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Denver Basic Income Project shares results after one year of cash payments to homeless Denverites

Alexander Edwards

June 18, 2024 |

The Denver Gazette |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

The Denver Basic Income Project has provided more than $9.4 million in no-strings-attached payments to over 800 people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit gives participants monthly stipends that they can spend however they see fit. As a result, more participants are finding housing, building financial stability, and finding stable employment.

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Haitian families displaced by gang violence sustain effects with more than just solidarity

Fritznel D. Octave

June 17, 2024 |

Haitian Times |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

More than 300 families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came together in a closed public school to support each other with practical assistance. From sharing daily tasks to security and safety to splitting resources and food, they built a self-governing system through mutual aid and healthy social relationships.

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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here's what it took.

Lauren Wagner

June 15, 2024 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Lexington, Nebraska

In partnership with other local organizations and advocacy groups, Communities for Kids trains providers to offer Spanish-language childcare, as the state lacks sufficient access to culturally responsive, bilingual care. The training is free and has already licensed several individuals who now run their own Spanish-speaking childcare centers.

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Can A Public University Change The Fate Of One Of India's Most Backward Districts?

Tarini Mehta

June 15, 2024 |

Outlook India |

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Response Location: India, Nuh District, Haryana

Young women in the Nuh district, where access to education for women is limited, wrote postcards to the Prime Minister that received attention to build a university. Their efforts worked and since then the government opened a college in the district, 621 young women enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program, and 73 enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce program.

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The 'Beautiful Gate' Where Polio Survivors in Nigeria Find Hope

Olayide Oluwafunmilayo Soaga

June 12, 2024 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Plateau

The Beautiful Gates Handicapped People Center builds mobility aids like wheelchairs and crutches and distributes them to people with disabilities, particularly those paralyzed by polio. Since forming in 1998, Beautiful Gate has distributed 32,000 wheelchairs and mobility tools.

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Peace Through Resolution: Iseyin's Journey To Overcoming Religious Strife

Muritala Abdullahi

June 07, 2024 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Iseyin, Oyo

Following years of religious strife and violence, several groups gathered to create a peace treaty, protecting each group’s right to safe, religious celebration. Since the creation of the peace agreement in 2022, both the Oró and Egungun religious festivals have taken place without any incidents of violence.

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Toyota Opens a 'Megasite' for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden's IRA

Nicole Norman

June 01, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: United States, Liberty, North Carolina

Toyota is building a battery plant in the small town of Liberty, North Carolina, and ushering in an economic revival. Along with the thousands of jobs it is expected to bring to the area, the company is working with community colleges and paying students to complete programs in which they learn the necessary skills to work at the plant.

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Brooklyn Nonprofits Tailor Mental Health Care To Their Immigrant Clients' Cultures

Rommel H. Ojeda

May 31, 2024 |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Nonprofits Mixteca, RaisingHealth, and Brave House are providing safe spaces for migrants to receive culturally relevant mental health care through workshops that incorporate cultural traditions and common mental health and self-care practices. The workshops help provide a sense of community and combat the stigma surrounding mental health in the immigrant community.

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Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

Latasha Rouseau

May 29, 2024 |

Sapelo Square |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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Ideas We Should Steal: Free Childcare for Women's Health

Courtney Duchene

May 29, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Fund provides free childcare for families who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level and serves about 18,423 children a month. Access to free childcare has also impacted parent’s health, particularly mothers, as they’re often the ones taking time away from themselves and their jobs to handle the majority of childcare tasks.

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