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  • Workplace equity in Charlotte

    September 30, 2022 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    The Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce was originally formed as a safe space for LGBTQ+ business owners and professionals to network safely. The Chamber offers a combination of networking events, advocacy, and professional development opportunities designed to ensure members have access to the skills and training necessary to develop an equitable business community.

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  • For More Than 20 Guaranteed Income Projects, the Data Is In

    September 28, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States

    Guaranteed basic income programs, which gained prevalence during the pandemic, have helped people make ends need and purchase necessities during times of need. The hope is to break down stigmas around welfare, dispel misconceptions, and ultimately produce data that compels national policy change.

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  • Four-day workweek: Why more companies are taking the plunge

    September 28, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Several companies are beginning to lean into the four-day workweek. It is also being seen as a new recruiting tool that resonates with a younger generation that prioritizes work-life balance. There are even nonprofits like 4 Day Week Global, that are coordinating pilot programs across the globe to encourage more companies to adopt a 32-hour workweek with no cut in pay.

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  • Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

    September 28, 2022 |

    Instick |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

    Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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  • Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching

    September 26, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Cheyenne River Reservation, United States, South Dakota

    Regenerative agriculture — a technique originally developed by Native peoples — is a farming practice that can not only improve the quality of farms and their products but also serves as a response to growing climate change concerns. While regenerative agriculture currently only accounts for 10% of farms and ranches today, the numbers are slowly increasing.

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  • These Colorado programs are helping beginning farmers overcome huge challenges

    September 26, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The National Young Farmers Coalition works to remove barriers for the next generation of farmers by providing training and educational opportunities and increased access to necessary resources like land and water. The organization also strives to provide more farm training programs to underrepresented groups like indigenous people, women, immigrants, and people of color.

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  • After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization

    September 25, 2022 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act emphasizes getting treatment and decriminalizes possession of personal-use amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and other drugs. Supporters of the act say that decriminalization reduces the stigma of addiction and keeps people who use drugs out of jail. In the first year of decriminalization, about 16,000 people accessed services.

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  • How Jigawa is transforming its Primary Healthcare with BHCPF

    September 24, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

    Basic Health Care Provision Funds allows states that qualify to provide their residents access to quality healthcare. The funds allow states to provide healthcare centers with access to free medicine and treatment. This access to free drugs and treatment along with the deployment of midwives and community healthcare workers has helped to reduce the rates of both maternal and child mortality.

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  • Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

    September 23, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Engineers with the Division of Water Resources created a new berm in the Great Salt Lake to help protect the lake’s ecosystem and slow the water exchange and reduce rising salinity between the north and south arms of the lake. Initial findings after the berm’s construction have shown a significant decrease in high-salinity waters, as well as improvements in the lake’s brine shrimp population.

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  • The Flight of the Angel in Basilicata: an inspiring model of how to develop tourism

    September 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Basilicata

    The Flight of the Angel attraction has helped the area to create more jobs and improve the economy through tourism. In 2007, when the attraction opened, there were only two restaurants and two hotels in the city. But now, there are about 50 bed and breakfasts, eight restaurants and over 130,000 visitors annually.

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