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  • Meet Mr. Trash Wheel: Baltimore Harbor's Googly Eyed Garbage Gobbler

    Peter O'Dowd

    April 16, 2019 |

    WBUR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    A trash interceptor floats along a tributary of the Baltimore Harbor removing trash from the water before it can reach the ocean. Known to the community as Mr. Trash Wheel, the machine is powered by the river’s current and collects floating debris that moves along a conveyor belt and ends up in a dumpster. While it doesn’t solve the problem of how trash gets into the water in the first place, it has collected 1,100 tons of trash and one million Styrofoam containers since it started 2014.

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  • The Doorway is open in NH, and hundreds are walking in

    Shawne K. Wickham

    April 14, 2019 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Thanks to a federal grant, New Hampshire has implemented a “hub-and-spoke program” that connects those facing addiction problems with resources to help them. Acting as a single access point, the organization takes walk-ins and phone calls and offers screenings, assessments and referrals.

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  • Denver Builds Out Pioneering Gun Crime Investigation Unit

    Ann Givens

    April 12, 2019 |

    The Trace |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver has formed a law enforcement collaborative, called the Regional Anti Violence Enforcement Network (RAVEN), to bring together eleven agencies to solve gun crimes in the surrounding cities and counties. RAVEN was borne out of Denver’s Crime Gun Intelligence Center – an earlier collaboration – and uses the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network to share information, technology and resources, and identify regional patterns of crimes rather than local, isolated events.

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  • One Stop Contraception Shop

    Jill Harkins

    April 09, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Delaware

    Making reproductive health care a part of a woman’s primary care expands opportunities for proactive family planning. Delaware nonprofit, Upstream, partners with health care systems to increase access to information and contraceptive options. Upstream provides training sessions in women’s reproductive health care for people working across the health care system. The nonprofit remains independent by sustaining itself through private donations and grants.

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  • Barcelona wants to build 500 superblocks. Here's what it learned from the first ones.

    David Roberts

    April 09, 2019 |

    Vox |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Calming traffic reduces noise and brings new public spaces to urban neighborhoods. Across Barcelona, Spain, neighborhoods designated as superblocks—where through traffic is prohibited—now serve as shared-use spaces. Existing superblock projects, created through years of collaboration between Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona and the city’s administration, serve as pilot programs for the city’s broader vision to create hundreds of such spaces.

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  • Millions of dollars' worth of food ends up in school trash cans every day. What can we do?

    Lela Nargi

    April 09, 2019 |

    Ensia |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Across the United States, schools, government agencies, and individuals are taking steps to reduce food waste in our schools’ cafeterias. There are collaborations that are trying to change the systemic processes by creating guides on how to conduct food waste audits, providing research frameworks for innovative change, and providing policy guidance. A large effort is underway to change how children think about food, which means bringing them to farms and into kitchens to bring them closer to the process.

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  • Borussia Dortmund: The structures behind the club's fight against the far right

    Felix Tamsut

    April 09, 2019 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Germany, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia

    A highly popular German sports club named Borussia Dortmund is taking advantage of its fanbase and following to promote anti-extremist messages, praise diversity, and celebrate inclusion. They do so in a variety of ways, including elevating and supporting independent fan initiatives like ballspiel.vereint!, requiring fan clubs and members to sign statues that reject far-right ideology, hosting educational field trips to former concentration camps for youth, and donating over a million dollars to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

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  • 'The Journey to Trust Is Long'

    Emily Nonko

    April 08, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    Sheriffs' offices can provide resources and encourage underserved communities and communities struck hard by disinvestment to grow their civic capacity. In Alameda County, California, the county sheriff’s office operates a non-profit organization, the Deputy Sheriff’s Activities League (DSAL). The non-profit champions a model of community engagement known as community capital policing, hosting community events and programs in Ashland and Cherryland.

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  • They Found a Way to Use Science in the Fight for Human Rights – and It's Working

    Alison Kotch

    April 08, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A special cross-sector collaboration has emerged with the On Call Scientists Hotline by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Human rights advocates call the hotline when they're in need of data to back up their findings, and on the receiving end are volunteers with expertise in areas like forensic chemistry, public health, refugee trauma and food/environmental toxins. This immediate response with analyzing research, filling in data, and reviewing reports helps those on the frontline of human rights make stronger arguments in service of their cause.

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  • The connection between eviction and suicide

    Amanda Waldroupe

    April 05, 2019 |

    Street Roots |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    When suicide rates began to show a steady incline in Oregon, researchers found that this strongly correlated with a population that had been evicted from their homes. In Washington County, the supervisor of the county’s public health program who is also the county’s epidemiologist, began aggregating data that allowed her to develop a list of risk factors that were distributed to crises intervenors as well as make alterations to eviction notices.

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