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  • How A North Side Group Is Urging Chicago Businesses To Adopt Trans-Inclusive Hiring Practices

    January 03, 2023 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Chicago Therapy Collective’s HireTransNow initiative provides businesses with guidelines for the hiring process to help them recruit more transgender employees. It also offers training sessions and access to a job board for transgender applicants on a sliding-scale payment basis.

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  • Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,' queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garments for all bodies

    January 03, 2023 |

    The Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Tzitzit Project makes Jewish ritual garments typically produced for and worn by Orthodox men in shapes and colors for a variety of bodies and genders to appeal to a more diverse set of people.

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  • How a Country Embraced the River It Feared

    January 02, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    To combat flooding risk, the Netherlands reconfigured riverside locations to make more room for water instead of using dikes. These projects also improved citizens’ relationships with the rivers by creating parks and recreation opportunities.

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  • Restoring Hong Kong's oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

    December 30, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: China, Hong Kong

    Conservationists in Hong Kong are restoring oyster reefs by refurbishing abandoned oyster farms and creating habitat along the coasts. Their work is increasing the oyster population and providing habitat for numerous other forms of marine life. They hope the oysters will act as filters to help clean the water, too.

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  • For decades, Chinatown has created a blueprint for fighting big development. Here's how they do it.

    December 29, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Chinatown remains authentic and keeps its position downtown by organizing together to preserve the community through activism.

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  • Survivors of Gangs and Gun Violence, These Women Now Help Others Navigate Grief

    December 23, 2022 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, East St. Louis, Illinois

    Survivors of gangs and gun violence, April Roby-Bell, Terra Jenkins, and Larita Rice-Barnes work to support people in the community grieving loved ones lost due to gun violence. They have formed nonprofits like the Metro East Organizing Coalition, and churches like the Restoration Outreach Center and host rallies and help organize funerals for families in need.

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  • COVID derailed pre-K programs. MSCS is trying to get them back on track.

    December 22, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    To help incoming students recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memphis-Shelby County Schools is emphasizing early childhood education with redoubled advertising efforts, collaboration with community groups, and an increased staff of family engagement specialists. Pre-K enrollment increased in the district in 2022-23 and students who attended pre-K are scoring higher on reading, math, and readiness exams.

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  • Reentry and Realness

    December 22, 2022 |

    Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Realness Project works with incarcerated people in Colorado to build skills in effective communication, "authentic relating," and conflict management. Roughly 90 percent of participants in the organization's workshops say it helped them grow their emotional ability to handle conflict, and about 78 percent said the experience gave them more confidence during job interviews.

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  • Determined initiative is closing the menstrual awareness gap in secondary schools

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogun State

    Arise for Girls is an organization designed to educate young girls about menstrual hygiene, as period poverty and stigma are very apparent in rural areas. The organization provides educational resources, sanitary pads, and provides a sense of community by encouraging girls to connect with each other via WhatsApp. Since May 2021, the organization has helped over 1,400 girls in neighboring areas.

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  • Women earn unique master's in ministry behind Tennessee prison bars

    December 21, 2022 |

    The Christian Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Lipscomb University's LIFE Program provides educational opportunities to women incarcerated at the Debra Johnson Rehabilitation Center, including a master's degree in Christian ministry. The courses are also offered to non-incarcerated people who learn alongside their incarcerated peers, and 13 students graduated from the program in 2022.

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