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A Community-Driven Path to Replenishing Groundwater in a Parched Region

Geetanjali Krishna

December 07, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Jakhni, Uttar Pradesh

The community in Jakhni, India, reimplemented old farming practices, like building embankments to trap rainwater and planting trees to prevent erosion, to combat severe drought.

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How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

Sadiqur Rahman

December 07, 2023 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Young Power in Social Action helps families displaced by extreme weather, like hurricanes, by building weather-proof homes and helping those who lost their jobs find new work by providing them with goats or sewing machines to help them create a new livelihood. The group has already helped rehome eight families and plans to rehouse eight more families by April 2024.

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Productive Discomfort: A Job Training Program for Single Moms That Centers Mental Health

Anna Sale

December 06, 2023 |

WNYC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Wyoming

A job training program for single moms experiencing poverty, called Climb Wyoming, runs 14, 12-week training sessions per year. The program provides wraparound support for the moms alongside the skills training, including mental health support, life skills training, and help navigating the criminal justice system.

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A Climate Change Success Story? Look at Hoboken.

Michael Kimmelman

November 03, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

After experiencing extreme flooding, Hoboken, New Jersey, has reduced its flood risk by rebuilding its sewers to add capacity and designing new infrastructure, like parks, to collect and redirect storm water.

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Will Speer Found Hope Enough to Share on Texas's Death Row

Bekah McNeel

October 23, 2023 |

Texas Monthly |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Texas

Twenty-eight death row inmates have gone through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Rehabilitation Programs Division’s Faith-Based Program. Over a year and a half, they take classes, participate in community discussions, and attend religious services that encourage a sense of purpose, help them find inner peace with God, and inspire them to make a difference in the prison.

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Beauty Beyond The Scars

Rhonet Atwiine

October 20, 2023 |

Solutions Now Africa |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Uganda

The Y+ Beauty Pageant empowers young people living with HIV to embrace their diagnosis and advocate for others despite the stigma associated with the condition. Participants in the beauty pageant then go out into their communities to be changemakers and lead education and awareness campaigns. Since 2014, the pageant has reached over 50,000 people through its various campaigns.

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More Colorado students are sticking with higher education after COVID hardships

Jason Gonzales

October 20, 2023 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

By offering mentorship opportunities, multicultural support, increased academic support, and more resources to address food and housing insecurity, colleges such as the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Northern Colorado have improved student retention rates, with 89 percent and 74.5 percent of freshmen, respectively, staying enrolled for their second year in 2023.

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Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.

Sarah Mervosh

October 10, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Schools operated by the United States Department of Defense, which serve the children of military members, are well-funded compared to most public schools, share a centralized structure and curriculum, and have diverse, integrated student populations. Amid pandemic-era learning loss, these schools saw standardized test scores improve while scores in public school districts have for the most part declined.

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A gentle push gets adaptive athletes into Fort Collins running club and races

Dan England

October 06, 2023 |

The Colorado Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

The Fort Collins Run Club began hosting adaptive running nights, devoted to engaging runners who use wheelchairs, are blind, deaf or have some other kind of challenge that may have prevented them from joining social running clubs or participating in races. Adaptive running offers a sense of community for runners with disabilities and even helps break down barriers by providing blind runners aids to help guide them through races. Currently, The Fort Collins Run Club has 1,000 members.

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How to harvest water from clouds of fog

Kat Lonsdorf Claire Harbage

October 06, 2023 |

NPR |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya

As the drought in Kenya drags on, people are collecting water from the air by using plastic to funnel fog off of trees into buckets at night or a machine that pulls water from hot, moisture-filled air like a dehumidifier would.

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