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1 December 2013
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care m...
21 November 2013
Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Iowa, a Medicare program uses financial incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to provide the highest quality care possible. The approach has proven successful in providing comprehensive treatment for freque...
20 November 2013
Houston, Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Most U.S. cities are sitting on thousands of backlogged rape kits that have gone untested. Yet in 2010, Houston (under newly elected Mayor Annise Parker) began an effort that ultimately eliminated its own staggering b...
14 November 2013
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Twilight Education Club is a non-profit working to break down the barriers – transportation, child care and cost – that typically prevent the economically disadvantaged from accessing social services such as langu...
6 November 2013
Togo
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1500-3000 Words
In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy...
5 November 2013
Houston, Texas, United States
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Under 800 Words
Milwaukee County’s mental health system put more resources in expensive emergency care rather than invest in programs that offer continual care. As a result, Milwaukee County identifies nine solutions from other citie...
30 October 2013
Connecticut, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Child First is a program in Connecticut, where staff members deliver home-based parent guidance and child-parent psychotherapy to help prevent the detrimental physical and mental effects of toxic stress on children. T...
6 September 2013
Vienna, Australia
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Gender mainstreaming is the practice of creating “laws, rules and regulations that benefit men and women equally. The goal is to provide equal access to city resources.” Since the 90s the city of Vienna has adopted th...
3 August 2013
Assam, India
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1500-3000 Words
India faces a crisis with maternal mortality; largely due to poorly implemented maternal healthcare benefits, and high anemia rates due to harsh working conditions, the state of Assam suffers from the highest ratio of...
1 August 2013
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Public-private partnerships, nonprofit organizations, and community members themselves come together to make Brownsville, a neighborhood in NYC, a more collaborative, friendly and safe place. Though the neighborhood h...
29 July 2013
Cuba
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800-1500 Words
Despite the fact that Cuba and the United States have had no bilateral relations for decades, the countries' meteorological institutions do collaborate by exchanging information about weather. This relationship could ...
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...
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 ...
8 May 2013
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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1500-3000 Words
Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most compre...
Mother Jones
Erika Eichelberger
21 March 2013
Dallas, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
Female sex workers in the United States face greater incidents of rape, drug abuse, health risks, and suicide, contributing to a high mortality rate. Incarcerating the number of prostitutes is also costly. Dallas Poli...
POZ Magazine
Benjamin Ryan
21 February 2013
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
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Over 3000 Words
People with HIV/AIDS don't always know where to go for help or don't feel empowered to return when psychiatrists or doctors seem unwelcoming. Organizations throughout Washington, D.C. are working against perception by...
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...
29 November 2012
Denmark
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Over 3000 Words
Thorkil Sonne's experiences with his own gifted, autistic son led him to start a company called Specialisterne, founded on the idea that - given the right environment - some autistic adults could not just hold down a ...
1 October 2012
New Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Autorickshaws are a main source of transport within India, but not all autorickshaws are being created equally anymore. In an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuels, India is experimenti...
Inter Press Service News Agency
Julio Godoy
18 July 2012
Paris, France
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800-1500 Words
Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parkin...
12 July 2012
Madarounfa, Maradi, Niger
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Officials in Niger are addressing chronic severe droughts causing food shortages and leading to a widespread threat of starvation. They provide aid to malnourished children and resources for a crop planting technique ...
12 June 2012
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
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...
4 April 2012
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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1500-3000 Words
In the developing world, intestinal worms stunt physical and mental growth, drain energy, and can inhibit school work for children. Deworm the World is a global campaign that lobbied the Delhi government to regularly ...
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 September 2011
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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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 ...
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