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  • How one California community is turning an old oil field into protected habitat

    August 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Fullerton, California

    The Friends of Coyote Hills led a 30-year community campaign that successfully protected 24 acres of threatened habitat from development through voter mobilization, strategic fundraising, and federal wildlife protections, while securing $70 million toward purchasing the remaining 483 acres and demonstrating how grassroots organizing can leverage multiple funding sources and environmental laws to preserve urban green spaces.

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  • Pink City Rickshaw Puts Women in the Driver's Seat

    July 28, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Jaipur

    ACCESS Development Services trains women to drive electric auto rickshaws, providing them with marketable skills that help them earn a living independently. The all-women Pink City Rickshaw Company employs the women to provide tours throughout the city and has since trained over 200 women.

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  • Just two visits a year: Longer ARV scripts, shorter clinic lines

    July 28, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    South Africa's implementation of 6MMD (six multi-month dispensing) allows stable HIV patients to collect their antiretroviral medications only twice a year instead of monthly. The program aims to reduce clinic congestion and improve patient retention and consistent medication use.

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  • King County bet big on remaking its mental health system. Is it working?

    July 27, 2025 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, King County, Washington

    King County, Washington, is building an alternative mental health care system to avoid escalating unnecessary 911 calls and including law enforcement when it’s not necessarily needed. The County created a mental health-focused response team in collaboration with the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline to divert calls that don’t pose a safety risk and help de-escalate situations. The communications center that fields most of the calls says they get about 20 transfers to the 988 line each month.

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  • Music and Mental Health

    July 25, 2025 |

    Little News Ears |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Nuci’s Space aims to prevent suicide by providing a safe space for people of all ages, particularly youth, to connect and play music. They also offer affordable practice spaces and mental and physical health care services for participants, including affordable counseling.

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  • How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

    July 24, 2025 |

    Development and Cooperation |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Finland’s National Core Curriculum incorporates “multiliteracy” across all subject areas, and students begin learning about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation from their first year in school. The country has consistently ranked first in the European Media Literacy Index.

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  • Americans haven't saved for retirement. States are creating automatic savings plans.

    July 23, 2025 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    To help more private-sector employees save for retirement—and hopefully reduce future needs for public safety net programs—more states are launching automatic IRA programs that enroll employees who don’t have access to a retirement plan through their employer. In Colorado, more than 70,000 workers have been enrolled so far.

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  • Coconino County, federal agencies team up on backcountry alert system for Grand Canyon

    July 18, 2025 |

    Arizona Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Coconino County, Arizona

    The Grand Canyon River Alert System is a first-of-its-kind system in the U.S. that uses satellite messaging technology to deliver flash flood warnings and emergency alerts to travelers in the remote wilderness areas. Users subscribe by texting from their satellite devices and receive real-time alerts about imminent flash flooding, hazardous conditions, and other emergencies within five minutes of detection. During its test phase, the system successfully issued 29 alerts, and has since made plans to expand.

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  • Hard up for students, more colleges are offering college credit for life experience, or 'prior learning'

    July 10, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Some colleges and universities, such as the Community College of Allegheny County, are expanding opportunities for students to earn academic credit for previous work and life experience, allowing them to bypass some courses and requirements covering skills they've already learned on the job. According to one study, these programs can result in significant tuition savings and help students cut down on the time it takes to finish a degree.

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  • How local homelessness advocacy groups are providing medical care without boundaries

    July 09, 2025 |

    StreetWise |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Street medicine is breaking down barriers to healthcare access that unhoused individuals face. It brings healthcare directly to them, rather than expecting them to navigate the system on their own. This type of care emerged in Pittsburgh in 1992 and has since created a national network of 85 U.S. cities, 15 countries and five continents. Chicago Street Medicine, specifically, serves about 4,000 patients a year, with the help of its 600 volunteers.

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