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  • The New York Farmers Responding to Food Insecurity

    December 08, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    Small businesses, such as Lively Run Goat Dairy, were able to quickly pivot during the initial chaos in the aftermath of pandemic shutdowns. The small dairy farm was able to salvage hundreds of pounds of milk that was set to be dumped by large industrial farms. It bought the milk with initial donations through GoFundMe and made cheese which was delivered free of charge to local food banks. Their nimble pivot to “strengthen distribution systems and feed their community” was even praised by the governor of NY who went on to create a project that connects farmers with food banks.

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  • There are worse viruses than Covid-19 out there. How do we avoid the next big one?

    December 08, 2020 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: China

    Public health experts are strategizing for how to combat the next pandemic by learning from what failed to prevent the most recent coronavirus pandemic. From increasing surveillance of viruses to using diagnostic technologies to "screen for novel infections more systematically," there are a series of protocols that countries failed to utilize that can be enacted now as a preventative measure.

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  • How a Cyprus charity realigned its services to face the pandemic

    December 08, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Cyprus, Nicosia

    The humanitarian organization known as Refugee Support in Nicosia, Cyrpus has been using WhatsApp to provide useful information to refugee populations during the coronavirus pandemic in addition to delivering food to 200 people per week. Although the organization is limited in who they can offer help to due to financial feasibility, the group has still been able to ease the "tension, conflict, and frustration between migrants during the process of being quarantined."

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  • Newly Formed KC Bail-Out Group Successful After Its First Year in Action

    December 08, 2020 |

    The Community Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    In its first year, Operation Liberation helped more than 30 people post bail to be released from the Jackson County Detention Center. The operation focuses on bailing Black people out of jail when their lack of money keeps them jailed on low-level charges. Kansas City's population is about one-quarter Black, but its jail skews 58% Black. Operation Liberation provides social supports to people once they are released from pretrial detention, helping with everything from housing to transportation. Its first year's work was funded by more than $75,000 in donations.

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  • How a German project uses shared interests to bring refugees and locals together

    December 08, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Germany, Wuppertal

    Hand in Hand is a German initiative designed to match refugees looking to socialize with locals who are willing to welcome them to their new home. Social events were organized to bring people together based on interests and hobbies. Refugees who have benefitted from the opportunity to network with locals report a better grasp of the German language, a stronger network of friends, and some have even found work through their new network. The group’s success even garnered state funding to use toward event planning.

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  • How a program to support Latino caregivers may have discovered a new wave of patients

    December 07, 2020 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Chicago-based Latino Alzheimer's and Memory Disorders Alliance (LAMDA) has helped connect "Latinos who have memory diseases with clinical support" by focusing on creating connections and using memory-health surveys. The program relies on bicultural community health promoters who are embedded within the community and visit places such as health fairs, nursing home lobbies and churches to offer resources and "conduct memory tests and evaluations on at-risk elders."

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  • If Ranching Wants To Survive Drought And Other Climate Hassles, It's Time To Show Soil Some Love

    December 07, 2020 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

    Thanks to a microloan from a local nonprofit and a willingness to try a new approach, a ranching operation in Colorado has begun introducing regenerative agriculture practices in the form of carbon capture. Using "portable electric fences to keep their cattle moving," the farmers have been able to produce healthier soil which has promoted better grass growth. Although the practice has not caught on across the industry, "regenerative agriculture is considered an important climate solution."

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  • Minority businesses: Wounded by COVID, but key to inclusive revival

    December 07, 2020 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    Efforts to support and financially help small businesses in Connecticut are being prioritized. In particular, Black and minority-owned businesses are typically most at-risk to fail and require the most help.

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  • Could matching skilled immigrants with employers help fill the gaps in Sweden's workforce?

    December 07, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    MatchIT helps prepare skilled immigrants for jobs in fields where Sweden has a shortage of labor. Highly educated immigrants are provided with a 22-week training in programming skills, Swedish language classes, and 10-week internships. The program is aimed at filling a need in Sweden while helping immigrants better integrate into a xenophobic society.

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  • NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price

    December 07, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York Police Department sex-crimes enforcement officially shifted away from arresting people selling sex to those buying it and those in the large-scale trafficking business. At the same time, the Human Trafficking Intervention Court was created to divert sex workers' criminal cases away from conviction and toward social services. The reality, however, is that police officers' overtime income gives them incentives to make high volumes of arrests of sex workers and buyers in flimsy, low-level cases that get plea-bargained down, but which skew heavily against people of color.

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