Satélites, mapas e trajeto do boi: saída para reduzir desmatamento já opera no Brasil

Move-In Day Mafia supports youth aging out of the foster care system by helping them transition to college life at HBCUs, from assisting them with dorm move-in to providing customized interior design for their rooms and delivering monthly care packages to help them cover household essentials. So far, the organization has supported more than 100 students across 26 universities.

Grant programs from organizations like LISC LA, Inclusive Action, and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce are providing flexible, no-debt financial support to fire-impacted small businesses in Altadena, enabling owners to rebuild facilities within weeks. Challenges like reduced clientele, application fatigue, and ongoing displacement, however, mean recovery remains incomplete for many.

The "Earned Living Unit" at Stillwater prison trades expanded privileges like single cells, herb gardens, and self-run vocational programs for behavioral accountability, resulting in zero lockdowns and no fights during its first two months.

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing's Mental Health First Aid for Rural Communities trains local residents to recognize mental health warning signs and provide critical support until professional help arrives. The program equips non-medical community members with skills to spot crises, have supportive conversations, and navigate people to appropriate resources. In central New York alone, more than 6,000 people have been trained across 10 rural counties, providing life-saving interventions, particularly in areas where emergency services are hard to access.

In the push to pass SB 277, a California bill that sought to do away with personal belief exemptions for vaccine requirements and keep unvaccinated children from attending school, lawmakers invited the family of Rhett Krawitt, who was immunocompromised due to leukemia, to speak in favor of the legislation. The personal testimony helped ensure the bill’s passage and childhood vaccination rates in California have risen as national rates have fallen, with the rate of kindergarten MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccinations at 96.2% as of 2023.

GPS collars create virtual fences, allowing Wyoming ranchers to remove miles of barbed wire and enabling wildlife migration. This reduces fence maintenance costs and improves ecosystem management through flexible grazing patterns, though the technology faces challenges including high upfront costs, connectivity issues, and cultural resistance.

With the number of students being educated at home on the rise, families in Maine are forming co-ops that help provide supplemental instruction, socialization, and support for parents. Though the state does not track co-ops, many of which are faith-based, several homeschooling co-ops report rising enrollment and some even have wailists.

Bogotá’s "care blocks" provide a wide range of services for women who take on unpaid caregiving responsibilities, from job skills training and health appointments to help with laundry and exercise classes, plus child or elder care for the people they look after while they’re using the programs. Through the initiative’s combination of on-site programs, mobile services, and at-home help, more than 3,500 women have completed training courses, caregivers have saved thousands of hours, and other cities across the globe are now looking to replicate the model.

The Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Kenya brings together private landowners who lease their plots to a collectively-managed conservancy for renewable 10-year terms. In exchange for payments, landowners agree not to fence their land or sell it to outsiders, creating a 2,400-hectare wildlife corridor to help safeguard the local environment. The conservancy also employs locals and runs an educational center that provides connections to other jobs and restoration efforts. Since its establishment in 2016, vegetation density has significantly increased, along with wildlife populations.

Question, Persuade, Refer is a training program that teaches Connecticut college students how to have conversations with peers who may be thinking about suicide, with the goal of connecting them to professional help. At Southern Connecticut State University alone, more than 300 students attended the training during the 2024-25 school year.