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  • Can You Make Bankers Behave Better?

    July 05, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    What if you could figure out a way to nudge bankers into making decisions with more integrity, in order to avoid future financial woes? Can a sense of safety and ethics be forced into company culture? The Inquiry takes a look inside Goldman Sachs and meets with a regulator who is deploying psychologists in banks.

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  • Ugly Is the New Look for Cigarette Packs

    July 05, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom

    During the twentieth century, imagery on cigarette packs communicated that smoking was cool and young, and it encouraged young people, as well as adults, to smoke. In 2012, Australia started “unbranding the pack,” which standardized cigarettes without a brand and showed the physically gruesome effects of smoking with health factoids on the packaging. Since then, the World Health Organization has recommended this new kind of packaging and the idea has spread to other countries to scale the success.

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  • A Future in Code: Building Life Skills in Syria

    July 04, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Syria

    Refugees from Syria are finding opportunities to build their own start-ups through the United Nations Population Fund program, which works with local non-governmental organizations to support participants with workshops and mentoring. One of the supported businesses is an app called Remmaz, which works to help Syrian refugees learn skills like coding and ultimately hope to create an accessible, online Arabic MOOC (massive open online course).

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  • The people trying to save democracy from itself

    July 02, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Low voter turnouts, populists offering half-truths, corporate interests, and the blurring of facts in the media are signs that democracy around the world is in turmoil. Internationally, citizens have assembled different programs and initiatives that arm ordinary people with information about policy and their elected officials, as well as distinctive ways to reform the electoral system.

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  • NASA and USAID pioneer the use of space technologies for development efforts

    July 01, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Panama

    SERVIR, a joint development initiative of the United States Agency for International Development and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, leverages data from space to improve environmental decision-making in 30 developing countries.

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  • For Nonprofits Tackling Poverty, Collaboration Remains Important Hurdle

    June 30, 2016 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    Padua Project is an innovative program that has a goal of getting poor people out of poverty in three years with a job, three months’ savings and off government assistance. Its unusual success involved a collaboration with other social services organizations. Overcoming the big challenge of this collaboration is an important learning tool to scale similar initiatives.

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  • Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome

    June 30, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    Fueled by xenophobia, many countries around the world are refusing refugees at the border. But Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies, and neighbors are personally resettling Syrians, one family at a time.

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  • Family center offers comprehensive care for the homeless

    June 29, 2016 |

    KING-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Homelessness has many challenges that require different services to aid those who have no place to live—including daycare and laundry. Seattle has established Mary’s Place Family Center, a public space that collaborates with non-profits to provide a multitude of social services to the homeless. Large corporations have donated buildings to serve as Seattle’s Mary’s Place shelters to diminish costs.

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  • United We Fish!

    June 28, 2016 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Local fisheries have been struggling to keep up with major manufacturers. Sustainable fishing practices have been countering that by creating Niche markets.

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  • Fast, inexpensive street changes that get big results

    June 24, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    In Pennsylvania, many cities face challenges in implementing Complete Street policies to improve street and transportation safety in urban cores. The cities and organizations that have done this successfully offer ideas to others about how they can use creative financing and piloting to overcome barriers and enforce the policy.

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