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  • A ‘Second Chance' After 27 Years in Prison: How Criminal Justice Helped an Ex-Inmate Graduate

    July 08, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Since 2016, the Second Chance Pell program has been providing financial aid for those experiencing incarceration to pursue a college education. Started under the Obama administration, it has gained bipartisan support and traction in the Trump administration as well. Considering 90% of incarcerated individuals will be released, the Second Chance Pell program serves as a demonstrated commitment to reduce recidivism and mass incarceration.

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  • What does ‘career readiness' look like in middle school?

    July 08, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

    A school district in South Carolina is going one step further to expand career readiness programs increasingly present in high schools to its middle schools. While some proponents believe this approach will give students a better understanding of their future options, others worry that it will track minority students away from a path to college even earlier.

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  • How Hydroponic School Gardens Can Cultivate Food Justice, Year-Round

    July 07, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Brownsville Collaborative Middle School is one of a growing number of elementary schools in the U.S. using community gardens to teach predominantly low-income students about healthy food options and provide produce to larger communities situated in food deserts.

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  • Teaching global warming in a charged political climate

    July 06, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Piedmont, Oklahoma

    According to a recent survey, 86 percent of U.S. teachers believe climate change should be taught in school. Despite political resistance and a lack of state standards, teachers in traditionally blue and red states are incorporating climate change curriculum into their classrooms. Online materials and post-grad professional development opportunities help fill the gaps.

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  • Food waste: how to get cheap grub and help save the planet

    July 06, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    In Cambridge, an app is helping connect restaurants with extra food to sell with customers who are looking for a less expensive meal. Although the app is limited to those who have access to a smartphone and the consumer has no say over what food they will be served when purchasing, the meals come at a significantly reduced price and the process is helping to reduce food waste.

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  • Renewing London

    July 04, 2019 |

    Struggles from Below Magazine |

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    Response Location: England, London

    In London, two community-driven initiatives are working side by side to engage residents in sustainable practices. Energy Garden, a community energy cooperative, has created green spaces in rail stations offers residents community gardens, nature education, and solar power. Repower, the other initiative, works with residents to communally invest in renewable energy for low-income neighborhoods while also providing those neighborhoods with energy jobs and mentoring services.

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  • Kettering center grows in fight to combat infant drug exposure

    July 01, 2019 |

    Dayton Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Kettering, Ohio

    For pregnant women impacted by the opioid epidemic, the lives of their infants are often affected if not given proper medical treatment after birth. Realizing this, a program in Kettering, Ohio that specifically works with this population has plans to expand their care after seeing success in its first year.

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  • Food it Forward

    July 01, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In the United States, millions of people lack reliable access to food while hundreds of thousands of pounds of leftover food is thrown away. Fooding Forward is one of several non-profits in Philadelphia working directly against in order to donate food waste to "groups who can get that food to people in need."

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  • Drinking coffee, talking politics

    July 01, 2019 |

    The Daily Star Lebanon |

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    Response Location: Lebanon

    Coffee & Politics is an initiative founded by Tracy Nehme to provide opportunities to explore Lebanese politics and history. The program provides scheduled events and monthly talks on a particular topic. Attendance increased after online advertising and Nehme started inviting guest speakers, like the heads of government agencies and elected officials, to lead the discussions and hold Q&As. Despite lower capacities, coffee shops are the ideal venues because the informal open spaces attract diverse crowds. The initiative’s popularity has already led it to be scaled to another city, with events held in Tripoli.

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  • A Public Library Brings Opportunity to the Blind

    June 29, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library is a branch of the New York Public Library system that offers a wide array of services for vision-impaired adults and children. They hold the largest physical collection of braille books in the country, as well as thousands of downloadable digital braille books, audio books, and newspaper subscriptions. Included amongst these offerings are also the Talking Books program which records and distributes their collection of 200,000 recorded books, hardware and software tech to help illustrate things like tactile maps or diagrams, and simple community classes.

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