR |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

How does one Albuquerque organization address social isolation among senior citizens? It recruits teens to teach technologies 101. Teeniors creates intergenerational relationships by encouraging teens to spend time with seniors and teach them how to adequately use technology like smart phones or computer applications.

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Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers' children

Alfonso Serrano

January 18, 2020 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Lost Hills, California

Owners of the Wonderful Company food conglomerate honed their philanthropic efforts on the community they saw had the most need—their own workers' families—by establishing charter schools to improve the quality of life and education in Lost Hills, California. The K-8 school, one of two, has adopted a "cradle to career'' approach, incentivizing college education through in-school college pathways and renewable college scholarships after completing high school, and integrating parents into its mission through tailored educational sessions aimed at bridging cultural divides.

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Providing a home for Europe's unaccompanied migrant children

María José Carmona

January 15, 2020 |

Equal Times |

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Response Location: Spain, Malaga

There are thousands of children caught in the midst of the migrant crisis, and many of them end up without their parents or with a relative. To avoid placing migrant children in facilities that would be unable to give them specialized care, people are stepping up to serve as foster parents for the time being. The foster parents support the children's emotional well being and sense of self, and now foster aunts—forming a relationship without taking over care—are also emerging. These initiatives help ease the process of starting over in a new place, especially for children.

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Restoring Harmony in Haida Gwaii

Jason G. Goldman

January 03, 2020 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Canada, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

Scientists from the Haida Nation, Parks Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, researchers from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and representatives from the commercial fishing sector, are all collaborating to help restore the two large reserves in Canada. This collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike is helping to create statistical models that target the most beneficial conservation efforts.

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In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings

Patricia Leigh Brown

January 03, 2020 |

The New York Times |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hindman, Kentucky

To help those struggling with opioid addictions, an apprentice program in Kentucky uses art and music taught by local artisans to provide participants with a path forward. After learning various skills as part of the program, a local instrument company also considers the new apprentices for hire as part of a “recovery-friendly” employment movement.

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Meet the father-son duo out to combat homelessness with empathy and connection

Taylor Stevens

January 02, 2020 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

In Salt Lake City, Utah, a father-son duo started Project Empathy, which gives people experiencing homelessness a space to tell their stories and build community. Over meals, the father and son team build connections with people in the homeless community, and these connections often lead to other forms of help, such as transportation to housing and Social Security applications.

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