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Renters Get One Step Closer to Homeownership With This Innovative Program

Shaima Shamdeen

June 26, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Renting Partnerships organizes affordable housing communities that stay affordable. By meeting the expectations of the community, such as paying rent on time, residents can earn and cash out financial equity after staying in their home for five years. The program uses creative financing in the hopes of making housing more equitable.

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Moving Community Foundation Dollars from Wall Street to Main Street

Oscar Perry Abello

June 25, 2018 |

Next City |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

Community foundations have a new way to invest their funds: they can opt to invest in community projects, such as credit unions, as opposed to more traditional financial investments. The Self-Help Federal Credit Union has benefitted from this shift. A $2.6 million investment from Central Valley Community Foundation has helped the credit union provide over 1000 loans to predominately low-income families in the region.

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How Silicon Valley is responding to the immigration crisis

Eric Johnson Kara Swisher

June 25, 2018 |

Vox |

Multi-Media |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

A fundraiser called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child” raised $19 million in one week for the Texas nonprofit RAICES. Creators Charlotte and Dave Willner say almost half a million people have donated via Facebook so far. They cite matching gifts and the fundraiser’s narrow focus and wide appeal as key factors in its success.

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In a Male-Dominated Food World, Women of Color Are Creating Spaces for Each Other

Alejandra Molina

June 22, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Los Angeles-based group Across Our Kitchen Tables is hoping to overcome the underrepresentation of women of color in the food industry. The group connects women, helps them discuss ideas and recipes, and hosts workshops on skills relevant to the food industry. Above all, the group is creating a community of women to learn from one another.

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Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

Ivy Brashear

June 20, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kentucky

An internship program in rural Kentucky takes a bottom-up approach to reproductive health education. All Access EKY hires young female interns to create media and social media campaigns about teenage pregnancy and birth control. All Access Media Director Willa Johnson says, “We’re trying to build some of these bridges in our communities so it’s not just teenage girls on an island and health care providers on an island and educators on an island."

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Opportunity for Refugees, Nourishment for New Yorkers

Matt Katz

June 20, 2018 |

WNYC |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In New York, non-profits like Eat Offbeat, Emma's Torch, United Tastes of America, and more are working to connect American-born citizens with refugees from other countries, using food as a way to spark conversation while also providing employment and job training opportunities. So far, these organizations have helped welcome refugees while also creating cultural awareness.

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The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats

Danielle Stephens

June 20, 2018 |

The Guardian |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Myanmar

A doctor faced with a public health crisis in his remote Myanmar village called on an UK organization to help him enact a solution. Rather than trying to treat hundreds of patients a day, the doctor started a local branch of Health and Hope to train a man and a women from each small village in his region. Now, residents of these villages don't have to die from treatable diseases because a local health expert is nearby.

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How a southwest Detroit construction company is building community by building for the future

Dorothy Hernandez

June 19, 2018 |

Model D |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Saldiver-Ali, cofounder of AGI Construction in Detroit, sees construction as “the first step to community development and sustainability.” The company lives out this mission by engaging with long-time residents. Most recently, they have worked on Detroit Future Ops, a community resource center intended to increase employment of and development by minority contractors. Their mission is to ensure their work helps build up the community in an inclusive manner, today and in the future.

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Young Nigerians choose to fight Boko Haram with books

Ryan Lenora Brown

June 19, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

Gathered in makeshift open-air learning spaces, teachers and students in Nigeria are resisting Boko Haram's reign of terror against education. “They don’t like education; they don’t want it,” one 19-year old student says. “So just by doing this, we are all fighting them." Working with UNICEF and other organizations, local educators are offering free education to students who have been forced to stay home for years.

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Why Are Millions Paying Online Tax Preparation Fees When They Don't Need To?

Tik Root

June 18, 2018 |

ProPublica |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Thanks to an agreement between the U.S. government and a consortium of companies including Intuit and H&R Block, 70 percent of taxpayers are supposed to have access to free online tax preparation services. But Free File is confusing and poorly publicized. Only about 3 percent of eligible tax returns over the last 16 years used the system.

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