Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
19 July 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Home by Hand is a nonprofit that’s working to mitigate the effects of climate change on home ownership. Storm damage, high utility bills due to extreme weather, and the loss of housing stock due to Hurricane Katrina h...
9 July 2021
Bend, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
Youth in Oregon who get court-ordered rehabilitation as an alternative to youth detention might end up at the J Bar J Ranch, which despite its name is less a working ranch than a boarding school with individual counse...
26 June 2021
Iraq
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Nahrein Network funds projects that strengthen Iraq’s cultural and heritage infrastructure. Many grantees have deep historical knowledge of cultural preservation but haven’t been able to access funding due to sanc...
22 June 2021
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Although work-from-home was mostly a reaction in response to the pandemic, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the strategy has developed the potential to improve air quality. Most state employees are now required to telework ce...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly inc...
18 June 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the Boston area, the Roca organization intervenes before young men commit violence. Its "relentless outreach" approach is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach that helps people recognize and change th...
16 June 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
All over the country, students are using the internet to call out racism. Young people are publishing open letters, creating Change.org petitions and Google Docs “with lists of racist people in their classes, and usin...
14 June 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2019, close to half, or 45 percent of white students scored proficient or above in reading comprehension, compared to 18 percent of Black fourth graders, and 23 percent of Latinx fourth graders. However, research s...
14 June 2021
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Research shows that online training isn’t successful at changing attitudes or beliefs on sexual assault. This article takes an in-depth look at EverFi, an online sexual assault module that students at Western Washingt...
10 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Baltimore's Roca program uses cognitive behavioral therapy, and patience and persistence, to work at changing the thinking of young people at high risk of committing or suffering gun violence. Counselors help their cl...
8 June 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Most domestic violence telephone helplines offer help to women who have been abused, and counseling programs for men provide their services in prison, once men have committed serious violence. But Línea Calma tries to...
2 June 2021
Georgia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Black Voters Matter raises money to support organizations and initiatives that are often too small for institutional funders to notice. The group has given millions to community-based groups in 15 states, mostly in th...
2 June 2021
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
“DoorDash for the food insecure” is how the founder of Food Rescue Hero describes the service that is connecting surplus food supply to those who can put it to good use. The service takes on a growing crisis of food i...
NPR
Katia Riddle
29 May 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The boom in green-energy spending and government grants fuels the work of Leaders Before Legends, a Portland startup that lines up well-paying jobs installing solar panels and the like. The jobs go to people formerly ...
28 May 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When young people with criminal records get shot in Albuquerque, they may get visited by the police department's Violence Intervention Program: cops and counselors urging the victims to resist the impulse to retaliate...
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jonathan Levine
24 May 2021
India
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Through the use of video storytelling classes, two graduate students developed a pilot project that is helping to "teach medical caregiving skills to families of cardiac patients" in India. The project proved so helpf...
21 May 2021
Janefal, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
To increase the rate of those receiving the Covid vaccine, the village of Janefal in India implemented a public awareness campaign founded on building trust with local community members. Leading the charge was a task ...
20 May 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Across the country, colleges and universities are changing their SAT policies and becoming test-optional campuses. That means they don’t consider test scores in their admissions process. In Washington, six universitie...
18 May 2021
Ogden, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Pop-up vaccination sites in Utah are helping to eliminate barriers for those in the community who want to receive a Covid vaccination. By bringing the vaccinations directly to the individual communities, health care p...
13 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In Philadelphia, public agencies and funding serve homicide victims' families. But grassroots groups target the enormous gaps in services for the survivors of gun violence, people whose unaddressed needs – medical, fi...
10 May 2021
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
Whistler, Canada, has taken specific steps to work towards economic sustainability. Those measures include affordable housing for workers, a year-round tourism model, and amenities that contribute to a high quality o...
10 May 2021
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Kansas' only veterans treatment court started small, but it has proved the concept to Sedgwick County officials who want to copy its success. Veterans courts provide treatment in lieu of conviction and punishment for ...
7 May 2021
Yerington, Nevada, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
A pop-up mobile clinic in Nevada's Lyon County is providing free dental care to underserved communities as a way to address the lack of practicing dental providers in the region. The response thus far has been overwhe...
6 May 2021
Columbus, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Bartholomew County Jail's drug treatment program started in January 2020 with a rigorous application process, followed by about 400 hours of group and individual therapy for incarcarcerated people with drug abuse ...
5 May 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community centers in New York are playing a crucial role in helping to connect the city's Asian residents with Covid vaccine appointments. From training translators on medical lingo to collecting local resident's info...
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