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  • Virginia Tech now has a 73% student-voting rate — how can other schools follow suit?

    June 02, 2022 |

    WSLS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Blacksburg, Virginia

    Virginia Tech's civic engagement program, Hokies Vote, has successfully increased its student voting rate by roughly 25 percent through educational outreach, community dialogue events, and setting up a polling place on campus.

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  • How employer benefits can ease burden on people caring for elderly loved ones

    June 02, 2022 |

    Livingston Daily |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Companies like Sanofi are beginning to partner with organizations like Bright Horizons to offer eldercare benefits to employees, like in-home adult care services. The benefit allows Bright Horizons to dispatch care workers to a person’s home and the company administering the benefit subsidizes the majority of the cost. Providing eldercare benefits reduces the burden on employees, allowing them to be more present at work. Since the pandemic, Sanofi has seen a 20% increase in the number of employees registering for the eldercare benefit program.

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  • He Made Lowly-esteemed Wheelbarrow Pushing Look Attractive; Now He Creates Jobs For Youths

    May 31, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

    GEMDECONQ rents wheelbarrows to workers and trains them in proper conduct. This gives people who cannot afford their own wheelbarrow a chance to earn more than the average minimum wage and eventually venture into less demanding forms of work.

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  • Chicago Offers a Blueprint for Expanding Urban Internet Access

    May 31, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Connected is a $50 million four-year program that has already provided high-speed broadband to over 40,000 households in need, representing around 64,000 Chicago public school students, and plans to expand. On-the-ground community outreach in multiple languages was key to connecting residents to the program quickly, which was needed as school went virtual due to COVID-19. The public schools helped identify eligible low-income students whose parents were then contacted by outreach workers.

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  • How poor, out-of-school children gain education in the FCT

    May 28, 2022 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Knowledge Skills Solution and Creativity (KNOSK) N100-a-Day Charity School provides an education to children in the area who can’t afford to attend school. KNOSK provides STEM education, uniforms, books, sanitary supplies for girls and free meals to each student for just 30 cents a day.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento  

    May 25, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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  • Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

    May 24, 2022 |

    KFF Health News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy provides Native American patients with their prescriptions for no out-of-pocket expenses and provides culturally-conscious care.

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  • A Cry for Help from Teen Boys in Austin is Answered

    May 22, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The mentoring program Project MALES helps young Black and Latino men normalize talking to peers about their feelings and struggles in an effort to tackle the teen mental health crisis.

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  • Help Hits the Streets with a Crisis Response Team

    May 21, 2022 |

    What's Next Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Street Crisis Response Team program is an alternative to policing made up of first-responder teams trained in trauma-informed crisis management. These teams can be dispatched for non-violent mental or behavioral health emergencies in public spaces and focus on compassion and trust-building in the community to de-escalate crises. They can also transport people to hospitals, shelters, or places to receive other mental health interventions.

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  • Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

    May 19, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Mansfield Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP) helps individuals in recovery programs access housing through its Genesis Row Project. The non-profit currently owns six houses and following some renovations, plans to house 20 people.

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