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  • India's Barefoot Lawyers

    August 08, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Bogribail, Karnataka

    Legal expertise is often expensive and inaccessible to communities around the world experiencing environmental rights violations and other issues. Similar to the rise of community health workers who are expanding access to basic healthcare, nonprofit Namati is training lay people to help communities understand laws and regulations, gather evidence of violations, and push for remedies.

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  • Pennsylvania training mentally ill inmates to help others on the cellblock

    August 01, 2017 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Peer to peer programs have existed since the 1980s. These programs pair up a person with mental health illness, with one another. The concept, is relatively new in the prison systems, and is gaining traction in states like Pennsylvania.

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  • Foodstuffs: Giving Food Stamp Recipients a Place at Farmers Markets

    July 27, 2017 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Dover, New Hampshire

    While farmers’ markets popularity has increased in the last decade, the higher prices mitigate equal access to such provisions -- and, by extension, the health benefits. As a result, non-profits and farmers' markets across New Hampshire are collaborating with a state program, Granite State Market Watch, to enable low-income food stamp recipients to use the markets. The state matches every dollar worth of stamps, providing needed purchasing power to enjoy the fresh bounty as well as an increased customer base and revenue stream for the local farmers.

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  • In Chicago and Beyond, Bail Reformers Win Big in Fight to End Money Bail

    July 25, 2017 |

    Truthout |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In Chicago’s Cook County Circuit Court, a new order was introduced to ask judges to only assign bail that could actually be paid by the individual. This new order could reduce the number of people who are in jail due to their inability to pay the bail and opens the door for new strategies that are more effective in getting people to return to court.

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  • If GoDaddy Can Turn the Corner on Sexism, Who Can't?

    July 23, 2017 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Scottsdale, Arizona

    After years of building a reputation for sexism in their office culture and commercials, GoDaddy has taken steps to address these issues and change course. Initiatives include changes in the hiring process, evaluation, and identifying often hidden biases in their internal operations.

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  • In Extreme Community Policing, Cops Become the Neighbor

    July 22, 2017 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Rockford, Illinois

    In efforts to diminish violent crime, police agencies are revisiting a model law enforcement strategy of the 1970s, "community policing," as an alternative to the more recent "broken windows" style of the late nineties. Research substantiates its effectiveness, too, in building citizens' trust of law enforcement, helping a community's ability to solve its own problems, and, in turn, decreasing crime rates. Despite redefined priorities in the wake of 9/11 and post-recession budget cuts, community policing is again on the rise and bringing positive results, too.

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  • New “Education Passport” Tested in Greece

    July 21, 2017 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Greece, Athens

    The European Qualifications Passport, could make it easier for refugees to access higher education. The document functions like an academic transcript and includes educational history, spoken languages, and professional experience. don't “We want to help and facilitate the integration of refugees at the earliest stage.”

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  • Meet a new breed of prosecutor

    July 17, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Across the country, a small number of young prosecutors are changing the face of our current criminal justice system. They are moving away from the “strict law-and-order practices of the past,” and employing a more liberal approach: “eschewing the death penalty, talking rehabilitation as much as punishment, and often refusing to charge people for minor offenses.”

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  • The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars

    July 17, 2017 |

    The American Prospect |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles has faced deepening issues of severe traffic and extreme smog pollution in the past several decades, but for years intentions and promises to broadly improve transportation have fallen flat. At long last, the most congested city in the world - once home to the most extensive urban rail network on the planet - is reviving rail lines and trains as a solution to both issues. Robust public transport has proven to have multi-layered economic, cultural, environmental, and social benefits to communities.

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  • The Nigerian Couple Committed to Ending Female Genital Mutilation

    July 17, 2017 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    One Nigerian couple is committed to ending female genital mutilation, or the practice of removing a women’s external genitalia. Gift and Augustine Abu travel all across Nigeria to end FGM, which can sometimes lead to death. The couple has devised a master plan, has 84 volunteers, and offer workshops to cutters so they can find alternate sources of income.

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