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  • The American Dream Isn't Dead. This Is How Immigrant Families Are Achieving It

    Raisa Bruner

    November 09, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Instituto del Progreso Latino, a vocational school in Chicago, is comprehensively helping Latino immigrants living in the U.S. educate themselves, find professional work, and rise above poverty.

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  • International Students Find the American Dream ... in Flint

    Gordon Young

    October 27, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    International students and the city of Flint, Michigan, have an imperfect but beneficial relationship. The city is a cheap and accommodating place for students to get their foot in the U.S., and the students bring their business; thus, boosting the desperate economy.

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  • The Changing Face of California Agriculture

    Mark Bittman

    September 30, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    Immigrants from Laos farming in California are using traditional knowledge and small-scale farming to make farming economically viable. While Hmong farmers face cultural challenges, they are looking to sustain and expand their businesses to new markets.

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  • For U.S. Tribes, a Movement to Revive Native Foods and Lands

    Cheryl Katz

    September 28, 2015 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Duluth, Minnesota

    Property rights, circumscribed jurisdictions, and conflicts with neighbors exacerbate Native American efforts to restore tribal land and resources. Some tribes have found success by tapping into a trend of support from the government and conservationists.

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  • Lessons from under the coconut tree

    James Vaznis

    September 12, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Haiti, Nippes

    Boston professors visit countries and homes of foreign students to better understand their culture and gain insights about how to better teach them. The goal is to reach across cultural divides to help a big part of the student population — emigres from faraway lands — that is plagued with low standardized test scores and high dropout rates. Accompanying photojournalism: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/09/12/seeking-cultural-connections/L3mIQAQM3v9YT9A2K4JliL/story.html

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  • How Seattle Made Dark Alleys Safer—By Throwing Parties In Them

    Araz Hachadourian

    August 26, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Alleys in Seattle were once places of illicit, illegal, and unsanitary activity. The International Sustainability Institute in Seattle began organizing music and art events to bring in people, which, in turn, cleaned-up the crime and garbage. As an urban development strategy, adjacent vacant storefronts re-opened for business and beautification could be seen in new gardens.

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  • Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

    Leah Penniman

    August 10, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    Amy Costello

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • Repurposing historic buildings on Detroit's medical campuses

    MJ Galbraith

    July 14, 2015 |

    Model D |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Two local hospital systems have worked diligently to balance the preservation of the historic character of their campuses with the need to keep their facilities state-of-the-art. Communities have chosen to repurpose old medical buildings instead of demolishing them and losing the history of the site.

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  • Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

    Jeremy Hance

    June 24, 2015 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    The Matsés, an indigenous population in Brazil in Peru, teamed up with Acaté, a conservation group, to create a medicinal knowledge encyclopedia. The encyclopedia was compiled by five shamans, took two years, is 500 pages long, and “details every plant used by Matsés to cure a massive variety of ailments.” It not only preserves ancestral knowledge, but is seen as a way to improve the health of Matsés and future generations. “Until their encyclopedia, the Matsés entire traditional health system was on the unchecked verge of disappearance.”

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