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  • How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire

    March 29, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Concordia, Kansas

    RedTire, short for Redefine Your Retirement, is helping small businesses stay afloat by facilitating transitions in business ownership and acting as a non-profit business broker. The service helps rural communities thrive since small businesses are essential to the vitality of small towns. In its five year history, RedTire has brokered sales that collectively total over $22 million.

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  • A Surprising Path Out of Domestic Abuse: Entrepreneurship

    March 28, 2017 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States

    Women are often stuck in an abusive relationship due to poor financial situations. Programs are beginning to help abused women by giving them support and helping them become entrepreneurs in order to become financially independent.

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  • At College, a Guided Path on Which to Find Oneself.

    March 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Community College Students, an often overlooked demographic, often suffer from low completion rates. Colleges across the country are using a guided pathways model, emphasizing features like full time enrollment, block scheduling, and meta majors to address specific completion barriers this demographic faces.

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  • Spaces and moments of leisure

    March 26, 2017 |

    The News on Sunday |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

    Collecting movies shot on cellphones, the Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema captures every day life in Karachi as seen through its residents. The films are projected in non-traditional spaces for Karachi residents as well as through the use of a rickshaw-powered projector.

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  • When a Few Bucks Can Get a Student to the Finish Line

    March 17, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    At Georgia State University in Atlanta, a couple of hundred dollars can often be the tipping point for whether a student can graduate or not. To address this issue and to further help low income students, the college has implemented a retention grant system, providing these essential funds to get students over the finish line.

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  • Cable Cars Are Changing the World

    March 07, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

    In what was once a violent neighborhood ruled by drug cartels and fear, prosperity and community are now blossoming in Medellin, thanks to an effective new form of public transportation: cable cars. The gondola system has allowed those neighborhoods on the steep slopes surrounding the city center - those which were not accessible by traditional rail systems and which suffered severe vehicle traffic congestion - to link to the rest of the city, improving job opportunities, access to basic and emergency services, and more.

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  • Baltimore turns to a life-saving opioid overdose antidote, but it's no cure for the crisis

    March 01, 2017 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In Maryland, people are being trained to administer naloxone, the drug that can save people from an opioid overdose, in order to combat the opioid crisis. Some people are even trained on street corners. Already 20,000 people have been trained, and more states are following suit.

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  • How Wildwood schools provide a crucial safety net for struggling families

    February 27, 2017 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Wildwood, New Jersey

    The Wildwood School District has implemented programs during and after school hours to help provide nutritious meals to students living with hunger and poverty, while also teaching the children invaluable skills such as sewing and gardening to help create better future opportunities.

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  • Homeless Find a Champion in Canada's Medicine Hat

    February 26, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Alberta

    The average homeless person costs taxpayers 120,000 Canadian dollars a year, while it takes just 18,000 Canadian dollars to house someone. In Alberta, Canada, the “housing first” strategy gets homeless people into homes regardless of whether they are mentally ill, alcoholic, or even drug abusers. The strategy almost eliminates homelessness.

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  • Illegal logging in Malawi: can clean cooking stoves save its forests?

    February 23, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Mount Mulanje, Lilongwe

    In much of Malawi, the electrical grid is highly unreliable and the cost of fuels like petroleum prohibitive, forcing most families to rely on the black market for illegally-sourced charcoal and leading to heavy deforestation. But some NGOs are tackling the issue with a grassroots approach: rather than relying on the army to punish illegal logging, they are helping women provide cleaner, more efficient cookstoves to their communities - reducing the amount of fuel burned as well as toxic smoke from open fires.

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