Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
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...
6 July 2021
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
To boost diversity in its ranks as part of its outreach to improve community relations, the St. Paul Police Department created a two-year apprenticeship program that makes law enforcement careers more accessible by cl...
30 June 2021
Richmond, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the Richmond Police Department began putting police officers on foot patrol, walking neighborhood beats, relations with the public improved. That and other changes were associated with higher public trust and low...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association at City University of New York's law school mentors people whose criminal records serve as a barrier to pursuing a law career. FILSAA is part of a movement t...
Living Here
Anna Lamb-Yorski
16 June 2021
Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
A new aluminum plant in British Columbia would have ended up putting more sulphur dioxide into the air, but the Kitimat Terrace Clean Air Coalition (KTCAC) helped bring this to light and encourage them to install air ...
16 June 2021
Riverside, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Riverside County launched College Comeback to address the COVID-19 related decline in graduating high school students going to college. Six counselors each spend 25 hours a week reaching out to the high school class o...
16 June 2021
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Utah Stem Action Center’s Innovation Hub has partnered with schools in order to make learning about math and science more enjoyable for students. During the pandemic the organization made and delivered around 500 To-L...
15 June 2021
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
After a COVID-19 outbreak at a Hamilton apartment complex, officials began offering on-site appointments, particularly for people who are homebound. About 1,400 people have gotten the shot at their residence and many ...
14 June 2021
Michigan, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A new initiative in Michigan is helping locals over the age of 25 attending community college free of charge. The Reconnect program helps those who have yet to complete a post-secondary degree by covering all the cost...
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
Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, inclu...
9 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
People who spend their time in prison getting physically fit might seek to turn what they've learned into a job as a fitness trainer, once they're released. But felony convictions act as a barrier to such jobs. A Seco...
7 June 2021
Berlin, Germany
Text
Over 3000 Words
Prevention Project Dunkelfeld is "arguably the world's most radical social experiment in treating pedophilia." Its prevention-first approach to providing treatment to people who are sexually attracted to children mean...
6 June 2021
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
In St.Paul Minnesota, the St.Paul school district switched from a letter grade structure to a pass/fail system. A trend that was seen across other districts in the states. The move came after the pandemic resulted in ...
The Local
Brannavy Jeyasundaram
4 June 2021
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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800-1500 Words
Toronto’s Vaccine Engagement Teams Grant has awarded $5.5 million to community organizations in 140 neighborhoods to hire and train local ambassadors for vaccine outreach. Because the ambassadors share a lived experie...
4 June 2021
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A mobile food pantry is helping to increase food availability for those in the Indianapolis community. A 28-seat passenger bus was converted by Pro-Act Indy and turned into a food pantry, which takes the food to those...
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...
2 June 2021
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works with asylum seekers in Matamoros to address mental health issues while they wait for decisions in their U.S. immigration cases. MSF provides one-on-one and group counseling with a t...
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...
27 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Onerous paperwork and required legal documents keep many youth - especially those not living with legal guardians - from taking part in city internships, so YouthForce NOLA worked with the city to pilot an internship ...
26 May 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination strategies helped some Native American Nations achieve high vaccination rates. Tribal sovereignty gave Nations the flexibility to create their own methods of distributing the vaccine...
25 May 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At least 11 states have enacted laws that automatically seal certain criminal records, to help people find jobs and housing without long-ago mistakes posing unfair obstacles. Pennsylvania's 2019 law has helped an esti...
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 ...
21 May 2021
Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Indiana partnered with Overdose Lifeline to make the overdose reversal medication naloxone available via NaloxBoxes. The boxes, which are placed in neutral public areas that aren’t intimidating, hold several kits that...
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...
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