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Homecoming Project creates safe reentry for incarcerated people

Tamar Sarai

November 07, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project helps formerly incarcerated individuals secure housing by pairing them with homeowners renting out a spare bedroom or studio space in their homes. Impact Justice pays the homeowner for six months, providing the formerly incarcerated participant with enough time to rebuild and acclimate to life outside of prison without the burden of paying rent. The Homecoming Project is meant to be an alternative to transitional housing that can sabotage the formerly incarcerated person’s independence.

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Non-carceral emergency response initiatives require a cultural shift

Tamar Sarai

October 02, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Non-carceral emergency services offer an alternative option to calling the police for de-escalation and crisis resolution. These programs employ trained specialists, are consent-based, and can refer people to local services to help meet their needs or receive care.

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An Appalachian model for building place-based community wealth

Frances Nguyen

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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Reproductive justice organization shifts culture in a new film

Tina Vasquez

March 14, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A full-length feature film made by a reproductive justice organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is helping to destigmatize and humanize substance dependency and substance abuse recovery during parenthood. The film is based on conversations with women in recovery.

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Independent, locally focused unions are expanding workers' rights

Sravya Tadepalli

March 08, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States

As unionization efforts have ramped up in corporate workplaces, employees in less traditional industries have also begun to form independent unions to advocate for their rights. For example, unionization efforts at video game company ZeniMax helped workers secure a pay adjustment, while an independent union formed at the Art Institute of Chicago secured the right for employees to have union representation in disciplinary meetings.

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How a women and immigrant-led marketplace is surviving Covid

Frances Nguyen

February 07, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The La Cocina Municipal Marketplace supports immigrant women entrepreneurs who graduated from the La Cocina Business Incubator by providing them with a space to sell their goods and services. Since forming in 2005, the business incubator has helped 140 entrepreneurs open for business. And the Marketplace — which opened in 2021 — allowed these business owners to continue to make profits by selling takeout-only food amid gathering restrictions caused by the pandemic.

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

Tina Vasquez

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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Universal basic income eases caregiving after incarceration

Makaelah Walters

January 05, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Florida

The Just Income GNV project in Florida provides justice-impacted people with a guaranteed income for a year to help them get on their feet. All they have to do is fill out an application, get approved, and log their spending so the organizations running the program can track the results.

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'This is not charity': A congregation attempts reparations

Frances Nguyen

December 29, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

A San Francisco Bay Area loan program called the Black Wealth Builders Fund provides low-to-moderate-income homebuyers in black neighborhoods zero-interest loans to cover the down payment on their first home.

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Community programs are a true alternative for asylum-seekers

Maurizio Guerrero

December 13, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Community-based services provided by nonprofits — which include legal representation, housing, referrals for medical services, English language classes, and assistance with obtaining identity documents — have emerged as alternatives to ICE-based detention centers to help address the needs of immigrants and asylum seekers. Organizations like the Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants provide food, housing, and case management support for asylum seekers, both individuals and entire families.

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