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10 July 2013
Los Angeles, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles,the Crips and Blood gangs have violently fought each other for decades. By 2013, the LAPD has enforced new measures including community policing with an emphasis on fairness ra...
26 June 2013
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
For parents, few things are more terrifying to contemplate than the fate of a disabled child who survives them - will he have to be institutionalized if there is no one ready to take on his care? In Vancouver, the Pla...
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...
5 June 2013
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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800-1500 Words
In Democratic Republic of Congo, rape has become a routine weapon of war - but the country has little or no treatment for those with mental health issues resulting from sexual assault. A method of group therapy design...
29 May 2013
British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
Big money has big lobbyists - but small lobbyists can also bring about big changes. Groups like Results and the Citizens Climate Lobby train ordinary people to approach and make arguments to politicians and journalists.
Sojourners
Catherine Woodiwiss
28 May 2013
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
Clergy abuse in the Catholic church has been rampant and was often swept under the rug. Until Barrett Doyle and others started 'Bishop Accountability' to keep a record of clergy abuse, and a support group and blog hav...
The Washington Post
Michael Alison Chandler
13 May 2013
Manassas, Virginia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home ...
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Rhiannon Meyers
21 April 2013
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Atlantic City, AtlantiCare is saving money while improving the lives of diabetics by offering free personalized medical attention. Diabetics are treated before the disease gets out of hand, minimizing the number of...
3 April 2013
Forth Worth, Texas, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Too often do veterans come back from fighting overseas to find little to no help in reacclimatizing to life at home. Programs in Tarrant County, Texas bring together a wide range of programs (housing placement, mental...
6 February 2013
Malawi
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1500-3000 Words
The vast majority of births in Malawi still happen under the care of traditional birth attendants, who are often unequipped to deal with potentially lethal complications. But new president Joyce Banda is helping Malaw...
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...
The New York Times
John Leland
15 December 2012
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
New mothers who live in poverty are faced with fewer resources to help them with their physical and mental health as well as the health of their babies. In New York City, the Nurse-Family partnership matches nurses wi...
14 September 2012
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerg...
12 September 2012
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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800-1500 Words
There are about 67,000 homeless veterans in the United States today, and at least a third are chronically homeless. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, which aims to get 100,000 chronically homeless or otherwise particularly ...
12 June 2012
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) brings together college students from different faiths so that they develop respect and appreciation for each other and different traditions. IFYC also cultivates interfaith leaders and or...
7 March 2012
Zimbabwe
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1500-3000 Words
Education is far from a given for poor, rural Africans. But a group called Camfed is bringing lasting social change to African countries by educating hundreds of thousands of girls.
26 January 2012
Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
By depicting crucial social issues such as infant mortality, domestic abuse, and alcoholism, TV and radio soap operas are being used internationally as a powerful tool for mass behavior change.
12 January 2012
United States
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1500-3000 Words
LIFT, founded in 1988 by college students, employs an approach to poverty alleviation grounded in building relationships with communities. LIFT finds volunteers who have demonstrated empathy and then employs them to m...
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...
11 October 2011
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Child-mentoring programs around the United States have helped at-risk youth during crucial years of development. However, New York City's Friends of the Children has improved the model by placing at-risk youth with ad...
6 October 2011
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A group in New York called Friends of the Children identifies high risk kids in the city and mentors them for 12 years helping them become emotionally stable and capable adults.
20 September 2011
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Two columns on Time Banks, where people swap services – teach calligraphy to one neighbor, and get computer repair from another neighbor. Time Banks create community and make people healthier – which is why hospitals ...
7 July 2011
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The ability of social media and online civic participation to impact law and politics is still developing, but one social media tool - Friendfactor - was used successfully in New York to help bring about the passage o...
31 May 2011
Oakland, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In East Oakland, teens experience random violence, a lack of healthy food, and other sources of chronic stress. The consequences can be grave. At one school, the dropout rate is one in two. Learning to be resilient he...
4 April 2011
Oakland, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Despite strong evidence that school-based physical activity improves children’s cognitive skills, concentration, and behavior, schools under pressure to produce quantitative results and decrease bullying have drastica...
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