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News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Daily Trust
Risikat Ramoni
19 September 2021
Lagos, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
Doctors and nurses with the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria provide free specialized care to over 5,000 people at a local hospital. An annual CT scan monitors patients' risk of stroke, with those who are high-risk gett...
28 August 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Community groups in under-vaccinated areas helped tens of thousands of people get vaccinated, made slightly easier since the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and more employers requiring it. Nonprofits like...
10 August 2021
Albany, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Free Food Fridge Albany is part of a national movement to ensure that those facing food insecurity have access to fresh food. In Albany, it started with a single vibrantly painted fridge and has expanded to a network ...
9 August 2021
New Mexico, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
While prisons generally have struggled to contain the spread of the coronavirus among staff and incarcerated people, New Mexico's program to vaccinate staff has succeeded where others have failed. New Mexico prison an...
31 July 2021
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Legacy of Legends, a nonprofit that helps families overcome traumatic experiences that often stem from poverty, opened the Frayser Clinic to provide free wellness exams to children. The clinic is run out of a local ch...
29 July 2021
Rhode Island, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted seafood supply chains, several organizations in the New England region took steps to connect fishermen’s catches with the local community. For example, the Rhode Island–based nonp...
14 July 2021
Kansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit and grocery store shelves became bare, many consumers sought to purchase meat directly from farmers. The Shop Kansas Farms group on Facebook has more than 148,000 members with about 800 pr...
Dallas Free Press
Sona Chaudhary
14 July 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A free, hyperlocal, ride-sharing service is helping residents get around by connecting people to various transit options. Operating within a 3-mile radius, Circuit’s goal is a sustainable one: to reduce congestion. It...
100 Days in Appalachia
Taylor Sisk
8 July 2021
Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When two hospital systems merged to create Ballad Health, agreements ensured all hospitals would stay open for at least five years and essential services in each of the rural and poorly served counties would be mainta...
22 June 2021
Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Off the coast of Australia, the energy company Chevron is experimenting with new quarantine management techniques to ensure that any plants and pests don’t hitchhike to new places, which can devastate the global food ...
21 June 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As demand for vaccinations plateaued and vaccination rates in Louisiana lagged outside of New Orleans, health officials found a variety of targeted, small events to reach various subcultures. These pop-up events dealt...
Dallas Free Press
Sujata Dand
16 June 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The new Southpoint Community Market in Dallas is the product of seven years of planning in a process based on community input about the need for accessible, nutritious, affordable food and other everyday groceries. An...
15 June 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In 2014, the community organization Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha piloted a community-based Food Buying Club in Philadelphia. This initiative allowed local residents to buy food in bulk at wholesale prices. The...
13 June 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Farmers to Family program, an initiative from the U.S Department of Agriculture set aside $3 billion for its Farmers to Families Food Box program, part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. The program award...
11 June 2021
Nairobi, Kenya
Video
5-15 Minutes
To make internet connectivity accessible and affordable across Africa, Dr. Harold Omondi developed “internet from the moon,” a technology that uses satellite dishes to communicate with transponders placed in the moon ...
9 June 2021
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
With 2,300 people on a wait list for affordable housing, the city of Indianapolis pumped $3 million into a vouchers program for 2021 that has already housed 672 people. Some of the vouchers are set aside for military ...
8 June 2021
Mumbai, India
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800-1500 Words
Volunteers with India’s Meds For More initiative (MFM) collect leftover unused medications from recovered Covid-19 patients by canvassing their apartment buildings, offices, student clubs, schools, and other locations...
8 June 2021
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Community health workers are engaging small business owners to host local COVID-19 vaccination clinics. These smaller clinics, like La Fama 2 Barbershop, are effective because of the strength of interpersonal relation...
7 June 2021
Lagos State, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Postpartum Support Network Africa turned a foothold in one Lagos hospital into a 50-hospital network in two states combatting postpartum depression by training healthcare workers, screening for the problem, and pr...
4 June 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Boston used vouchers to help "doubled-up families" – those with school-age children sharing crowded apartments with other families – jump the line of people waiting for subsidized housing and get their own homes. Scho...
1 June 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Village Minds was started by Natia Simone as a Facebook page to connect people in need of food - due to COVID-19 and grocery store closures after the protests following the murder of George Floyd - to assistance. Howe...
1 June 2021
California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Three state prison systems have vaccinated incarcerated people at far greater rates than in the general public thanks in part to educational meetings with experts that helped overcome natural distrust. In California a...
1 June 2021
South Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
If Virginia taxpayers who lost their jobs in the pandemic want to understand why their unemployment insurance payments lagged for months and why they couldn't get the Virginia Employment Commission on the phone, they ...
1 June 2021
South Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Four years before the pandemic caused unemployment compensation claims to spike, South Carolina took advantage of a federal grant to modernize its claims processing systems. That upgrade saved thousands of hours of ti...
Haitian Times
J.O. Haselhoef
28 May 2021
Haiti
Text
800-1500 Words
Midwives for Haiti (MfH) is one of the Haitian or American-based organizations working to address Haiti's alarmingly high maternal and infant death rates. MfH trains skilled birth attendants, through an 18-month curri...
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