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  • Residents 13 and up get another pick of city projects to receive funding

    June 20, 2022 |

    Hartford Courant |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Hartford residents 13 and older can decide how some public funds are spent. The Hartford Decides participatory budgeting initiative considers public input on small capital projects that cost between $10,000 and $25,000 and have a useful life of at least five years. City officials vet the projects for feasibility and those that pass are put on a ballot for the public to vote on. Previous winning projects include improvements to libraries, schools, and other publicly accessible resources. Residents can vote online or in-person and, depending on available funding, two to four projects can win approval.

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  • Una ciudad con menos basura: reciclar en San Cristóbal

    June 16, 2022 |

    Historias que laten |

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    Response Location: Venezuela, Táchira

    En el 2020, ingenieros y arquitectos del estado se reunén para encontrar una solución a los problemas de manejo de desechos en sus comunidades y deciden crear un centro de recolección de desechos revalorizables y reciclaje. En el proceso crean además una escuela de reciclaje para educar a la población y además trabajan con los gobiernos locales para colocar una red de contenedores públicos para clasificación de desechos.

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  • El cálculo imposible de las ollas comunes: ¿cómo repartir cuatro pescados entre trescientas personas?

    June 16, 2022 |

    Salud con Lupa |

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    Response Location: Peru, Lima

    Las Ollas Comunes son comedores comunales que proporcionan almuerzo a los miembros de las comunidades aledañas de manera gratuita. Las ollas funcionan con el trabajo organizado y voluntario de las mujeres de las comunidades, quienes se aseguran de dividir los alimentos que logran recolectar, de manera equitativa.

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  • How Nigeria's Only Biogas Mini-grid Project Failed With Lessons To Learn

    June 15, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Rije

    A local farm builds a biogas electric grid for its community to access electricity. The grid is powered with chicken feces through anaerobic digestion, which occurs when bacteria break down the waste into a gas.

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  • Could more entrepreneurs help revive the heartland?

    June 06, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Ord, Nebraska

    The community in Ord, Nebraska, revived their town by supporting and encouraging entrepreneurs and making it easier to start small businesses.

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  • Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

    May 20, 2022 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    In Blackburn Middle School's Learning Garden, students get hands-on experience with planting, cultivating, and selling their own crops. The school also hosts a student-led farmers market and collard greens cook-off where they can show off the fruits of their labor.

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  • A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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  • Salem looks to solution-based housing for those experiencing homelessness

    April 26, 2022 |

    KGW-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    Micro-shelters with on-site case managers give people experiencing homelessness a stable place to live while connecting them to medical care and job opportunities.

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  • La plaza que se convirtió en un centro de cultura al aire libre

    April 25, 2022 |

    El Otro País |

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    Response Location: Paraguay

    Una comisión vecinal logra transforma una plaza abandonada en un espacio de recreo para los miembros de la comunida de todas las edades. La misma comisión y los demás miembros del barrio, asumen el mantenimiento y la organización de actividades, que va desde bibliotega para niños, festivales de arte, espacios para la recreación y el deporte. Sin embargo, las acciones aún esperan apoyo gubernamental.

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  • Public Libraries Are Making It Easy to Check Out Seeds—and Plant a Garden

    April 25, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

    More and more public libraries around the United States are creating seed libraries as a way to encourage gardening, combat hunger insecurity, and build community resilience. For example, the Jefferson Public Library in Georgia has seen the number of people using the seed library grow to more than 300 in 2021. It can be a lot of work to maintain the seed libraries, but some librarians see it as a way to engage the community.

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