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MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias

Nancy Adams

October 10, 2014 |

MIT News |

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Response Location: Guatemala, Santa Maria Nebaj, El Quiché

Using "Creative Capacity Building," MIT's D-Lab established in impoverished, rural areas in developing nations a method of empowering and supporting individuals in rural communities to invent low-cost technologies specifically geared to address the problems or needs of their locale. In 2009, the D-Lab paired with SolCom, a Guatemalan community organizing enterprise, and an international development fund to bring this model to the isolated, impoverished area of Nebaj, assisting locals in creating a Makerspace, or "integrated workshop, demonstration site, training center, and retail shop to complement the activities of microentrepreneurs." The collaboration has fostered an environment for sustainable, grass-roots change, in which the social and intellectual capital needed to create the needed innovations and inventions originate in the community itself.

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How to Attract Artists to a Down-and-Out Neighborhood

John Tierney

October 10, 2014 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

Public-private collaborations can promote entrepreneurship and foster economic revitalization. In the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, partnerships between the city of Columbus, the Franklinton Development Association (FDA), and local businesses have led to a flourishing of artist studios, maker spaces, and other community attractions. The initiatives were funded in part by grants from ArtPlace America as well as the city of Columbus.

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In Tanzania, Coke improves medical distributions

Jacob Kushner

September 29, 2014 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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Response Location: Tanzania

Project Last Mile is a partnership between Coca-Cola and Tanzania’s Medical Stores Department that is helping to deliver medications to the most remote parts of the country. Due to this partnership, the Medical Stores Department has been able to leverage Coca-Cola's "geocoded software to identify the most efficient delivery schedules and routes," and significantly increase the availability of medicine throughout Tanzania.

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The Formula For Alaska's Safety Success

Stephanie Joyce

September 18, 2014 |

Inside Energy |

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Response Location: United States, Dutch Harbor, Alaska

The dangers of the crabbing industry were well known long before the show "Deadliest Catch" made them famous. But deaths on the job decreased dramatically thanks to an awareness campaign spearheaded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of Alaska, paired with better involvement from the Coast Guard. Their efforts lead to dramatic decreases in fatalities in just a few years. Can this model be replicated in the oil and gas industry?

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Camden Turns Around With New Police Force

Kate Zernike

August 31, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

Since moving to a county-run police department, Camden, N.J., historically one of the nation’s poorest and most dangerous cities, has altered its culture to overcome years of mistrust by developing a personal relationship with and empowering the local community.

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On Columbia, ‘just add water' seems to be working

Lynda V. Mapes

August 02, 2014 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Brewster, Washington

New water management technology implemented along the Columbia has significantly helped the fish population - specifically salmon - return to healthy numbers and has restored much of the community and industry that revolves around the river, including for native peoples.

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Can preschool help fight crime?

Greg Barnes

July 27, 2014 |

Fayetteville Observer |

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Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Early education translates into higher graduation rates and lower probability for criminal behavior later in life, yet less than 30 percent of children in the United States go to preschool. Oklahoma leads the nation in universal early childhood education by ensuring all children, regardless of income, can attend preschool. All four year olds are entitled to services, and 74 percent participate.

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Linking up for a food-secure world

Anna Patton

July 17, 2014 |

Devex |

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Response Location: India

With youth no longer joining the agriculture workforce at the same rate or volume as they were historically, food systems are struggling to keep pace with need. Prioritizing the efficiency of supply chains and food security incentives, however, has shown positive measures towards sustainability.

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Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

Kevin Fagan

June 28, 2014 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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A decade of homelessness: Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis

Heather Knight

June 27, 2014 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Between 2004 and 2014, San Francisco’s mayor attempted to rid the city of chronic homelessness with a ten-year plan. Despite dramatic successes in moving thousands of homeless from the streets, the homeless population numbers remain the same and chronic homelessness may never be eradicated. In reexamining the problems from the ten-year plan, the current administration has new ideas to decrease their number of homeless.

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