Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
1 April 2021
Lindstrom, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
After talking about solar panels with his students, a teacher at a middle school in Minnesota worked with the school board to raise funds to install a rooftop solar panels for the entire district. All five of the scho...
31 March 2021
New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Community health care centers across the U.S. are funded by the 340B drug discount program, which requires "pharmaceutical companies to provide up-front discount pricing on certain medications to qualified private ent...
16 March 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
People experiencing homelessness can now access hot showers and bathrooms at the Hygiene Hub. Staff at the Portland initiative include both unhoused paid workers and housed volunteers, all with extensive staff trainin...
12 March 2021
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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In a science class in a local New Jersey school, students came up with a green solution to a storm water management and flooding problem in their parking lot when it rained. With help from the Cooperative Extension Wa...
10 March 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
By redesigning the notices it mails to people who owe the city money for pet licenses or traffic and parking fines, Seattle's Innovation and Performance project greatly improved payment rates. The effort, based on beh...
9 March 2021
New York City, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
An equitable alternative to Uber and Lyft is giving drivers ownership of a ride-hailing platform with many perks that aren’t available to workers in the gig economy. The Drivers Cooperative is providing drivers with l...
5 March 2021
California, United States
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800-1500 Words
After California legalized marijuana, it offered people a way to erase their marijuana-related criminal records. But few tried, in part because the process was difficult. Code for America's Clear My Record initiative ...
24 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
RefashionNYC provides bins for commercial and residential buildings with more than 10 units, though the Department of Sanitation, to recycle clothes and textiles. When full, the contents are sorted by Housing Works, w...
23 February 2021
Bennington, Vermont, United States
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800-1500 Words
To make their restaurant more energy efficient and to cut its carbon footprint, The Publyk House utilized the services of Efficiency Vermont, a publicly funded energy efficiency utility. As part of their Deep Energy R...
18 February 2021
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Since it was reported that Newark’s lead levels in the city’s drinking water were higher than federal standards, the Newark Water Coalition installed a Water Box. This is a portable filtration system that removes cont...
17 February 2021
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
The DEAR program (Durham Expunction and Restoration) put 11,084 drivers back on the road legally and waived $2.7 million in fines in a purge of old cases that had revoked driving privileges for unpaid fines and fees. ...
17 February 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
Some cities across the U.S. are offering "free or cheap transportation to vaccine distribution sites" as a means of increasing access for those who don't have access to a vehicle, are unable to drive, or don't live ne...
12 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Citi Bike started the NYC Critical Workers program, which offered free bike-share memberships to essential workers in New York City because of the coronavirus pandemic. The free membership started for one month but wa...
11 February 2021
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
To address the growing isolation facing senior citizens, a Brooklyn-based organization started an initiative called The Sharing Network to connect volunteers with seniors via telephone calls. Taking the participants' ...
9 February 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
A collective of artists in Seattle bought real estate for a community center with the help of city funding. Known as Black and Tan Hall, the space drew funding and sweat equity from community members who sought a safe...
9 February 2021
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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800-1500 Words
A new model for community-owned real estate is attempting to bridge the racial wealth gap and build neighborhood wealth in Atlanta. Instead of watching prime real estate go to investors who would hold onto the buildin...
4 February 2021
Oklahoma, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Cherokee Language Master Apprentice Program is an immersion program that pays adults to learn the Cherokee language, which is quickly disappearing yet important for preserving Cherokee culture. The program require...
4 February 2021
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society reached a broader local audience "by asking tough questions and reshaping itself for the 21st century," bucking the traditional historical-society model of focusing only on white...
3 February 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
Through its Creative CityMaking program, the city of Minneapolis pays artists to use their skills to promote healing and community-building in projects they design on their own. The program had existed for seven years...
28 January 2021
United States
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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...
28 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot program may be able to alleviate the utility debts incurred by struggling customers who were affected by the pandemic-induced economic slowdown. A pre-pandemic program used missed utility payments as an opport...
27 January 2021
Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
A new law in Michigan will automatically expunge misdemeanors and felonies after several years, making it easier to find employment for those who have a record. The automatic nature of the expungement removes the barr...
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27 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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800-1500 Words
When the Public Iconographies project asked people in St. Louis "how would you map the monuments of St. Louis?", it got 750 hand-drawn maps telling stories of often-overlooked sites throughout the city. By letting peo...
26 January 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A worker-owned cooperative in Baltimore is giving employees an “alternative to exploitation in traditionally-structured enterprises.” Employees at Taharka Brothers can eventually qualify for ownership, which enables t...
26 January 2021
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
A successful tiny home community in Missouri is inspiring a doctor-nurse duo to establish one in Wilmington, North Carolina. The idea took hold after they realized that chronic homelessness had a huge impact on health...
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