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Surge Africa's nature-based solutions boosting Nigerian farmers' resilience to climate change

Adam Alqali Stephen Enoch

August 22, 2022 |

Pulse Nigeria |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Surge Africa is a nonprofit helping Nigerian farmers learn about and implement agroforestry and agroecology practices to more sustainably manage their land and improve their yields despite the negative impacts of climate change.

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Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

Jodi Hausen

August 22, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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Digital skills key to improved standard of living for girls, women in Africa

Violet Ikong

August 13, 2022 |

Amjambo Africa |

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Response Location: Malawi

Reach Out to Girls (ROG) works to inspire girls, particularly those in rural areas, to embrace STEM, through mentoring programs and training. Through ROG, professional women in STEM fields serve as mentors and, so far, ROG’s programs have directly benefited more than 200 girls.

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The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists

Sam Dean

August 12, 2022 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Unit of Work, an organization backed by venture capital, helps unions organize and win contracts. Organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers forming unions within their own workplaces. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit of Work a monthly fee — like traditional union dues — to keep providing support.

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How A Small Canadian City Took On Chronic Homelessness

Leif Gregersen

August 11, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: Canada, Medicine Hat, Alberta

A town in Canada uses a housing-first approach to reduce homelessness. They help people experiencing homelessness get housing before offering support for other issues they might be facing.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

Israel Olatunji Tijani

August 10, 2022 |

The Nation (Nigeria) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

Elizabeth Hewitt

August 09, 2022 |

Sierra Club |

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Response Location: Scotland

The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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In Cleveland, fine dining serves up training – and dignity – after prison

Stephen Humphries

August 09, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The owner of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, employs formerly incarcerated adults and teaches them the skills they need to work in the culinary industry. Less than 1% of the institute’s trainees are re-incarcerated after graduation.

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The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

Emily Nonko

August 09, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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