Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
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 ...
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
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...
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...
27 May 2021
Pennsylvania, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Pennsylvania at first lagged in its push to vaccinate its residents. But the state vaulted ahead in the race to vaccinate, collaborating with vaccine providers and the medical community to make vaccines easy to receiv...
20 May 2021
California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
To reduce the overcrowding of hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic, some hospitals in California introduced the practice of at-home hospital care. Although not available to every patient, for those where this model ...
18 May 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Worried for her Korean-immigrant parents' safety during rising anti-Asian hate crimes, a Los Angeles woman wrote and printed a booklet, "How to Report a Hate Crime." The booklet, now in nine languages and distributed ...
11 May 2021
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
There are several chemical recycling methods being tested throughout the world, including one of the latest ones in the United Kingdom. Mura Technology is building the world’s first commercial-scale plant that can rec...
10 May 2021
Foleyet, Ontario, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
A nursing station in Foleyet, Ontario has remodeled its annual flu outreach as part of a campaign to help those who have had trouble scheduling their Covid vaccination appointments. Similar efforts are underway in oth...
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...
22 April 2021
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The city of River Falls in Wisconsin built the state’s first city-owned solar garden, taking steps to reduce their use of fossil fuels and encourage community members to go green. Now, all city buildings are 100 perce...
22 April 2021
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
After lithium-ion batteries from iPhones, laptops, or electric cars are used up, the Ontario-based company LiCycle recycles parts of them to be reused in new batteries or in other products. While the recycling process...
Grady Newsource
Grace Townsend
20 April 2021
Monroe, Georgia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In a community with a food insecurity rate of 11%, Walton Wellness provides dozens of families with a steady supply of fresh produce grown by volunteers incarcerated at the county jail. The program aims to go beyond s...
19 April 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Reentry programs for people recently released from prison rarely focus on nutrition, must less provide cooking demonstrations. But the Fortune Society hosts 200 formerly incarcerated people at a weekly demo as part of...
17 April 2021
San Diego, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As the U.S. Southwest continues to navigate ongoing water crises, several places — including Las Vegas; Orange County, California;, and San Diego — are turning wastewater into drinking water. Their various systems are...
16 April 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the race to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people, innovators in certain places have excelled at getting shots into arms, including in hard-to-reach or vaccine-reluctant populations. West Virginia broke from the...
14 April 2021
Vanuatu
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
As the small island nation of Vanuatu emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of a tropical cyclone, entrepreneur Votausi Lucyann Mackenzie-Reur argues that they need to focus on local ingredients to be a...
13 April 2021
El Paso, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Texan cities, like McAllen and El Paso, are bridging the digital divide for students and building infrastructure to connect whole communities. In El Paso, the city used $150,000 of the $84 million it received in feder...
13 April 2021
Nampa, Idaho, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In-school therapy is an increasingly popular mental health support in Idaho schools. Through a partnership with local agencies, therapists are available at schools and are able to set appointments with students, witho...
5 April 2021
Marin County, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In California's Marin County, mobile vaccine teams are helping to deliver vaccines to populations that are "homebound, homeless, and hesitant." The team has been able to administer 8,000 shots so far, which organizers...
5 April 2021
Chintalkunta, Telangana, India
Text
800-1500 Words
A teenager in India came up with a solution to combat the plastic waste crisis that usually comes with planting trees. Srija created a biodegradable pot made out of groundnut shells that decomposes in the soil after 2...
Indian Country Today
Meghan Sullivan
31 March 2021
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Sam Schimmel, a college student and member of the Siberian Yupik and Kenaitze tribes, helped organize a food drive on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska. The initiative, known as Operation Fish Drop — delivered more than 1...
Atlas Obscura
Luke Fater
31 March 2021
Bermuda
Text
800-1500 Words
There is no natural freshwater source on Bermuda, so residents turn to rainfall as a way to fulfill their water needs. The white limestone Bermuda roofs are used to catch and redirect rain into underground tanks that ...
Science Africa
Henry Owino
27 March 2021
Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Nairobi, community health volunteers have played a crucial role during the coronavirus pandemic by providing reliable health care information to residents. They also have been a key resource in delivering essential...
27 March 2021
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Santa Barbara County, county officials have used findings from the Latinx & Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Response Task Force to inform the placement of testing pop-up locations during the pandemic. Most recently, th...
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