Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
10 March 2021
Bangladesh
Text
800-1500 Words
Bangladesh has made huge strides in reducing poverty by investing in women experiencing the most economic hardships. As a result, children have lower rates of malnutrition, fewer child marriages, higher rates of compl...
3 March 2021
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
RxArt is a non-profit organization that works to brighten up children's wings in hospitals with art installations. The artwork is vibrant and often covers entire rooms and hallways, eliciting positive reactions from t...
3 March 2021
Stockton, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot project provided residents who made less than the median income in Stockton, California, with monthly cash payments. The extra money helped recipients secure employment, avoid housing instability, handle unexp...
1 March 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted much of the healthcare system, but the U.S.'s transplant system was largely able to rebound due to collaborative efforts and a pivot to telehealth for post-operative appointments. Addit...
17 February 2021
Buffalo, New York, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Asheville, North Carolina, police hope to model a violence-intervention program on one in Buffalo, New York, in which police use "custom notifications" to identify people prone to violence. Those notified are given a ...
11 February 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A coffee shop is employing young people experiencing homelessness. Employment at the coffee shop provides the stability and support they need to find and maintain housing. Income, structure, and skills gained from emp...
Yes! Magazine
Iris Crawford
10 February 2021
Georgia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Two climate coalitions led by BIPOC have strengthened their communities by empowering diverse stakeholders to address social inequities. The coalitions are engaging and centering the voices of Black, Indigenous and pe...
8 February 2021
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Ca...
3 February 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Chicago Black Drag Council launched after a series of protests that called on Chicago’s LGBTQ neighborhood to address racial discrimination and oppression. A handful of businesses quickly agreed to a live-streamed...
28 January 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Cooperatives are getting the funding they need through a “nationwide network of loans funds and incubators that specialize in supporting and investing in cooperative businesses.” Coops lack access to traditional fundi...
South Dakota News Watch
Bart Pfankuch
28 January 2021
South Dakota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A new therapeutic treatment known as a monoclonal antibody infusion has been made available across the U.S. for Covid-19 patients who are most at-risk of being hospitalized for the virus. In South Dakota, one of the ...
26 January 2021
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Doctors have created a pressure garment that prevents women from dying from obstetric hemorrhage during childbirth. Modeled after the NASA spacesuit, the product was far from ideal when first envisioned in 1969 and we...
21 January 2021
Bardo, Nigeria
Video
3-5 Minutes
Community workers in a village in Nigeria worked together to buy a car to use as an emergency vehicle for pregnant women who are in labor. The initiative has caught the attention of local government, which prompted th...
The Christian Century
Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
19 January 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Eugene's well-established CAHOOTS program for replacing police as first responders to certain types of 911 calls has become a model for multiple cities as they seek to replicate its success in an era of questioning th...
The Huffington Post
XiaoZhi Lim
18 January 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the amount of farmland decreases in the United States and climate change brings hotter and drier conditions, many farmers are turning to agrivoltaics — growing crops and installing solar panels on the same land — a...
16 January 2021
Indonesia
Text
800-1500 Words
CekFakta is a collaborative network that fights misinformation with around 6,000 fact-checkers from major Indonesian media organizations, citizens, and academics. The group holds training sessions to help journalists ...
15 January 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In an effort to combat racial injustice, former plantations are shifting the narrative typically given on tours to focus on the lives of the enslaved who once lived there instead of enslavers who owned the plantations...
Hakai Magazine
Kamala Thiagarajan
12 January 2021
Pamban Island, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Kadal Osai (Sound of the Sea) is a radio broadcast with programming designed for fishers and their families since 2016. It reaches about 50,000 people from 30 fishing villages within a 15-kilometer radius of the stati...
8 January 2021
Cross River, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) initiative in Cross River state is helping to address a gap in services that women had been facing during childbirth and reduce the state's and Nigeria's overall maternal mortali...
5 January 2021
Portugal
Text
1500-3000 Words
After Portugal decriminalized hard drugs in 2001 to treat drug use as a health problem and not a crime, the country expanded treatment services that produced sharp drops in drug-overdose deaths and HIV infections. Its...
4 January 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Universal Basic Income is gaining popularity across the United States where 11 cities in 2021 are either extending or piloting new programs that provide cash payments without any conditions on how to spend the money. ...
2 January 2021
Italy
Text
800-1500 Words
Advancing Women Artists (AWA) is a nonprofit foundation that has identified around 2,000 pieces of art by women artists that were forgotten or stored away in Italy’s museums and churches. The organization has financed...
24 December 2020
Belgium
Text
800-1500 Words
Hack your Future Belgium offers free IT training to migrants to help fill the country’s worker shortage in that sector and help newcomers gain skills and find work. Most participants are asylum seekers or refugees and...
23 December 2020
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In Florida, a hospital's respiratory department decreased readmission rates for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by emphasizing patient education and encouraging cross-sector collaboration between departme...
17 December 2020
San Jose, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In parts of California and New York, caregivers are constructing a small, free-standing building on their residential property to better care for loved ones. These structures, known as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs),...
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