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How to build a zero-waste economy

Joseph Winters

June 21, 2023 |

Grist |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Entrepreneurs are encouraging reuse models like return-from-home systems to transition towards a circular economy without single-use plastics. In this model, consumers pay a deposit to use takeout boxes, cups, and other containers. They get their deposit back when the containers are picked up from their home by a courier.

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“Providing Dignity to Humanity,” Free Clinics Expand Mental Health Care

Noah Smith

June 21, 2023 |

Direct Relief |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Apple Valley, California

Free clinics like Symba Center provide primary care and mental health services to the area’s most vulnerable populations. As a result of a $75,000 grant dispersed to 11 free and charitable clinics in the area, clinics like Symba Center have been able to hire additional staff, launch internship programs, provide educational resources, increase collaboration among local organizations and providers and begin offering mental health screening. So far, Symba Center and other area clinics have screened about 22,000 people.

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Underpaid and unsupported, video game testers in Canada unionized against exploitation

Maximillian Alvarez

June 21, 2023 |

The Real News Network |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Canada, Edmonton, Alberta

Video game testers built solidarity for their union effort by starting one-on-one conversations with coworkers in online chat servers. When it came time to vote, employees approved the union unanimously, giving them new legal protections while a contract is being negotiated.

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In addressing the health system inequalities, Nigeria has a lot to learn from Malawi and South Africa

Abdulwasiu Mujeeb

June 21, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Malawi

In an effort to improve inequities in access to healthcare, the local government partnered with forces in Germany to create a drone project that uses artificial intelligence to deliver medical supplies to remote, rural areas, including antibiotics, pregnancy tests and pain medicine. So far this collaboration has carried out 166 supply deliveries.

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‘College should not be this expensive': Pitt programs aim to make education more affordable

Spencer Levering

June 21, 2023 |

The Pitt News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Programs like Panthers Forward are working to help students and their families understand, prepare for and afford the cost of a university education. Group members can receive up to $5,000 of federal student loan debt relief and can also attend networking events, mentor discussions and access financial wellness resources. 150 students are accepted into the program each year.

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Professor launches first happiness studies master's program

Sara Weissman

June 20, 2023 |

Inside Higher Ed |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hackettstown, New Jersey

Higher education institutions such as Centenary University and Yale University are now offering courses and programs in “happiness studies,” an academic discipline that draws on philosophy, theology, neuroscience, literature, and psychology to examine what helps people thrive. Nearly 1,200 students signed up for Yale’s first happiness course, and a 2021 study found that students who participated in a happiness class reported better mental health.

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Care for the Neediest

Boryana Dzhambazova

June 20, 2023 |

Transitions Online |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bulgaria, Sofia

The Health and Social Development Foundation (HESED) aims to increase access to healthcare, specifically among pregnant women and children. HESED works to bring doctors closer to communities that struggle to get care and has also created designated spaces for important care that was previously inaccessible, like OBGYN checkups. Over the last three years, more than 400 people have received checkups from the center, regardless of their insurance status.

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This NYC elementary school wants to serve everyone, including kids with complex disabilities

Alex Zimmerman

June 20, 2023 |

Chalkbeat |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

At P.S. 958 in Brooklyn, students with and without disabilities learn together under an inclusive model. Initiatives such as the AIMS program, which is designed for students with autism, allow the school to serve students who might otherwise be segregated in more restrictive settings geared only toward those with disabilities.

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How a Black Community Brought Affordable Health Care and Clean Water to Rural South Carolina in the 1970s

Olivia Lewis

June 19, 2023 |

Direct Relief |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Beaufort, South Carolina

Facing a lack of potable water and government help, local advocates joined forces to find solutions and created an affordable community health center called Comp Health, and later their own water source, the Levy Limehouse Bellinger Hill Water Company in the 1970s. The new water system created jobs and helped influence better outcomes for the predominantly Black areas it served by eliminating contaminated water, decreasing infant mortality by two-thirds.

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In spite of Rising Insecurity, Unemployment in Nigeria: an NGO is Supporting Internally Displaced women with Soft, Hard Skills

Daniel Adaji

June 19, 2023 |

BONews |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

The Skilled Women Initiative training and impact fund trains women in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, on marketable skills, like sewing, to help them make money and eventually afford to open their own businesses and leave the camps. So far the Initiative has trained over 1,500 women across several states.

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