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  • This Philly-made "fruit hacking" tool fights food waste and saves farmers thousands

    February 04, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Monitoring spikes in ethylene allows produce distributors to reduce food waste. The Philadelphia based company, Strella Biotech, uses sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) to track when produce begins to emit ethylene and ripen. By paying closer attention to the status of their produce, distributors partnering with Stella Biotech have reduced food waste and saved money in the process.

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  • How The Carbon Disclosure Project Is Fostering Transparency For City-Level Environmental Policy Design

    February 03, 2020 |

    Blavity |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Collecting data about environmental risks and resiliency projects facilitates investment and funding. The Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Cities Program and Cities Vulnerability Assessment encourage participating cities to report actions they are taking to address climate risks. CDP then uses the data to help cities invest in socially equitable solutions, advising community level projects through its Matchmaker project. The project has led to results in cities such as Baltimore and Cleveland.

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  • Family business: the women starting afresh in Cairo's creative sector

    January 30, 2020 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    An initiative run by the UN Refugee Agency in Cairo called NilFurat teaches women in countries around the Nile and Furat rivers creative skills for them to make a living. The women learn skills like hand sewing, machine sewing, product design, startup management, and financial literacy. The program focuses on supporting artisans who come from disadvantaged or underemployed backgrounds and works to foster a supportive community amongst women coming from Egyptian, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Sudanese backgrounds. The group is growing quickly and still faces challenges, but its members are optimistic.

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  • An Atlanta Church and a Theater Nonprofit Find Sanctuary Together

    January 29, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, College Park, Georgia

    Collaborations can breathe new life into community churches. In College Park, Georgia, the College Park First United Methodist Church entered into a partnership with PushPush, a theater nonprofit formerly located in the metro Atlanta area. The partnership came about with the help of Good Spaces, a socially-minded real estate development organization.

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  • Valentine's Day Flowers Don't Have to Be So Bad for the Earth After All

    January 28, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The supply chain for Valentine's Day flowers is incredibly toxic for the environment and produces mass amounts of waste. In response, a "floral gifting" service industry emerged in which flowers from special events can get repurposed or recycled. One such company, NYC-based Repeat Roses, has a special service that restyles the flowers into petite bouquets to donate to hospitals, nursing homes, and family shelters. Their efforts have diverted more than 98 tons of waste from landfills and delivered almost 53,000 floral arrangements to people in need.

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  • Nepal: Cafe with cause helps trafficking survivors

    January 17, 2020 |

    Anadolu Agency |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    Nonprofits in Nepal have turned to social enterprise to provide a source of income for the people they typically serve through donations. The enterprise operations help them raise more funding for their projects and reduces their need to rely entirely on donor funding. Job training and employment also provide the beneficiaries with a sense of confidence due to their new-found independence.

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  • Honeycomb Credit expands to Philly to help small business owners get crowdsourced loans

    January 14, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Founded in Pittsburgh, Honeycomb Credit expands to Philadelphia as a way to offer small businesses help with microfinance challenges. The company hosts a platform that allows businesses to create fundraising profiles; community members can watch a video about the business and decide to invest and receive monthly payouts from their contribution.

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  • Microlending Sparks Hope and Renewal in Rochester, N.Y.

    January 07, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    In 2016, the city of Rochester, NY partnered with Kiva—a crowd-funded microlender—to serve aspiring or established small-business owners. Their partnership offers interest-free loans, and already 20 of the loans have been fully repaid. This article looks at six different case studies of residents who have benefitted from the program.

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  • No Sex For Fish: How Women In A Fishing Village Are Fighting For Power

    December 26, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nduru Beach

    Along Kenya's Lake Victoria, the practice of jaboya - where fishermen guarantee that day's catch to a woman fish trader in exchange for sexual favors - is all too common, in part due to a lack of economic opportunity in small villages. Kenya's fishing communities also have rates of HIV prevalence between 30% and 40%. To combat these issues, local women and non-profits teamed up to start No Sex for Fish, an organization committed to providing women fish traders their own boats so they could catch the fish themselves. While initial results were promising, the initiative ultimately has not yet succeeded.

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  • This startup is using geo-tagging and blockchain to fight deforestation in Africa

    December 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    The My Roots in Africa Project is an initiative of a group called the Most Influential People of African Descent, which seeks to build connection between Africans in Africa and elsewhere around the world through the act of having trees planted in their honor to combat deforestation, especially in West and East Africa. The project will complement the mission of the Great Green Wall and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative, both of which also aim to plant large numbers of trees across Africa.

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