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How One City Cut Its Poverty Rate By More Than a Third

Christopher Swope

December 19, 2024 |

Governing |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building acts as a hub for connecting the city’s many anti-poverty programs and organizations, with partnerships that holistically tackle everything from job training and guaranteed income initiatives to community health programs. Since 2014, the city’s poverty rate has dropped from nearly 27 percent to 17.1 percent.

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When AI Meets Conservation

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas

December 19, 2024 |

Neighbird |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Gabon

Okala, a technology company, has developed smart camera traps equipped with a mini-computer and a satellite connection that, with the help of artificial intelligence, send researchers real-time notifications about which species pass by. Real-time camera alerts are not only helping researchers, but also surrounding communities intent on keeping people and crops safe from wild animals.

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How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

David Lyons

December 19, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here's How

Gabriella Sotelo

December 19, 2024 |

Sentient |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Farmers markets, supported by federal, state, and private food assistance programs, are helping to bridge gaps left by disparate food access by offering a direct distribution model.

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'We have to be leaders': Jordanian tech entrepreneur on inspiring the next generation amid Middle East war

Anna Patton

December 18, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Jordan

Robotna provides free education programs in robotics, coding, and AI to the public and students at government-funded schools in Jordan with the goal of expanding access to careers in technology. One of its initiatives provides practical training to graduates of IT and engineering programs, and roughly 70 percent of participants obtain an interview or a full-time job within six months of completing the training.

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How Foundation Tackle Open Defecation Using Pet Bottles

Aisha Gambo

December 18, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Womio

In an effort to increase access to clean water, Rockians Medical Foundation rehabilitated a hand pump borehole and constructed four toilets made out of recycled materials in a rural village for community members to use.

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Intergenerational care benefits children and seniors. Why is it still so rare?

Emily Tate Sullivan

December 17, 2024 |

EdSurge News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fairmont, Nebraska

At intergenerational care facilities, early learning programs co-locate with senior homes, giving students and care residents plenty of opportunities to interact. Research shows this type of intergenerational program can have physical and cognitive benefits for both the adults and the children involved in them.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Nicole J. Caruth

December 17, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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How forest therapy is helping survivors of wildfires reconnect with nature

Lauren Gilger

December 17, 2024 |

KJZZ |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

Forest therapy, which was first developed in Japan in the 1980s, is being used to help survivors of wildfires in California. For many, but not all, it helps people reconnect with nature and adjust their expectations of what the forest can be for them.

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Could pilot programs bringing heat to low-income residents in Denver, NY work in Dallas?

María Ramos Pacheco

December 16, 2024 |

Dallas Morning News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Pilot projects in New York City and Denver have successfully installed electric heat pumps in a variety of tenant spaces, citing ease of installation, attractive aesthetics, and energy and financial savings as boons for both tenants and the environment. In New York, heat pump units achieved an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and an estimated 50% reduction in fuel costs compared to traditional central steam heating systems.

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