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  • Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker

    July 17, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Branch, New Jersey

    Libraries across the United States are expanding what they offer to not just include books, but also a host of social and human services. From stocking an anti-overdose drug to offering mental health services and legal support, libraries are preparing to serve anyone that may walk through the door.

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  • How Southern Communities Tackle Summertime Food Scarcity

    July 17, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Communities are creating networks to fill in food security gaps for children. In cities like Jackson, Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia, community groups, churches, and nonprofits are working to provide summer meals to children who rely on lunch programs during the school year. Closed schools create a barrier to resources for many families that depend on them. Organizations like Feeding America and the Georgia Nutritional Services draw from USDA Summer Food Service Program funding to address the shortfall in summertime support.

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  • Wind River tribes re-establish program to help those battling drug and alcohol problems

    July 15, 2019 |

    Casper Star-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

    On the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, a wellness court is helping connect clients with resources that are tailored to cultural practices "in addition to drug or alcohol treatment and mental health help." The program relies on offering incentives for progress rather than punishments for missteps and has already shown success in small-scale implementations.

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  • How One Community Brought Child Mortality Down From 154 To 7 Per 1,000 Live Births

    July 12, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako

    Providing door-to-door health care for mothers and children under five years of age greatly reduces mortality. Thanks to a program of home visits by community health care workers funded by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Yirimadio neighborhood of Mali’s capital city, Bamako, has succeeded in dramatically reducing childhood mortality. The government intends to scale the pilot program into a nationwide campaign by 2022.

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  • Inside the Ambitious Campaign to Drive Homicides in Chicago Below 400

    July 11, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In Chicago, community organizations, public officials, and private funders have come together behind a campaign called “<399” – with the goal of bringing homicides to under 400. This collaboration has taken on a comprehensive, community-centered approach that includes initiatives like community outreach, individual support, and mentoring. While they’ve received significant funding from the city, they’re hoping to secure long-term financial and political support from all levels of government.

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  • Living with Fire Part 3: Private-sector approaches to a public problem

    July 11, 2019 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Bozeman, Montana

    Wildfire Defense Systems is hired by insurance companies to send firefighting crews throughout 20 states to protect insured property at risk from wildfires. The company justifies its services as a needed supplement to overworked, publicly funded wildfire-fighting crews. Critics say it gives rich homeowners an unfair advantage. Since its founding in 2008, it has responded to nearly 600 fires, protecting millions of properties and saving insurance companies more than $750 million in potential claims.

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  • Hartford's largest nonprofits contribute more

    July 08, 2019 |

    Hartford Business Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Hartford, Connecticut looks to Boston as an example of a city that has succeeded in establishing a connection between nonprofits - who can donate payments to the city that are exempt from property taxes - and the local government. With a massive number of successful hospitals and colleges, Boston has created a system in which it can use donated money from these highly profitable institutions to work toward city planning without paying property taxes on the donations; Hartford hopes to create a similar relationship in its own city limits.

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  • Energy audit inspires Virginia yogis to ‘stand up for something that's important'

    July 08, 2019 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Yogaville, Virginia

    A self-imposed audit of energy resources aimed at reducing a Virginia community's carbon footprint and utility bill resulted in a move towards solar power. The community now partners with other surrounding entities to teach solar bootcamps and raise awareness about the need for renewable energy sources.

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  • The rise of urban food forests

    July 02, 2019 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Creating and supporting local food systems requires public-private partnerships in urban planning. Across the United States, nonprofit organizations such as Trees Atlanta in Georgia successfully work with cities to operate and maintain community orchards, or "food forests", on public lands. Planting food forests with several layers of fruit-bearing vegetation reduces the prevalence of food deserts, adding both green space and nutritional value to communities.

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  • A tiny tweak in California law is creating a strange thing: carbon-negative oil

    July 01, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    A collaboration between an oil company, a Harvard professor and California lawmakers has resulted in the creation of a large-scale energy plant. While there are still goals yet to be me, this plant is capable of capturing carbon dioxide from the air while simultaneously recovering oil.

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