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  • Young People Are Digitally Rebuilding Tulsa's Black Wall Street

    May 26, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Urban Coders Guild provides STEM education opportunities to underrepresented communities and is working with local students to build websites for the businesses destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre. While none of the businesses operate today, the program builds awareness of the massacre while also teaching students coding skills to build websites. The course is also considered a “prep” course for the future because it teaches students how to interact with others as well as listen to and accept feedback from others. The group partnered with Tulsa Community College students to create the content and logos.

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  • Here's how people in the Delta are working to overcome COVID-19 vaccine transportation barriers

    May 20, 2021 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Transit operations have been repurposed to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among underserved communities in the Delta. A fleet of transit buses that were sitting unused at Mississippi Valley State University now provide rides to and from vaccine sites. Community activists, local transportation agencies, and philanthropic groups have worked together to arrange similar no-cost vaccination transportation for people who need it. The Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi made an initial contribution to support the efforts, though limited advertising has also limited the reach of the programs.

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  • People Are Using an Ancient Method of Writing Arabic to Combat AI Censors

    May 19, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Palestine

    To get around algorithms that have flagged and removed Palestinian content, users on platforms like Facebook and Instagram are using an old version of Arabic, dating back at least a thousand years, that doesn’t have diacritical points (dots above or below letters). Converting Arabic into a dotless form in social media posts makes it much more challenging for AI machines to identify because they use a binary code to identify each letter.

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  • San Francisco's Filipino Cultural District Keeping Hope Alive After a Tough Year

    May 18, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    “UNDSCVRD SF," funded by the SOMA Community Stabilization Fund and produced by the nonprofit Kultivate Labs, is a night market held once a month from July to November that features a range of Filipino vendors. There were over 35,000 attendees in 2019 and it generated $300,000 in sales. It also serves as a testing ground to select businesses for Kultivate Labs’ SEED Accelerator Program and grantees for the SOMA Fund. The former provides bootcamps and one-on-one support for Filipino-owned businesses that are located in, or would like to be located in, a permanent space within the SOMA cultural district.

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  • From Appalachian Cities to Hollers, Community Health Workers Are a ‘Course Correction to Inclusion'

    May 18, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Awareness is growing that community health workers (CHWs) are an effective way to address social determinants of health and reduce health inequities. The success of CHWs is due to the fact that they share life experiences with their patients and their ability to build trust. For example, the cadre of CHWs working in rural and urban Appalachia go into their patients’ homes to provide fundamental care – like monitoring vital signs and blood sugar -- and discuss quality-of-life issues – like nutrition and exercise. Being in the home allows them to gain insight that doctors in an office don’t have access to.

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  • Black Mothers Face Dangerous Health-Care Disparities. Can Midwives Bridge the Gap?

    May 13, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Choices - Memphis Center for Reproductive Health provides midwifery services and trains new generations of midwives, with a focus on improving the experiences of women of color. Midwives played a central role in Black communities for centuries and research shows that women with low-risk births have better emotional and physical outcomes with midwives. Women also express a greater sense of trust and understanding with Black midwives, who can relate to their experiences as women of color in the healthcare system. Midwives take more of a holistic approach to treating women’s emotional and physical needs.

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  • Washington School kids receive lesson on ‘Participatory Budgeting'

    May 13, 2021 |

    Merced County Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Merced County, California

    Student leaders formed the Participatory Budget Committee at a Merced River School and ran the voting process for students decide which initiatives would be funded. The students had a budget of $5,000 to allocate and used actual county voting booths. The winning project was the modernization of campus restrooms. Students learned about participatory budgeting and brainstormed a set of four projects they felt were most needed at the school. They held regular meetings, highlighting the importance of civic involvement.

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  • Local School Lunch Program Expands To Continue Feeding Children During Pandemic

    May 10, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Georgia schools provided lunches for students participating in virtual learning through curbside pickup or delivered food to their homes with school buses during the pandemic.

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  • Jirogasy's solar computers power offgrid schools in Madagascar

    May 03, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Madagascar, Antananarivo

    Jirogasy developed solar-powered computers and, maximizing a partnership with an education NGO, has helped expand computer access among rural schools without access to a grid. Using internationally-funded grants, they created the Jirodesk II, a Windows 10 powered PC that can be powered by the grid or charged via a solar panel. The computers are monitored remotely, which allows users to quickly get tech support, and the company monitors usage in Watt-hours for its “pay-per-use-until-you own model,” where users pay per number of Watt-hours used, and after a certain number of Watt-hours the machine is paid off.

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  • ‘What difference would that make?'

    April 30, 2021 |

    The Chicago Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A participatory budgeting pilot in ten Chicago Public Schools empowers students to influence change by deciding how small grants, typically $1,000 to $2,000, should be spent for school improvement. Students brainstorm ideas, construct persuasive proposals, and vote on which to implement, providing valuable lessons in civic participation. The proposals revealed student needs that staff hadn’t previously considered. Ultimately, grants supported gender-neutral bathrooms, locker room shower curtains, a peer mentoring program, and spaces for students to reflect and decompress when feeling overwhelmed.

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