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The People Behind Your Tech Addiction Are Now Trying to Curb It

Miles Schneiderman

June 28, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Teaching people about the harmful impacts of social media and tech addiction are a crucial first step in mitigating its consequences. The Center for Human Technology (CHT) has partnered with Common Sense Media to launch the Truth About Tech campaign, which calls for a shift in values surrounding technology and tech companies. The organizations accomplish this through a curricula designed to teach awareness and mindfulness about tech use beginning at an early age. By high school, students are introduced to ethical design principles.

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Renters Get One Step Closer to Homeownership With This Innovative Program

Shaima Shamdeen

June 26, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Renting Partnerships organizes affordable housing communities that stay affordable. By meeting the expectations of the community, such as paying rent on time, residents can earn and cash out financial equity after staying in their home for five years. The program uses creative financing in the hopes of making housing more equitable.

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In a Male-Dominated Food World, Women of Color Are Creating Spaces for Each Other

Alejandra Molina

June 22, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Los Angeles-based group Across Our Kitchen Tables is hoping to overcome the underrepresentation of women of color in the food industry. The group connects women, helps them discuss ideas and recipes, and hosts workshops on skills relevant to the food industry. Above all, the group is creating a community of women to learn from one another.

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Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

Ivy Brashear

June 20, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kentucky

An internship program in rural Kentucky takes a bottom-up approach to reproductive health education. All Access EKY hires young female interns to create media and social media campaigns about teenage pregnancy and birth control. All Access Media Director Willa Johnson says, “We’re trying to build some of these bridges in our communities so it’s not just teenage girls on an island and health care providers on an island and educators on an island."

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Opportunity for Refugees, Nourishment for New Yorkers

Matt Katz

June 20, 2018 |

WNYC |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In New York, non-profits like Eat Offbeat, Emma's Torch, United Tastes of America, and more are working to connect American-born citizens with refugees from other countries, using food as a way to spark conversation while also providing employment and job training opportunities. So far, these organizations have helped welcome refugees while also creating cultural awareness.

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In Morocco, women find a recipe for success and gainful employment

Stéphanie Jacob

June 14, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Morocco, Marrakesh

The Marrakesh-based Amal for the Culinary Arts offers Moroccan women from disadvantaged backgrounds free training in order to become culinary chefs. Through the program they get hands on experience. They also help them find a job. Already, around 200 women have gone through the program, and six have created their own businesses.

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This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

Michaela Winberg

June 12, 2018 |

Billy Penn |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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Making business democratic: The Cooperation Group gives Detroiters avenues for collective ownership

Aaron Mondry

June 12, 2018 |

Model D |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

The Cooperation Group is a Detroit-based nonprofit that consults for worker-owned cooperatives. They also give advice to organizations even if they think a cooperative is not the best model, as they did with the nonprofit Soulardarity. Either way, they want what is best for the business and the people who work there. The Cooperation Group has mobilized a lot of support in Detroit for cooperatives, including foundations and local government.

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Singapore helps North Korea break out in business

Thomas Maresca

June 12, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: North Korea, Pyongyang

More than 2,000 North Koreans have accessed entrepreneurship training through a Singaporean nonprofit called Choson Exchange, gaining exposure to market concepts such as pricing and branding -- often for the first time. Former students have opened a coffee shop among other businesses.

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A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

Doug Smith

June 08, 2018 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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