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  • The TriTown Connector in Great Barrington, Stockbridge and Egremont offers on-demand ride service for everyone

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    May 30, 2023 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

    The TriTown Connector is a microtransit service providing rides between three rural communities in western Massachusetts, with reduced fares for senior residents. Rides are scheduled in advance by phone and via an app, and the service has completed roughly 350 trips in its first month of operation.

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  • Latino advisory group works to bring more Spanish-speaking audiences to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

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    May 10, 2023 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

    The Spanish-Language Community Advisory Network works with a performing arts center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to bring in Latino audiences by showing culturally-relevant films, reducing language barriers, and even inviting the films’ cast and crew to the screenings.

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  • Western Massachusetts helpline a Call for Change seeks to end intimate partner violence where it starts—with the people causing the harm

    Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

    December 31, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    The Call for Change Helpline in Massachusetts takes phone calls from across the country to help prevent domestic violence. The line is confidential and anonymous. Most callers are people causing harm, and responders are trained to help them change abusive behavior.

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  • CHP is trying to attract nurse practitioners to the Berkshires by offering them residencies

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    December 21, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

    The Community Health Program’s Great Barrington Health Center and the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester partnered together to provide a residency program to attract nurse practitioners to the area. The program helps train nurse practitioners to provide care and master concepts like insurance policies and medical computer systems in areas that are lacking these medical professionals.

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  • Saying it with soup in Lanesborough: We want to ease the isolation of our elders

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    December 12, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

    The Community Produce Program organized by the Heart & Soil Collective delivers weekly produce to seniors in need. Not only does the program increase food access, but it also provides seniors with community, wellness checks, and friendships that they struggle to access otherwise.

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  • Meet the people who help Spanish-speaking families decode life and learning in South County

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    November 04, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

    Within the Latino community, there are often miscommunications between schools and parents that have a big impact on students' education. To help build a bridge, some schools are hosting forums for Spanish-speaking families and including more inclusive language in messaging to allow parents to be more involved in their children’s education.

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  • This is how Mondays in Lanesborough became 'salad day' for some lucky seniors

    Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

    November 01, 2022 |

    The Berkshire Eagle |

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    Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

    The Community Produce Program is a weekly produce delivery that serves local seniors in need of fresh produce. Not only does the program helps with issues of food security, but it also fosters community between the volunteers and the local elders and helps reduce waste.

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  • Restaurant Resiliency Program's Rocky Start Tests East Harlem Restaurants

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    February 10, 2022 |

    NY City Lens |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Restaurant Resiliency Program, which was adapted as a government initiative during COVID, tied up restaurants with charities with the aim of ensuring that vulnerable communities had access to meals while the restaurants were able to keep their business running in those uncertain times. However, when the funding abruptly ended on February 3 without reaching all the beneficiary restaurants, it showed how the much-needed program required better implementation and thought.

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  • Cherries and Snow: Hammana Artist House breathes life back into a small Lebanese village

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    September 10, 2019 |

    Beirut Today |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Hammana

    Amplifying local culture, history, and food through the arts increases tourism and can revitalize areas struggling with depopulation. The Hammana Artist House, a collaboration between a philanthropist and Collectif Kahraba, a local theater non-profit in Hammana, Lebanon, has resulted in an arts program that attracts new visitors to the town. In addition to the village’s historic cherry festival, the collaboration has resulted in a new artist residency program and projects that enhance the identity and visibility of the community.

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  • Drinking coffee, talking politics

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    July 01, 2019 |

    The Daily Star Lebanon |

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    Coffee & Politics is an initiative founded by Tracy Nehme to provide opportunities to explore Lebanese politics and history. The program provides scheduled events and monthly talks on a particular topic. Attendance increased after online advertising and Nehme started inviting guest speakers, like the heads of government agencies and elected officials, to lead the discussions and hold Q&As. Despite lower capacities, coffee shops are the ideal venues because the informal open spaces attract diverse crowds. The initiative’s popularity has already led it to be scaled to another city, with events held in Tripoli.

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