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  • TIRRC Votes harnesses "Black and brown political power"

    Dulce Torres Guzman

    August 15, 2022 |

    Tennessee Lookout |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    Ahead of Tennessee's August 2022 primary, organizations such as TIRRC (Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition) Votes and the Effendi Foundation targeted their outreach toward immigrant communities to increase turnout in key elections, resulting in wins for several TIRRC-endorsed candidates. The organizations relied on culturally-relevant strategies, including employing engagement coordinators from multiple countries, bringing candidates to speak at local mosques, and using community-specific language in written outreach.

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  • The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists

    Sam Dean

    August 12, 2022 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Unit of Work, an organization backed by venture capital, helps unions organize and win contracts. Organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers forming unions within their own workplaces. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit of Work a monthly fee — like traditional union dues — to keep providing support.

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  • Nigerian Kids With Cerebral Palsy Are Overcoming Discrimination At School, Here Is How

    Ekpali Saint

    August 12, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Let Cerebral Palsy Kids Learn foundation trains Nigerian teachers in how to better serve students with the condition, while also educating parents about cerebral palsy and providing support and assistance to place their children in mainstream schools. The organization has placed more than 100 students in partner schools since 2017 and has trained more than 500 parents and teachers.

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  • The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

    Emily Nonko

    August 09, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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  • With Grocery Prices Up, Families Turn To Food Waste Apps

    David Silverberg

    August 08, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    As inflation rates skyrocket, apps like Canada-based FlashFood are proving users the option of purchasing surplus food at discounted rates from nearby grocery stores and restaurants. It has helped consumers reduce their grocery bills, sometimes by half, while keeping almost 45 million pounds of food waste away from landfills since 2016.

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  • "deposetaplainte.fr" : déposer plainte en ligne pour violences sexuelles et sexistes

    Christine van Geen

    August 04, 2022 |

    France Culture |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: France

    66% des femmes sont mal reçues au commissariat ou à la gendarmerie lorsqu'elles souhaitent porter plainte pour violence sexiste ou sexuelle. Trois jeunes ont créé "Déposte ta plainte" le premier site en France permettant aux victimes de violences sexistes et sexuelles de déposer plainte en ligne. Il a permis de déposer une cinquantaine de plaintes en quatre mois. Si c'est un outil complémentaire aux dispositifs existants, il n'est pas idéal pour toutes.

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  • Is police accountability working in San Francisco?

    Eleni Balakrishnan

    August 04, 2022 |

    Mission Local |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    After San Francisco voters approved the creation of a new Department of Police Accountability to investigate allegations of police misconduct, the body recommended discipline for officers at a higher rate than the state average in 2021. But the majority of cases are still settled in favor of officers and 66 percent of civilian complainants reported being dissatisfied with the outcome of their case, an outcome experts and former employees of the DPA attribute to a lack of independent authority and leadership to wield the agency's powers.

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  • Youth-led NGOs are battling period poverty in Nigeria. Their weapon is reusable pads

    Adebayo Abdulrahman

    August 02, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    One Voice Initiative for Women and Children Emancipation and Reaching Minds Foundation are two organizations that have distributed thousands of reusable pad kits to school girls and women. The organizations also train people on how to make their own reusable pads from environmentally friendly fabrics and use them correctly.

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  • For the many or the few?

    Jenna Spinelle

    August 01, 2022 |

    When the People Decide |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In Florida, formerly incarcerated people were at the forefront of efforts to rally support for a ballot initiative to allow residents with certain felony convictions back into the voting booth. Amendment 4 was successfully passed, restoring voting rights for many formerly incarcerated Floridians, and research studying other ballot initiatives in the United States has shown that these direct referendums have given the majority of the country's population policies that they approve of.

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  • Limited access to financial services pushes informal business owners to embrace classical saving schemes

    Ndabarasa Eugene

    August 01, 2022 |

    Royal FM |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Savings groups called Tontines gather members engaged in informal business, like street merchants, to access financing through peer-to-peer banking and lending. Tontines allow lower-income individuals who typically fail to qualify for bank loans to access financial services and learn to save and manage their money.

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