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Got Broken Stuff? The Tool Library Has a Fix

Caitlin Dewey

April 19, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

Dare to Repair helps people repair broken electronics, small appliances, and other items instead of throwing them away. Its Tool Library has diverted 7,779 pounds of waste from landfills and amassed a collection of nearly 5,000 tools available to community members. There are more than 3,000 repair cafes around the world and Buffalo’s Dare to Repair has nearly 1,500 members and processes more than 14,000 tool loans a year.

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South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

Anna Patton

April 04, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

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Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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How a renter education course could lower barriers to housing

Katie Ellington Serrao

March 26, 2024 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Wood County, Wisconsin

The Rent Smart renter’s education program helps people who face barriers to finding housing gain the necessary skills and knowledge to have a successful renting experience. The program teaches participants their rights and responsibilities as a tenant and in a six-month follow-up survey, 92% of participants said they found safer, more affordable, better-quality housing after finishing the program.

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He's spent 29 years behind bars. For the past 6 months, he's also been a college professor.

Charlotte West Jason Gonzales

January 04, 2024 |

Chalkbeat |

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Response Location: United States, Cañon City, Colorado

A new program through Adams State University hires incarcerated professors to teach in prison bachelor’s programs, providing them training and income while giving more people access to education behind bars. Students report that they prefer learning from someone who understands their experiences and is available to connect with outside of formal classes.

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Undoing machismo in Colombia

Marie-Kristin Boese

November 13, 2023 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

A city-sponsored program in Bogotá, Colombia, sends outreach teams to businesses and events to teach men to do household tasks and help them talk about their feelings. The effort aims to redefine what it means to be a man and undo the traditional idea of machismo, or toxic masculinity.

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For People in Prison, Career Training Begins in a Virtual World

Ryan M. Moser

October 09, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

Transfr is a tech company that provides free virtual reality job training and education to help facilitate employment opportunities. Transfr specifically focuses on providing these opportunities for disadvantaged people in places like domestic violence shelters, mental health clinics, juvenile detention centers and state correctional institutions where access to skill-building and further education is often hard to access. So far Transfr has 30 partnerships across 18 states.

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Fueling change through clean stoves

Yahuza Bawage

September 06, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Clean Cooking Stove Entrepreneurship project offers two-week training programs to teach women how to practice safer, cleaner cooking practices as opposed to the dangerous open-fire cooking methods they’re most familiar with. Women who complete the training then return to their communities to advocate for and educate others on these new skills. Since starting in 2016, more than 9,000 women have received clean cooking education and access to stoves to practice these more sustainable cooking practices.

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This Manhattan adult learning center is seeing a surge in African asylum seekers

Churchill Ndonwie

August 25, 2023 |

Chalkbeat |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

As an increasing number of asylum seekers arrive in New York, the Mid-Manhattan Adult Learning Center has expanded its services beyond English language classes to connect students with food aid, help them get official identification, and put them in contact with legal immigration services. The center’s enrollment increased by roughly 40 percent to 3,700 students this year, but it needs more funding and support to keep up with demand.

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A zest to nurture readers that have birthed triple solutions

Yusuf Adua

August 21, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria

Readers’ Pouch is a WhatsApp group designed to encourage adults to read with monthly book challenges and assessments. The group also does outreach in correctional facilities and donates books to ensure inmates have access to library materials.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to grow your own programs

Kavitha Cardoza

August 07, 2023 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Morgan City, Louisiana

“Grow your own” programs, like Reach University’s, are working to address teacher shortages, particularly in rural areas, by recruiting school employees who don’t have college or education degrees and giving them a chance to earn an undergraduate degree in education at just $75 a month. Participants take courses online and take 15 hours out of their work week to spend time observing and training in classrooms. So far 84% of all parishes across the state have signed up to take Reach trainees, which could put a significant dent in the statewide teacher vacancy issue.

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