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Black Churches in California Lead the Way to Quality End-of-Life Care

Sandra Larson

April 18, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

The Advanced Illness Care Program was founded within local Black churches and offers free, individualized support for people with advanced illnesses and their caregivers, helping them navigate various life and health issues and plan for end-of-life care. Since starting in 2015, the AICP has helped more than 1,600 patients, the majority of which are Black, and 55% of them have gone on to complete advance directives for end-of-life care.

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An underserved neighborhood needed a community center, not another church

Laura Rodríguez

April 18, 2023 |

Faith & Leadership |

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Response Location: United States, Blue Island, Illinois

A pastor in Blue Island, Illinois, closed his satellite campus church and turned it into a community service center. Named the Hope Center, it aims to address community needs through a garden, automotive garage, and technology services department. Each program has a director and volunteers who run workshops to teach community members new skills.

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Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

Kim Harrisberg

April 18, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States

The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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Our home is where we live: volunteering school for teenagers

Alice Smahina

April 17, 2023 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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Response Location: Ukraine, Vinnytsia

The Donetsk Regional Children and Youth Center runs the Technology of Good Volunteering School, a program designed to help teenagers build social and civic skills and learn how to contribute to their communities. Graduates have spearheaded projects such as creating a children's room for a local hospital and sewing baby clothes for new mothers.

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‘It's about Healing the Earth:' How Nebraskans are Building Sustainable Farms Through Biodynamics

Ellie Kuckelman

April 17, 2023 |

The Reader |

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Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Biodynamic farming is slowly spreading across the United States as a practice that improves the health of a farm’s ecosystem by creating a sustainable system that uses its waste to generate its energy. This way of farming also involves practices like crop rotation, cover cropping, and eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the 'peace farmers' of Colombia

Sandra Weiss

April 17, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Colombia, Meta

La Cosmopolitana Foundation in Colombia offers courses that teach people to live in harmony with each other and nature. The classes focus on sustainability and helping rural communities to work together to create circular economies. Small fees make the classes largely accessible.

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Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students' moods

Arian Khameneh

April 17, 2023 |

MIT Technology Review |

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Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

The web-app Woof helps teachers keep an eye on the mental health and well-being of students by frequently surveying students on how they’re feeling to generate a “mood landscape,” which is intended to provide a comprehensive image of child welfare in a classroom over time. Teachers can then review the reports and provide interventions as needed. Woof launched in the fall of 2022 and has been implemented in more than 600 schools across the country.

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For the American Prison Writing Archive, a 'Shadow Canon' Sheds Light

Patricia Leigh Brown

April 17, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

The American Prison Writing Archive documents firsthand accounts of living conditions inside roughly 400 correctional facilities in the United States. The collection includes more than 3,300 narratives that are used to build awareness around the realities of the criminal legal system.

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Reclaiming Safe Abortion Access in Haiti

Jade Prévost-Manuel

April 17, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port Au Prince

Nègès Mawon works to empower women to fight back against violence and oppression through education and advocacy and focuses on access to safe abortion care. Through the organization’s sponsorship program, women who are also survivors of gender-based violence are partnering together to rise above the patriarchal system and advocate for themselves. Since last May, Nègès Mawon has supported more than 300 survivors of gender-based violence through the sponsorship program.

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Over 2,000 Companies Buy and Sell Recycled Plastic at This Online Marketplace

Michaela Haas

April 17, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

A startup in Germany created an online platform, Cirplus, that connects recycling companies with manufacturers and distributors in the plastic industry. The site encourages the move towards a circular economy by improving transparency for buyers and sellers.

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