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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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  • A simple combination of data and language tweaks is helping recruit more diverse police officers

    February 20, 2017 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States

    To diversify the police force, UK and US research studies have focused on using behavioral economics. The UK's Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has used behavioural economics and psychology to alter phrasing and messages, in order to attract more diverse applicants and its success has spurred more future projects.

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  • The Most Important Modern Farmer Might Be The Urban Cowboy

    February 10, 2017 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Although urban cities have a variety of options for food, not all food is affordable or healthy. New York City has developed urban agriculture projects, from rooftop gardens to “warehouse hydroponic systems.” The South Bronx’s BLK ProjeK’s Libertad Urban Farm serves the local, low-income community and empowers its women leaders with self-sufficient sustainable food.

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  • She Outsmarted Jamie Oliver — And Figured Out The Future Of School Lunch

    February 09, 2017 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

    Conflicts of interest have made school lunch meals the dumping ground for the cheap calories our modern agricultural system was designed to overproduce. Many programs are trying to improve school lunches, such as the Community Eligibility Provision which allows schools in high poverty areas to provide free meals to all students, allowing more money to be spent on cooks and food instead of who qualifies.

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  • Philabundance Community Kitchen Turns Former Prisoners Into Chefs

    February 09, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Facing social stigma as well as other effects of being incarcerated, Philabundance Community Kitchen is using culinary education to provide much needed services to those formerly incarcerated. Via cooking classes and other life skills classes, this program has helped over 600 previously incarcerated Philadelphians attain employment in the culinary field.

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  • New York City Embraces a Gun Violence Outreach Program Left on Life Support in Chicago

    February 09, 2017 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In its four years of community outreach, Cure Violence’s New York City chapter has been accepted and welcomed by both neighborhoods and police. The program now works in 17 police precincts, providing direct violence intervention, legal and mental health resources, and improving police/community relations.

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  • Rehab for mothers - and their children - allows them to recover together

    February 08, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    For women in traditional rehab centres, choosing treatment means leaving their children behind. Family House NOW (New Options for Women), is a residential treatment center in Philadelphia that allows women to live with their children, benefitting both the women and the children.

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  • On Patrol With Chicago's Last Violence Interrupters

    February 06, 2017 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago’s Cure Violence program, which has been around for close to 20 years, has closed all but one of its sites. The program employs Violence Interrupters, who work in neighborhoods to help stop violent conflict. As hopeful and successful as its creation was, it has run into cooperative issues with Chicago police and has seen a drastic cut in funding in the last five years.

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  • Closing the Preschool Gap at Home

    February 06, 2017 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

    Mounting evidence points to an increasing disparity in the educational achievements of those children who attend and complete pre-school, and those who do not. The Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program is a national home visiting initiative for low-income families that is working to bridge the gap. They provide learning curriculum, guidance, and parenting support for disadvantaged families in their homes, so that their children can be equally prepared to succeed in school.

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  • Lend Me Your Eyes

    February 05, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Scotland

    New apps like Tap Tap See and Be My Eyes are helping blind people solve everyday problems by combining smartphone video technology with an army of volunteers. The app allows a blind individual to take a photo or video of an item that the person needs to "see"; it then either automatically interprets the photo and announces it aloud to the user, or, if the app itself cannot identify the object, sends it to a real person somewhere in the world who can.

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