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  • From inspiration to action: young Nigerians take charge of their communities

    Turnup Jigawa is a leadership program that provides mentorship around advocacy and communication with the goal of training young people to engage with lawmakers and community stakeholders. Students go on to spearhead projects in their own communities, such as one participant’s awareness campaign around environmental hygiene and another’s initiative to provide college and career counseling to secondary students.

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  • Can City Government Change Itself?

    Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund and Innovation Management Team provide support for municipal departments to help them better serve residents. The initiative, which includes an Innovation Academy that trains city workers to apply design thinking and creative problem solving, has supported projects ranging from the development of multilingual voter guides to free pantries for menstrual products.

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  • An effort to increase teen engagement in Gonzales is succeeding, and spreading to neighboring cities

    The Gonzales Youth Council, which allows young people to advise local government on issues that affect them, has inspired other youth councils to sprout up in neighboring communities. Youth commissioners participate in a paid summer fellowship to learn about city and school district processes, and the council has made several recommendations that have gone on to become ordinances, including fines for adults who facilitate underage drinking.

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  • Counties use high school students as poll workers to shore up staff

    Indiana’s Hoosier Hall Pass program allows 16- and 17-year-olds to miss a day of school to pitch in as poll workers, helping to fill staffing shortages while also giving youth an up-close-and-personal look at the election process. In 2020, about 4.3 percent of poll workers in the state were under the age of 18.

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  • Colaborar para hacer una política más eficaz: así lo hacen en Suiza

    El modelo de colaboración política que se practican en Suiza resulta en que distintos partidos políticos se reúnen con el objetivo de encontrar conjuntamente soluciones a los problemas de la sociedad. Con esa cooperación y la ayuda de expertos, logran diseñar soluciones concretas que se proponen al Parlamento para apruebar y realizar.

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  • “Vieques is our home”: 24 years of the Vieques Women's Alliance

    The Viequense Women’s Alliance combines the knowledge from community youth and experienced advocacy mentors to develop community leaders who are educated on current issues and technology. Women of all ages join together to advocate for their human rights.

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  • Por qué las líderes comunitarias son un actor clave para promover los derechos del grupo étnico más perseguido del mundo

    En los campos de refugiados en Nueva Dehli, el trabajo de las mujeres en coordinación con agencias de ayuda humanitaria resulta efectivo para mejorar la inclusión escolar de las niñas rohinyás, combatir el matrimonio infantil y mejorar las condiciones de salud.

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  • Ranked-choice voting is gaining momentum. So are efforts to stop it.

    Ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to pick multiple candidates for their vote to be transferred to if their first choice fails to advance, has now been approved in at least 60 jurisdictions, including Alaska, where it helped Democrat Mary Peltola defeat Republican Sarah Palin.

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  • Bishop-supported leadership training for immigrants transforms parish communities

    Recognizing the Stranger is a faith-based program that provides support and mentorship to immigrant leaders with the goal of building bridges between immigrant and nonimmigrant communities. The initiative has helped immigrants in the church organize "know your rights" events, advocate for expanded tax credits for undocumented workers, and roll out parish ID cards amid a rise in deportations.

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  • Civic participation, trust, getting to know people: Together Baton Rouge gets things done

    Together Baton Rouge connects different organizations and individuals to collaborate on important community issues, such as advocating for needed infrastructure work. The group helped bring about the restructuring of a corporate tax break program that brought in $282 million in revenue in 2021.

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