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  • Education first

    August 15, 2021 |

    Adirondack Explorer |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    The Grand Canyon National Park launched a “hike smart” campaign as a way to educate hikers about the risks of traversing in the canyon and to decrease the number of search and rescue incidents. While measuring the success of such preventative measures can be difficult, the number of incidents has remained flat since the campaign was introduced in the 1990s, despite an increase in visitors.

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  • Drug aid saving underprivileged from Nigeria's healthcare nightmare

    August 13, 2021 |

    Pulse Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Drug Aid Africa supports low-income Nigerians by providing free medications to help ease burdens of healthcare affordability. The NGO partners with organizations that serve low-income communities, including hospitals, orphanages, elderly care homes, and other grassroots community groups. They provide each organization with boxes of donated medications that are tailored to the needs of the population being served. For example, orphanages receive boxes stocked with the supplies most needed by children. The supplies are mostly bought using cash donations but some pharmaceutical companies also donate materials.

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  • Why these farmers are welcoming muskrats, birds, and snakes

    August 12, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    In Canada, farmers are rewilding their farmlands, a process where a farmer restores their habitat to a more natural state. It includes things like planting trees, building hedgerows, and creating ponds. Rewilding can prevent soil erosion, carbon sequestering, and filtering water, among many other things, reversing some of the adverse effects caused by farming. One non-profit, the Alternative Land Use Services is funding these rewilding projects by paying farmers. ALUS projects span 31,000 across Canada.

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  • How saving uneaten food can change lives and help the climate

    August 11, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Fresh Hub was created by twin high school sisters to address food insecurity and the environmental impact of food waste. Volunteers collect unsold food from grocery stores and bakeries and give it to residents living in “food deserts.” They use a smartphone app and automated messages to alert residents when food is available, which is distributed at community centers. Partnering with Second Servings, a nonprofit already doing similar work, allowed them access to vans, equipment, and important insight. Since 2017, they have led 23 events, kept 15,200 pounds of food out of landfills, and served 1,900 people.

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  • Philly teen starts a motor rally to help end sexual violence

    July 28, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Main Line Motor Rally provides events for car enthusiasts, who drive through Philadelphia suburbs and rural areas, as a way to raise money for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the country’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. The event specifically aims to educate men on issues like consent, as well as the ways that they are impacted by violence against women and girls.

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  • Listen to me: pioneering hearing care in Chad

    July 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Chad

    Funded by the Hear the World Foundation, Écoute-moi! provides audiological care in Chad. Working closely with children at a school for hearing loss, the group conducts audiograms to assess hearing loss levels, fits the children with hearing aids, and supports them afterwards with things like speech therapy. In order to create a sustainable model of care, the nonprofit has also trained four local audiological care technicians, the first in the country to provide services. Speech therapy is an important part of the follow-up support to help children speak after not hearing for years.

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  • The 'Hospitals For Humanity' Where Nigerian Children With Heart Disease Get Free Surgeries

    July 27, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Hospitals for Humanity provides medical treatment, screening, and surgeries for Nigerian children living with congenital heart disease. The nonprofit relies on foreign doctors but uses the opportunity to allow local doctors to shadow and learn from them. In cases where children can’t be helped at home, they are flown out to hospitals abroad where their cases can best be treated.

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  • People need jobs. Nonprofits need volunteers. Socialwyze's solution is hourly wages for good work.

    July 20, 2021 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Nonprofits in need of volunteers now have a roster of potential help through Socialwyze. The for-profit company connects people experiencing unemployment with organizations that need help. Daily living wages are paid for by funders of Socialwyze.

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  • After 'painfully slow' start, restorative justice program tries to reset

    July 17, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

    The Cheshire County Restorative Justice Program works to take low-level defendants, accused of things like shoplifting or alcohol violations out of court and into an alternative process, sparing them criminal records that would later weigh them down. The program’s goal is to push the legal system toward restorative justice, reimagining its traditional processes.

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  • Tag team approach to healthcare reaches older adults in Bangladeshi community during COVID-19 pandemic

    July 14, 2021 |

    Tostada Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Sakhi for South Asian Women in New York has significantly increased their outreach during the coronavirus pandemic, connecting clients to services and resources. The group conducted 1,500 wellness calls and needs assessments in local South Asian communities and increased their caseload and cash assistance to clients. The group, who publishes their content in nine languages, also helps clients who do not have documentation pay for groceries and medications through their Sakhi Solidarity Fund. For clients who need help with family law and immigration issues, Sakhi can connect them to pro bono legal partners.

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