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New Chicanos Por La Causa center to empower Maryvale community through education, jobs

Julian Hernandez

March 26, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

A Phoenix nonprofit called Chicanos Por La Causa serves the Latino communities across the Southwest through education, housing, health services, and more. Their job fair, created to celebrate the opening of their new Engagement Center, aims to drive employment and improve education rates in Maryvale through partnerships with Walmart and the Maricopa County Community College District. Participants laud the Center and the program for helping them seek betterment in life, access to a job, or a better job.

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In the chat room, Boston's black millennials build a community

Jeneé Osterheldt

March 12, 2019 |

The Boston Globe |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

In a city that many people of color consider unwelcoming, social media groups offer a path to visibility and community. The group, Young, Black, and Social, connects thousands of millennials in Boston to their peers, as well as social events and services. The group coordinates with other organizations and even event promoters to create a community and make people of color who are moving to Boston feel connected.

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Community cautiously optimistic about Cure Violence, the crime-fighting program out of Chicago

Eric Alvarez

February 20, 2019 |

WTLV-TV |

Multi-Media |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Cure Violence, a national non-profit, has been training local residents to intervene and diffuse violent conflict in their own neighborhoods. The organization, which started in Chicago, has contributed to decreased violence in cities like Baltimore and New York City, by taking a public health approach, meaning, treating crime like a disease. As Jacksonville, Florida comes to terms with the increase in violent conflict in its own city, it looks to Cure Violence as a possible intervention.

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How a team of researchers and high school students in California are working together to reduce pesticide exposure in children

Alessandra Bergamin

February 08, 2019 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

An on-going research study out of UC Berkeley's Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health has partnered with youth from the Salinas Valley for two decades to investigate the influence of pesticides on child development. Their findings have been published more than 150 times; the PSA that they designed is regularly aired on 10 radio stations across California, Oregon and Washington; and the children in the study grew up to form the first Youth Council to lead their own research on the impact of pesticides. As a result, many farmworkers in CA are now more educated about pesticide risks.

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StationSoccer

Jill Harkins

January 22, 2019 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

When Sanjay Patel realized there was unused land and parking lots near many of Atlanta's MARTA stations, he had an idea - working with city partners, Patel built soccer fields in and adjacent to several stations, offsetting the growing price and travel demands of youth soccer and bucking the trend of declining public transportation ridership. Is a similar approach possible in Philadelphia, a city without the same vacant lots?

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Youth Empowerment

Jennifer Rooks

January 17, 2019 |

NH-PBS |

Broadcast TV Programs |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Across New Hampshire, youth are leading the fight against substance abuse. Programs like Dover’s Youth-to-Youth, Stand Up Sachems, Youth Leadership Through Adventure, and the Making it Happen Coalition, are all youth-led, adult-supported initiatives that are empowering young adults to create and disseminate substance abuse awareness and prevention campaigns. Fundamental to each of these efforts effective communication and creating a sense of community as key to prevention.

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Communities Fill the Gaps Created by Shutdown

Tanzina Vega

January 17, 2019 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

During the government shutdown, federal workers went unpaid for weeks, struggling at times to access money, food, and legal services. To fill the gaps, communities stepped in. In Phoenix, Arizona, community members created a mobile food bank to serve the 300 TSA workers who were working without pay. In Alaska, the Sitka Tribe opened its food bank to all furloughed employees.

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U.S. Faith Communities Are Tackling the Housing Crisis

Charlotte West

January 08, 2019 |

Medium |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In cities like Denver, Seattle, and Chicago, faith-based communities use their land to aid in the affordable housing crisis. Because many communities of faith sit on large expanses of valuable land within city limits, they've begun using their land to offer housing for low-income families and other underserved community members.

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How the Son of Immigrants Quit Wall Street to Feed the Hungry

Rebecca Beitsch

December 20, 2018 |

Politico |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A small nonprofit in New York City called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) is tackling the staggering 40% of food that is wasted in the United States by collecting and redistributing excess food from restaurants to shelters, soup kitchen, social services, and more. RLC picks up food as many times as 200 a week, staffs only 7 people but has 100 regular volunteers and 8,000 more on call, and collected more than 792,000 pounds of food last year alone. Not only can businesses receive a large tax break for their donation, but the data provided by RLC has even contributed to restaurants reducing their food waste.

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Making Space for Worship in the 21st Century

Sandra Larson

December 14, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

With the aim of providing a space for congregations without a space to worship, Church Space created “co-churching” spaces that offer a room, lighting, musical instruments, a PA system and other amenities for rent. A congregation books the space for a Sunday time slot and has access during a weekday as well.

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