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  • How Dallas tackled violent crime

    Dallas implemented a practice known as “hot spot policing” to reduce violent crime and increase community trust. In this strategy, law enforcement focuses on prevention in very specific areas with significant concentrations of crime, sometimes as small as an apartment building or business.

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  • B-CU, church food distribution program benefits students and the community

    The mobile food distribution program by the Mind of Christ Ministries and Bethune-Cookman University has been feeding families since 2013. The program addresses local food insecurity while also providing university students with a meaningful way to give back to the community and earn required volunteer hours. The program estimates it reaches more than 200,000 people each year.

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  • Donaciones solidarias en Cuba

    Para reducir las dificultades de acceso a medicamentos e insumos médicos en Cuba, muchas personas usan y apoyan redes o grupos de intercambio y donación. Por un lado, se evidencia la capacidad de organización, la solidaridad y la búsqueda de alternativas de los cubanos dentro y fuera de Cuba. Por otro, es un esfuerzo oneroso con impacto limitado en un escenario que empeora por días.

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  • Cómo han logrado las instituciones canarias rendir cuentas en lugar de ocultarlas

    El Comisionado de Transparencia de Canarias ha conseguido en menos de seis años que la totalidad de sus instituciones públicas (345) y la mayoría de las entidades privadas (2.700) se sometan voluntariamente a su sistema de autoevaluación.

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  • Incarcerated trans women won sweeping prison reforms in Colorado. It could be a model for other states.

    Case lawyers for a lawsuit filed in 2019 worked with Colorado officials to create a settlement with a legally binding agreement that requires the state to make its prisons safer for transgender women and provide medical care to all transgender people who are incarcerated.

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  • How tribes are reversing years of consolidation within the cattle industry with their own meat processing plants

    Indigenous tribes in Oklahoma are opening and operating meat packing plants, reversing the negative effects of the consolidating cattle industry. These local facilities are sources of food and employment for the community and offer services for local ranchers.

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  • Keeping Food Scraps Out of Landfills Is a Bigger Problem Than You Think

    Orange County, California, is increasing the amount of organic waste it diverts from landfills by encouraging residents to put compostable material in the bins they use for yard waste and composting it.

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  • Inside Google's Plans to Combat Election Misinformation

    To combat election-related mis- and disinformation, a Google initiative called Jigsaw launched campaigns in Indonesia and Eastern Europe with videos “inoculating” viewers against false information by explaining common manipulation techniques that could be used to mislead them. Surveys showed that people who viewed the videos were up to 5 percent more likely to correctly identify attempts at manipulation.

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  • For Gary Kids Struggling with Truancy, This Program Offers a Lifeline

    To help address chronic absenteeism, Project Rebuild works with families to determine the root cause of school absences and connect them to needed resources and services. In the 2022-23 school year, 81 percent of families referred to the nonprofit completed the program, with a total of 61 families participating. Only one percent of families who participate have to be referred again for continued truancy concerns.

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  • St. Paul partnership brings trust, opportunities to troubled Karen youth

    A partnership between the local school district, police and the nonprofits the Karen Organization of Minnesota and The Urban Village is helping fight addiction and gang influence among Karen youth. Since the partnership was formed, overdoses among youth have decreased significantly, and some students have begun forming supportive relationships with specialists from nonprofits and local police whom they can lean on when they need to.

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