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  • Plastic with a Purpose

    June 03, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A new social enterprise called rePurpose asks consumers to estimate their plastic usage and pay to offset it. Then, the organization funds worker cooperatives in India that provide more stable employment and pay for workers in the recycling industry. Still in its early stages, rePurpose hopes to collaborate with businesses, schools, and individuals to offset their plastic usage.

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  • She's Giving Every College Student a Life Coach

    June 02, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    After her experience arriving woefully unprepared at Dartmouth, Alex Bernadotte started Beyond 12, a tech nonprofit that provides virtual coaching to graduating high school seniors and college students. Beyond 12 has a special focus on first-generation college students and immigrants to help coach them through problems big and small. Beyond 12 now works with 120 high schools nationwide with more than 100,000 undergrad participants.

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  • These Millennials Got New Roommates. They're Nuns.

    May 31, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlingame, California

    For millennials looking to gain a stronger sense of commitment to social justice and service work, religious traditions can provide a helpful framework. The Nuns and Nones program in Burlingame, California, places young participants into convents. In exchange for low-income housing, the young people help provide care and company for the aging sisters, while also drawing lessons from their participation in—and devotion to—service work.

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  • One City Invests in Child Care That Parents Can Afford: Family and Friends

    May 31, 2019 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    As the cost of early childcare education reaches unsustainable levels for many families, advocates are working to support, teach, and validate the informal caregivers, including relatives, friends, and neighbors, who continue to fill in the gaps. Minneapolis, where an estimated 70 percent of preschool-aged children are cared for by family members or friends, is one city leading the charge.

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  • Bengaluru non-profit builds play spaces from scrap

    May 30, 2019 |

    Citizen Matters |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru

    In Bengaluru, India, Anthill Creations has created dozens of playgrounds, or "play scapes" as they call them, using recycled tire scraps that are safe and fun. Serving over 10,000 children, Anthill's play scapes allow spaces for children to engage in much needed play and outdoor activity necessary for successful development.

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  • How a 'Communiversity' Works

    May 30, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Mississippi

    Bucking the stereotypes of strained town-gown relations and the removed university, the Mississippi Communiversity is bringing together a community college, research university, local high schools, state and local government, federal government, private businesses, and local individuals to build a truly collaborative academic center. The academically structured, industrially aligned program enjoys funding from all of the above parties mentioned.

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  • How A Radio Frequency Is Delivering High Speed Internet To Small Towns

    May 29, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Northern Michigan University has found a way to tap into the Educational Resource Spectrum to secure high speed internet access for off-campus students and nearby underserved communities. To figure out if this little-known option is a viable choice for other isolated rural communities in the U.S., the FCC is working through how to regulate the radio spectrum.

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  • How Wyoming manages to keep its rural schools open

    May 27, 2019 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    In Wyoming, the state's school funding model recaptures money from affluent districts and reallocates it to districts with fewer resources. This unique and heralded system has allowed Wyoming to keep the doors of its rural, one-room rural schoolhouses, which often are a key part of a communities' fabric, open.

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  • Message scent: Douglas fir beetles detoured from Ouray forest by pheromone packets

    May 27, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Ouray, Colorado

    By combining biomimicry with biodiversity, Colorado’s forests have kept damaging fir beetles at bay. The city of Ouray, Colorado, and the Colorado State Forest Service have been working with the help of volunteers to apply chemical pheromones to protect Douglas firs from the damaging beetles. The pheromones mimic a warning produced by the beetles, discouraging them from settling on the tree. The pheromones are applied by hand, requiring teams of trained volunteers.

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  • In Rural Guatemala, Can This School Make “The Girl Effect” Happen?

    May 23, 2019 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The MAIA Impact School, inspired by New York City's well-known KIPP charter schools, gives scholarships to ambitious indigenous girls in Guatemala with the aim of "propel[ing] them from poverty and isolation into the most elite spheres of Guatemalan society." School administrators are gradually learning how to adapt the model to a new setting with new expectations and teachers.

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