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  • How One City Ended Prison Gerrymandering

    To end prison gerrymandering, the city council in Wilmington, Delaware, counted people who are incarcerated in the local prison at their last address in the city for the 2020 Census. People who are incarcerated there but did not live in Wilmington were not counted.

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  • How Norway Can Help Cure America's "Range Anxiety"

    Norway’s electric vehicle adaptation has grown to outpace the sale of fossil-fuel cars. The country’s government accomplished this by investing millions of euros in distributing charging ports, incentivizing electric vehicle purchases, disincentivizing purchases of fossil-fuel cars, and requiring locations like parking garages have electric infrastructure available.

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  • How Home-Based Care Could Fix the Rural Childcare Drought

    Leaders in North Carolina’s Transylvania County are investing in home-based childcare by creating a network of caregivers and providing them with financial and technical assistance. The program gives parents affordable options in a rural community where it can be hard to find openings at childcare facilities.

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  • The Coworking Space Putting Black Moms' Startup Dreams First

    A coworking space in Baltimore focuses on making it easier for Black mom entrepreneurs to grow their businesses by offering affordable, on-site babysitting.

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  • The Wollemi Pine's Survival Proves We Can Save More Trees

    Conservation efforts in Australia are saving the Wollemi pine tree from extinction. The Wollemi Pine Recovery Team works with a variety of experts to study and repopulate the plant while saving the remaining wild pines from disease and fire. The team also gets some help from the public who buy pines to care for at home.

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  • Little Tokyo Nutrition Services Is Taking Food Insecurity Off the Menu

    To combat food insecurity, the nonprofit Little Tokyo Senior Nutrition Services delivers free, nutritious meals to Japanese seniors in local residential communities, Boyle Heights, and East Los Angeles.

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  • Deconstruction: women+ group unbuilds old houses for reuse

    Re:purpose Savannah is a women and non-binary-led group that saves old buildings from landfills through deconstruction, a less wasteful alternative to demolition, and then salvaging useful materials to be used in future builds and community projects. Re:purpose Savannah harvests 50-90% of a house for reuse and then recycles the rest. The salvaged materials for reuse are then sold to locals in the area

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  • Children's adoration offers young families a chance for prayer, community

    A parish in Blacksburg, Virginia, runs a half-hour Eucharistic adoration on the weekends for families with young children that find it difficult to make it through the traditional version. They mix readings, reflections, and prayer with coloring, songs, and time on the playground.

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  • How Nigerian group moved communities to fight climate crisis with mangroves restoration

    The Tropical Research and Conservation Center’s mangrove restoration projects in Nigeria use a community-based, participatory approach to engage locals in the process, educate them on the importance of the trees, and keep them from turning to deforestation as a source of income.

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  • Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

    The Tax Sale Benevolence Program reaches out to owners of properties in Cook County, Illinois, with tax debt to help them pay it off and connect them to helpful resources so they do not lose their homes.

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