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  • When Tackling Homelessness, Prevention is Often the Best Medicine

    Hannah Wallace

    April 20, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    A Portland shelter’s Homeless Prevention Program provides rent assistance to families who have not yet been involved with social services and are about to lose their homes. In 2022, the program helped 93 families pay back rent, pay past-due utilities, or create payment plans with their landlords.

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  • This organization helps feed Tucson's south side one free emergency food box at a time

    Elvia Verdugo

    April 13, 2023 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    A community-aid program in South Tuscon curates free emergency food boxes tailored to an individual’s dietary restrictions and dropped off at their door. Recipients only need to fill out an online form to receive a box full of fresh and shelf-stable foods.

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  • Cleveland non-profit sending surplus medical supplies to Ukraine

    Courtney Gousman

    March 31, 2023 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Local nonprofit Medwish collects surplus medical supplies and equipment to distribute to those in need. Medwish provides supplies both domestically and internationally and has significantly increased its efforts amidst the war in Ukraine. Since the start of the war Medwish has sent out more than 81 shipments to Ukraine or Poland, about 190,000 pounds of medical supplies in total.

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  • When Wildfires Choke California, This Activist Helps Get Masks To Those Who Need Them Most

    Nina Thompson

    March 29, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Mask Oakland uses donations to distribute masks to overlooked and marginalized committees that need them most when wildfire smoke fills the sky in California.

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  • Can Guaranteed Income Improve The Health Of Pregnant People And Children?

    Claudia Boyd-Barrett

    March 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’s city-run guaranteed income program provided 3,200 low-income participants with no-strings-attached payments of $1,000 a month to address economic inequity and the multigenerational cycle of poverty.

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  • LA's City Hall Leads a New Fight Against an Old Foe: Homelessness

    Patrick Sisson

    March 22, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’ Inside Safe initiative is helping to transition people experiencing homelessness into interim housing and, eventually, permanent housing. The program uses local service providers to assist with the transition and provide social services.

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  • Mutually Assured Survival: New Orleans groups are rethinking disaster aid from the grassroots up

    Jake Clapp

    March 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Groups like the Mutual Aid – New Orleans Facebook group take a community-focused approach to disaster response and gather volunteers to deliver supplies to those in need in the aftermath of disasters like hurricanes and flooding. Frustrated by slow and oftentimes nonexistent government aid, these communities are taking matters into their own hands to effectively provide relief to fellow residents when disaster strikes.

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  • Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

    Arionne Nettles

    March 02, 2023 |

    The Emancipator |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Tax Sale Benevolence Program reaches out to owners of properties in Cook County, Illinois, with tax debt to help them pay it off and connect them to helpful resources so they do not lose their homes.

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  • Cash-assistance programs are spreading in New York. The jury's out on what's a winning formula.

    Rebecca Redelmeier

    February 20, 2023 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A cash assistance program by the Child Center of NY provides low-income residents with $200 monthly grants to use as they wish. The only stipulation is that they meet with the cohort of others in the program every month, too.

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  • Climate disasters hit poor people hardest. There's an obvious solution to that.

    Sigal Samuel

    February 03, 2023 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    An effective way to help those most vulnerable to climate disasters is by providing just-in-time cash transfers right before a disaster hits for them to use as they see fit for resilience and climate change adaptation.

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