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Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

Stephanie O'Neill Emily Kwong

August 02, 2022 |

NPR |

Podcast |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

The nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade wants to place wild horses in select wilderness areas of California to graze as a way to prevent wildfires.

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The Nigerian school with a radical idea: Teaching Boko Haram's kids

Innocent Eteng

July 29, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

Founded in the midst of ongoing violent conflict, the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation offers education to children and orphans from families fighting on both sides of the war between Boko Haram insurgents and the Nigerian government. With this inclusive approach, the organization has so far averted being targeted by Boko Haram, successfully keeping roughly 2,200 children in school without interruption during the peak of the insurgency.

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The country trailblazing the fight against disasters

Catherine Davison

July 19, 2022 |

BBC |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Bangladesh has developed a multi-layered early warning system for disasters that includes good weather monitoring equipment, communication systems to broadcast warnings, and importantly, a network of trusted volunteers – half of which are women – who go out into communities to share information and urge people to evacuate to shelters. The opportunity has also empowered women, both as volunteers and with the ability to make the decision to evacuate during a natural disaster.

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Ukrainian vegan cuisine: how volunteers in Uzhhorod organize healthy food for displaced people

Ksenia Yanus Oleksandr Masovets

July 14, 2022 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Uzhhorod

The volunteer-run Vegan Kitchen of Ukraine project provides vegan meals for displaced people in cities across the country and sends meal packages to soldiers. The volunteers prepare the food in their homes or during donated time at local kitchens.

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The new labor market: No bachelor's required?

Lawrence Lanahan

July 08, 2022 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Employers across the United States are dropping the bachelor’s degree requirement from job listings, but workers need an alternative way to build necessary skills. The nonprofit Social Finance helps workers take time for skills training with financial aid for things like child care, rent, and transportation.

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Nigerian Rural Community Stuck In Water Crisis. A Nonprofit Takes A Photo, And It Tilts The Narrative

Abiodun Jamiu

May 28, 2022 |

HumAngle |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Afon, Kwara

The Grassroots Aid Initiative uses the power of photography to bring safe drinking water to communities in Nigeria. The women-led nonprofit takes pictures of these villages and uses the images to crowdfund on social media. So far, they’ve been able to bring motorized boreholes in 15 communities to help combat water scarcity.

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'Community creates change' | New Knoxville nonprofit provides housing, support for homeless LGBTQ+ youth

Shannon Smith

May 23, 2022 |

WBIR-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

The nonprofit Bryant’s Bridge gives LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness a place to live and connects them to health insurance and job and life training to help them transition into adulthood successfully.

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Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

Asher Lehrer-Small

May 09, 2022 |

The 74 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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‘I had to be broken to be fixed': the courses trying to change abusive men

Anna Moore

May 09, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Cheshire County

LifeLine is an intensive, multi-week course that works with perpetrators of abuse to encourage behavior change in them. It is run by My CWA, one among a growing number of non-profits that have been accredited by Respect, UK's lead organization for programs for perpetrators, to run similar courses that follow carefully drafted principles. The aim has been to support survivors of domestic abuse more holistically by addressing the root cause, and now with compelling evidence to show that the approach works, the Home Office has also come aboard.

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Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

Céilí Doyle

April 22, 2022 |

The GroundTruth Project |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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