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    Bringing Tech Innovation to Wildfires: Four Recommendations for Smarter Firefighting as Megafires Menace the US

    The Conversation Jun 8, 2021

    Record-breaking fires over the past decade suggest the western U.S. has entered a new era of megafires. Fire itself is not the problem – it has been characteristic of the…

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    Restoring Land Around Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Would Free Up Millions of Acres of Forests, Farmlands and Grasslands

    The Conversation Jun 8, 2021

    President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines. But there’s no authoritative measure of how many of…

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    Finding Solutions to Advance Water Accessibility in the U.S.

    Smart Cities Dive

    Most Americans take access to clean drinking water for granted. Most Americans — but not all. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 National Center for Environmental Assessment study, people living…

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    Solving Gender Inequality in Leadership

    The Rockefeller Foundation

    Julia Gillard served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and is the chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. While serving as Prime Minister,…

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    Work Requirements in Public Housing Agencies

    Urban Institute

    Work requirements associated with federal assistance programs have drawn more attention since the administration’s 2018 executive order calling for federal agencies to add or strengthen such policies. Although work requirements…

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    Understanding Evidence-based Responses to Child Abuse [Video]

    Giving Evidence Jun 8, 2021

    This webinar, given with the Campbell Collaboration and Porticus, is a great introduction to rigorous evidence in general, and specifically the rigorous evidence around ‘what works’ in institutional responses to…

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    Improving the Global Food System: Report Calls for Mobilization from a Variety of Food Stakeholders

    Food Tank Jun 7, 2021

    The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems IPES-Food, in collaboration with etc. group, recently published a report articulating two possible futures for the global food system. The report, A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by…

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    Fostering Multigenerational Solutions for Innovation

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jun 7, 2021

    This essay series, “Meeting the Multigenerational Moment,” exposes a generational divide in American society that’s complex and deepening. As the opening essay explains, the United States began the 20th century as one…

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    We Can Solve Gender Inequality in the Workplace [Video]

    The Rockefeller Foundation

    Gender equality in the workplace is #Solvable. By shifting the narrative around women in the workplace through changing policy and attitudes, Katja Iversen argues that we can end the gender…

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    Four Lessons from the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jun 7, 2021

    In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, health care workers around the world were in desperate need of personal protective equipment (PPE), virus testing kits, and other…

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    What Funders Need to Know About Foster Youth to Independence

    National Alliance to End Homelessness

    Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) offers housing and support services to young people who have experienced the child welfare system to help them successfully transition to adulthood. To qualify for FYI…

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    This Native-led Project is Alleviating Food Insecurity in Rural Alaska

    The Counter Jun 7, 2021

    When Eva Dawn Burk first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, she felt enchanted. Calypso is an educational farm tucked away in a boreal forest in Ester, Alaska, near…

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