Students at the University of Texas at Austin are working to change the world one project at a time.
The Austin American-Statesman reports on the work of the school's Impact Factory, a not-for-profit that pairs faculty and students with community organizations to help them solve problems.
This year, for example, students are working with a refugee resettlement agency and a community clinic to help people deal with medical debt.
“The work is broad, but there’s a common denominator around efforts being service-led and tightly focused on local solutions as a model for effecting larger change,” the director of the Impact Factory tells the American-Statesman.
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