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  • They Make Gourmet Products and Pull Women Out of Poverty. Meet the Women's Bean Project.

    Jennifer Oldham

    May 22, 2018 |

    Slate |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver

    The Women's Bean Project is a successful social enterprise that helps women experiencing poverty - for whatever reason - to gain the skills necessary to retain jobs through classes and experience on an assembly line. Approximately 93% of program graduates have retained a job after a year, an impressive statistic for most social enterprises.

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  • The All-Woman Team Building and Selling Toilets in Cambodia

    Didem Tali

    May 17, 2018 |

    News Deeply |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Cambodia, Pursat

    To combat potentially fatal hygiene practices, women in Cambodia have learned how to build and sell toilets, breaking into a historically male-dominated field. The small businesses have resulted in hundreds of sales with improves the livelihoods for both the buyer and seller.

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  • An Unusual Way to Rescue a City From Blight—Bees

    J. Gabriel Ware

    May 17, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Detroit Hives has a twofold mission of reducing urban blight and protecting bees. The nonprofit organization purchases low-cost vacant lots and transforms them into farms for bee hives. Its creative partnerships with local businesses have provided honey for restaurants and flowerbeds to the farm, all while making Detroit more beautiful.

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  • Library of Things: borrow power tools, ukuleles, and ice cream makers alongside books

    Lucy Purdy

    May 10, 2018 |

    Positive.News |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: England, London

    In south London, a crowdfunded campaign by residents has brought a "Library of Things" to the neighborhood where people can rent out items like lawn mowers and pressure cookers for affordable rates. The project began in 2014 and also offers skill-sharing events and volunteer opportunities.

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  • Special delivery: Text messages bring courses to disconnected students

    Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

    Text |

    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 |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    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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  • Solutions for Peace

    Harriet Noble Elizabeth Davies

    April 21, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Israel, Jerusalem

    As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues, peace and hope breaks out in unexpected places. People are bridging religious and cultural divides at a backgammon parlor, a school, a fashion company, and during peace talk simulations.

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  • Can entrepreneurship empower Zanzibar's young women?

    Ann Babe

    April 06, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Zanzibar

    In Zanzibar, young women are overwhelmingly becoming entrepreneurs in order to combat the high rates of unemployment. “Women's increasing interest in self-employment is more pronounced than men’s: 20.8 compared to 12.7 percent.”

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  • Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned

    Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

    March 27, 2018 |

    In These Times |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Cafe ULU is the first business started by the Us Lifting Us Economic Development Cooperative, a co-op funded by membership fees. The coffee shop is hoping to serve as a community gathering space for the local African American community, demonstrating the power the black community can have when it bands together economically. The co-op is hoping to open businesses across the country.

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  • Legal Pot Is Notoriously White. Oakland Is Changing That.

    Max Blau

    March 27, 2018 |

    Politico |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    A nonprofit incubator in Oakland trains people of color to stake their claim in the booming California legal marijuana industry. Participants in the Hood Incubator learn the business skills and industry knowledge to thrive as they open dispensaries and try their hand at selling legal weed.

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