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  • Participatory Grantmaking for Teens: The Funders Who Trust Girls to Make Grants

    April 24, 2019 |

    Inside Philanthropy |

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    Response Location: Ghana

    Nine philanthropic organizations, including Plan International and Comic Relief, make up the With and For Girls Collective, which asks teenage girls worldwide to select girl-led initiatives to fund, a process known as participatory philanthropy. Since 2014, the collective has funded 60 organizations across 41 countries for nearly $3 million.

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  • A southwest Florida fishing apparel business plants a mangrove for every product sold

    April 24, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, West Palm Beach, Florida

    A Florida Gulf Coast University graduate and his brother started a fishing apparel company where they plant a mangrove tree for every item sold. Mangroves are a key species to combatting climate change, providing a habitat for wildlife species, and filtering water. The company has planted about 30,000 mangroves in Florida, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Honduras.

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  • The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money?

    April 24, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, Oxford

    From London to Vancouver, across the globe libraries of things are popping up to rent out common, but rare-to-use, household objects. Items include telescopes, lawn mowers, ice cream makers, power drills, you name it. These volunteer-led shops take reservations online and lease the items at no or low-cost to the user, all while strengthening the sharing economy and reducing waste.

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  • 'It's a groundswell': the farmers fighting to save the Earth's soil

    April 24, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Governments, UN officials, and climate experts alike are ringing the alarm bells of growing soil degradation around the world. But a new agricultural movement is tackling this challenge head on. Instead of the centuries-old method of ploughing, or turning up the soil, farmers have recently taken to keeping their fields covered with varied plants year round, to keep soil healthier. Advocates also point to lower costs on machinery and labor, more resilient crops, and climate change dividends as added benefits as well.

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  • Lego releases Braille bricks to teach blind and visually impaired children

    April 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Billund, Jutland

    The Lego Company has released a new product called Lego Braille Bricks that is designed for blind and visually impaired children to learn Braille in a playful way. The concept was originally proposed to them by two foundations for the blind (one is Danish and one is Brazilian), so Legos prototyped with them to come up with the final set of 250 bricks that feature the complete Braille alphabet, numbers from zero to nine, math symbols, and more. These bricks will improve education for children with vision impairments, and reactions to the product have already been glowing.

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  • Beyond Surgery: Gesse Centre's innovative approach to fistula care in Kebbi

    April 23, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Birnin, Kebbi

    Fistula repair surgery has become routine in the state of Kebbi in Nigeria thanks to the implementation of a health center that has made treatment easier for women to access. The center aims to address both medical and societal causes, by addressing underlying issues and patient-centered health practices.

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  • Across the U.S., flood survivors are growing in number — and they aren't just seeking restitution, but answers

    April 23, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, De Soto, Missouri

    Connecting residents affected by flooding to networks of expertise turns victims into activists. In De Soto, Missouri, the Citizen’s Committee for Flood Relief found support from Higher Ground, a nonprofit organization that connects flood survivors to scientists and other experts. The organizations that cooperate with Higher Ground work to find solutions to repeated flooding—whether political or ecological—and also call for equitable distribution of disaster recovery resources.

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  • When counselors are in short supply, students step in to help

    April 23, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    Lacking sufficient counseling resources, schools are training students to fill the gap. The approach is not intended as a comprehensive solution, but as a way to help more students get connected with basic services.

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  • From Fatal Shots to Farm Plots: These Guns Are Given New Meaning

    April 23, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States

    For people wanting to dispose of their firearms, RAWtools offers a unique opportunity. Understanding that the process can be challenging and emotional, they recycle weapons into gardening tools through their Swords to Plowshares initiative. By offering this, the faith-based organization seeks to shift the narrative around gun ownership and find new ways to address conflict.

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  • Virtual reality and SA's quest for happier nurses

    April 23, 2019 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    In South Africa, public health nurses have a tendency to act more like a parent than a nurse when teenage girls visit the clinic to be tested for HIV, ask for birth control or get antiretroviral treatment. To change this reputation and behavior, Makhulu Media and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation collaborated to make a virtual reality film that shows the nurses how their behavior is often interpreted by the patient.

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