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18 June 2013
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Under 800 Words
Medical professionals say that there is a shortage of organs available for patients awaiting transplants. The first step towards the solution involves increasing awareness of organ donation as a viable and compassiona...
13 June 2013
Ntcheu, Malawi
Text
1500-3000 Words
Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous. They're doing so by reaching out to the men in charge.
12 June 2013
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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800-1500 Words
Throughout India, wastepickers – people who scour landfills for garbage they can sell to recyclers – live at the bottom of society. But the city of Pune did something radical: with the help of a collective, they did a...
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Allison Frost
21 May 2013
Oregon, United States
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
Playworks, a recess-based school program, provides public schools with coaches who facilitate games that teach students skills for conflict resolution and cooperation. In Oregon, elementary schools across the state ar...
27 March 2013
DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
People grossly overestimate how much their peers are drinking, having unprotected sex and getting fat. Instead of exaggerating the problem, the best way to get people to take care of themselves is to bust that myth an...
The Guardian
Erwin James
25 February 2013
Oslo, Norway
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1500-3000 Words
With Norway having the lowest re-offense rate in Europe, the Bastoy prison in Norway not only demonstrates the effectiveness of this new approach, but also receives criticism that they treat prisoners with too much lu...
20 February 2013
South Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Improving the way people parent might seem an impossible challenge, given the competing views about what constitutes good parenting - can we influence a behavior that is rooted in upbringing and culture, affected by s...
16 February 2013
Bihar, India
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1500-3000 Words
The System of Root Intensification (SRI) method resulted in dramatically high yields from one Indian village. The system centers on a "less is more" approach and results in higher yields—without the use of GMOs. The i...
1 February 2013
Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
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1500-3000 Words
More than one million service members, veterans and their families take college courses financed with federal tax dollars. Their experiences are more complicated than those of their fresh-faced civilian peers, leading...
28 November 2012
San Jose, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Nongovernmental groups – especially ones that depend on donations – hate to fail, and never make their failures public. But at new conferences, social activists share and learn from failure.
13 November 2012
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In a world divided into factions, social entrepreneurs are connecting people in new configurations and helping them work together more effectively because social entrepreneurs tend to pursue an end in a communal way.
3 August 2012
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Restaurant chains like the Cheesecake Factory combine quality control, affordability, and innovation in a way that the healthcare industry may be able to replicate. In Boston, John Wright began streamlining knee repla...
25 April 2012
Copenhagen, Denmark
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800-1500 Words
When Amsterdam and the Netherlands were facing an urban dilemma between building bicycle or automobile friendly streets, citizens organized to promote the prioritization of cyclist safety above all else. This public o...
21 March 2012
New Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Low-cost filtration plants are finding their place in some of the most underserved areas of India. Making a cultural shift from drinking well water to filtered water isn't well-received by all villages in the country,...
9 February 2012
Philippines
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1500-3000 Words
The World Conservation Union estimates that 40 percent of the more than 40,000 species it tracks on its Red List are close to extinction and this problem requires humans to change their behavior to fix it. Rare’s the...
25 October 2011
Nepal
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800-1500 Words
In developing countries, environmentally friendly and practicality don't always go hand-in-hand. Biogas are changing that. With biogas technology, methane is derived from the feces of humans and animals and is used in...
20 October 2011
United States
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1500-3000 Words
A group called Positive Coaching Alliance is training thousands of coaches and parents to change to culture of youth sports for the better, using a "relentlessly positive" approach, and trading out the win-at-all-cost...
13 October 2011
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
For first-time youth criminal offenders, the traditional American jury falls short in encouraging behavioral change and may even set the juvenile on a course for repeated crimes. Washington, DC’s Youth Court is a jury...
2 September 2011
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The California prison system is overwhelmed after adopting tough-on-crime laws with no improvement. New York adopted more tolerant policies and has decreased the state's crime rate and its prison population.
19 July 2011
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To give support to struggling families without prescribing solutions requires respect and discipline. The Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.) encourages low-income families to define their own goals and work towar...
5 July 2011
Denmark
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1500-3000 Words
People with disabilities like autism often struggle to find welcoming and meaningful jobs. Companies that place workers with disabilities in jobs that fit their skills will be well-positioned to succeed in the 21st ce...
20 June 2011
Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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1500-3000 Words
Two Iranian brothers worked as doctors to reform how Iran tackles HIV, moving the country toward the harm reduction approach. By providing clean needles and methadone, the doctors were able to lower infection rates, e...
7 April 2011
Oakland, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Great minds from Plato to Piaget have recognized the importance of play in healthy child development, but with bullying becoming more prevalent on school playgrounds and increased pressure to maximize school hours to ...
1 April 2011
Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
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800-1500 Words
Palm Beach County, Florida has many of the same social problems that Philadelphia has, including “gangs, drugs, and poverty.” However, their school system has managed to keep students safe by employing “safe-school ca...
7 February 2011
Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
An average of 28,000 children born in the U.S. each year die before their first birthday – and many more face disabilities and serious life-long health problems, often because they are born prematurely or at low birth...
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