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11 October 2014
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Previous efforts to rein in Milwaukee's infant mortality rate have focused on services for mothers: increasing access to prenatal care, treating underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, and reducing behaviors s...
25 September 2014
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Middle-class children don’t regress as readers during the summer, because they go to the library, do educational activities, take classes - poor children, however, lose between one and two months in reading achievemen...
1 September 2014
Utah, United States
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800-1500 Words
The militarization of police forces in cases such as Ferguson, Missouri’s riots has led the state of Utah to question what can be done to prevent such an overuse of force from happening. Utah expanded upon a law passe...
Al-Fanar Media
Sarah Lynch
29 August 2014
Cairo, Egypt
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800-1500 Words
Service learning is a United-States based term and is often referred to as community or project-based learning in the Arab world. Courses were first labeled “community-based learning” at the American University in Cai...
20 August 2014
Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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South Carolina has made little progress in addressing domestic violence in the year since it was ranked No. 1 in the nation for the rate of women killed by men. A series of proposed fixes includes screening for lethal...
20 August 2014
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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In the United States 20 percent of prisoners have a mental illness. San Antonio law enforcement and mental health workers pooled their resources and worked together to create a one-stop center for the mentally ill to ...
7 August 2014
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Is there a way to frame conversations so that people actually listen to one another? Ask Big Questions fosters large group questions and discussions about social problems on university campuses to inspire young people.
1 August 2014
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Many military children are resilient, but there are also a lot in public schools across the U.S. who experience difficulties. School Liaison Officers help those children by bridging the gap between the military and th...
31 July 2014
Rwanda
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1500-3000 Words
Three African countries are successfully reducing the transmission of HIV through treatment and education, surpassing many developed countries in reducing cases. Although each is unique, the key lessons include using ...
17 July 2014
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Being poor can make you sick because of where you work, live and eat. Medical-legal partnerships, in hospitals U.S. cities, are attacking these social determinants through legal aid to the poor, often class-action law...
25 June 2014
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Podcast
5-15 Minutes
After a policeman shot and killed a teenage African American, a community in Cincinnati blamed law enforcement for racial profiling and riots expanded throughout the city. With the help of the Department of Justice as...
22 June 2014
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Eagle academies are part of a network of schools in New York City and Newark that are devoted to educating at-risk boys from the inner city by providing them with mentors.
18 June 2014
Dallas, Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas suffered from recession-closed businesses and crime. Then community members used placemaking, in which people shaped their own environment to improve the quality of life, and the c...
14 June 2014
Toppenish, Washington, United States
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Toppenish High School in Washington State boasts a graduation rate of 94% despite the fact that a third of all parents in the town dropped out of school by ninth grade and the student body is all low-income. Respondin...
11 June 2014
New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases ...
10 June 2014
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Boston had a hard time solving civic problems efficiently and holding its leadership accountable. In response, a team in the Mayor's office was charged with "making Boston better through clever, low-cost hacks" such a...
4 June 2014
Nigeria
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1500-3000 Words
In many poor countries, counterfeit medicines are an enormous problem. A quarter-million malaria deaths each year might be prevented if the patients were treated with real drugs instead of fake ones.
3 June 2014
Bronx, New York, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Hospitals in New York improve healthcare quality and reduce medical costs by staying in frequent contact with patients requiring frequent or long-term care. Montefiore's Accountable Care Organization pulls in care pro...
28 May 2014
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Homelessness is still a rampant problem in the United States. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, an initiative launched four years ago, aims to help communities around the country place 100,000 chronically homeless people in...
18 May 2014
Roche Caiman, Bel Air, Seychelles
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The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in h...
30 April 2014
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Rates of problem behaviors and emotional issues among students are high - over 3 million elementary and secondary school students are suspended a year. To remedy the problem, a new program for educators delivers lesso...
25 April 2014
Seattle, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In S. King County, Wash., the organization Global to Local identified Seattle's ironic status as being a global-health center but having an increasingly unhealthy populace. Global to Local pointed local citizens to a ...
CivicStory
Susan Haig
23 April 2014
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Video
Under 3 Minutes
To play their part in environmentally friendly solutions to a trash problem, the city of Princeton, NJ has implemented a program curbside composting program that has already grown from 160 participants to over 900. Th...
21 April 2014
Chittagong, Bangladesh
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1500-3000 Words
Bangladesh is fighting rising sea levels due to climate change. It's doing so with the help of foreign money and Dutch-inspired engineering.
29 March 2014
Roche Caiman, Victoria, Seychelles
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1500-3000 Words
Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seyc...
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