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  • The Library That's Also an Art Gallery

    September 17, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Public libraries can serve as vital community resources. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Forsyth County Public Library operates as a multi-use facility thanks to investments from a voter-approved bond and state grants. In addition to meeting rooms and computer labs, the library provides peer-support specialists trained in assisting homeless patrons with mental health counseling and job services. Health clinics and other community partners also participate in initiatives housed at the library.

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  • CT's small solutions to climate change: creating salt marsh in Stonington

    September 17, 2019 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Stonington, Connecticut

    To address increased tidal flooding on its shoreline, Stonington, Connecticut, is sticking to a simple principle: "Where possible, work with nature not against it.” Volunteers plant native plants, helping to restore and expand the former salt marsh, which naturally absorbs water.

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  • Farmers Markets Bring Together Communities in Mississippi Delta

    September 17, 2019 |

    Mississippi Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: United States, Mound Bayou, Mississippi

    Mound Bayou, Mississippi has been in the middle of a food desert for well over 50 years, as fresh produce is hard to come by for this small Mississippi Delta town. However, a local farmers' market has begun to change that; run by youth volunteers, the market brings fresh fruit and vegetables to residents through the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative.

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  • Ideas from Oklahoma can help NC plan for future of increased flooding

    September 17, 2019 |

    WRAL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Eastern North Carolina -- an area increasingly affected by flooding from hurricanes -- looks to Tulsa for long-term, financially sustainable solutions to routine flooding. Tulsa's comprehensive approach includes regulating building in floodplains as well as building vast drainage systems in all high-risk flood areas. The city implemented a storm water mitigation fee to residents' water bills in order to make flood insurance among the cheapest in the country.

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  • With Kids' Futures at Risk, Schools Seek New Ways to Lower Chronic Absenteeism

    September 17, 2019 |

    Oklahoma Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Spurred by state changes, an elementary in Tulsa, Oklahoma has transformed its approach to chronic absenteeism, adding frequent positive reinforcements for good attendance and building strong relationships with students to get to the root of attendance issues. “This is a solvable problem as long as people keep in mind," the executive director of Attendance Works said. "The solutions take time to unpack and address what’s keeping kids from coming to school.”

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  • This Is How a Good Teacher Teaches

    September 17, 2019 |

    Denník N |

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    Response Location: Slovakia

    A teacher, the product of Teach for Slovakia, is making positive changes in classrooms in which students are falling behind in reading, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

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  • Pregnant Women Struggling with Addiction Say Doctors Turned Them Away. This Appalachian Clinic Is Changing That.

    September 17, 2019 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The University of Tennessee Medical Center clinic has engaged a specific set of experts to form the High Risk Obstetrical Consultants team that focuses on treating opioid-addicted pregnant women as well as the infant after childbirth. The goal of the program is to stabilize the mother and then offer a choice for the rest of the pregnancy of either completely detoxing or remaining on medically assisted treatment.

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  • Some firms give more time off to those who shun plane travel

    September 17, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Climate Perks is a program that encourages employees to avoid air travel and choose lower carbon-options for their personal travel. It is part of a trend of initiatives from businesses that incentivize slower travel as part of company policies or by offering extra vacation days. Despite slow adoption at Naturesave, another leader in encouraging green travel, environmentally-focused business leaders are hopeful for increased adoption as flight shame and climate change continue to be essential issues for young people.

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  • Access to medical care is difficult for the rural uninsured. This clinic comes to them.

    September 16, 2019 |

    Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic is a mobile health clinic bringing care to uninsured, rural residents in Tennessee. The initiative has reached nearly 250 people since it started, providing care to six different towns once per month. With the costs of health care without insurance being enough to turn people away from seeking it, this clinic provides medical evaluations, medicine, and lab work – all with the hope of rebuilding trust between communities and the healthcare system.

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  • This new program lets people text to access government food aid

    September 16, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Simplifying the enrollment process makes the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) more accessible to those who qualify. In Anchorage, Alaska, a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies funded a pilot program to help residents enroll in SNAP via text message. Instead of a complicated process, residents can simply text to receive information and begin their enrollment process.

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