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  • Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city's creative entrepreneurs

    August 31, 2020 |

    The Chicago Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Artists in Chicago can benefit from entrepreneurial training programs which teach technical business skills, provide access to information about art grants and also build a network of like-minded creatives. Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise are two initiatives that have provided creative entrepreneurs with the specific skills needed for creative ventures to succeed. The needs of this community of business owners is different from typical entrepreneurs.

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  • How investor pressure prompted oil majors to wake up to climate change

    August 31, 2020 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Due to pressure from shareholders and asset managers to invest sustainably, there has been a rapid growth in environmental, social, and government investing. Assets in sustainable mutual funds globally reached $1 trillion in the second quarter of 2020 and fund managers rolled out 107 new sustainable funds in Europe. Despite this increase in interest, shareholders continue to grapple with balancing sustainable considerations with investment decisions.

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  • More People With Felony Convictions Can Vote, but Roadblocks Remain

    August 31, 2020 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States

    A longstanding campaign to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions led nine states since the 2016 presidential election to create or expand such rights, benefiting hundreds of thousands of potential voters. As of 2016, an estimated 6.1 million people were unable to vote because of a felony conviction. As that number has dropped, advocates have faced another obstacle: getting newly enfranchised people to register and vote. Nationwide, a number of advocacy and public-interest groups are racing to register the formerly incarcerated as the 2020 election approaches.

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  • Em risco de ser extinta, Fundação Zoo SP tem papel importante para conservação

    August 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo

    A Fundação Zoo São Paulo preserva espécies ameaçadas de extinção no Brasil, como a arara-azul-de-lear e o mico-leão-dourado. A organização também possui atividades de pesquisa e conservação na Mata Atlântica, no Cerrado e no Pantanal.

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  • La huerta en casa, a cambio de mercadería y ropa para comedores

    August 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Salta

    Jesús te Ama es un comedor comunitario alimenta más de 500 personas diariamente. Para mejorar la alimentación que proveen las mujeres que trabajan en el comedor construyeron una huerta comunitaria y desde hace dos años se dedican a realizar huertas privadas a cambio de alimentos no perecederos, ropa y otros, para poveer el comedor.

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  • Suicide hotline offers young people hope and a chance to talk with peers

    August 31, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Arizona, a teen-run suicide prevention hotline connects teens who need someone to talk to with a peer operator who works to listen to and calm the caller. The volunteer teenage operators don't offer medical advice but do undergo clinician-supervised training that includes active listening, collaborative problem solving and the ability to connect with callers.

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  • Journalism beyond competition

    August 31, 2020 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To combat the dire or non-existent future that many local news outlets throughout Colorado were facing, journalism institutions stopped competing with one another and instead joined forces to create a statewide collaborative. Although "kinks are still being worked," the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) has already produced investigative and human interest stories through this new model of sharing of resources, and those stories were published in multiple outlets across the state.

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  • Rural California Transit Agency Reinvents Itself During COVID

    August 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The coronavirus pandemic drastically reduced the ridership of the Monterey-Salinas Transit District, so the system shifted services to help the mostly rural community it serves. Despite cash-flow problems, unused drivers and vehicles helped Meals on Wheels deliver 8,000 meals to seniors and persons with disabilities, wi-fi-enabled commuter buses parked in rural areas to provide hot spots for students, and the system donated unused vehicles to groups serving veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and at-risk youth. The system continues to adjust to rapidly changing circumstances.

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  • Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon's largest fish also empowers women

    August 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Raimundo

    After high demands for arapaima fish led to near extinction, a co-management system in the Amazon rainforest has resulted in the recovery of the fish as well as the economic empowerment of local women. The work includes counting, catching, protecting, harvesting, and bringing fish to market. When more workers were needed, women stepped in and gained respect in the community as being essential members of the fishery. The women collecting an income from the program previously fished for subsistence and now receive payment for their work.

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  • Lawmakers want to revive FDR's Depression-era "tree army" to help boost rural economies

    August 31, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal program to build outdoor recreation facilities, creating thousands of jobs during the Great Depression and building iconic state parks. Delaware programs, like the Senior Corps that enlists the help of people over 55, encourage civic engagement modeled after the CCC. Pennsylvania's Outdoor Corps hires young people to restore public lands over the summer. Congress introduced bills to revive CCC-like initiatives that could support rural economies hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, but environmental funding is not a priority of the current administration.

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