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  • Local governments urged to use mediation, other aid to stop evictions

    July 28, 2021 |

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution |

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    Response Location: United States, Fulton County, Georgia

    An impending eviction moratorium is prompting the local governments to push much assistance to renters as possible through mediation and rental assistance. In Georgia, rental assistance has been relied on heavily to help those in need while places like Philadelphia are preventing evictions through successful mediations between renters and landlords.

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  • As the end of the eviction moratorium looms, Mecklenburg County residents have a lifeline for help paying rent

    July 27, 2021 |

    WCNC-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Residents who have fallen behind on bills due to the pandemic can now receive emergency funds to cover rent, mortgage, and utility assistance. The city of Charlotte has provided $33.7 million of aid for 11,000 families.

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  • Fighting plastic waste: a double-edged sword

    July 26, 2021 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Teams of recyclers in Nigeria gather plastic bottles from the streets and landfills and brings them to recycling plants where they can exchange the waste for money. HISL Recyclers collects this waste — which usually contains polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, a dangerous chemical — as a way to remove the waste from the environment. However, more work needs to be done to get more people to participate in the program and to scale the operations. So far, they’ve been able to recycle up to 20 tonnes of plastic waste a month.

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  • Tag team approach to healthcare reaches older adults in Bangladeshi community during COVID-19 pandemic

    July 14, 2021 |

    Tostada Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Sakhi for South Asian Women in New York has significantly increased their outreach during the coronavirus pandemic, connecting clients to services and resources. The group conducted 1,500 wellness calls and needs assessments in local South Asian communities and increased their caseload and cash assistance to clients. The group, who publishes their content in nine languages, also helps clients who do not have documentation pay for groceries and medications through their Sakhi Solidarity Fund. For clients who need help with family law and immigration issues, Sakhi can connect them to pro bono legal partners.

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  • How Bogotá's Waste Pickers Reinvented Their Jobs for a Modern City

    July 05, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    In Colombia, there are about 50,000 waste pickers, they collect and sort through trash to findrecyclabless to make a living. Their livelihood was threatened in the 1990s after Colombia adopted neoliberal policies that privatized trash collection. However, in 2016 the government officially recognized wastepickers as recycling service providers under a decree. That same year, the government introduced a "second payment," that supplement the income of waste pickers. Coupled, these two policies have improved the livelihood of wastepickers.

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  • From $1-Million Lotteries to Free Beer: Do COVID Vaccination Incentives Work?

    June 17, 2021 |

    Scientific American |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Several states are offering incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Ohio’s Vax-a-Million program was one of the first state-based cash lotteries, awarding five residents over 18 a $1-million prize and five full college scholarships to residents ages 12-17. Vaccination rates jumped 28% in the first week of the program. Other states have looked to boost vaccination rates by offering creative incentives in addition to cash lotteries, including prepaid grocery and subway cards, tickets to local attractions, hunting rifles, free beer, and even cannabis joints in Washington state.

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  • Sustaining the Work of Artists With a Living Wage and Benefits In Western Massachusetts

    June 09, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, including healthcare, which resulted in responses to issues like youth mental health, food justice, and COVID-19 awareness campaigns in communities that are marginalized. From empowering youth to build community through food and farming to engaging young queer people of color, the successful six-month pilot led to a new fundraising campaign to continue and expand to seven regions across the U.S.

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  • For Black Voters Matter, the goal is greater community power

    June 02, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Black Voters Matter raises money to support organizations and initiatives that are often too small for institutional funders to notice. The group has given millions to community-based groups in 15 states—mostly in the South—to register voters, canvass neighborhoods with voting-related information, run phone banks, and even rent buses to drive people to the polls. They’ve raised tens of millions of dollars, mostly in small donations from about 90,000 unique donors. The group, who seeks to strengthen organizations for the long run, also funds activities like free grocery distribution for those in need.

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  • Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

    May 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans forced to work there during slavery and Jim Crow. Annual payments, taken from a fund set to grow at a sustainable rate, will go to the closest direct descendant of each Black worker. Fifteen descendants have received payments so far, but that number will likely grow as genealogists continue to search through records. The payments, along with efforts to build relationships with the families, are the Seminary’s way of acknowledging their role in the exploitation and recognizing the contributions of those forced to work there.

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  • What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?

    May 10, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Lilongwe

    From collecting plastic to transforming it into infrastructure, communities all over the world are implementing solutions to tackle the growing amount of plastic waste. In Malawi, women are separating garbage from plastic and creating new products like fire briquettes, doormats, and organic compost that they can sell to others. A town in Tasmania turned their plastic waste into a road made of recycled asphalt that is expected to last 15 percent longer than regular asphalt. And Zimbabwe is employing youth to recycle plastic into eco-friendly construction materials.

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