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  • Can Coffee Kick-Start an Economy?

    April 06, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kasese, Western Region

    African coffee growers sell their raw beans cheaply to traders, earning very little for their work. The creator of Good African Coffee in Uganda was able to sell the first African roasted coffee internationally by selling consumers the story of the coffee.

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  • From Young Adult Book Fans to Wizards of Change

    March 21, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Global social and economic problems are difficult to change. However, fan-activism fuels the interests of fans of popular young adult fiction. Books such as Harry Potter and the Hunger Games have inspired activist groups that raise awareness of global hunger, reading, and relief supplies to impoverished nations, among others. Being a fan has served as a bridge to become politically active and solve the world’s problems.

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  • Prizes With an Eye Toward the Future

    February 29, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Agencies across the corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors are recruiting ideas from the public by offering prizes for solving challenges. Prize incentives have spurred innovation for centuries, but fell out of favor as the preferred method in the 1800s. Now, prize-based incentives are back, in part because of a flood of new philanthropic money, and because prizes cast a wider net to a largely more educated and tech-savvy global population.

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  • Helping Where Help Is Wanted

    January 10, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Vacant positions exist in many employment sectors, including in education and in hospitals. ReServe is a program that joins retired professionals to part-time paid positions in non-profits to perform duties. A controversy has emerged that suggests these positions should be paid at a professional-rate salary.

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  • Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil

    December 08, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The United States can outsource certain kinds of "microwork," such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person’s, or one country’s gain, must be another’s loss.

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  • Quick Change That Lasts for the Long Term

    October 04, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Sudan

    Rapid Results Initiatives are micro social change projects that a village, government office, or business will work accomplish in just 100 days. They have proven to be sustainably effective at various tasks because they create a sense of local ownership and empowerment within the community that inspires additional change and improvement.

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  • The Health Payoffs of Time Banks

    September 20, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Vancouver, Washington

    Two columns on Time Banks, where people swap services – teach calligraphy to one neighbor, and get computer repair from another neighbor. Time Banks create community and make people healthier – which is why hospitals and clinics are now starting them.

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  • Salvaging Medical Cast-Offs to Save Lives

    August 04, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Benin, Cotonou, Littoral

    Many organizations are building distribution systems to get surplus items in one place to those who need them in another. For example, an organization in Brooklyn collects the surplus medical equipment from United States hospitals and ships it to hospitals in poor countries.

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  • Trusting Families to Help Themselves

    July 19, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To give support to struggling families without prescribing solutions requires respect and discipline. The Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.) encourages low-income families to define their own goals and work towards them in mutual support groups, while carefully documenting their successes.

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  • Out of Poverty, Family-Style

    July 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    A non-traditional program called the Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.), uses a radically different approach from the traditional American social service model to empower entire families alleviate themselves from poverty. The results in multiple states thus far have been so striking, that this model of self-sufficiency may be able to have a significant impact reducing poverty nationwide.

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