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  • The epoch of coal is ending. Could an extraordinary fossil deposit help Kemmerer survive?

    August 07, 2022 |

    Casper Star-Tribune |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kemmerer, Wyoming

    Fossil Lake, and its associated quarries, have provided small businesses in Kemmerer with ways to attract tourists and make a living as major industries, such as coal, has retreated in recent years. The businesses have all thrived by following different, non-competing business models, generating millions of dollars in revenue every year.

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  • Combating veteran suicides with peers, therapy, housing — and a little horse sense

    August 06, 2022 |

    Local News Matters |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Swords to Plowshares is a San Francisco nonprofit providing homeless veterans with a place to live and different types of therapy while working to get them jobs, military benefits, and permanent housing.

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  • A new way to pay for college

    August 05, 2022 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Income share agreements provide students a new way to pay for college. They receive the money they need by agreeing to give the school a percentage of their future earnings for a set number of years after graduation.

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  • Enabled to Enable: How NGO is changing narrative for PwDs in Cross River state

    August 05, 2022 |

    Legit.ng |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Enabled to Enable provides vocational skills training to disabled individuals. So far, the skills training has reached about 129 women and girls, empowering them to find jobs and even start their own businesses despite their disabilities.

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  • Would an innovative approach to child care work in Knox County?

    August 05, 2022 |

    Knox Pages |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Along the Way is filling a crucial gap in the community by providing in-home childcare services to single mothers who work shifts during the nights or weekends. Through a holistic approach, the organization has enabled mothers to enter or remain in the workforce, ensured fair wages to the caregivers it employs, and is going to start partnering with for-profit employers to make this a community effort.

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  • From 'Identity Search', She Built A Movement Against Mental Illness

    August 05, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    Victoria Restored Minds provides therapeutic and emotional support to people facing mental health challenges. With its team of counselors, therapists, and psychologists, VRM has provided counseling, therapy, and general support to about 2,000 people.

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  • Plastic pens for chickens reduce plastic pollution

    August 05, 2022 |

    Look Up TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Utumizi wa plastiki kujenga nyumba ya vifaranga kaunti ya Bungoma inatunza mazingira pamoja na kupunguza gharama ya kujenga nyumba hizo. Kwa kutumia mabaki ya plastiki hususan mtungi za mafuta ya kupika, wafugaji wa kuku wanajenga sanduku zinazotumika kama nyumba ya kufuga vifaranga wa siku moja hadi mwezi mmoja.

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  • Repair Ukraine: How volunteers "clean up after russia" in Chernihiv region

    August 05, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine, Lukashivka

    Volunteers from the Repair Together project travel to liberated towns in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine to clear rubble, so the residents can rebuild their homes.

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  • Pakistan's Mangroves Are a Coastal Conservation Marvel

    August 05, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Pakistan, Balochistan

    Mangroves are biodiverse growths that provide a variety of benefits to coastal regions including food security, a breeding ground for various species and protection from erosion and storms along the coast. Previously destroyed by deforestation, efforts to regrow mangroves are a cost-effective solution to climate change.

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  • "deposetaplainte.fr" : déposer plainte en ligne pour violences sexuelles et sexistes

    August 04, 2022 |

    France Culture |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: France

    66% des femmes sont mal reçues au commissariat ou à la gendarmerie lorsqu'elles souhaitent porter plainte pour violence sexiste ou sexuelle. Trois jeunes ont créé "Déposte ta plainte" le premier site en France permettant aux victimes de violences sexistes et sexuelles de déposer plainte en ligne. Il a permis de déposer une cinquantaine de plaintes en quatre mois. Si c'est un outil complémentaire aux dispositifs existants, il n'est pas idéal pour toutes.

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