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The Importance of Beauty in Affordable Housing

Emily Nonko

May 09, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Changes in zoning laws as well as the promotion of guiding principles and successful case studies has led to well designed, environmentally efficient, and beautiful supportive housing. Well-designed housing has lessened stigmas and provided residents with a sense of dignity about where they live.

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Special delivery: Text messages bring courses to disconnected students

Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

May 09, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Yemen

A group of college students has developed a text-message based entrepreneurship course designed for students in locations where "phones are common, but internet access is not," including in Yemen. The founders hope that their curriculum will help to close the persistent "social-capital gap" in business education.

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The shopping centre where the currency is hope

Aditya Chakrabortty

May 09, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-Lyme

York Place is one of a growing number of shopping centers that are closing down as trends like online retail and changing consumer habits mean fewer people going to shopping malls. But York Place is doing things differently: the shopping center’s main tenant is the YMCA, which sells crafts by local artists. The local cafe is a social enterprise, and residents can earn “CounterCoins,” essentially rewards points, for volunteering. A UK-based professor said, “It’s no ordinary shopping center. It’s a laboratory.”

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Farm to Reef

Bryn Nelson

May 08, 2018 |

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Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Cuba

The demise of coral reefs has made headlines recently as conservationists face the challenge of trying to save what is left of them from global warming, ocean acidification, pollution, overfishing – to name just a few of the threats. Gardens of the Queen National Park in the Caribbean may hold some answers. From a pro-environmental government philosophy to a reduction in nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich farm runoff, there are more than a few practices that have culminated into a solution to keep Cuba's coral reef healthy.

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Cities are crowdfunding more. But is it fair to ask the people to pay?

Anoush Darabi

May 08, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Brighton and Hove

Governments in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere use crowdfunded donations to restore historic areas and fund new developments. The approach can build democratic participation and community cohesion while plugging budgetary holes from falling tax revenue.

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Months after Maria, Puerto Ricans take recovery into their own hands

Whitney Eulich

May 07, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Puerto Rico, Las Carolinas

Prior to Hurricane Maria, it was not uncommon for Puerto Ricans to consider leaving the area to pursue careers elsewhere. Months after, however, as the wreckage from the disaster is far from remedied, the community members of Las Carolinas and neighboring towns are finding empowerment and strength by working together and sharing resources as they create Centers of Mutual Support throughout the island.

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Buying Better Food

Jill Harkins

May 07, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Founded in 2015, the Center for Good Food Purchasing offers a unique model for making school lunch healthier, cheaper, and more sustainable. Partnering with school districts and other local and national organizations, the Center outlines five core values to which schools must commit. Jill Harkins writes, "The big idea driving the work is that large institutions like governments and schools buy a lot of food ... and so they have the power to shift the market toward higher quality, more environmentally-sustainable and fair food." The approach has taken off in LA - can the same happen in Philadelphia?

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Coal miners being taught HTML coding as a second career

Maryalice Parks Enjoli Francis

May 07, 2018 |

ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, West Virginia

Mined Minds, a nonprofit founded in 2015, is providing training and job connections for former coal miners in West Virginia and Kentucky who are now out of work. Take seventh-generation coal miner Billy Buzzard. He underwent the free 30 week boot camp and is now doing remote coding work for an organization in Seattle.

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Your Tampon Could Save Your Life

Michaela Haas

May 03, 2018 |

Shondaland |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Ridhi Tariyal developed an easy way for women to test their fertility after her OB/GYN refused to do blood tests to help her determine if she might have trouble getting pregnant. Women are sent a box by NextGenJane, Tariyal's company and they simply use a tampon during their cycle as they normally would and then they place it in the box and put it in the mail. In the lab, Tariyal's patented machine obtains a blood sample from the tampon and measures the woman's fertility-- all without the typical invasive procedures used in a doctor's office.

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Chicago's South Side Finally Has an Adult Trauma Center Again

Daniel A. Gross

May 01, 2018 |

The New Yorker |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In 2018, years of community activism resulted in the opening of the first advanced emergency trauma care center on Chicago’s South Side since the 1990s. One study showed gun assaults taking place more than five miles from a trauma center disproportionately affected Black victims and caused higher death rates because of delays in reaching adequate care. One such fatal incident prompted protests and community organizing around demands for a Level 1 adult trauma center at University of Chicago Medical Center, which finally were successful eight years later.

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