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  • Garden Project starts weekly fresh produce distribution

    August 07, 2019 |

    Durango Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Thanks to a two-year grant from Colorado’s Health Foundation, several food-centered nonprofit organizations are working to help residents of southwestern Colorado replace high-calorie, low nutrition food with seasonal vegetables. The Garden Project, the Good Food Collective, and the Manna Market deliver food boxes every week to community organizations including senior centers in La Plata and the Women’s Resource Center. Food distributions also take place in undisclosed locations for immigrants.

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  • Gun Violence Persists as New KCMO Mayor Takes Office

    August 01, 2019 |

    Flatland |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    After piloting anti-violence initiatives across the city, leaders in Kansas City, Missouri, are re-evaluating their approach. While the steps taken to curb gun violence were similar to others across the country, here, they yielded few successes. Leaders in the community cite a lack of collaboration and responses that don’t take into consideration root causes like mental health, poverty, education, or police/community mistrust.

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  • Lack of space limits recovery, mental health services in Wayne County Jail

    July 29, 2019 |

    The Daily Record |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wooster, Ohio

    In Ohio’s Wayne County Jail, people serving sentences can access CADET, which stands for Chemical Addiction/Dependency, Education and Therapy program. With nearly 20% of Wayne County bookings involving drug-related offenses, CADET provides participants with the support they need to overcome addiction, including cognitive behavioral treatment, crisis assessment, and case management. The program is offered in partnership with the nonprofit, OneEighty, and is often part of the term’s of some individual sentences.

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  • An imaginative space that helps kids believe in stories – and themselves

    July 29, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: England, Rotherham

    Grimm & Co.'s Apothecary to the Magical is boosting child literacy skills in a former steel and coal town with a large low-income population. By offering an imaginative space and free writing workshops, the nonprofit hopes to transform the town of Rotherham in England into a "storytelling capitol" and give "young people the narrative tools to reshape their world."

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  • New Philly ‘Host Home' program aims to slash LGBTQ youth homelessness, shelter costs

    July 25, 2019 |

    Philadelphia Gay News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, the new HostHome program is working to decrease rates of LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness by connecting youth with volunteer households to host them and social workers to provide additional support. The model has been adopted in cities across the nation and is seen as a cost-effective way to house youth who might otherwise not fit definitions of homelessness and receive the supports they need.

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  • Inside the Ambitious Campaign to Drive Homicides in Chicago Below 400

    July 11, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In Chicago, community organizations, public officials, and private funders have come together behind a campaign called “<399” – with the goal of bringing homicides to under 400. This collaboration has taken on a comprehensive, community-centered approach that includes initiatives like community outreach, individual support, and mentoring. While they’ve received significant funding from the city, they’re hoping to secure long-term financial and political support from all levels of government.

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  • Hartford's largest nonprofits contribute more

    July 08, 2019 |

    Hartford Business Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Hartford, Connecticut looks to Boston as an example of a city that has succeeded in establishing a connection between nonprofits - who can donate payments to the city that are exempt from property taxes - and the local government. With a massive number of successful hospitals and colleges, Boston has created a system in which it can use donated money from these highly profitable institutions to work toward city planning without paying property taxes on the donations; Hartford hopes to create a similar relationship in its own city limits.

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  • How Hydroponic School Gardens Can Cultivate Food Justice, Year-Round

    July 07, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Brownsville Collaborative Middle School is one of a growing number of elementary schools in the U.S. using community gardens to teach predominantly low-income students about healthy food options and provide produce to larger communities situated in food deserts.

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  • Car but no home? Safe parking lots spread across West Coast.

    July 01, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In California and other western states, where the number of people experiencing homelessness has increased dramatically, some nonprofits are offering up parking lots as a place for those who live in their cars to stay safely overnight. While the programs are clearly a temporary measure, they offer more than just a lot for people to stay the night - there are also caseworkers available to help people navigate the complicated bureaucracy and get the supports they need.

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  • How San Mateo County Is Building a 'Prison-to-School' Pipeline

    June 28, 2019 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    In San Mateo's juvenile detention centers, Project Change encourages youth who have completed high school coursework to enroll in community college classes taught on the campus. Inspired by the promise of programs like these, California lawmakers are considering Senate Bill 716, which would require county probation departments to offer at least online higher ed programs. "Nobody's telling these kids to go to college — that's not on the menu. But when you make that something that's embedded in what they are receiving, that's huge," the founder of Project Change says.

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