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16 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since the 2018 opening of a trauma-care center near the neighborhoods most affected by Chicago's gun violence, the University of Chicago Medical Center's Violence Recovery Program has helped survivors and victims' fam...
16 September 2020
Germany
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1500-3000 Words
Germany has weathered the pandemic with lower illness rates than its neighbors and a relatively strong economy thanks to leadership and responses that have evolved and helped the country thrive in the three decades si...
7 September 2020
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated how seniors are able to come together for companionship, but groups in Illinois are trying to utilize technology to address the problem. While the digital divide is a significant ...
1 September 2020
Culver City, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
High school and college-age volunteers in Culver City, California are playing a significant role in the creation of a food-distribution system that aims to help their neighbors who have been financially impacted by th...
1 September 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Theater of War Productions performs Greek tragedies, using the themes to encourage dialogue and healing from modern community traumas. Beginning with military audiences, participants were asked to discuss the themes i...
29 August 2020
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Over 3000 Words
The Vancouver Island marmot is making a comeback, thanks to recovery efforts from the Marmot Recovery Foundation. By 2003, there were only 27 marmots left in Canada’s wilderness, but their population has rebounded to ...
25 August 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Finding gainful employment after incarceration is hard in the best of times, but during a global pandemic it's even more challenging. A Los Angeles nonprofit, Chrysalis, has been able to place the hard-to-employ job s...
23 August 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A burst of creativity is helping Portland confront its racist histories. From murals appearing on boarded-up buildings, protest art on exhibit at art centers, and artists gathering downtown to display their work depic...
16 August 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
New York's success in eventually controlling the spread of coronavirus can be attributed to a few key factors. Unlike Massachusetts, which experienced fluctuating COVID-19 infections on its way to recovery, New York ...
15 August 2020
Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The Youth Justice Fund sends formerly incarcerated men and women to a lakeside summer camp as therapy for the trauma they suffered growing up and during long prison sentences that started when they were teenagers and ...
14 August 2020
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
With many people out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some cities and nonprofits are creating outdoorsy job programs to relieve unemployment. Inspired by the conservation corps programs created during the Great D...
14 August 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Comal Heritage Food Incubator trains immigrant and refugee women to start their own businesses in the food industry. Comal offers coaching, financial support, and connections to social services. It also pays trainees,...
13 August 2020
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Restaurants in Providence, Rhode Island are "repurposing parking lots, waterfronts, and any adjacent land where an al fresco meal can be savored, public health preserved, and restaurant profits protected" during the c...
13 August 2020
Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
As coronavirus spread throughout the White Mountain Apache tribe in Arizona residents on the reservation turned to contact tracing – not to slow the spread, but to identify those who were high risk and may be infected...
7 August 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A New Way of Life Reentry Project creates homes for women as they leave prison, providing a refuge and programs to help ensure a more successful transition into life on the outside. The network of small group homes, s...
6 August 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Several countries successfully held elections during the Covid-19 pandemic and can offer insights for how the U.S. can hold a safe presidential election. These include providing more funding for additional polling pla...
5 August 2020
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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Over 3000 Words
Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte is a group of about 200 members, mostly mothers whose children are among the more than 73,000 people who have disappeared and presumably were murdered in Mexico's long drug war. Las Rastr...
5 August 2020
Beirut, Lebanon
Text
Under 800 Words
Within hours of a massive explosion that left 300,000 people homeless, residents in and around Beirut opened their doors to house those impacted by the destruction. Thawramap, which normally identifies locations of pe...
23 July 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The ability of community gardens to supply healthy food to those who might not have their basic needs met has grown in importance as coronavirus continues to spread across the United States. For example, the New Roots...
23 July 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To ensure that Black communities have access to healthy food, three people in Los Angeles are taking different approaches to promote food security and food sovereignty. As part of Feed Black Futures, Ali Anderson pack...
22 July 2020
Monument Valley, Utah, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
As the coronavirus spreads throughout the Navajo Nation, many people don’t have access to water to even wash their hands. For generations, the Navajo people have suffered with this lack of water infrastructure, but so...
16 July 2020
Chilanga, Zambia
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1500-3000 Words
In Zambia, where severe drought due to climate change has negatively affected agriculture, the Daughters of the Redeemer are practicing organic farming to feed hundreds of children and families whose basic needs are n...
9 July 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Freed from prison after serving at least 15 years, often much longer, for crimes committed when they were teens, a group of men holds twice-monthly Zoom meetings to lend structure and peer support to their lives durin...
7 July 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Mothers of young Latino men killed by sheriff’s deputies in East Los Angeles have struggled to pry information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, but along the way they have formed a network of support ...
7 July 2020
Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After a failed removal attempt of a bear cub from a tree, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for North Puget Sound decided they needed a new high-strength tarp. With a reported increase in the number of wi...
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