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  • San Francisco's Quest to Make Landfills Obsolete

    November 21, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Reducing landfill waste takes a comprehensive approach. By implementing city-wide composting alongside trash collection and utilizing the sorting technology of Recology, the city’s municipal waste recovery company, San Francisco has significantly reduced the amount of waste residents send to landfills. Although it missed the ambitious target of achieving zero waste by 2020, the city aims to cut what it sends to landfills in half by 2030.

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  • How Kalamazoo Is Fine-Tuning Its Groundbreaking Free College Program

    September 12, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a donor paid for all students to attend college in state free of charge. The program is now expanding beyond monetary aid to offer guidance and additional resources to students who drop out of college or never start college.

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  • How Vocational Education Got a 21st Century Reboot

    September 12, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Newburgh, New York

    Now in 10 states and 17 countries, the P-TECH program combines high school with internships and free community college classes. In low-income neighborhoods in Newburgh, New York, P-TECH has helped increase earning and career potential and started to close the skills gap.

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  • Has Seattle Found the Solution to Driving Alone to Work?

    May 23, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    As Seattle's population has grown rapidly, so has the interest in and need for an efficient mass transit system. Through voter investments and smart planning, the city has managed to see a slight decline in average daily traffic while the population has grown by more than 100,000 people - and light-rail ridership has seen a dramatic increase, all markers of success.

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  • ‘They're Bold and Fresh': The Millennials Disrupting Boston's Transit System

    October 25, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    TransitMatters, a transit advocacy group in Boston, is using the power of data and innovative thinking to make Boston's public transportation better for residents. The group has been able to connect with local leaders to win victories for pilot programs, including one to expand bus service to early-morning and late-night to assist people working the night shift.

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  • A Grassroots Call to Ban Gerrymandering

    September 23, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Lansing, Michigan

    In Michigan, a group of people decided they were done with gerrymandering: a political process in which district maps are redrawn to favor one party over another. They formed a group called “Voters Not Politicians,” and did what no one thought they would be able to do. “The crowdsourced campaign held 33 town-hall meetings in 33 days, wrote a ballot proposal to give redistricting powers to a citizens’ commission” and “collected 425,000 petition signatures in four months to secure a spot on Michigan’s ballot—a rare feat, usually accomplished only by hiring paid signature gatherers.”

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  • How the Smallest State is Defeating America's Biggest Addiction Crisis

    August 25, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cranston, Rhode Island

    Inmates at Rhode Island prisons are given the option to participate in a program that provides doses of methadone or other medication to help them break free of opioid addictions, even after leaving prison. The medically-assisted treatment is part of a comprehensive plan to fight opioid addiction in Rhode Island and it's showing results, with 61% fewer fatalities from overdose for recently incarcerated people from last year.

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  • ‘The Police Aren't Just Getting You In Trouble. They Actually Care.'

    June 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Gloucester, Massachusetts

    Police departments across eastern Massachusetts frustrated by the rising opioid epidemic decided to make themselves avenues to treatment rather than instruments of punishment. “It was pretty evident that we weren’t arresting our way out of anything.” The idea evolved into a national program called the Police-Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative with nearly 400 police departments helping thousands of people access drug treatment services across the country.

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  • The Health App That Beat Hurricane Harvey

    January 18, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    For patients with tuberculosis, it is vital that they take their medicine consistently and on schedule, even after they are no longer contagious, which can be time consuming and expensive for public health departments to manage. Teleconferencing has helped people remember to take their medications, even during a disaster like Hurricane Harvey.

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  • How Baltimore Is Growing Its Tech Gurus From Scratch

    October 19, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Only 12 percent of the STEM workforce is Black or Hispanic. Starting with Baltimore, one nonprofit is looking to change that. In 2013, the Digital Harbor Foundation converted a rec center into a home for after school programs introducing students to graphic design, 3D printing, and beyond. Using a "maker education" model, instructors prepare middle schoolers for a changing workforce, offer in-house employment for teens, and improve and diversify the talent pipeline to the city's vacant tech jobs. The classes, which are pay-what-you-can, are expanding kids' communications skills and creative thinking mindset.

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