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Campaigning to Make India's Roads Safer

David Bornstein

June 21, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India

In India, failing road safety and accident respondent systems have created a nationwide crisis. SaveLife Foundation is addressing these problems head on, through outreach, legal battles, and innovative solutions to ineffective government policy.

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L.A. Offers Free Recycled Water to Residents

Jen Kinney

June 21, 2016 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

California has long struggled with creative solutions to its lack of abundant water. Los Angeles offers its residents free recycled water as a solution to drought and water shortage issues.

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Poverty is growing in America's largest cities — except this one

Linda Gibbs Robert Doar

June 19, 2016 |

Washington Monthly |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Poverty is a problem that only seems to be increasing in the United States. New York City, though, was the only one of America's 20 largest cities to achieve a decrease in poverty rates from 2000-2013. This piece is the first in a four-part series on New York’s fight against poverty.

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The 'internet of things' is narrowing the gap between data and action

Catherine Cheney

June 13, 2016 |

Devex |

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Response Location: United States

Expected to reach 25 billion connected devices by 2020, the emerging class of "internet of things" companies are starting to realize its potential to address global poverty by helping the international development community narrow the gap between data and action.

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Seattle may try San Francisco's ‘radical hospitality' for homeless

Daniel Beekman

June 11, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

San Francisco officials converted an abandoned school on the Mission’s skid row into a special kind of shelter with the means to take chronically homeless adults from the street and entire encampment communities, then navigate them into housing, without the traditional, degrading rules and regulations of other shelters. It’s become one of the most closely watched homeless-related projects in the country, and Seattle is one of the cities looking to potentially replicate their model to help address the homelessness crisis.

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New federal rules are aiming to crush payday lenders. But is it enough?

Anne Kim

June 10, 2016 |

Washington Monthly |

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Response Location: United States, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Earlier this month, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed new rules to regulate payday lending – the business of offering high-cost short-term loans to Americans on terms that many consumer advocates consider predatory.

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Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

Zoe Sullivan

June 08, 2016 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Brazil, Baixo Guandu

More than six months after a mining tailings dam broke in Brazil, killing 19 people and polluting the 530-mile length of the Rio Doce, grassroots groups have arisen to take action and seek justice.

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Providing a jolt of support to power the minigrid market

Catherine Cheney

June 08, 2016 |

Devex |

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Response Location: India

Minigrids, renewable energy-based electricity generators that serve a set of consumers, are a part of India's plan to provide universal energy access to all - their government, as well as that of the United States, is providing the funds to make it happen.

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CMHA police build relationships as they help to solve problems

Rachel Dissell

June 08, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority's police force has transformed its culture using a police assistance referral program that focuses on getting people the help they need first rather than arresting them. It's a way to address the underlying issues that prompt an incident by partnering with social workers and nonprofits to help police to look at themselves as problem solvers. The majority of referrals for services focus on violence committed against or in front of children and this is one way to try and address trauma before it wreaks devastation on young lives.

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Detroit Is Turning Vacant Lots Into Sponges for Stormwater

Jessica Leigh Hester

June 04, 2016 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

When it comes to green infrastructure, Detroit's got plenty of parcels to work with. A look at their new plans to turn unused land into stormwater sponges.

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