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  • Five years after Ghost Ship: How local organizations are fighting artist displacement

    December 16, 2021 |

    Oakland North |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Local art organizations seek to provide safe and affordable space for Oakland’s artists to live and work. The Community Arts Stabilization Trust uses creative financing to purchase a building and stabilize the rent, usually below market value. Buildings are then rented only to arts and culturally focused organizations for use. O2 Artisans Aggregate is a small-business incubator with warehouses and shipping containers that are used as fabrication studios, test kitchens, and maker spaces.

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  • The Doctor Is Out, and These Babies Are Healthier For It

    December 10, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India

    The Karnataka Internet Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity program has trained and accredited non-physician imagers to screen premature newborns for retina disease, which has a small window of diagnosis for treatment to be effective. This “task-shifting” model allows trained imagers to replace specialists for the screening by going into the field and using a low-cost and indigenously developed camera to upload images to a telemedicine platform, where a retina specialist makes a diagnosis. They have screened 70,000 infants and several other countries have adopted KIDROP’s “task-shifting” model.

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  • Community Based organization enhancing ICT literacy in Siaya

    December 03, 2021 |

    Ratego Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Siaya County

    A computer literacy training program has trained over 50 individuals, both young people and adults, in information communication technology from rural Siaya County in Kenya. The program is free and is open to anyone fifteen years old and above. It is crowd funded by a network of donors and graduates have access to more professional and personal growth opportunities.

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  • 'Indigenous DNA': Native voters help turn Arizona blue, led by grassroots workers

    November 30, 2021 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Indigenous communities across Arizona organized grassroots efforts to register Native voters and increase voter turnout in 2020. Members of indigenous communities were able to move on-the-ground efforts forward in a way that outside organizations could not. While just 6% of the state’s voting population identifies as Native American, President Biden won by just 10,000 votes, making the larger turnout across Native nations more relevant. Efforts involved going door-to-door and setting up information booths in central areas and voters responded to canvassers taking the time to talk with people.

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  • Mountain towns use a ‘quiver of solutions' to address affordable housing, including converting old hotels.

    November 30, 2021 |

    KBUT Community Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Crested Butte, Montana

    The town of Crested Butte declared a state of emergency, which allowed it to sidestep zoning rules and purchase a 6-unit former bed and breakfast to provide housing for seasonal workers. Residents, many of whom work in the restaurant industry during tourist season, agreed to rules like no overnight guests, no drugs, and no big parties. “Motel conversions” can provide quick conversion to housing that doesn’t need major renovations or construction, making it a more environmentally-friendly option.

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  • ¿Qué pasa cuando el surf incluye a todos?

    November 27, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    De costa a costa, en Costa Rica y también en Nicaragua, organizaciones comunitarias están abriendo paso para surfistas que antes no tenían acceso a este deporte por su género, sus limitaciones físicas, o su falta de recursos económicos.

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  • How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America

    November 26, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

    Political cooperation and an infrastructure of existing relationships and trust built by NGOs and community leaders during Hurricane Maria and a devastating 2019 earthquake allowed for a quick public health response to COVID-19 focused on prevention and vaccination. All trusted public figures, across political backgrounds, advocated wearing masks and getting vaccinated. As a result, Puerto Rico achieved the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate among all other U.S. state or territory. It also had among the lowest Covid-19 death rates since the start of the pandemic.

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  • Sex workers in Uganda rally to end spread of HIV through condom distribution and sensitization

    November 24, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Uganda

    The WOMAN ORGANISATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY (WONETHA) provides free condoms to sex workers in Uganda to end the spread of HIV. The group distributes about four to five million condoms to regional centers. Everyone can access the free condoms simply by request, without facing stigma or discrimination. The group also carries out “sensitization” campaigns that teach sex workers how to practice safe sex and feel empowered to require condom use among clients. They also work with health care systems to address discrimination and social stigmas that sex workers often face when seeking health care.

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  • Training Mothers On Nutrition Is Saving Lives Of Children

    November 23, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda, Kayonza District

    To address community malnutrition, 22 mothers began a savings and credit cooperative, which has since grown to 59 members. An elected committee looks for the most nutritionally vulnerable members, who are eligible for a small interest-free loan to improve the nutrition of their families. The women pay a membership fee and when loans are repaid, the cooperative gets a small percentage of the profits, which can be paid in installments until the whole amount is repaid. The group’s savings has also helped them buy animals that provide nutritious food products and organic fertilizers for their crops.

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  • Coloradans have been purchasing their own mobile home parks to keep them affordable. But the resident-owned model also comes with challenges, and limitations

    November 16, 2021 |

    KSJD |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    As rents at mobile home parks continue to rise, a Colorado law giving park residents first dibs on buying the park has led to resident-owned parks across the state. Several of these parks are run as co-ops, with resident-elected governing boards that have a mandate to keep rents low. A governing body made up of residents creates community buy-in and accountability for how the park is run. Purchasing and running a park is expensive, so organizations like Homes Fund help residents find funding for the initial purchase.

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