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Kenya's Water Women

Karin Slater

September 22, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

Broadcast TV News |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya, Kakamega, Kakamega

Kenya's female water tank masons are delivering measurable benefits to their communities and empowering other women to take up leadership roles.

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Doctor slashes the cost of surgeries for India's poor

Fred de Sam Lazaro

September 16, 2015 |

PBS NewsHour |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

In a country where millions of citizens make less than $2 a day, a chain of hospitals has brought down the prices of life-saving surgeries and pioneered a health insurance plan that is just 11 cents a month. These hospitals, called Narayana Health Systems, are exemplified by their productivity, efficiency and volume of surgeries performed, far outstripping the rates of American hospitals. To prove that the same model could work in a developed country, the hospitals opened a location in the Cayman Islands, which proved to be vastly successful and offered hope that this model could continue to spread.

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Could These Two Environmental Challenges Be the Answer to Each Other?

Gabriella Mulligan

September 14, 2015 |

Ensia |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Naivasha, Nakuru County

Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges in two areas that previously may have been considered in separate spheres: lack of access to sanitary waste disposal, and a growing need for clean, affordable energy. Now, several companies are scaling solutions for how each of these issues actually solve the other. In Kenya, they are finding ways to turn human waste into fuel and fertilizer, effectively addressing both issues simultaneously.

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For Students With a Mission, a Little Capital Goes a Long Way

Tina Rosenberg

September 11, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

At a time when university students lack opportunities and financial help to test their innovative business ideas, the Resolution Project supports higher education students who have ideas for socially responsible businesses and charities. Resolution offers small awards to start businesses as well as mentor opportunities that enable networking and business collaboration with experts.

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Green Energy for the Poor

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

September 09, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Niger

Creative, bottom-up solutions in renewable energy and land use are helping combat poverty in many parts of rural Africa. An innovative business model combining solar power and cellphones allows rural areas to access clean electricity. Agroforestry techniques also restore degraded land, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and increase agricultural productivity.

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National round-up: The secret(s) to sustainable urban farms

Amy Elliott Bragg

September 04, 2015 |

Concentrate |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Urban farms across the country are incorporating creative strategies to make farms sustainable. Farms in Cleveland are teaching refugees to engage in agriculture as a way to adapt to their new community, while one farm in Michigan provides mentorship to other farmers looking to be successful from a business perspective. In order to make fresh produce accessible year-round, these creative ideas are helping meet the needs of farmers and consumers.

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Punished for Being Poor

Maura Ewing

September 03, 2015 |

Pacific Standard |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

When paying bail isn't a realistic ask of a defendant, many times the person will plead guilty to avoid jail time even if it means having a record. To solve the problem of the poor being unfairly punished by small crimes through the setting of a bail amount they can't make, The Bronx Freedom Fund offers charitable bail funds to those with a bail under $2,000.

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Micro-insurance offers poor families in poorer countries protection from destitution

Amy Yee

September 01, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

All across Asia there is a growing market for micro-insurance, or targeted insurance policies that provide benefits to the poorest individuals and families. As of 2012, over 170 million people in Asia were using some form of micro-insurance, but there is so much more room to grow. Successful programs in India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and other Asian countries are providing health, life, and accident insurance.

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In Search Of Salvation From Drought, California Looks Down Under

Dan Charles

August 19, 2015 |

KQED |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

Farmers in California increasingly face water shortages. To help solve the problem, some are looking to Australia, where a national water market has provided an economic solution. By buying and selling water rights, farmers have incentives to reduce consumption.

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The Town That Decided to Send All Its Kids to College

Alana Semuels

August 18, 2015 |

The Atlantic |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baldwin, Michigan

College was never much of an option for most students in this tiny town of 1,200 located in the woods of the Manistee National Forest. But residents of Baldwin, Michigan, pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone, and it changed the town profoundly.

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