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  • Sanitation solutions: How giving people trash bins made Baltimore cleaner

    October 20, 2021 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore’s green bin program shows there are relatively simple steps cities can take to tangibly improve the cleanliness of neighborhoods. The solution is also working in Philadelphia, through which people who live in the city are lidded trash cans and bins to store their garbage.

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  • Biden caregiving plan: Housing availability, politics hinder transition to more in-home care

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Money Follows the Person is a federal program that increases access to Medicaid funds for home and community care services for people transitioning out of institutional care. The program has helped more than 101,000 people move out of long-term care facilities into community or home living. The program has also helped people save money by cutting taxpayers’ Medicaid and Medicare bills by about 23% for each person who was moved out of a nursing home or other institution. Based on the program’s success, the current administration is reviewing plans to extend or make Money Follows the

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  • Partner Notification services vital in HIV Control

    October 01, 2021 |

    Sayansi Magazine |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Siaya County

    The Assisted Partner Notification Service is a World Health Organization-backed strategy that aims to reach out to sexual partners of people diagnosed with HIV to encourage them to get tested in an effort to contain the HIV pandemic. From May 2018 to September 2019, the notification service tested a total of 29,249 women, detecting 1,120 positive cases which then led the service to reach out to a number of male partners to continue to facilitate testing.

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  • Closing the Gaps

    October 01, 2021 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Petersburg, Florida

    Black members of the LGBTQ community have benefitted from the wraparound services provided by Metro Inclusive Health. The nonprofit provides a model to nonprofits in Charlotte that are looking for a roadmap to provide economic mobility to this demographic. Services offered by Metro include both health and wellness outreach.

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  • Arizona program gives low-income parents a chance at career advancement

    September 21, 2021 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Single mothers in Arizona are getting access to wraparound services that give them an opportunity for social and economic mobility. The Pathways for Single Mothers provides comprehensive services that include childcare, transportation, tuition, and an emergency fund.

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  • RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

    September 14, 2021 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States

    A regional cap-and-trade program in the northeast United States has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and led to overall job gains in the economy. Up to 50 percent of the region’s CO2 reductions are attributable to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program and nine of the states participating report training more than 8,000 workers.

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  • A shot of recycled water revives a flourishing ecosystem on the Santa Cruz River in Tucson

    September 08, 2021 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    By rewetting part of the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, the city has been able to revitalize an ecosystem that was once thought to be lost. Through collaboration and research, hundreds of species of creatures have returned to the river. This restoration project could serve as a model for other cities that want to help their desert rivers and sustain wildlife habitats.

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  • Is the Future of Big Dairy Regenerative?

    September 08, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Several big food corporations like Danone and General Mills are working with local dairy producers to launch soil health programs that would help reduce their carbon footprint. For example, Danone is supporting 34 dairy farms to transition their operations to more regenerative practices. While it remains unclear if their efforts will reduce carbon emissions from dairy farms, early results show they are reducing soil erosion, improving water retention, and using less synthetic fertilizers.

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  • The Nation's First Regenerative Dairy Works with Nature to Heal the Soil—at Scale

    September 07, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Crescent City, California

    The Alexandre Family Farm in California made the switch to regenerative agriculture as a way to improve their soil health and improve the quality of their dairy operations. They are part of a growing number of individual dairies across the country that are embracing organic farming and are becoming “certified regenerative” as a way to build relationships with consumers and retailers on their own.

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  • Sexually Abused Women Are Running To This 'Secret Safe House' For Healing

    September 04, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    In Nigeria's Oyo state, survivors of sexual abuse and gender-based violence can find emergency shelter and a host of services at Women Safe House. The stigmas attached to these crimes and the government's failure to enforce the relevant laws leave women and girls with emotional challenges that can be addressed through counseling and support groups. The safe house supplements its limited bed space with a network of volunteers willing to house survivors. The safe house's services include low-interest loans to help women achieve independence by starting their own small businesses.

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