Title
& Description
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...
12 August 2021
Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Small towns in Ohio are turning to a developer to revitalize their main streets in order to bring residents and businesses back. Small Nation is the brainchild of a local developer who put his struggling town back on ...
5 August 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Esperanza Threads provides sewing training to refugees and immigrants so that they can find sustainable jobs and provide for their families. The students learn to make t-shirts, bags, and baby products, which are sold...
The Cut
Amelia Schonbek
21 July 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This f...
21 July 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
For three days each summer, the Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM) camp near Dallas gives girls an escape from their daily reality of being denied a normal relationship with their incarcerated mothers. Founded by a lawyer ...
19 July 2021
Italy
Text
1500-3000 Words
An Italian travel writer and a publishing house partnered to recreate the experience of travel to new places, providing tourists with a virtual experience and tour guides with a source of income to replace their lost ...
14 July 2021
Kansas, United States
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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...
14 July 2021
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Bridging the Gap is a violence prevention program at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center that emphasizes treating more than the physical wounds of gunshot victims. Starting in the hospital and continuing a...
12 July 2021
Ventura, California, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
La Buena Vida connects caregivers from Latino households with respite care, training, and support groups. Using federal funding, the program serves as the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging’s resource center for Span...
12 July 2021
Nigeria
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800-1500 Words
The Feyisayo Sobowale Initiative (TFSI) works to address Period poverty, the lack of access to menstrual products by people who cannot afford them. In the four-hour training, TFSI distributes free sanitary products an...
9 July 2021
United States
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800-1500 Words
Well Spouse Association helps spouses manage the mental and physical challenges of caregiving. The nonprofit offers support groups, respite weekends that give caregivers time to take care of themselves and other respo...
6 July 2021
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The Nisaika Kum’tuks and Tsawalk learning centers provide alternative schooling options for Indigenous students to learn more about their culture and languages. The centers teach a total of 100 students from 23 differ...
6 July 2021
Lagos, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
The Network for Inclusion of People with Special Needs (NIPSN) provides empowerment-based counseling, needs-specific rehabilitation, assistive equipment, and vocational training to people with disabilities. Residents ...
100 Days in Appalachia
Taylor Sisk
1 July 2021
Williamson, West Virginia, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Williamson Health and Wellness Center is a federally qualified health center in rural West Virginia, that provides medical, dental, and mental health care as well as chronic-disease management and wellness coaching on...
30 June 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With a long string of questionable uses of force and huge payouts to settle brutality lawsuits, the Vallejo Police Department might look to nearby Oakland for one approach to achieving better, more accountable policin...
24 June 2021
Arizona, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Central Arizona Shelter Services, with help from the City of Phoenix and federal CARES Act COVID relief money, contracted a local hotel to turn 100 rooms into a shelter for the growing number of seniors experienci...
24 June 2021
Bucharest, Romania
Text
Over 3000 Words
MozaiQ provides support for the LGBTQ community and fosters stronger ties among queer Romanians. The group creates safe spaces and offers programming, from football championships to job fairs and professional skills b...
Bridge Michigan
Ted Roelofs
11 June 2021
Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
After taking care of her own parents, Paula Duren started “boot camp” sessions for caregivers to share available resources, tips for self-care, and support. Drawing on her experience as a psychologist, Duren started t...
2 June 2021
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Text
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...
31 May 2021
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed the thriving neighborhood of Greenwood, the Centennial Commission supported a number of i...
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...
News48
Isabella De Maddalena
13 May 2021
Italy
Text
Over 3000 Words
Amleta combats gender inequality in the theater industry on several fronts. The group, which began with 28 founding members and quickly grew to almost 400, conducted the first survey of the industry, finding a signifi...
13 May 2021
Stilwell, Oklahoma, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Cherokee Nation had a hard time sourcing personal protective equipment for health workers, citizens, and others during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tribal leaders decided to use a portion of the CARES Act funding to cre...
13 May 2021
United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
Worker-run co-ops in the food industry and in the care sector, industries hard hit by COVID-19, have proved resilient in weathering the pandemic. Some, like Cooperative Home Care Associates, partnered with other co-op...
7 May 2021
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
Residents at a subsidized nonprofit family housing complex organized to address safety and drug-use issues that began with the pandemic. Residents use a Facebook chat to communicate and will often warn each other of s...
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