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  • How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency

    July 31, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Trusted and popular community buildings across Los Angeles are being retrofitted with solar panels and batteries, so they can also function as resilience hubs during extreme heatwaves or other disasters. This way, they provide helpful resources outside of disaster protection and people are more likely to use them.

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  • Portland had the guts to find safe sites for its homeless. Does Sacramento?

    July 31, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In response to managing the homeless crisis, several Safe Rest Villages have emerged throughout the city. These are small, individual units on city-owned land, separate from nearby neighborhoods. There are currently seven active Safe Rest Villages in the city and they have created 350 transitional housing opportunities for the local homeless population.

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  • Au Bangladesh, l'éducation des filles passe par la lutte contre le mariage précoce

    July 31, 2023 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Pour encourager les filles à rester à l’école, le programme « The right to be a girl » enseigne aux filles les dangers des mariage de mineures et leurs droits légaux. Les participants reçoivent également de la formation et des fournitures pour offrir des services tels que la couture et les soins de beauté, ce qui aide à compenser les coûts de scolarité qui peuvent peser sur les familles. Le programme a bénéficié à près de 3 000 filles, dont aucune n’a été mariée avant l’âge légal.

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  • How queer deathcare is changing the way LGBTQ+ Ohioans die

    July 28, 2023 |

    The Buckeye Flame |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Several individuals and groups like Columbus Community Deathcare and Live Without Regrets doula services are emerging to offer LGBTQ+ people adequate deathcare as they often don’t have access to the same resources, autonomy or dignity as cisgender people. End-of-life doulas and other providers that embrace the Death Positive Movement are offering holistic care that honors a dying person’s wants and needs while respecting their identity.

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  • One solution to Minnesota's teacher shortage: alternative training

    July 28, 2023 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    Teach Minnesota is a six-week alternative licensure program that provides hands-on classroom experience and intensive training in topics such as literacy and culturally-responsive education, allowing future teachers to earn their license more quickly and at a lower cost than in traditional degree programs. The New Teachers Project, which facilitates Teach Minnesota, has trained 37,000 teachers in 25 states and Washington, D.C.

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  • An Ancient Desert-Dwelling Culture Embraces Hydroponics

    July 28, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Ghantiyali, Rajasthan

    A nonprofit in India focused on supporting farmers, Urmul Seemant Samiti, is helping pastoralists transition to using hydroponics to grow fodder for their livestock amid increasing droughts. Alongside hydroponic fodder startup Hydrogreens, the organization trains pastoralists to use sprinkler systems to create fog that waters their indoor crops.

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  • Pa. counties call $45 million in state election grants a success: “Absolutely it was useful”

    July 28, 2023 |

    Votebeat Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Act 88 provided $45 million of state funding to counties looking to cover election expenses like ballot sorting machines and poll worker pay. The funds were extremely useful in covering the cost of an election, which can be quite expensive. Several counties that received the money are opting to rework their 2024 budgets to account for another round of funding.

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  • Black students find allies in quest for better mental health: each other

    July 27, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat National |

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    Response Location: United States, East Orange, New Jersey

    A summer youth-employment program at a local school district led to a student-led forum where Black high school students could open up about their experiences with mental health, racism and stigma. Students who participated in the forum could also join a peer-mentoring program where students worked with middle schoolers to mentor them on how to understand and cope with their feelings.

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  • Could a historic Sacramento corridor hold the key to solving the region's housing crisis?

    July 27, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    After decades of planning and development, Sacramento’s R Street corridor went from an area full of abandoned warehouses to a flourishing, walkable neighborhood. The city planners’ prioritization of building high-density housing, bringing in new businesses, ensuring access to a light rail transit line, and safe, pedestrian-friendly streets helped this project succeed.

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  • All Talk and —Yes — Action

    July 27, 2023 |

    Nexus Media News |

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    Response Location: United States

    All We Can Save Circles are decentralized, 10-course book clubs aimed at helping participants develop communities around climate solutions by inspiring action and allowing them to talk through climate anxieties. More than 3,000 people have formed Circles around the country and 90% of those who participate have taken some kind of climate action on their own, like advocating for change in their communities or taking a climate-focused career.

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