Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
2 December 2016
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.
29 November 2016
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Hospitals in the United States spend over $340 billion on health services, but with those funds, they could also help the numerous neighborhoods struggling with poverty. The Democracy Collaborative is a research ce...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Andrew Wasike
25 November 2016
Kenya
Text
Under 800 Words
In order to meet the needs of the country, Kenya is slowly moving away from costly and environmentally damaging energy sources to solar powered energy. Farmers and medical clinics alike are seeing the benefit both fro...
24 November 2016
Raton, New Mexico, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Raton, a town once surrounded by eight coal mines, now has a main street of boarded-up buildings. There is reason for optimism as the town diversifies its local economy, betting on "a mix of small manufacturing busine...
WHYY
Margaret J. Krauss
23 November 2016
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Pennsylvania College of Technology is preparing the workforce - and not just undergrad or graduate students - for dynamic and evolving industries through a "stackable credential" model. Built like a Lego pyramid, ...
Scientific American
Alexis Marie Adams
21 November 2016
Patagonia, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Threatened wildlife co-exists with poverty stricken communities who inhabit the Arizona-Mexico border region. Borderlands Restoration's conservation scientists are hoping to alleviate poverty while repairing the local...
Detroit Free Press
Gina Damron
19 November 2016
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the country, hospitals are embracing intensive intervention programs to help victims of violence — including those who have criminal histories — after they have been brought in for treatment of injuries. Such p...
17 November 2016
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In order to secure workplace protections, liability protection for their writing, and channels of communication with management, writers working for digital media companies have begun to unionize. Unions can provide s...
17 November 2016
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Burlington, Vermont counts itself as America's first all-renewable city, satisfying its energy needs through a combination of sustainably harvested pine and timber wood chips, hydroelectricity, four wind turbines, and...
17 November 2016
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The 'Heroin Epidemic' has taken many lives due to overdosing and HIV. Establishing needle exchange locations, demanding that public officials carry Narcan (a drug that reverses overdoses), treating addicts whether or ...
15 November 2016
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Already a model for the 'Smart City Trend', Chicago is now continuing its innovative streak by launching an "urban sensing" project, which will gather, analyze and publicize sensory data on the city’s air quality, tra...
15 November 2016
Hobbs, New Mexico, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Lea County, New Mexico felt the downfall of the oil industry deeply; now, towns like Hobbs rebuild their economic infrastructure by investing in alternative energy plants as well as affordable housing for its resident...
2 November 2016
Oslo, Norway
Text
1500-3000 Words
In response to the demographic movement to urban environments, Oslo is redesigning its public spaces in a more organic way. Its focus is to think over the long term at a slow pace and help people become part of the en...
29 October 2016
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Emergency room visits cost money and are not the most comfortable places to be. The Massachusetts-based Medicare program called Independence at Home gives doctors incentives to visit frail patients at home and receive...
News Deeply
Sophie Mbugua
28 October 2016
Lamu, Kenya
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800-1500 Words
The amount of time women spend searching for water in Kenya is debilitating to their life. Shallow water wells closer to living spaces can help them reclaim some time to tend to their own lives.
The New York Times
Benjamin Mueller
26 October 2016
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Victims of crime suffer a myriad of issues and there haven't been systems in place to support them. 'Safe Horizon' has developed a program to put advocates in each precinct in New York to work with the victims and hel...
The New York Times
Caroline Preston
25 October 2016
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Seattle, the over-policing of drug users has been extensive and frequently racially biased. Looking for a new solution, the LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) program, driven by a harm reduction philosophy, ...
24 October 2016
Colorado, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Colorado employs a wide array of methods to increase voter turnout, and it pays off. The state is one of the country's most successful in terms of voter turnout, thanks to Election Day voter registration, mail-in ball...
Al-Fanar Media
Sarah Lynch
20 October 2016
Syria
Text
800-1500 Words
“100 Syrian Women, 10,000 Syrian Lives,” is a scholarship program providing opportunities for Syrian women in higher education institutions. As a result of the Syrian war, the rate of women enrolled in universities an...
20 October 2016
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Chicago's Cook County Jail seeks to short-circuit the cycle of violence by involving young men from the city's most violent zip codes in a program that includes counseling, conflict resolution and anger management. Th...
15 October 2016
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Restorative justice, a process that originated in New Zealand, aims to repair damaged relationships rather than merely meting out punishment. It can be far more demanding than a traditional route through court, but fo...
High Country News
Lyndsey Gilpin
9 October 2016
Center, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Migrant Education Program, which offers educational and social services to migrant worker families in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, is growing in popularity among the valley’s migrant worker population, and has rece...
5 October 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Albuquerque, New Mexico, has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. To solve this problem, the Healthy Neighborhoods Albuquerque, a city wide initiative was formed. Their strategy is to train, hire and b...
5 October 2016
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Mississippians who receive earned probation for crimes that do not carry a death sentence or involve deadly weapons will now have access to high-school equivalency education, alcohol and drug counseling, re-entry and ...
Governing
J.B. Wogan
1 October 2016
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Different states have demanded welfare recipients to work and report their logged hours to a welfare counselor, but this practice can make welfare recipients feel more like a statistic than real people. Ramsey County,...
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