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  • 1 out of 5 Irving ISD students graduate with industry credentials. The district could be a peek into Fort Worth ISD's future.

    July 05, 2022 |

    Fort Worth Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Irving, Texas

    In Texas' Irving Independent School District, roughly one in five students earn industry credentials and gain real-world experience through more than a dozen "career clusters" designed to help them enter the workforce after graduation. Administrators work with industry partners in the community to target in-demand jobs and continually update the courses to keep them relevant in an evolving professional landscape.

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  • How to provide IDPs with housing? Solution: restoring abandoned buildings

    June 28, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk

    Ukrainian community members, migrants, businesses, and organizations banded together on Second Home IF, a grassroots project to renovate an empty dormitory at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas as temporary housing for people displaced by the Russian invasion. The dorm now houses 50 people, and the project is being replicated in other parts of the country.

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  • How Native organizers won voting access and reached record turnout in 2020

    June 15, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Nevada

    Native organizers in Nevada secured voting access on tribal lands by overcoming a number of obstacles. The organizers successfully took the state of Nevada to court to finally have polling sites on their reservations. That win was the result of grassroots efforts to fight against voter suppression.

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  • Should Kalamazoo County's first-responders include mental-health clinicians?

    June 15, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Crisis Intervention Training classes provide law enforcement with the necessary knowledge to effectively help those experiencing a mental health crisis. Currently, planning is underway to enhance this training to help strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental health system by better collecting data, screening calls and opening a downtown urgent care center.

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  • How an Interfaith Model Helped Local Coalition End Columbus Day

    June 15, 2022 |

    Sojourners |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Indigenous and Italian American activists in Rochester, N.Y. built on an interfaith model to campaign for a resolution replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. The committee focused on centering Indigenous perspectives, involving Italian Americans in the process, and encouraging community dialogue through mediated conversation circles.

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  • Why Rent Relief in Hawai‘i Became a National Model

    June 13, 2022 |

    Hawaii Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    To get COVID-19 relief funds into the hands of landlords and renters, Hawai'i relied on the expertise of people who have experienced housing instability and homelessness to build a streamlined assistance program. Using established nonprofits as intermediaries, the program distributed nearly $59 million to 13,700 households in three months, allocating more funds per capita than any other state.

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  • What happens when the people decide?

    June 13, 2022 |

    When the People Decide |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    In a truly grassroots effort, organizers of a campaign to end partisan gerrymandering in Michigan mobilized more than 10,000 volunteers to rally support for establishing an independent redistricting commission. Through building meaningful relationships with everyday voters in each of the state's 83 counties, the campaign successfully gathered more than 400,000 signatures to get the proposal on the ballot, and the constitutional amendment was ultimately approved in 2018.

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  • Kalamazoo-area police want closer ties with mental-health experts. Now they try to make that happen.

    June 12, 2022 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    County’s police chiefs are joining forces with local mental-health experts to devise a countywide collaboration to strengthen the relationship between law enforcement and the mental-health system by creating a four-pillar approach to crisis intervention training. Each pillar is designed to handle a different issue and build resources within the community to help those in need.

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  • Villagers in western Tamil Nadu dislodge polluting charcoal mills after decade-long fight to save groundwater

    June 07, 2022 |

    101 Reporters |

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    Response Location: India, Kangeyam, Tamil Nadu

    After years of protesting, attending public grievance meetings, and appearing as plaintiffs in court cases, the residents of Kangeyam, India, gained enough attention to shut down the charcoal industries that were polluting the groundwater.

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  • Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

    June 06, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Ban Mae Sa Mai, Chiang Mai Province

    Collaboration between the Hmong community, researchers, and park authorities in northern Thailand has allowed them to work together to restore the forest in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Between 1997 and 2013, they used assisted regeneration to restoring 33 hectares of forest, which also increased the area’s natural flora and fauna. Because of their efforts, their approach is being implemented in tropical forests around the world, including Cambodia, Madagascar, and Tanzania.

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