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  • Collaboration between White Earth Nation, Mahnomen Co. leads to one of highest vaccination rates in MN

    Dan Gunderson

    February 19, 2021 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota

    A partnership between the White Earth Nation and Mahnomen County in Minnesota has been a key factor in the above-average vaccination rates in the county. Because the county is located within the borders of the White Earth Reservation, which is a sovereign nation, everyone living in the region – regardless of tribal affiliation – has been allowed to obtain the vaccine.

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  • The pandemic could change U.S. fisheries forever. Will it be for better or for worse?

    Katarina Zimmer

    February 18, 2021 |

    The Counter |

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    Response Location: United States

    To weather the uncertainties of the pandemic and geopolitical trade disputes, many small, locally-operated fisheries in the United States have upended the way they do business by selling their catches directly to consumers. For example, OC Wild Seafood in California started to sell its spiny lobsters locally. Though the logistics and regulations can make fish-to-dish initiatives challenging, many community-supported fisheries saw an increase in sales and customers in 2020.

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  • Teacher in Greece offers hope to inmates through TV classes

    Elena Becatoros

    February 18, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Greece, Avlona

    When the pandemic shut schools down in Greece, that included the schooling system in place for those in Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center; so, the director of the school started broadcasting lessons over a TV channel. The director and his team worked together to get the station up and running and then with the young men who are incarcerated to popularize it throughout the detention center via word of mouth.

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  • District-led parent mentor program promotes path to college for English learners

    Zaidee Stavely Betty Márquez Rosales

    February 17, 2021 |

    EdSource |

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    Response Location: United States, Whittier, California

    Padres Promotores del Camino al Éxito Universitario (Parent Mentors for the Road to College Success) is a three-month program at Whittier Union High School District that taps into the collective knowledge of parents of English learners and provides them with a medium to share that knowledge and/or mentor other parents. There is also a curriculum for parents that are part of the program, which includes "classes on managing stress during the pandemic," information about the district's special education program, and other related information. Parents now help lead, inform, and present at district meetings.

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  • Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again

    Andrew Dickson

    February 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England, London

    To help patients recovering from COVID regain respiratory and vocal strength, the English National Opera worked with a London hospital to create a program that offers patients clinically proven recovery exercises taught by opera-singing tutors. While some regard the program as "a bit touchy-feely,” participants have expressed that it has helped both with recovery and feelings of isolation, and it is now being expanded to post-Covid clinics throughout England.

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  • A 19th Century Fund Is Still Helping Philadelphia's Smallest Businesses

    Kevin Riordan

    February 15, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A long-running fund in Philadelphia has been able to help struggling small-business owners in the city since 1854. The Merchant Fund has been able to provide 67 businesses with $307,000 in grants since the onset of the pandemic. Additionally, it also helps entrepreneurs purchase real estate. The fund’s executive director notes, “Owning property is crucial to business longevity, and is fundamental to creating wealth that can be passed on.”

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  • The inside story of how Pennsylvania failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief

    Charlotte Keith

    February 15, 2021 |

    Spotlight PA |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    When Pennsylvania's coronavirus rent relief program rolled out during the first few months of the pandemic, it failed to help many due to strict deadlines, poor information management, a payment cap, and overall procedural limitations. Now, the state is "getting a second chance," and has made modifications to the program in an attempt to avoid the failures of the last round.

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  • ‘Learning pods' taking root in Black, Latino neighborhoods

    Meghan E. Irons

    February 14, 2021 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In Boston, four organizations that serve Black and Latino families formed an alliance to provide low-cost learning pods to students of color. Run out of two churches, the full-day learning pods “serve nearly two dozen kindergarten through sixth-grade students.” The service comes at a crucial time, since pandemic learning is leaving behind students of color who already were at a disadvantage.

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  • Washington state's COVID-19 vaccine planning fell short on logistics, sowing disorder and mistrust

    Evan Bush Mike Reicher

    February 14, 2021 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Because Washington state health officials failed to prioritize the planning of basic logistics for disseminating the COVID vaccine, the state quickly fell behind others in vaccinating the most vulnerable and at risk. Realizing that a significant part of the failure stemmed from a reliance on the already overtaxed healthcare sector to deliver the vaccine, the state has since enlisted the National Guard to provide vaccinations at various sites and has seen some improvement.

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  • The cinemas now hiring out their screens to gamers

    Je Seung Lee

    February 11, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    The largest cinema chain in South Korea is renting screen time and auditorium space to video gamers as a way to supplement business income during the coronavirus pandemic. Though it doesn't generate a comparable amount of income as movies do, it has still attracted over 100 consumers thus far and other movie vendors have adopted the idea.

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