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28 December 2020
Matamoros, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
The Global Response Management is a humanitarian nonprofit led by U.S. military veterans and staffed by U.S. volunteers and "paid asylum seekers who were medical professionals in their homelands" that offers medical h...
21 December 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Since 2002, aging neighbors in Boston have been creating networks, known as villages, of supportive services that allow them to remain in their homes rather than leave to live in a senior center or nursing home. Now, ...
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
11 December 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Under the Obama administration, the Promise Neighborhoods initiative was launched. It granted over $430 million in multiyear grants to nonprofits across 17 cities. The success of these grants have been difficult to me...
Honolulu Civil Beat
Allan Parachini
4 December 2020
Moloaa, Hawaii, United States
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800-1500 Words
Food hub projects are gaining momentum in Hawaii as a means to connect farmers with customers. The projects go against the narrative that produce should be sold to big-box supermarkets, and instead focuses on "allowin...
Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Matusek
2 December 2020
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who go...
12 November 2020
New York, New York, United States
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Under 800 Words
City Limits, a nonprofit newsroom in New York City that specializes in longer-form journalism, created a judicial election voter guide that received nearly 81,000 page views, more than six times that of the site’s oth...
23 October 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
Media Literacy Now is a nonprofit aimed at combatting misinformation, especially on social media platforms, and lobbying for media literacy education in schools. The organization was started by Erin McNeill in 2013 an...
12 October 2020
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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1500-3000 Words
Back in 1988, Bina Sheth Lashkar, started noticing that students who lived in Slums were dropping out at high rates because they had to work to support their families. So, Bina and her colleague created Door Step Scho...
28 September 2020
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
In San Antonio, the Guadalupe Community Center is providing a free “day school” for children of working-class families in the city’s poorest zip code. The center serves around 30 K-12 students where they can safely ...
23 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Twenty high school students enrolled in Territory, an urban design nonprofit, produced a zine and their own quality of life report for West Austin, where many of the students live. The students conducted interviews, s...
25 August 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
With 75 micro-grants totaling $200,000, community organizations in Cleveland encourage people to complete the census in innovative ways. The Cleveland Caravan, or La Caravana, is a collaborative effort where trucks pl...
Next City
Nicolette White
21 August 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Liberation Library, a Chicago-based nonprofit, provides books for incarcerated youth. The nonprofit fills the youths' book requests and has also partnered with five Chicago-based bookstores, where shoppers can purchas...
6 August 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Philadelphia Black Giving Circle supports Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits, offering funding that was raised through the Black community. The giving circle has helped to build personal relationships with peo...
6 August 2020
Compton, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
About 170,000 schoolchildren in four states have participated in the Team Kids Challenge, which promotes healthier relations between youth and police by pairing them in charity work to solicit and distribute donations...
NationSwell
Sarah Morgan
3 August 2020
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
A coalition of organizations in the Detroit region had “a goal of re-engaging the region’s 690,000 adults who had completed some college but hadn’t gotten a degree.” One of the programs they created was the Wayne Stat...
10 July 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Latino Task Force emerged in response to Covid-19 and has effectively provided services to the Mission District’s Latinx community. Formed by longtime grassroots activists turned influential community leaders, the...
25 June 2020
Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Ohio philanthropies shifted to a rapid-response model of providing support for the coronavirus. A coalition of 81 philanthropies in Northeast Ohio quickly raised over $8.7 million from more than 2,200 donors and alloc...
24 May 2020
Kampala, Uganda
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Beauty pageants in Uganda are helping to "create awareness for skin cancer among persons with albinism, educate them about their rights, as well as foster capacity development." Although challenges persist, participan...
4 May 2020
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Video
3-5 Minutes
A program in Cape Town, South Africa is helping children learn life skills and provide mental health resources through 'surf therapy.' The program called Waves for Change starts each session with some grounding medita...
15 April 2020
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In cities across the United States, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color in part due to a lack of information being provided to these areas. A non-profit in Pittsburg is workin...
7 April 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
The idea of “feeding the frontline” - donating funds to purchase restaurant food that can be delivered to frontline healthcare works amidst the COVID-19 crisis - has spread like wildfire. In cities from San Francisco ...
3 April 2020
Berkeley, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Activists in Berkeley, California, are filling in what they say is a gap in homeless services during the coronavirus outbreak. Volunteers are safely delivering food and other supplies to those without shelter.
28 March 2020
Michigan, United States
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Under 800 Words
Following other models across the U.S., in Michigan's Oakland County, homeless shelters and local restaurants are partnering to weather the coronavirus pandemic. The county is paying restaurants to cook meals for food...
27 March 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
A growing countywide effort in Oregon is serving as somewhat of a lifeline for restaurants threatened by coronavirus closures. Businesses are keeping on or rehiring some of their employees to make food for individuals...
24 March 2020
Wooster, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
In Wayne County, the local Wayne County Community Foundation teamed up with other local private foundations to establish the Wayne County Emergency Response Fund, which provides money and support to nonprofit organiza...
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