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From untouchable to organic: Dalit women sow change in India

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

June 14, 2014 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: India, Erachi, Tamil Nadu

Small-scale women farmers are working together to create a new Green Revolution in southern India, opening a set of pilot farms to empower women and sustainably farm.

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The Power to Cure, Multiplied

David Bornstein

June 11, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

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Farmers markets reaching more consumers who get nutritional benefits

Lee Romney

June 08, 2014 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Through creative financing and new technology, a non-profit in San Francisco is making farmers markets more accessible to residents who rely on federal nutrition benefits.

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Golf courses start to reuse stormwater to keep grass green

Elizabeth Dunbar

June 05, 2014 |

Minnesota Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Woodbury, Minnesota

A few communities are using stormwater to keep golf courses, baseball and soccer fields green or to irrigate public landscapes.

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The Fight Against Fake Drugs

Tina Rosenberg

June 04, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In many poor countries, counterfeit medicines are an enormous problem. A quarter-million malaria deaths each year might be prevented if the patients were treated with real drugs instead of fake ones.

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Serving the base of the pyramid: five tips from emerging-market experts

Bruce Watson

May 30, 2014 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Social Innovation Summit, hosted in New York City, examines five key elements that allow the strategy of marketing to the base of the pyramid to actually succeed, and the companies big and small that are leveraging this approach to sustainably break the cycle of poverty in varied industries for communities around the world.

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Rain Man: How one Tucson resident harvests the rain

Dan Kraker

May 29, 2014 |

Minnesota Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Some Tucson residents have begun looking at water as a crop, something to harvest to lessen the reliance of Tucson's burgeoning population on water sucked from the ground and imported from the Colorado River.

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The Push to End Chronic Homelessness Is Working

David Bornstein

May 28, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

Homelessness is still a rampant problem in the United States. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, an initiative launched four years ago, aims to help communities around the country place 100,000 chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing

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A New Model of School Reform

Jeremy Adam Smith

May 21, 2014 |

Greater Good Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is transforming educational systems in Oakland by forming mentor relationships between adults and students. Unlike other models, though, the adults are the ones held accountable.

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The Lady of the Mangroves

Wanjohi Kabukuru

May 18, 2014 |

Seychelles News Agency |

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Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Bel Air

The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in helping her students take conservation into their own hands by working to restore the mangroves that can protect their island from future storms.

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