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  • Mobile food pantry helping Hoosiers in need

    June 04, 2021 |

    WRTV-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    A mobile food pantry is helping to increase food availability for those in the Indianapolis community. A 28-seat passenger bus was converted by Pro-Act Indy and turned into a food pantry, which takes the food to those who need it most, but who may not have the means to get to food banks.

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  • States Ply COVID Unvaccinated with Cash, Beer, Scholarships

    June 04, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    States and businesses across the country are offering incentives, from entry into million-dollar lotteries, college scholarships, and gift cards to fulfilling fantasies like driving around Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway. Ohio was one of the first states to announce a vaccine lottery in which any adult resident that got vaccinated was entered into one of five weekly drawings to win $1 million. Ohio’s Vax-a-Million drawings were paid for with CARES Act relief money appropriated by Congress. Vaccination rates increased by 28% in the first week after the lottery was announced in Ohio.

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  • A couch is not a home: Where the hidden homeless get housing vouchers

    June 04, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston used vouchers to help "doubled-up families" – those with school-age children sharing crowded apartments with other families – jump the line of people waiting for subsidized housing and get their own homes. Schools identify children living in this limbo status that often isn't visible or recognized as homelessness. They referred families to FamilyAid Boston, which put about 300 families into their own homes. Doubling up, which often violates leases and can quickly put families on the streets, is the most common homeless status of public-school students.

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  • Boise Is Tapping Into Free, Sustainable Energy - and Other Cities Could Follow Suit

    June 03, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boise, Idaho

    In the late 1800s a local water company found hot springs in Boise. They decided to build pipes and transport the water to some nearby homes and towns to heat them, creating a geothermal heating system. In the 1980s, the city replicated this model at a larger scale. Water from a naturally hot aquifer flowed through pipes heating 100 large buildings Downtown, equivalent to more than 6 million square feet. Geothermal heating is completely clean, it requires no fossil fuels. Currently, there's only 23 geothermal districts in America. However, one study estimates that by 2050 there could be 17,500.

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  • Une crèche qui aide aussi les parents et les mères seules à s'en sortir

    June 03, 2021 |

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    Response Location: France, Aubervilliers

    Cette crèche d'Aubervilliers prend soin des enfants comme des parents. En plus de la garde de leurs petits, elle acompagne les parents dans leur recherche d'emploi et de formation. 80 % des personnes accompagnées retrouvent un emploi ou s’investissent dans une formation

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  • A business without bosses

    June 03, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    ChiFresh Chicago is owned and run by formerly incarcerated women of color. The business' five owner-workers responded to the pandemic's effect on food insecurity, in neighborhoods that already had high rates of that problem, by providing healthy, culturally appropriate meals to the communities hardest hit. In the longer term, ChiFresh's goal is supporting the community's food sovereignty while managing their own livelihood on their own terms.

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  • Hotels for those left unhoused by wildfires

    June 03, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Hotels and motels are being converted into free housing for people experiencing housing instability in Oregon. Project Turnkey is a state-funded initiative that buys potential housing units and puts local organizations in charge of running them. The program was a response to displaced victims of wildfires that tore through a number of communities in 2020 but future plans include housing people experiencing homelessness for any reason.

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  • Sew it goes: The Sewing Machine Project stitches lives back together

    June 03, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    The Sewing Machine Project has helped thousands of people who rely on sewing as a livelihood. The organization refurbishes used sewing machines and sends them across the world. For some recipients, access to their own sewing machine can result in economic mobility and an improved quality of life.

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  • Cities Are Boosting the Economy by Rewarding Those Who Shop Local

    June 03, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    Akron, Ohio, is “creating a circular economy” in hopes of helping small businesses and encouraging residents to shop locally. A city-sponsored app, Akronite, is used by consumers to make purchases and earn reward points which can be redeemed for discounts and other perks. The app’s success is clear in the high return on investment, which shows $9 generated for every dollar invested by the local government. Other cities across the country are also adopting the initiative, tweaking it to their own communities.

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  • How a program became a model for life after prison

    June 03, 2021 |

    KOAA-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Colorado's Transforming Safety initiative empowers communities to decide how to use grant money to address high rates of recidivism. One community-chosen grantee is Colorado Springs Works, founded by a man who made a habit of asking those he was incarcerated with why they had been sent back to prison on parole violations. Lack of good jobs was a key reason, and so the program he created helps recently incarcerated people get job training and jobs on the outside.

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