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  • As cases rise, college students take COVID-19 prevention into their own hands

    December 04, 2020 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    From zoom workshops that teach people about the misconceptions of COVID 19, to Google docs, to Instagram profiles that shame people who are partying during the pandemic, university students are holding their communities accountable. Across the country a myriad of student-led efforts have sprung up in response to careless behavior by college students. “I just thought it would be a good idea to sort of hold each other accountable and then be safe.”

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  • This Kauai Nonprofit Is Trying To Change How People Buy Their Food

    December 04, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Moloaa, Hawaii

    Food hub projects are gaining momentum in Hawaii as a means to connect farmers with customers. The projects go against the narrative that produce should be sold to big-box supermarkets, and instead focuses on "allowing farmers to concentrate on farming and creating a seamless ordering system so consumers can order food online for delivery or availability at central pickup points."

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  • Hunger Fight

    December 03, 2020 |

    Middlebury Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    When the coronavirus pandemic forced a restaurant in Vermont to close its doors and lay off hundreds of employees, the owner worked with investors to shift his business model so that he could provide meals for those now without work using the backlog of perishable foods. His initiative has now expanded with donations and contributions from community corporations and has even received funding from the state as it has grown to include “collective community gardening.”

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  • To Promote Family Planning, Priest Targets Poverty

    December 03, 2020 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kikuube

    Ugandan faith leaders are increasing family incomes by giving out piglets that sell for significant amounts when fully grown. The extra income goes toward maternal health, family planning, and school fees.

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  • A grassroots push to save disappearing birds and bees forces change in Germany

    December 03, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Germany, Bavaria

    Environmental advocates got 1.75 million signatures to change Bavarian farming laws to protect biodiversity. The Save the Bees Campaign calls for using subsidies to nearly triple the amount of organic farming, creating a network of wildlife corridors, and other actions to protect bird and insect life. Initial results show that, since the law took effect, the share of organic farmland increased and thousands of more acres of forest have been protected. Farmers have also adjusted their view of productivity, including protecting nature as a way to be productive. Similar efforts are happening across Europe.

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  • Tip Me's Digital Tipping Solution Lets You Tip the Workers Who Made Your Clothes

    December 03, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Germany

    To mitigate the problem of unfair supply chains, Tip Me allows consumers to send money directly to the workers creating the merchandise in factories halfway across the world. Brands pay a fee to sign up for the system "in order to boost their ethical credibility" which provides funding for Tip Me, allowing the company to handle the logistics of getting tips into the hands of those for whom they are intended. Half of all shoppers have used the tipping feature when presented with the opportunity.

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  • Year of racial awakening may topple Richmond's last Confederate statue

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has become an example of American protest art as protesters have covered it in graffiti demanding racial justice and surrounded it with basketball hoops, gardens, tents, lawn chairs, and a grill for community gatherings. The site has become a symbol, a place of local pilgrimage, to collectively create a public space of belonging and protest racial injustices and systemic racism. The Lee statue is likely to be taken down soon, as all other confederate statues on "monument row" have been, because a judge recently struck down the legal challenges to the state’s plan to remove it.

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  • A Philly jobs program lost six to a year of violence. Can it still help young people thrive?

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    PowerCorpsPHL and Mural Arts' Guild have notched impressive results in job placements of young people with criminal records. The programs' employment training, paid apprenticeships, and art therapy classes have all been disrupted by 2020's pandemic, social unrest, and street violence. Private grants have largely made up for budget cuts from the city of Philadelphia. But the lack of face to face training and counseling has been disruptive. Both programs and their trainees are persevering despite longer odds, with workarounds that keep the programs afloat in difficult times.

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  • How Madison's Latino community is pulling together to survive COVID

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Cap Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    In Madison, Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Latino population, but the local community has joined together to advocate for better access to care and information. The efforts have included pop-up testing sites equipped with Spanish speakers, better-targeted messages, and non-medical support like food boxes.

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  • This teen tutor turns computer science into kids' stuff

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who got the idea after he started tutoring kids from his neighborhood. “The entire idea is to make it as flexible or as adaptable to each student as possible,” Samvit says. Since its launch, the nonprofit has expanded to include 250 volunteers who service 300 students. “CS Remastered has opened four chapters in the U.S., one in India, and one in China.”

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