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  • Can Community Investment Trusts Help Slow Down Gentrification?

    Brendan Seibel

    April 15, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In East Portland, Oregon, a new Community Investment Trust is working to ensure that low-income residents have the opportunity to build equity by investing in their real estate. The program is limited to four zip codes with a maximum contribution of $100 to ensure that the investments stay open only to the members of the community it's intended to serve. More than 95% of investors have kept their money in the trust, but the model might be difficult to scale nationally without effective partnerships.

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  • This Bias Training Changes How Angel Investors Think

    Zoe Sullivan

    March 29, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A membership organization called Pipeline Angels helps women and nonbinary femme entrepreneurs find investors and start their own businesses. Pipeline Angels addresses the investment disparities between businesses owned by men and women.

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  • For Red Hook, Justice Center is Much More than a Court

    Megan Conn

    March 26, 2019 |

    Bklynr |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Red Hook Community Justice Center is a community center that also functions as a court hearing family, housing, and criminal cases. Defendants get on-site social services, like support groups and counseling, with an approach called procedural justice: cultivating public respect for the system by giving people a voice in it and by showing respect and transparency. A 2016 survey found 80% of local residents held positive feelings about the court, which was founded in 2000. People in the neighborhood can use the center's services even if they are not in a court case.

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  • Companies helping employees tackle student loan debt

    Amanda Brandeis

    March 25, 2019 |

    KGTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Companies get creative to help their employees tackle student debt by offering loan assistance as well as carrying over unused paid time off into a fund to chip away at debt. In San Diego, Fidelity Investments has found higher employee retention and workplace happiness with the addition of loan assistance as a benefit for employees with student debt.

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  • Schools Aim to Teach Teens Financial Savvy

    Anne Tergesen

    March 23, 2019 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    A growing number of states have started to require financial education in high schools. Studies have shown that in states that mandate financial literacy classes as part of the core curriculum, students have less credit card debt and less expensive student loans.

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  • Community schools: How the concept started and failed in Montgomery

    Krista Johnson

    March 22, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

    Since expected grant funding for a planned community school model was canceled a few years ago, two high-poverty elementary school that would have benefited from the approach have landed on the city's "failing" list. However, a local high school has had success incorporating elements of a similar model, such as a parent liaison and volunteer mentors from the community, with no additional budget. What can Davis and Nixon elementary learn from Lanier High?

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  • Telluride isn't immune to Colorado's high country housing problem. But it's finding a solution in diversification

    Jason Blevins

    March 18, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Telluride, Colorado

    While towns across the Mountain West struggle to provide affordable housing, Telluride looks to diversification of housing to build sustainable, economically beneficial houses and apartments. From tiny homes to dormitory-style apartment buildings, the city's developments leave room for singles and families alike, and easily afforded with government bonds and subsidies.

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  • The Street Corner Answer

    Bruce Katz Ross Baird

    March 14, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Access Ventures, a community development organization founded in a Louisville neighborhood, uses a comprehensive investment approach that encourages funds to be dispersed in all issue areas. Instead of creating one "affordable housing fund" or "homeless services fund," the group interweaves investment strategies, making sure to look at the bigger community picture when laying out an investment plan.

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  • Ikea's innovation lab unveils a plan to help people cash in on solar energy

    Katharine Schwab

    March 07, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ikea's innovation lab, Space10, piloted a block-chain powered solar energy grid as a way to creatively save money on electricity and create a sustainable energy alternative. Other microgrids around the world have seen success in allowing people who are part of the system to sell their excess energy and only use what they need.

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  • Swedish technology could make geothermal as mainstream as wind and solar

    Akshat Rathi

    March 06, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Geothermal power is typically hard to scale due to its dependence on hot water. Climeon is a Swedish energy company changing the game. It uses low-temperature heat and sells its energy in modular units, which makes it affordable. Due to an infusion in capital, the company is scaling its energy distribution across the globe.

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