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  • How Mobile Home Communities Are Adapting for Climate Change

    Sarah Amandolare

    January 03, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Brattleboro, Vermont

    As climate change increases flooding in the area, residents of Vermont’s Tri-Park Cooperative mobile home community can relocate to safer locations out of the flood zone without increasing their monthly expenses. The offer is part of a program created by the co-op and the local government that will cover the costs of the new homes and buyouts.

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  • Nearly a third of students at this ski-town college have been homeless. Here's how the school's responding

    Andrew Kenney

    January 02, 2023 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    The rapid rehousing program at Fort Lewis College in Colorado provides students with a free bed in the school’s temporary housing unit while they work with them on finding permanent housing. When necessary, the college also provides financial assistance for things like rent and utilities.

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  • Pawsitive impacts: Program aims to break generational cycles of poverty through pet grooming

    Mili Mansaray

    December 29, 2022 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    In Kansas City, the nonprofit Pawsperity trains parents facing financial instability to groom dogs. Students of the program learn the basics of dog grooming four days a week and like skills one day each week to help break the cycle of poverty and prepare them for a job in the field.

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  • For decades, Chinatown has created a blueprint for fighting big development. Here's how they do it.

    Massarah Mikati

    December 29, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Chinatown remains authentic and keeps its position downtown by organizing together to preserve the community through activism.

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  • 'This is not charity': A congregation attempts reparations

    Frances Nguyen

    December 29, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A San Francisco Bay Area loan program called the Black Wealth Builders Fund provides low-to-moderate-income homebuyers in black neighborhoods zero-interest loans to cover the down payment on their first home.

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  • WA schools want more students to be bilingual; is that goal possible?

    Jeanie Lindsay

    December 27, 2022 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, SeaTac, Washington

    Dual-language programs, which offer instruction in both English and a second language for subjects such as science, math, and social studies, improve English acquisition while allowing multilingual students to stay connected to their culture. In one Washington school district, most dual-language students outperformed non-dual-language students on state language arts exams.

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  • Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help

    Laura Benshoff

    December 27, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

    The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs low-income, first-time parents with a personal nurse from pregnancy through their child's second birthday. The Partnership serves 56,000 families each year, and works to help improve pregnancy outcomes for both parents and their babies through early education, access to care and helping to empower parents to get the care they need.

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  • Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

    Mosabber Hossain

    December 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Rajshahi

    Farmers in Bangladesh are dealing with a lack of groundwater by growing vegetables instead of rice because they require less water and bring in more income.

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  • Canada's First Nations Protect Millions of Acres of Their Lands

    Ed Struzik

    December 27, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation, Canada

    Indigenous communities in Canada are setting aside millions of acres of land for conservation and research by making agreements with the Canadian government.

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  • Himalayan community takes initiative to help dogs, wildlife and itself

    Abhaya Raj Joshi

    December 27, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    A project in Nepal helped Himalayan communities vaccinate and neuter stray dogs to prevent their ever-growing population and the related spread of diseases. When the project halted due to COVID-19, communities raised money to continue it on their own.

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