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  • The coronavirus gave them jobs — and a new lease on life

    August 25, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Finding gainful employment after incarceration is hard in the best of times, but during a global pandemic it's even more challenging. A Los Angeles nonprofit, Chrysalis, has been able to place the hard-to-employ job seekers in hotels that have been leased by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to house people experiencing homelessness. Chrysalis typically prepares people for permanent jobs but also finds transitional roles such as some of the positions that have been filled in the 38 hotels under lease by the city.

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  • How innovators are using 3D printing to make medical parts

    August 25, 2020 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Milimani

    In parts of Kenya, engineers are using 3D printing to produce medical equipment to help hospitals that are facing a shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the cost of the material used in the designs is high, the products are customizable and can be produced at a high rate of speed.

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  • Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'

    August 25, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    After decades of trying to contain polio, collaborative efforts have resulted in the eradication of the disease from Africa. Although there is still no known cure, vaccination campaigns and collective action from polio survivors have helped to achieve widespread immunization for children across the country.

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  • Community gatherings offer healing for emotional wounds after disasters

    August 25, 2020 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Rosa, California

    Wildfires cause anxiety and other mental-health problems, but Sonoma County's Latino people can get help from a convivencia: a community gathering hosted by one of the nonprofit health and community centers in the area. To connect with people who may distrust or be blocked from using government-funded mental health care, or who may distrust mental health care altogether, the support-group therapy comes in the guise of a social gathering. Some sessions may focus as well on domestic violence or other social problems.

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  • Can Prosecutors Be Taught to Avoid Jail Sentences?

    August 25, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    A nonprofit consulting firm, Prosecutor Impact, advances the cause of reducing incarceration and related reforms by helping reform-minded elected district attorneys confront one of the greatest obstacles to change: their own staff's opposition. In Columbus, a two-week curriculum educated front-line prosecutors about local services that can serve as problem-solving alternatives to punishment. It also taught them about poverty's challenges and engaged them in dialogue with prisoners, to make them more open to alternative approaches, which a local defense lawyer says was successful.

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  • Five years after arrival, Germany's refugees are integrating

    August 25, 2020 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Germany

    The 2015 influx of 1.2 million refugees was resettled all across Germany and has been somewhat successfully integrated five years later. Many local municipalities quickly adapted to the influx, providing language courses and housing services even without direction from the federal government. Rates of employment for refugees has been over 40 percent.

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  • In India, an ancient grain is revived for the modern era

    August 25, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Thottampatti, Tamil Nadu

    The Women’s Collective is a nonprofit that works with more than 10,000 subsistence farmers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to promote food security using millets, a crop resilient to drought and climate change. For Pavitra, one of those farmers, she began cultivating the ancient grains in 2015 and now has more than enough food to feed her family year-round. However, there’s a lack of public investment in millet production and machinery. And there’s no unified effort to create demand for millets: Some state governments lead the charge and in other states, it’s led by grassroots organizations.

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  • How to Design a Street for Hands-Off Play

    August 25, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

    PLAY NYC, a nonprofit in New York, is reviving a historic pop-up playground concept, which started over two decades ago, in order to increase children's access to playgrounds and physical activity. The concept is simple—take over a street, build, and design an interactive playground, and follow social distancing guidelines, but every street and community comes with its own set of challenges. Most of the play streets offer "no -touch obstacle course, exercise activities, and learning experiences" across low-income neighborhoods in New York.

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  • ‘Digital Detroit' Works to Bridge Digital Divide for Small and Micro Businesses

    August 25, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The city of Detroit is offering business services to entrepreneurs who want to bring their business online in the aftermath of the pandemic. Digital Detroit is the name of the program offering content creation and website development completely free of charge for a variety of businesses. Over 100 businesses were selected for the five-week program, helping the entrepreneurs to move their services online, creating, and launching websites as well as establishing social media presence, all of which has gone a long way in increasing sales and profits.

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  • Grounded by the pandemic, community groups are working to save Cleveland's Census

    August 25, 2020 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    With 75 micro-grants totaling $200,000, community organizations in Cleveland encourage people to complete the census in innovative ways. The Cleveland Caravan, or La Caravana, is a collaborative effort where trucks play looped messages in English and Spanish over a loud speaker with information on how to fill out the Census, vote, and stay safe during the pandemic. Asian Services in Action and Us Together, a refugee and immigrant services group, conduct outreach and have helped 1,190 and 700 people complete the Census respectively. Despite these efforts, the city's response rate is comparatively low.

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