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Come together: how music is rebuilding bridges in divided Balkans

Gillian Dohrn

March 16, 2018 |

The Guardian |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar

Mostar Rock School is a school that takes students from both sides of the Nereta river, which divides the Bosnian Croat population and the Bosnian Muslims. The school allows students from different ethnic backgrounds to intermingle, create music, and it defies the ethnic division created after the Bosnian war. “There were 16 students in the first class. This year, there are 128 enrolled and 80 more on the waiting list.”

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Women's Homelessness Is a Growing Problem. Denver Is Pioneering a Solution.

Jennifer Oldham

March 15, 2018 |

Slate |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Denver’s Women’s Homelessness Initiative (WHI) is unique because it is the only church-based shelter program in the country that offers housing for women throughout the entire year. By giving women a place to stay off the streets, they are safer and have a better chance at getting back on their feet, aided by a subsidized housing program for formerly homeless people.

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What it takes to respond to a mental health crisis

Anne Hillman

March 14, 2018 |

Alaska Public Media |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

Mental Health First Aid is an organization that provides 8-hour long trainings about how to respond to common mental health crisis. This solution helps to minimize existing stigmas around mental health and allows individuals who have no other background in mental health to help their fellow citizens when they see them struggling.

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The better way to support rape victims: put their needs first

Allison Griner

March 13, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

While still a relatively new field, restorative justice is providing a way for some sexual assault survivors, and perpetrators, to make amends. Restorative justice is an approach to dealing with crime that involves the person that committed the offense to admit his or her actions and ask for forgiveness, then go through a set of actions to repair the crime, such as community service. Some victims and offenders are finding this a much more productive process than going through the criminal justice system. A peer-reviewed study “reported high rates of satisfaction with the process."

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How unarmed civilians saved lives during anti-Muslim attacks in Sri Lanka

Lisa Fuller

March 09, 2018 |

Waging Nonviolence |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka, tensions are rising between Sinhala Buddhist nationalists, and the small Muslim population. Islamophobic attacks have unfolded against Muslims, but most Sri Lankans not only refuse to engage with violence, some are even protecting their Muslim neighbors.

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City Rolls Out Tech Platform to Improve — and Ration — Shelter, Housing for the Homeless

Rob Waters

March 08, 2018 |

San Francisco Public Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

In San Francisco, a new online navigation system based off the theory of coordinated entry is merging separate databases into one to track the city's homeless population. The system uses this information to prioritize their limited housing stock - but it also means the process can become more complicated for some families in the system.

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Less trauma, disruption when relatives get support to raise kids

Emily Bregel

March 08, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

For many children who would otherwise be placed in foster care, staying with relatives is a better option. However, kinship foster families do not always qualify for the same financial assistance as traditional foster homes. Pittsburgh-based non-profit A Second Chance helps get kinship foster families licensed and financially prepared to care for children.

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Mansfield follows lead of cities transformed by America in Bloom

Tracy Geibel

March 08, 2018 |

Richland Source |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

It is often hard to build up cities when they are filled with blight. Three cities in Ohio are benefitting from America in Bloom, a program that gives awards based on community improvement initiatives. Already in Mansfield, Logan, and Gallipolis, America in Bloom awards encourage volunteerism and garner enthusiasm around community beautification initiatives.

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Taking the bull by the horns? Men learn how to treat women better

Jessica Mendoza, Peter Ford, Ryan Lenora Brown, Michael Holtz, Whitney Eulich

March 07, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: South Africa, Soshanguve

Group sessions, workplace videos, badges, these are just some of the ways various people around the world are addressing sexual, and physical assault. In light of the #MeToo movement in the U.S., the Christian Science Monitor chronicled four international efforts that attempt to curb toxic masculinity.

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The chewing gum you don't mind stuck to your shoe

Dougal Shaw

March 06, 2018 |

BBC |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Winchester, Greater London

Did you know that the main ingredient in most chewing gum is a synthetic rubber, which resembles a close relationship to plastic? "It's called polyisobutylene," explains Anna Bullus, a British designer, "the same stuff you find in the inner tube of bicycle wheels." After realizing this, Anna decided to embark on a mission to recycle used chewing gum as a means of cleaning up the streets. What resulted was a way to create everyday products that include at least 20% gum, while simultaneously saving institutions money on what otherwise would have gone toward cleanup efforts.

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