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  • What If Finding Affordable Housing Worked More Like Matchmaking?

    Brilliant Corners helps vulnerable, low-income individuals secure housing by working with other local organizations, including the Flexible Housing Subsidy Poll, which helps match people with suitable housing options. Brilliant Corners has helped about 13,000 people get into permanent housing and can cover over $10 million in rent subsidies every month.

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  • The Perks of Virtual Coworking With Strangers

    Remote workers are joining virtual coworking sessions with strangers where they share their goals and work quietly for a set period, a practice known as “body doubling,” as a way to fight procrastination and increase productivity.

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  • Finding Justice Over the Airwaves

    Kukana is a weekly radio show that helps locals who struggle accessing the legal system voice their grievances on the radio and get connected with local support and lawyers to find solutions. Over the past seven years, the Kukana team helped address grievances, from land disputes to human rights issues, for more than 100,000 people.

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  • 'Wraparound Support' Meets Black and Hispanic Girls' Overlooked Mental Health Needs

    Working on Womanhood (WOW) hosts weekly, school-based meetings for Black and Hispanic girls in grades six to 12 to connect, work through personal problems and build a sense of self-awareness and confidence, as this population is largely underserved by mental health programs. Research shows that WOW participants experience decreased anxiety and depression and WOW counselors also report seeing less anger and fights among the participating students.

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  • How Southern Africa's Elephants Bounced Back

    The once-declining elephant population at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is now stable because the rangers use the core-buffer model to keep them safe. To ensure they have enough room to live comfortably, the elephants are allowed to wander far into less-protected zones. But the park has a well-protected core patrolled by rangers that elephants can return to when they feel threatened.

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  • How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

    Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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  • The Smart Heart: How AI Is Sharpening Cardiovascular Medicine

    Several hospitals are beginning to use artificial intelligence, like Chat GPT’s medical assistant Suzanne, to make cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. AI can detect illnesses that are hard to see with the human eye, interpret test results and make diagnoses quicker and help doctors provide more effective treatment to patients. Since AI emerged in healthcare in 2018, the FDA has approved about 700 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

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  • More Teens Are Opting for Virtual Therapy

    After the pandemic, many teens are still opting for telehealth therapy rather than in-office care. Telehealth makes therapy more accessible for those who need it, particularly through collaboration with mental health platforms like Daybreak that partner with school districts across the U.S. to provide access to virtual therapy in schools. Daybreak’s data shows that 92% of families see behavioral improvements and 80% of school staff see attendance and grade improvements in students who participate in therapy.

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  • The Over-50s Turning to Teaching

    Now Teach helps retrain older professionals for second careers in teaching, tapping candidates who might otherwise retire early to help fill staffing shortages in the education sector. The program has helped roughly 850 people earn a postgraduate certificate in education, and its trainees are more ethnically diverse than the national pool of teachers overall.

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  • Shopping 'Wonky' Keeps Imperfect Goods From Going to Waste

    Several businesses like Love Health, Hate Waste are encouraging shoppers to be more eco-conscious by purchasing “wonky” products. Love Health, Hate Waste sells products past their “best before” date that aren’t expired or opened, as well as those with slightly damaged packaging at up to a 90% discount. This practice cuts down on food and general waste and saves consumers a significant amount of money.

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