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Life After Timber

Sarah Gilman

December 20, 2016 |

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Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Alaska

When Alaska's largest Tlingit village faced a future without forests after years of clearcutting efforts, community members, organizations and corporations alike came together to look for solutions. After years of efforts and unwavering resiliency, the habitat is on the pathway to restoration.

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In Nepal, 'appalling' river runs cleaner in wake of unusual partnership

Atul Bhattarai

December 18, 2016 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

For years, campaigns to clean Nepal's polluted Bagmati River resulted in failure. Now with police and government backing, the organization Safai Abhiyaan is in its third year, attracting hundreds of volunteers who are willing to brave the polluted waters to collect trash. The program's unique approach to organizing community volunteers has been a success, but the problem will not subside until greater perceptions about litter and water pollution are tackled.

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How program goes far beyond ‘paying kids to stop killing' each other

Jeff Seidel

December 17, 2016 |

Detroit Free Press |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

The police department and the Office of Neighbourhood Safety in Richmond, CA are lowering the number of homicides by identifying the youths most likely to commit crimes and giving them cash in return for compliance with their program.

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Costa Rica modernized without wrecking the environment. Here's how.

Nathanael Johnson

December 15, 2016 |

Grist |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Costa Rica, San Jose

Unlike other countries suffering with an impoverished population, Costa Rica has not destroyed the environment while modernizing its economy. Costa Rica has created a coffee alliance, a collective effort between the government and local farmers to grow and cultivate sustainable coffee agriculture through public policy and land distribution. The coffee alliance has given economic empowerment to the people, while being environmentally green.

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Cities for all: towards a new paradigm for integration

Liza Ramrayka

December 15, 2016 |

Open Migration |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

In the midst of the international refugee crisis, immigrants and refugees often struggle in new countries, and they have trouble finding employment, housing, and education. The UN’s 2016 Summit for Refugees and Migrants encouraged host countries to find new ways to help migrants. Many creative solutions have resulted, including the Welcoming Cities & Counties Network, which provides resources to migrants in American cities; Salusbury World, which supports social enterprises such as Spice Caravan to train refugees in the UK; and Germany’s With Migrants for Migrants, which helps migrants’ access healthcare.

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15 countries, other states use social impact bonds, too

Kristen Jordan Shamus

December 13, 2016 |

Detroit Free Press |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Peterborough

A project launched in the United Kingdom uses social-impact bonds to reduce recidivism among prisoners, bringing together public and private resources to implement more effective and cost efficient social programs. Their success is inspiring other countries to follow suit.

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Nature Might Hold the Secret to Healing Police-Community Relations

Krista Langlois

December 05, 2016 |

Outside |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

After charged discussions and protests around racial injustice within police departments, Baltimore set out to find a solution to bridge the divide created between the city's police force and the kids that lived in stereotyped neighborhoods. Using nature as a common ground, the Outward Bound Police Youth Challenge was born to bring the two sides together and teach them that they have more in common than they may think.

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Memphis Looks to Medical Manufacturing to Cut Poverty

Johnny Magdaleno

December 02, 2016 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Lessons from Christchurch: 4 key ways Seattle can prepare for earthquake devastation

Daniel Gilbert

December 02, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: New Zealand, Christchurch

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011 laid waste to much of the city and killed 185 people. Although on the opposite side of the world, Seattle is home to strikingly similar buildings and structures that have been identified as at-risk to the shallow faults under them. There is opportunity for the Washington city to learn from the disaster in New Zealand - before it's too late.

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Behind Broken Doors: Domestic violence summit exhibits local progress

Beatriz Alvarado

December 02, 2016 |

Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Corpus Christi, Texas

In Nueces County, new local programs, projects, and partnerships - spurred by a particularly deadly year for women - are demonstrating how improved assessment by law enforcement and engagement by community members is helping to reduce abuse and homicides while preventing domestic violence overall.

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