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1 April 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
While most other scientific research around the world has come to a halt, coronavirus research is flourishing as a global collaboration of scientists focuses on understanding the virus and finding a vaccine. Competiti...
12 March 2020
South Korea
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
South Korean molecular biotech company, Seegene, created, tested, and received approval for a COVID19 test kit in just three weeks. Using a supercomputer’s big data system and taking advantage of the Disease Control &...
21 February 2020
Indonesia
Text
800-1500 Words
A space-based initiative called Global Fishing Watch is using satellite imagery and data to hold companies accountable to their promise of providing sustainable sourced seafood. While the volume of data and cost of ob...
Next City
Gregory Scruggs
24 January 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2018, a per-employee tax levied on Amazon and other Seattle businesses making over $20 million a year was struck down by council members with unfavorable polling. In 2020, that same referendum is being brought back...
13 December 2019
Georgia, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Without federal oversight, prisons are left to their own devices to determine what sort of health care they want to provide. That, combined with limited funding and resources, often leads to low-cost privatized health...
12 December 2019
Georgia, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As prison populations have increased dramatically since the 1980s, prisons have outsourced inmate health care to private companies, like CorrectHealth, to save money. While it is the most incentivizing when it comes t...
29 November 2019
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
California’s Santa Barbara Public Defender’s office is working with the company, Upstart, to use a texting notification system to remind people about their court dates. Upstart costs $20K to set up and then $2 per cli...
6 November 2019
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Hartford, Connecticut, in partnership with Lyft and the criminal justice reform group, #cut50, is providing transportation credits to formerly incarcerated individuals. The effort aims to help individuals reentering t...
21 October 2019
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Unprecedented challenges are frequently popping up with the onset of climate change, so governments too have to adjust their processes and strategies. Some new procurement tools used by several different cities includ...
20 August 2019
Los Angeles, California, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
A bridge is being designed to cross over U.S. 101 so that wildlife in the region will have a safe way to travel. When development, especially freeways, happens, ecosystems are cut off, leaving animals like wildcats, d...
Apolitical
Amelia Axelsen
16 August 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Turning climate solutions into opportunities for investment can help mobilize capital to address climate change. The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (The Lab), part of the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) bas...
17 July 2019
Alabama, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Close collaboration between stakeholders in a community allows rural health centers to remain in operation. With the failure of many rural hospitals across the United States, medical providers, nonprofit organizations...
10 June 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
After incidences of crime, Chicago’s business liaison officers help business owners communicate what they need in terms of protection and prevention back to the district’s police department. Infrastructure, like secur...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
5 June 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
The city of Philadelphia has been experimenting and iterating on the development of a Juvenile Justice Hub – a program that would transform interactions between the city’s youth and the police. The Hub is in the testi...
3 June 2019
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
After years of developmental stagnancy, the city of Waterbury, Connecticut puts into action a way for developers to renew buildings without having to take financial responsibility for previous owners' environmental wa...
24 May 2019
Warren, Maine, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
After sitting abandoned for 20 years, 27-thousand tons of plastic carpet are in the beginning processes of being removed. The pile, located in an old rifle range in Warren, Maine, is being transported to a local cemen...
17 April 2019
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the globe, governments are spending money on research that could allow artificial intelligence, or AI, to expedite and improve the screening and security processes at passport control. As international travel c...
Winter 2019
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Lane County, Oregon is one of many of the state’s counties working to create a survivor-focused network of responses to sex trafficking. The Lane County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Multidisciplinary Tea...
20 February 2019
Gorongosa, Sofala Province, Mozambique
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1500-3000 Words
The Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has repopulated its large mammals by over 700 percent through collaborations between wildlife authorities and nonprofits. With millions of dollars in philanthropic assistance,...
19 February 2019
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As climate change alters environments across the United States, it has becoming increasingly important to manage watersheds as a preventative measure to wildfires. Amid responses across the country, one private-public...
21 December 2018
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
An initiative in St. Petersburg has reduced the number of vacant houses while increasing access to affordable housing. The city takes ownership of vacant lots and abandoned homes, then sells the properties to affordab...
29 October 2018
Gary, Indiana, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Grand Calumet River in Indiana was once infamous for its levels of pollution and contamination. Although it didn't happen overnight, collaboration efforts between public and private players was key to restoring th...
28 September 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A program in San Francisco to help small-businesses win government contracts is scaling to cities across the United States and Canada as more entrepreneurs look for ways to partner with government instead of just disr...
2 August 2018
Stockton, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Stockton is courting philanthropists by billing itself as a budding hub of innovation for fighting poverty. The city is mitigating the risks of tapping private foundations to fund city services by identifying target p...
30 July 2018
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals wil...
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