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  • Four WA communities tried to end youth homelessness. One is seeing success

    October 28, 2022 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

    Washington’s Anchor Community Initiative helps youth experiencing homeless by improving communities’ response systems with better data, more funding, and better connecting community organizations and specialists.

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  • How parts of northwestern Ontario bucked the provincial trend of a lower municipal voter turnout

    October 28, 2022 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Atikokan, Ontario

    Though voter turnout for municipal elections dropped about 4 percent across Ontario in 2022, a handful of communities in the northwestern part of the province bucked that trend by switching to online voting or telephone voting and a focus on outreach with younger residents. In the town of Atikokan, about 56 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, compared to 34 percent throughout the province as a whole.

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  • "Hello Tractor": Per App bestellen Bäuerïnnen in 13 afrikanischen Ländern einen Pflug

    October 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Die App "Hello Tractor" ermöglicht es Landwirten in Kenia, durch Kredite zu günstigen Bedingungen Traktoren zu erwerben und landwirtschaftliches Gerät untereinander zu verleihen. Ihre Erträge und ihr Einkommen wachsen dadurch deutlich.

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  • Blind and low-vision voters hail Massachusetts' new statewide online voting option

    October 28, 2022 |

    GBH |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    In 2021, Massachusetts debuted a new election service that allows voters with disabilities to cast their ballots electronically through a secure web portal. Originally piloted in five municipalities, the system was used by six people last year and is now available statewide.

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  • False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early

    October 28, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Governments, companies, and nonprofits are using a strategy called "pre-bunking" to teach people the tactics and strategies behind misinformation so that they can recognize and scrutinize it when they see it online. After Twitter released several dozen pre-bunks about elections in the United States and Brazil, about 39 percent of users they surveyed said they were more confident that there wouldn't be election fraud, and about half said they were able to pause and question what they saw in online posts.

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  • Let's Talk About Mental Health: Community solutions to moving beyond the scarcity trap

    October 28, 2022 |

    Explore Big Sky |

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    Response Location: United States, Big Sky, Montana

    Big Sky Community Food Bank and Food Resource Center provides easy access to food and resources to people in need. People are encouraged to use the resources as a strategy to make their household budget go further and provide a sense of security. This helps prevent feelings of constant stress and insecurity around basic needs, which can lead to a scarcity mindset and be detrimental to mental health.

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  • They built a skate park in Nebraska's poorest county. Then they watched Junior do something priceless.

    October 28, 2022 |

    Flatwater Free Press |

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    Response Location: Omaha Tribe, United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    On native land where the local youth are struggling with depression and anxiety, a new skate park has been built as studies have shown that skateboarding is good for teenagers’ mental health – especially teens living in isolated conditions. The skate park helps get kids out of the house and serves as a social support network, fostering a sense of belonging.

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  • Financial help for renters during COVID slashed Colorado evictions by nearly 60%, new study finds

    October 28, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Federal funding for rental assistance and a moratorium on evictions for past-due rent reduced evictions in Colorado by more than half over the past two years.

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  • How one unmarked van is quietly delivering abortion pills on Colorado's border

    October 27, 2022 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Just The Pill operates a mobile clinic along the Colorado border to distribute abortion medications to patients from states that restrict abortion access after an initial telehealth consultation.

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  • To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

    October 27, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Kids Who Farm, an initiative co-founded by a 12-year-old in the Phillippines, is working to teach young people how to start micro-farms and grow the waning youth interest in agriculture.

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