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  • How Africa Is Leading the World in Corona Response

    November 13, 2020 |

    The Daily Show |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Central African Republic

    Many countries in Africa have been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 due to lessons learned from fighting the Ebola epidemic. Although not all African countries have implemented successful strategies, those that have seen success credit strong government leadership, community compliance, and a physically healthy population.

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  • Who's leading Covid-19 outreach among the homeless? The homeless themselves.

    November 12, 2020 |

    Mission Local |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, local community members are leading the effort to reach out to those experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. This effort has been successful in coordinating and distributing testing that is accessible to the population. As the director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations explains, “any public health response that does not center the voices of people who have lived the experience of homelessness is going to come up with the wrong solution.”

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  • How A Minneapolis Clinic Is Narrowing Racial Gaps In Health

    November 11, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A health clinic in Minneapolis has played a significant role in combating racial gaps in health by prioritizing community-oriented primary care and recruiting staff – including leaders and doctors – from the local community. This model has not just increased trust between patients and the health care system but has also led to a significantly higher rate of vaccination and health screenings.

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  • A New Native Seed Cooperative Aims to Rebuild Indigenous Foodways

    November 10, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, United States, New York

    The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance organized a seed drive to distribute thousands of seeds to 270 different tribes. The indigenous seed exchange led to the creation of an intertribal cooperative to share traditional knowledge and practices as well. It has conducted a seed census in addition to creating a seed sovereignty assessment toolkit for communities.

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  • Addressing organic farming's climate-change problem

    November 10, 2020 |

    Hothouse Solutions |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Paxton, Illinois

    On his organic farm in Illinois, Will Glazik is experimenting with different types of agricultural methods to increase his crop yield while also avoiding the harmful impacts of industrial farming. He’s part of a growing movement called “sustainable intensification,” which combines both conventional and organic farming techniques. While there are challenges with this approach and what works in one place might not work in another, combining these types of farming could help feed a growing global population.

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  • Rural Hospitals Are Dying. This One Saved Itself—And Its Community

    November 09, 2020 |

    Time Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Clinch County, Georgia

    Rural hospitals across the country often struggle to stay open in states where Medicaid has not been expanded, but a method known as "swing beds" has helped two critical-access hospitals in Georgia to avoid this fate. This method, which allows hospitals to swing beds from "only patients in need of acute care to those who no longer require the emergency department but still needed more treatment before a nursing home," allowed for the hospitals to pay off debt and expand services.

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  • Urban farmers in Richmond are helping in the fight against food insecurity

    November 05, 2020 |

    Richmond Confidential |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Urban Tilth, an urban farm in California, is providing food directly to communities in need and upending the traditional food supply chain so they can help people access healthy and sustainably-grown food. They have been providing local organic food to 190 families financially impacted by COVID-19, almost six times more food they’ve distributed since the pandemic began.

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  • How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First

    November 03, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Norway

    Despite a nationwide months-long coronavirus lockdown in Norway, the economy was able to remain stable due to a "decades-long effort to create an equitable economy" that helped the government to enact a package that provided businesses and self-employed individuals' tax relief and deferrals. Although Norwegians pay roughly the same amount of taxes that Americans do, their taxes largely pay for social welfare programs which include unemployment benefits, retirement pay, and health care coverage. This "national ethos of economic equity" is what helped the country to navigate the pandemic.

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  • HIV/AIDS Network Helps Build Black Clevelanders' Trust In COVID-19 Studies

    November 03, 2020 |

    The Land |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Black and Latinx enrollment in clinical studies has nearly doubled in HIV vaccine clinical trials due to the HIV Vaccine Trials Network in Cleveland implementing an engagement model that addresses community distrust through education and community participation. Now, as clinical studies are launched for a COVID-19 vaccine, the organization has pivoted to ensuring that institutions don't engage in "helicopter research," but instead involve the communities in the research efforts.

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  • Cities deploy dedicated teams to combat racial disparities exposed by Covid

    November 02, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Several cities across the U.S. have organized Racial Equity Rapid Response (RERR) teams to address and combat "the racial disparities exposed and exacerbated by Covid-19." Although each city's version of this team looks slightly different, some commonalities exist such as enacting the teams at the municipal level and relying on community connectivity to drive impact.

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