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How Cleft Surgery Unites Families, Saves Lives

Risikat Ramoni

October 29, 2022 |

Daily Trust |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

Smile Train is a non-government organization that helps families that are struggling financially to afford cleft lip and palate surgeries for their children in need. Since 2007, Smile Train has successfully paid for 31,000 successful surgeries and has a presence in 45 hospitals across the country.

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After Roe, abortion's underground railroad gains steam

Emily Schultheis Carlo Martuscelli Mandoline Rutkowski Jakub Korus

October 29, 2022 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Poland

Women Help Women is one of several organizations around the world that have formed to provide women with pills needed to complete an at-home medical abortion. An international group of doctors review online medical history questionnaires and provide women with prescriptions for the procedure. The groups are part of a network seeking to increase women's access to abortion as more and more countries pass laws limiting women's abortion access.

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Let's Talk About Mental Health: Community solutions to moving beyond the scarcity trap

Shannon Steele

October 28, 2022 |

Explore Big Sky |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Big Sky, Montana

Big Sky Community Food Bank and Food Resource Center provides easy access to food and resources to people in need. People are encouraged to use the resources as a strategy to make their household budget go further and provide a sense of security. This helps prevent feelings of constant stress and insecurity around basic needs, which can lead to a scarcity mindset and be detrimental to mental health.

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Four WA communities tried to end youth homelessness. One is seeing success

Greg Kim

October 28, 2022 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

Washington’s Anchor Community Initiative helps youth experiencing homeless by improving communities’ response systems with better data, more funding, and better connecting community organizations and specialists.

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Blind and low-vision voters hail Massachusetts' new statewide online voting option

Meghan Smith

October 28, 2022 |

GBH |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

In 2021, Massachusetts debuted a new election service that allows voters with disabilities to cast their ballots electronically through a secure web portal. Originally piloted in five municipalities, the system was used by six people last year and is now available statewide.

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Social Business Profile: Clear Voice – the award-winning language service helping refugees

Sasha Gallick

October 27, 2022 |

Pioneers Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom

Clear Voice specializes in interpreting, translation, and transcription services via phone, video, and face-to-face, as well as services to asylum seekers through its parent charity Migrant Help. The organization has been steadily growing since its inception in 2006 but has more than tripled its staff in the past 18 months.

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Nature-Based Education Is Super White. Not At Detroit's Urban Forest School.

Rukiya Colvin

October 26, 2022 |

Next City |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

With the support of the Black to the Land Coalition, the Urban Forest School is a co-teaching and co-learning community that provides interaction, outdoor education, and play for children of color, providing them with a culturally grounded education. The Urban Forest School launched in late 2020, starting with monthly outings such as hikes in local city parks, trips to a planetarium and plant identification programs.

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Students with disabilities innovate ways to use spaces, products not designed for them

Cat Wise

October 26, 2022 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

Students in the UC Berkeley Disability Lab gather to work on projects and inventions aimed at improving accessibility for those living with a disability. The lab also provides students living with disabilities with a sense of community among each other.

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Record number of South Carolinians cast their ballots on the first day of early voting

Nick Neville

October 25, 2022 |

WIS News 10 |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, South Carolina

After South Carolina lawmakers passed a new law in May allowing residents to participate in early voting without needing an excuse, the state set a new record on the first day of the early voting period with more than 42,000 ballots cast.

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For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors

Ben Casselman

October 25, 2022 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Several companies’ newfound openness to remote work is leading to opportunities for people whose disabilities make in-person work difficult or impossible to find stable employment. The share of adults with disabilities who are working has soared in the past two years, far surpassing its pre-pandemic level and outpacing gains among people without disabilities.

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