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  • Social Business Profile: Saving 9 – the first aid pioneers in Pakistan

    September 15, 2023 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Pind Begwal

    Saving 9 bridges the gaps between rural areas and emergency medical care by providing essential training to locals, transforming them into medical personnel. Saving 9 also has an ambulance that connects rural villages to medical facilities in the capital city and also offers a female-led ambulance service to provide culturally sensitive care to women in more conservative, rural communities. Since forming in 2017, Saving 9 has saved more than 900 lives.

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  • Greater Cleveland Congregations is reaching "depressed" voters

    September 15, 2023 |

    Signal Cleveland |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Through the Better for Democracy campaign, which is organized by Greater Cleveland Congregations, neighborhood “captains” are tasked with contacting low-propensity voters in their area at least five times each with phone calls, door-knocking, texts, a printed voters’ guide, and a follow-up thank you call. This relational approach to organizing resulted in 56 percent of those who were contacted showing up to vote in 2022, as compared to a 30 percent turnout rate for the city as a whole.

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  • The Initiative Enabling Nigerian Farmers To Grow And Earn More

    September 15, 2023 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kubau, Kaduna

    Babban Gona is an agriculture company that helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria produce bigger yields and increase their incomes. The company offers training, fertilizer, herbicides, and seeds in exchange for some of the farmer’s harvest. When the produce sells, the farmers get some of the profit and a bonus if it sells for more than expected.

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  • Why Iowa farmers are turning to irrigation during drought. And why some are not.

    September 15, 2023 |

    The Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Farmers in Iowa are slowly turning to irrigation systems instead of relying solely on rain to combat more frequent droughts.

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  • Chesterfield Mobile Home Park Could Be a ‘Model' for Revitalization

    September 14, 2023 |

    Economic Hardship Reporting Project |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    Project:HOMES bought a local mobile home park, Bermuda Estates, to renovate the units and provide higher-quality, affordable housing. The group raised $4.2 million to repair each unit, build a new community center and host events in the park, all while not increasing rent costs.

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  • One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

    September 14, 2023 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: Portugal, São Miguel Island

    For two decades, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has restored native trees on ​​São Miguel Island to increase the food and nesting habitat available for the Azores bullfinch. As a result, the population of the bird increased enough to be downlisted from critically endangered to vulnerable.

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  • Hallett Academy's approach of 'we will love your child into learning' helps boost rating

    September 14, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To successfully lift Hallett Academy from the state’s lowest ranking to its highest, school leadership focused on hiring diverse and passionate teachers who use love as a main tool for learning.

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  • A Different Kind of Grief

    September 14, 2023 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philly HEALs is a free bereavement support program for people who have lost a loved one to a fatal overdose. The program offers grief counseling and peer support groups for families, teens and children, allowing them a safe space to talk about their experiences and find community among others who can relate.

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  • Colorado Shows Impact, Challenges of Billions in Federal Clean Energy Spending

    September 13, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Federal tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and added incentives from the state of Colorado and its municipalities is drawing in clean energy companies, creating new jobs, and helping the state meet its decarbonization goals.

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  • The Last Chance for Safe Injection Sites?

    September 13, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    There are 10 safe injection sites in Toronto, Canada. At each location, nurses are present to assist in intravenous drug use to prevent disease transmission and overdoses. Visitors can access mental health services, health care, and medication-assisted addiction treatment if they choose to.

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