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Standing up in the wage gap!

Taisha Walker

November 10, 2022 |

Solutionaries |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Texas

The Power on Heels Fund provides annual training for Latinas and women of color to raise awareness about the gender pay gap and teach them to advocate for themselves when it comes to pay. The organization also provides scholarships to students and professionals, which helped one previous recipient obtain a needed certification to open her own business.

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States, tribes work to increase access to Native American healing

Laura Bargfeld Natalie Skowlund

November 04, 2022 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Houck, Arizona

It’s becoming more common for hospitals and medical facilities to employ traditional healers. Traditional services are free for Native Americans at facilities operated by the Indian Health Service and other tribal health centers that allocate money from their budget to provide the necessary infrastructure and staff for onsite traditional healing, but there are several groups and individuals rallying for traditional healing to be reimbursable through Medicaid to make it more accessible.

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Asian Americans Set to Play Decisive Role in Midterm Elections

Amy Yee

November 04, 2022 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Thanks in part to increased activism in light of COVID-19-related racism and targeted, multilingual outreach by voter advocacy organizations, turnout among Asian American voters increased by roughly 47 percent between 2016 and 2020.

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Navajo voters in one Arizona County see their ballots rejected more frequently. Here's what would fix that.

Jen Fifield Carrie Levine

November 03, 2022 |

Votebeat |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

Some Arizona counties that include parts of the Navajo Nation have set up voting centers, central locations where residents can come to vote in-person regardless of what precinct they are assigned to. The centers have helped reduce the number of provisional ballots cast on the reservation, which faces significant voting barriers due to distance, transportation access, and spotty mail and internet service, and other counties with reservation land are now pushing to establish their own voting centers.

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Getting Voters the Truth in Whirlwind of Lies

Lourdes Medrano

October 11, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Amid a climate of targeted election misinformation, grassroots organizations such as One Arizona are intensifying their outreach to Latino voters, with a focus on connecting with younger generations through high school visits and outreach at music and cultural festivals. One Arizona has registered about 120,000 young voters in the state since March.

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40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation

Fabiola Cineas

October 03, 2022 |

Vox |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Manhattan Beach, California

Protesters in Manhattan Beach, Calif., organized a campaign to return Bruce's Beach, a 7,000-square-foot plot of land that was taken from its Black owners in the 1920s, to the descendents of the original proprietors. The success of the effort led to the formation of Where is My Land, an organization that puts pressure on municipalities and governments to return land that was stolen from Black people throughout the United States' history.

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Tribal, Arizona and Pima County officials work to reunify families

Caitlin Schmidt

September 05, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Arizona

Lawyers, tribes, state agencies, judges, social workers, and a law professor in Arizona worked together to create the Pima County Superior Court's Indian Child Welfare Act Court. Since the court is specialized, cases are processed faster, outcomes have improved, and it protects the best interests of Native American children throughout the process.

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LGBTQ-friendly building in Philly has become a model for affordable senior housing. For residents it's ‘a dream come true.'

Kevin Riordan

August 26, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The John C. Anderson Apartments is a LGBTQ+ friendly, senior facility in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, that gives residents an affordable place to feel safe and be with their peers.

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Rural Literature Educator Helps Teachers Connect Students to Their Roots

Lane Wendell Fischer

July 08, 2022 |

The Daily Yonder |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Texas

Literacy In Place provides an online repository of literature resources that expand curriculums to incorporate rural identities, experiences, and cultures. Teachers and students at all levels can access book lists, lesson plans and activities that dispel negative rural stereotypes and assumptions.

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A “Familismo” Approach To Latino College Enrollment

Apps Mandar Bichu

June 28, 2022 |

ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Grayslake, Illinois

College of Lake County in Illinois is among other higher education institutions using culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain more Latino students. Through offering counseling with bilingual therapists, hiring a Latino student outreach coordinator, and stationing college and career navigators in feeder high schools to guide Latino students, the college was able to increase Latino student enrollment by 27 percent in the fall of 2021.

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