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  • The plus-size knitters who are solving an inclusivity problem

    March 10, 2021 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: United States

    Knitters are using social media, crowdsourcing, and spreadsheets to make the knitwear industry more inclusive of different body types. Designer Sarah Krentz offers patterns using an interactive spreadsheet where knitters fill in key measurements like bust, waist, and bicep circumference and the pattern automatically populates with the correct number of stitches and rows based on a pre-set formula created by Krentz. Fat Test Knits connects designers to plus size knitters who will test the patters. The site also serves as a bulletin board where moderators have vetted and shared over 500 patterns since 2019.

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  • Seattle Is Using Psychology to Help People Avoid City Fines and Fees

    March 10, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    By redesigning the notices it mails to people who owe the city money for pet licenses or traffic and parking fines, Seattle's Innovation and Performance project greatly improved payment rates. The effort, based on behavioral economics concepts making payment seem easier and more in tune with social norms, has pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars more into city coffers while sparing residents the hassles and greater costs of not paying fees and fines when they're due.

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  • Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver's 911 Experiment Is a Promising Start

    March 10, 2021 |

    Curbed New York |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Four years after pairing social workers with police officers on certain nonemergency calls, Denver's STAR program began dispatching a mental-health clinician and paramedic as sole first responders when health and social services are needed rather than arrests, jail, and the risk of police violence. The program in its first six months, though limited by geography and hours, handled 748 calls without any police involvement. Police, in fact, are relaying many of the calls that STAR takes. STAR teaches other large cities useful lessons, but it's only as good as the local mental-health infrastructure.

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  • The radical idea to reduce crime by policing less, not more

    March 10, 2021 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: England, Durham

    Using the tools of medical research can help transform policing from an arbitrary and often-damaging practice ruled by gut instinct into a carefully calibrated approach to reducing crime without causing so much collateral damage. In one of dozens of randomized controlled trials, researchers discovered how much more effective it is to provide counseling and other non-punitive treatments to people charged with lower-level crimes and considered at moderate risk of committing more of the same. Knowing what actually works can make policing more effective while reducing its footprint.

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  • 'Vaccine Altruists' Are Finding Appointments for Strangers

    March 10, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Grassroots volunteer groups are helping people across the country make COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Get Out the Shot: Los Angeles has 100 vetted volunteers who have booked 300 appointments through the group’s system and thousands more on their own. Residents leave a message or fill out a Google form with their information and a volunteer picks up their case, books an appointment, and calls them to confirm. These volunteer organizations fill important assistance gaps in local government services that are stretched thin. Some groups focus on getting appointments for people from underserved communities.

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  • Home Game

    March 10, 2021 |

    Santa Fe Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    A variety of approaches are helping ease housing instability in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Built for Zero program helps different entities coordinate homeless services through a comprehensive database that strives to capture everyone experiencing homelessness at any given time. An affordable-housing complex known as Siler Yard was also created through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for artists to live and work in. Additionally, Public Land Trusts have also created a considerable amount of affordable housing in Santa Fe.

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  • Don't call it summer school: Battling the COVID slide in math, science, reading with summer programs

    March 10, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) provides funding for summer programs that mix academic learning and fun enrichment activities. The “COVID slide,” where students fell behind in math, science, and reading, had a greater impact on children of color and those in low-income families, who are the majority of students in SAIL-funded programs. High-quality academics, taught by certified teachers, are paired with fun activities and personal enrichment provided by community partners. Students in SAIL's virtual 2020 summer programs showed average learning gains of 2.3 months in reading and 1.6 months in math.

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  • Colorado District Uses High School Apprentices to Grow Its Own More Diverse Teacher Workforce

    March 09, 2021 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Cherry Creek School district is using apprenticeships to create a more racially diverse pipeline of K-12 educators in Colorado. High school juniors and seniors are paid to participate in the apprenticeship, and are able to earn college credit as well. This is one of the ways the district is working on having its workforce reflect its student bodies more accurately. Currently 85% of teachers are white, and half of its student body is kids of color. Now in its second year, the program has grown from an initial cohort of 12 youth apprentices to 26,

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  • The magic greenhouse

    March 09, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Somalia

    A greenhouse that is cooled by seawater and the wind is allowing farmers in Somaliland to grow crops like tomatoes and vegetables despite extreme heat. By creating an environment that is higher in humidity and cooler in temperature, plants don’t need to drink as much water — almost 10 times less water because of the cooling system. There are challenges to scaling the response, but these greenhouses offer farmers the potential to increase their revenue in Africa.

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  • Solidarité : une association au chevet des agriculteurs en difficulté

    March 09, 2021 |

    Franceinfo |

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    Response Location: France

    Certains agriculteurs se laissent dépasser et se retrouvent surendettés. L'association Solidarités Paysan leur offre conseil et accompagnement. Exemple dans la Loire où deux bénévoles aident un élever à étaler sa dette et mieux gérer ses comptes. Ce binome a accompagné une dizaine de paysans dans la Loire et l'association accompagne 3000 agriculteurs au niveau national.

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