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

Isa Grassano

September 23, 2022 |

News48 |

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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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Police hire more civilian investigators to shore up ranks

Salma Reyes Nathan Collins

September 20, 2022 |

News21 |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

In an effort to combat staffing shortages, several police departments are hiring civilian investigators. Hiring civilian investigators helps ensure crimes get hands-on attention and, hopefully, are solved in a timely manner, while also helping to civilianize standard law enforcement operations.

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Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

Annie Sciacca

September 14, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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Mitigating Environmental Degradation through Collecting Plastics

Violah Natukunda

September 14, 2022 |

Royal FM |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

An initiative in Kigali, Rwanda, pays locals to collect plastic and glass waste to be sold for recycling. The initiative provides income for unemployed youth and women while helping clean up the city and reduce waste.

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Britain's Blind Farmers Are Teaching Others How to Grow

Alexander Turner

September 06, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: England, Bedfordshire

Inclusive Farm is adapted for people with a wide range of physical needs, like for people who are blind, to give farming students the full range of skills expected on a farm. Inclusive Farm aims to break down barriers for disabled people in the farming industry and is currently ushering its first intake of 14 students toward completing their courses.

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His family fished for generations. Now he's hauling plastic out of the sea.

Michael Birnbaum

August 31, 2022 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Greece

Enaleia pays fishing crews a small monthly fee, between $30-$90 depending on how much plastic they can bring in along with their catch. The funding comes from local foundations as well as large international donors including the Ocean Conservancy, Nestlé and Pfizer. Some of the waste, including recovered fishing nets, is sold to sustainable clothing manufacturers, and the money is invested back into the fishing crews. More than half of Greece’s large-scale fishing fleet, which includes hundreds of ships, has signed up for the program.

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A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First

Gladstone Taylor

August 30, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Jamaica

The Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary, created with input and buy-in from local fishers, manages and maintains coastal fisheries by employing fishers, captains, coral gardeners, supervisors, managers, and board members. The crew runs educational programs, has planted 18,000 corals and released over 20,000 sea turtles every year, established a sea urchin nursery, and patrols sanctuary borders waters to ensure compliance with the sanctuary policies. The Sanctuary generates enough money to employ 18 people, creating a loop where nature helps support those who nurture it.

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Bruised South Sudan Employers Figure it Out: Bring Attitude, not Diplomas or Skills, to Job Interviews

Richard Sultan

August 26, 2022 |

TIME of the World |

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Response Location: South Sudan

Employers like the St. Partick Clinic in South Sudan are hiring based on attitude and trainability instead of technical skills and knowledge to find employees that are trustworthy and reliable.

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Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

Jodi Hausen

August 22, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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