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  • A collaboration of local orgs is working to boost minority-owned businesses in Kensington

    Courtney Duchene

    April 05, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Four local organizations have teamed up to provide $15 million in loans for the Latinx community in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The affordable loans have gone to affordable housing, small businesses, residential mortgages, and development projects.

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  • Planting trees can create plastic waste. One teenager is changing that.

    Kanchan Srivastava

    April 05, 2021 |

    Footprint |

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    Response Location: India, Chintalkunta, Telangana

    A teenager in India came up with a solution to combat the plastic waste crisis that usually comes with planting trees. Srija created a biodegradable pot made out of groundnut shells that decomposes in the soil after 20 days. She’s working with an organization to scale her product, which costs just 27 cents to make.

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  • Minneapolis restaurants offer takeout food without a side of guilt for using wasteful containers

    Richard Chin

    March 29, 2021 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A clean tech startup called Forever Ware created reusable, stainless steel containers for restaurants to use instead of single-use takeout containers. So far, four restaurants in Minneapolis are participating in the program, where customers pay a deposit for the container and can return it to any restaurant in the network. Within two months, the containers were used about 1,400 times, which probably cut back on some plastic waste ending up in landfills.

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  • Can a shared services alliance help childcare centers keep the lights on?

    Yadira Lopez

    March 28, 2021 |

    Miami Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Childcare centers are outsourcing administrative work through a pilot program that pools resources for a network of childcare providers. The alliances keep costs down, improve efficiency, and reduce the workload. The alliances also help recruit new students, onboard new staff, maintain licensing, and even highlights opportunities for funding and new income streams. Outsourcing administrative tasks allows childcare centers to be more financially sustainable and can prevent more centers from shutting down.

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  • Airbnb-like Miami company helps parents explore childcare centers without the driving

    Yadira Lopez

    March 28, 2021 |

    Miami Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Parents in Miami-Dade county can now access an online directory of preschools and childcare options through prek.com. Research shows most parents find child care through word of mouth, which leaves those who are new in town, as well as immigrant parents, at a disadvantage. The website provides one-on-one services to help walk parents explore their options and offers a digital presence to many smaller facilities that lacked the time and resources to market online.

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  • Teen invents playing cards that are gender-equal -- and diverse

    Scottie Andrew Maria Morava

    March 28, 2021 |

    CNN |

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    16-year-old Maayan Segal and her father launched Queeng, a deck of cards that represents gender equality and includes a range of racial and cultural identities. The first iteration sold over 50,000 decks but was re-designed after critics cited the lack of racial diversity. The hand-drawn cards include a range of skin tones and facial features, and king cards are replaced by male and female “Monarch” cards, "Dutchess" or "Duke" cards replace queen cards, and "Prince" or "Princess" cards replace jack cards. There are also female jokers. Five days after its release, Queeng 2.0 already sold over 4,000 decks.

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  • How to reuse a demolished building

    Charlotte Horn

    March 23, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Winterthur

    A warehouse in Switzerland is being transformed into new creative workspaces. The catch: It’s being constructed out of reused building materials. About 70 percent of it is being made from old materials like wood floorboards, steel beams, and windows. A network of treasure hunters are on the lookout for used materials that can be used in constructing these buildings. The workspace is nearly complete and it already has tenants for all of the spaces. They were also able to cut the building’s carbon emissions in half.

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  • Iron Dames: The all-female team racing to bring change to motor sports

    Angelica Marin

    March 19, 2021 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Italy

    The Iron Dames is one of just three all-female professional racing teams that competes in Grand Touring endurance racing around the world. The group was founded to change the perception of women in the sport and they have successfully shifted attitudes by qualifying for the sport’s top races. While getting sponsorships can be difficult for women in the field, the Iron Dames have received endorsements from top car manufacturers, which further reinforces the legitimacy of their talent and is a sign of their progress in the male-dominated sport.

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  • Gen Z Angels: How A Younger Generation Of Investors Is Getting In On Deals

    Sophia Kunthara

    March 16, 2021 |

    Crunchbase News |

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    Gen Z VCs supports early-career and aspiring venture capitalists who want to become angel investors. The group was founded in November 2020, after the Securities and Exchange Commission loosened the rules about who can invest in early-stage startups and allowed start-ups to raise money through crowd-funding. The group, which has grown to more than 6,000 members, moderates Slack channels where members can post deals, help make connections, and share information to demystify the world of angel investing.

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  • The plus-size knitters who are solving an inclusivity problem

    Mia Sato

    March 10, 2021 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: United States

    Knitters are using social media, crowdsourcing, and spreadsheets to make the knitwear industry more inclusive of different body types. Designer Sarah Krentz offers patterns using an interactive spreadsheet where knitters fill in key measurements like bust, waist, and bicep circumference and the pattern automatically populates with the correct number of stitches and rows based on a pre-set formula created by Krentz. Fat Test Knits connects designers to plus size knitters who will test the patters. The site also serves as a bulletin board where moderators have vetted and shared over 500 patterns since 2019.

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