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  • In Uganda, Fostering a World without Adoption

    September 06, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In Uganda, where international adoptions and orphanages are the most present form of child welfare, nonprofits like Reunite, Alternative Care Initiatives-Uganda, and CALM Africa are shifting the country to a welfare model focused on family reunification and community-based foster care. Although pilot programs are still small, there is also a focus on closing technical loopholes and providing practical support to encourage foster care programs.

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  • Tired of being humiliated, these girls fought the school dress code. And won.

    September 01, 2016 |

    Upworthy |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    School dress codes overwhelmingly affect girls, and being accused of breaking the code results in missed school and wearing 'shame clothes'. A few Portland students fought the school board, and it resulted in a new gender neutral dress code.

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  • Can a Fresh Cup of Coffee Help Mend Police-Civilian Relations?

    September 01, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    New Orleans police adopted a program popular in many other cities called Coffee With A Cop in an effort to foster more normal communication among police and citizens over a cup of Joe. It's a version of community policing, but certainly not a panacea for investing in actual community policing programs and the article points out that the city got rid of some of those programs while it's trying out this new model. It's initial rollout seems to offer hope for better relations between residents and police, while acknowledging the many challenges.

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  • The Tiny NGO That Changed Reporting on Rio's Favelas During the Olympics

    August 24, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Catalytic Communications provides resources to reporters to help them move beyond stereotypical ideas and present a multifaceted perspective of life in favelas. This is especially important during times like the Olympic Games when thousands of journalists arrive to cover a country they often know very little about. CatComm provides journalists with tools such as a list of underreported subjects and community leaders to contact and has actively informed over 200 articles. CatComm is also developing tools for their model to be created in other cities.

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  • Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above

    August 23, 2016 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Technology developed in the military to find who was planting roadside bombs to take out American soldiers has been adapted for civilian use by a former member of the Air Force, whose company seeks to work with police departments to use it to solve crimes. The airborne cameras provide hours of consistent surveillance and have proven highly effective at tracking down perpetrators so police can arrest them. But civil libertarians are alarmed what this widespread surveillance means and how it will be used, particularly since Baltimore officials did not tell the public about it for months.

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  • Tapping a Troubled Neighborhood's Inner Strength

    August 10, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Longview, Washington

    HIghlands area in Southern Washington has been an impoverished and unsafe neighbourhood, however, circumstances have been improve as neighbours have begun to get to know eachother and form a community. HIghlands neighbourhood association and the Family Policy council are two initiatives that have strengthened community ties, lead to leadership opportunities, facilitated citizen-police interactions, and helped children not fall into a poverty cycle.

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  • Beirut Madinati has set its sights on Lebanon national politics

    July 19, 2016 |

    Ya Libnan |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Arab governments have expended a lot of energy keeping politics of any stripe out of the public sphere. With a few hundred volunteers and hardly any money, an upstart campaign called Beirut Madinati — “Beirut Is My City” — is challenging the status quo, displaying the kind of savvy civic politics promised by the Arab Spring.

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  • Seattle-area Somali community unites to embrace state's new child-care standards

    July 09, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    When Washington state introduced higher standards for child care, many feared that home-based centers, including those run by women from Somalia, would close. But a group spearheaded by nonprofit Voices of Tomorrow arranged for training and materials in East African languages, helping a stunning 94 percent of providers to acquire the necessary license and to keep their centers - vital especially for low-income, immigrant families - open for business.

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  • The people trying to save democracy from itself

    July 02, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Low voter turnouts, populists offering half-truths, corporate interests, and the blurring of facts in the media are signs that democracy around the world is in turmoil. Internationally, citizens have assembled different programs and initiatives that arm ordinary people with information about policy and their elected officials, as well as distinctive ways to reform the electoral system.

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  • Research shows link between joblessness and youth violence: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    A correlation exists in Cuyahoga County between the idle youth rate -- base on teens who are neither working nor in school -- and the youth violence rate, according to an analysis done for The Plain Dealer by Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University and a professor of urban social research.

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