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  • 2.4 million pounds and counting: How sending surplus crops to food banks is helping Washington farmers and hungry families

    July 21, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    When the economy came to a sudden halt with the onset of a global pandemic, farmers were left with produce meant for the restaurant industry while families who lost incomes struggled to put food on their tables. For one good samaritan “it was just a matter of connecting the dots.” George Ahearn's idea to crowdsource transportation from farms to food banks led to the creation of EastWest Food Rescue, a nonprofit that has delivered 2.4 million pounds of crops to 160 food banks.

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  • Al igual que las organizaciones cambian el modelo de promotora para lidiar con COVID-19, las fundaciones cambian su patrocinio

    July 21, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro enfocadas en la justicia social y en proveer apoyo para las personas inmigrantes se han visto muy afectadas por la pandemia, lo que ha llevado a un cambio en la forma en que miden el impacto y el apoyo que reciben de sus financiadores. La pandemia ha provocado que muchas organizaciones pasen de ser grupos organizadores a aliarse con grupos de ayuda mutua, y les ha dificultado medir su impacto de la misma manera que lo hacían antes. Como resultado, los financiadores están cambiando su enfoque y brindando un apoyo operativo más general para ayudar a las organizaciones a ma

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  • Rayuwa Da Korona: How two local radio stations are responding to COVID-19 in Kano State

    July 21, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Arewa Radio and Freedom Radio, two stations with large audiences in Kano State, actively combat misinformation and false rumors about the coronavirus. The stations run programming that builds trust and confidence between the public and health officials. They engage local religious leaders, who are very influential in the area, provide forums for listeners to ask questions of experts, and air programming in local languages with titles such as “Demystifying COVID-19” and “Eradicating COVID-19." Although they try to make programming widely accessible, some want content available online and in infographic form.

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  • Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16

    July 20, 2020 |

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    Research shows that voting at a young age leads to lifelong civic engagement and several cities and countries have lowered their voting ages. In the handful of democracies that allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, they also show that they turnout in large numbers. Austria was the first EU country to allow 16-year-olds to vote and in 2014 their turnout was 64%, compared to 56% for voters 18-20. Takoma Park, Maryland allows 16-year-olds to vote, and in 2015 45% of them turned out compared to 21% overall. The national movement is slow, and not gaining a lot of traction, but changes can happen at the local level.

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  • To fix homelessness, let's treat it as a health issue like they do in Denver

    July 20, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia can look to places such as Denver and New Jersey for examples of how to alleviate homelessness by treating it as a health problem. Many people experiencing homelessness struggle with alcohol, opiate and drug addictions as well as mental and physical disabilities. Hospitals are often obligated to treat and keep anyone who may not have a safe place to go after release therefore the healthcare industry has an incentive to mitigate the homelessness crisis by providing wraparound services as well as transitional housing for people who have no where to go after a hospital release.

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  • How Your Local Election Clerk Is Fighting Global Disinformation

    July 20, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many entities are working with social media companies to flag election-related disinformation. The California Secretary of State emails voters about how to report false information so the state can flag it and the Arizona Secretary of State verifies official accounts with social media companies. In the private sector, the startup VineSite uses artificial intelligence to identify and flag false information and the nonprofit Mitre has an app used by 160 election officials to report social media disinformation. Officials have a good relationship with social media companies, but there is room for improvement.

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  • How Immokalee-based Mision Peniel has had to adapt amid COVID-19 regulations

    July 20, 2020 |

    Naples Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    When the coronavirus threatened the economic well-being and health of the immigrant farmworkers in Florida's agricultural hub in Collier County, faith-based organizations that could no longer serve free hot meals pivoted to a weekly distribution of donated food and homemade masks. Immokalee's Mision Peniel and area churches served an average of 400 people per week since the early days of the outbreak, focusing on financially struggling families, with bags of vegetables, meat, and other staples.

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  • Your Zoom Interrogation Is About To Start

    July 20, 2020 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Traditional police interrogation tactics that emphasize invading someone’s personal space to increase anxiety, read body language, and prompt confessions have had to undergo changes during the pandemic, some of which offer new advantages. While police say they lose some needed leverage to do their jobs when interviews are conducted through masks, outdoors in public, or via teleconferencing screens, the workarounds encourage taping of all interviews and more transparency when the public can observe how police work.

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  • Reformed leaders of rival gangs in Lehigh Valley collaborate on a community need: Diapers Audio icon

    July 20, 2020 |

    The Morning Call |

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    Response Location: United States, Allentown, Pennsylvania

    An anti-violence program served as the spark for a “diaper drive” that delivered more than 163,000 donated diapers to 1,100 families as the coronavirus shutdown took hold, a charity drive enabled by a gang truce – and run by gang members themselves. Members of the Latin Kings, Crips, and Bloods, working through the Zero Youth Violence program of the organization Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley, benefited from years of work to strengthen community relationships as a means of conducting “violence interruption” work.

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  • The hidden hand that uses money to reform troubled police departments

    July 19, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Smaller cities that cannot afford costly payouts for civil settlements in police misconduct cases rely on liability insurance, which can act as a regulator when insurers demand reforms up to and including disbanding troubled departments. While police killings have decreased in large cities over the past six years, they have increased in the suburban and rural areas served by the vast majority of police departments. “Loss prevention” measures that require policy and personnel changes have been proven to work, but insurance that fails to police the police can also shield cities from accountability.

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