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  • US Forest Service and historically Black colleges unite to boost diversity in wildland firefighting

    July 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hazel Green, Alabama

    In an effort to increase diversity in the forestry and fire industry, the U.S. Forest Service partners with several historically Black colleges and universities to run an on-site fire academy that gives students the credentials to start a career. Participating students learn fire fighting and forestry practices in class, then put them to use during instructor-supervised prescribed burn demonstrations.

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  • Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

    July 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    The Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal manages the country’s community forest. For the past 30 years, the organization made a point to ensure half of its employees are women, and that women have access to leadership roles. As a result, a path has opened for more women to work in politics and the forests managed by women are thriving the most.

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  • An Appalachian model for building place-based community wealth

    May 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Morganton, North Carolina

    The Industrial Commons (TIC) strives to create an inclusive economy based on community between employee-owned social enterprises and industrial cooperatives, creating a more democratized, worker-centric environment. Since 2015, TIC has launched five cooperative businesses, employing more than 100 workers, and is working to grow the number of businesses to 75 by 2025.

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  • Colombia's Women-Led Electric Bus Fleet Is Reshaping Bogotá's Public Transit

    May 08, 2023 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    La Rolita is a public transit service in Bogotá, Colombia that prioritizes hiring women drivers and runs completely on electric buses. Women make up nearly half of the fleet's drivers, and the system now includes 11 routes covering roughly 210 miles in the city.

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  • "Only 20 out of 50 people managed to get a job": what is wrong with work for deaf Ukrainians, and what are the solutions

    May 05, 2023 |

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    The Ukrainian Society of the Deaf offers employment opportunities and workplace support for people with hearing impairments, which has become especially important for people displaced by the war. The society's help extends throughout the job-hunting process, from helping people retrieve documents necessary for job applications to attending interviews with them to interpret and communicate with potential employers.

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  • Harlem Organization Helped Change the Face of Construction

    April 27, 2023 |

    New York Amsterdam News |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

    Fight Back, Inc. is a local community-based organization that worked to get construction jobs for Blacks, Spanish-surnamed, and other minorities in New York City over the years. The organization has been very effective in integrating the skilled and construction trades and ensuring workers of color have equal opportunity and has been replicated in other cities like Seattle and Detroit.

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  • Building a Better Workplace

    March 03, 2023 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    The Nashville print-shop Music City Creative builds a welcoming working environment for the LGBTQ community through fair wages, using LGBTQ job boards, and including staff input when making company decisions.

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  • First year of diversity internship program finds success for students, employers

    January 17, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    The UWM Student Success & Talent Pipeline Initiative is helping to connect students with internships that provide meaningful professional experiences for those about to enter the workforce. One of the initiative’s biggest goals is diversifying the talent pipeline, adding more Black, Indigenous, and other people of color to the workforce throughout the state, hoping to reduce the number of graduates who move out of state for work.

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  • The South has a new union—and workers have Black women to thank

    January 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    As a continuance of the Fight for $15 and a Union southern chapter Raise Up, the Union of Southern Service Workers is a first-of-its-kind, cross-sector union that offers membership to fast food, retail, warehouse, care, and other service industry workers across southern states. With Black women emerging as leaders, these organizations have built a multigenerational, multiracial labor movement that sheds light on the realities low-wage service workers have faced for decades.

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  • How an LGBTQ conference is shaping the business job market

    November 11, 2022 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Reaching Out MBA's LGBTQ+ conference provides a space for LGBTQ+ business students to find a sense of community, learn from others in their field, and connect with companies specifically interested in hiring LGBTQ+ employees. In the past, roughly 90 percent of job-seeking attendees have been selected for coffee chats or interviews with recruiting companies, and about 27 percent have come away with job offers.

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