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  • Sporting chance for disadvantaged youth

    Bill Wilson

    May 23, 2014 |

    BBC |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    For youth from low-income or disadvantaged families, the joy of participating in sports activities is often unobtainable, due to the costs of equipment, membership, and even cultural barriers. Street Games is a charity working to provide access to sport, especially for young women, through a personalized, accessible approach that includes hosting games in accessible public areas such as parks in low-income neighborhoods.

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  • 4 Out of 5 Black Women Are Overweight. This Group Has the Solution.

    Catherine Cheney

    December 19, 2013 |

    NationSwell |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Henderson, North Carolina

    Obesity has become a health crisis for many women in the African-American community, but a group known as GirlTrek is working to change this by making exercise a social norm and creating supportive connections between women with shared goals. This new organization, which works to identify barriers that many in this community face, channels African-American history to encourage black women to walk their way toward better health.

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  • There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find

    A.K. Streeter

    October 02, 2012 |

    TreeHugger |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more money too.

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  • The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

    Julio Godoy

    July 18, 2012 |

    Inter Press Service News Agency |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

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  • Moving Beyond the Cold War Coach

    David Bornstein

    October 25, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    When adults are asked what values they think youth sports actually reinforce most, they say competitiveness and the importance of winning. The Positive Coaching Alliance provides teaching tools that help coaches redefine the idea of “winning” from something that is reflected on a scoreboard to something that is reflected in a child’s character.

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  • The Power of Positive Coaching

    David Bornstein

    October 20, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    A group called Positive Coaching Alliance is training thousands of coaches and parents to change to culture of youth sports for the better, using a "relentlessly positive" approach, and trading out the win-at-all-costs ethos of professional sports for evidence-based, age-appropriate guidance to players.

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