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The Latest Innovation in Student Retention at Colleges: ‘Food Scholarships'

Rebecca Koenig

November 12, 2019 |

EdSurge News |

Podcast |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

Policymakers and college students and faculty are testing a range of approaches to address food insecurity on campuses. One nonprofit provides small grants to students and professors to cover the cost of food, transportation, or other expenses.

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Here's How 2 Schools Have Made Free College Work — For Decades

Jeff Tyler

November 10, 2019 |

NPR |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kentucky

Two colleges in Kentucky don't charge tuition and haven't for decades. Work study programs, endowments designed to reduce the cost of tuition, and private donations for campus buildings help to offset the costs of a college degree.

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How the Texas Tribune, one of local journalism's greatest success stories, really got started

Barbara Allen

November 08, 2019 |

Poynter |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

Non-partisan, watchdog journalism has formed a financially healthy platform for Texas Tribune in its first decade, filling a public-interest gap left by shrinkage in the number of statehouse reporters from 95 in 1989 to about 30 in 2008. By hiring an aggressive team of journalists and diversifying its revenue streams, the Tribune turned seed-money grants into a self-sustaining online publishing business whose serious coverage of neglected policy stories inspired Texas lawmakers to coin the term "the Trib effect" for the changes in capitol behavior when it's clear "someone is always watching."

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The Three Keys to a Thriving Rural Economy

Jake Bullinger

November 08, 2019 |

Bitterroot |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Salida, Colorado

As the Mountain West transitions away from mining and other industrial economic drivers, rural cities find their way into successful economies by relying on local entrepreneurial spirit and the surrounding landscape. Businesses like SmartLam in rural Montana rely on local resources - in SmartLam's case, timber - and sustainable, future-oriented strategy to make a ripple in the economy of the rural West.

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Changing Lives by Building Credit History — One Microloan at a Time

Farida Jhabvala Romero

November 08, 2019 |

KQED |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

A program through the Mission Asset Fund, based in San Francisco, helps low-income communities get loans and good credit from an unlikely source: each other. The initiative pools together funds from family members and neighbors and distributes the loan to one of the contributors each month; the loans are interest free and allow community members to build credit without the difficulties of breaking into the typical microfinance realm.

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Banks Don't Know What to Do With Their Branches

Allison Prang

November 07, 2019 |

Wall Street Journal |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

With more users than ever use digital resources to access their bank accounts, banking companies with brick-and-mortar locations get creative with how to balance the digital and physical requests from their consumers. Some companies, like Capital One, have steered away from the traditional teller environment and have instead opened cafes and hosted community workshops to help people feel more comfortable in a bank setting.

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Could a Tax Credit Reduce the Impacts of Philly Students' Debt?

Rachel Chernasky

November 05, 2019 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Leaders in Philadelphia are considering offering a $7,500 tax credit to college graduates who owe $35,000 or more. The city hopes that the program will help retain more talent and chip away at Pennsylvania's high levels of student debt.

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These shops will sell you shampoo, but it's BYOB — bring your own bottle

Cara Giaimo

November 04, 2019 |

Grist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Eschewing packaging reduces waste. Cleenland, a store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encourages low-waste shopping by selling household items like soap, cleaner, and detergent in bulk. Customers bring their own containers and purchase the products by weight. The store is among the first in the country to offer package-free shopping.

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As other local news outlets struggle, NPR affiliates are growing — and quickly

Rick Edmonds

November 04, 2019 |

Poynter |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

While newspaper staffs shrank dramatically, eroding resources to cover local and statewide news, local public radio stations added 1,000 full- and part-time journalists, a 50% increase, between 2011 and 2018. While still small overall, relative to the scale of newspaper newsrooms in their prime, public radio stations – including NPR affiliates – have become a more significant force in preserving and expanding coverage of local news. One tactic stations have used in several markets, notably in Texas, is to collaborate on statewide networks, to boost statehouse coverage and stories of statewide interest.

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How Cleveland revamped its preschool programs in just five years

Jackie Mader

October 31, 2019 |

The Hechinger Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

With $14 million in public and private funding, Cleveland transformed its early childhood education offerings in just five years. The partnership called PRE4CLE provided intensive support and funding for staff education and salaries, curricula, classroom supplies, renovations, and more.

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