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8 January 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
San Diego’s 311 program features a before-and-after-photo function which shows allows residents to hold their local 311 government service accountable. The date-stamped photographic proof allows users to see that thei...
28 December 2020
United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
A critical element in responding to rapes with trauma-informed victim care that aids an eventual prosecution is a sexual assault forensic exam. Rape kits, as they are known, are best administered by highly trained Sex...
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, ...
16 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A mother-daughter trio started the nonprofit See You at the Top as a way to get children engaged in outdoor sports where there is traditionally a lack of people of color represented. The program has reached hundreds o...
KXAN-TV
Laney Valian
15 December 2020
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
High school students at Somerset High School in San Antonio, Texas get tested every week for COVID-19. The method is called “assurance testing,” and is a way to target “silent spreaders,” people who have COVID who don...
14 December 2020
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way foster care works. The SAFE Alliance, a merger of Austin Children’s Shelter and SafePlace, had to change the way they do things to ensure the safety of children and teens. “In lat...
14 December 2020
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
As summer programs across the country shut down to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School summer program in Austin tried was forced to quickly pivot to virtual learning. They had to make lar...
11 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Pandemic shutdowns have led to empty beds at the Cleveland Hostel which it has offered to local homeless shelters to help lighten their load. Although the hostel only offers several dozen beds, it’s filling a critical...
19 November 2020
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
Missouri requires police to record the race of drivers from every traffic stop, a response meant to expose and ultimately reduce racial profiling in law enforcement. But, 20 years after that law took effect, Black dri...
13 November 2020
Central African Republic
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
Many countries in Africa have been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 due to lessons learned from fighting the Ebola epidemic. Although not all African countries have implemented successful strategies, those that ...
9 November 2020
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Despite segregation being deemed unconstitutional, nationally, many schools remain segregated along racial and class lines. Integrate Schools, a national grassroots movement, is focused on integrating schools. “The co...
9 November 2020
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In Nashville, school officials quickly found out that English Learner families were technologically falling behind and not logging into class. The school district decided to help families by creating 10 in-person tech...
9 November 2020
McAllen, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
School districts in the Rio Grande area of Texas are turning to alternatives to deliver meals to students who are remote-learning. Programs like school curbside pick-up, and meals on wheels, where a bus loaded has des...
9 November 2020
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
An estimated one-in-three students in the Texas Panhandle is experiencing food insecurity. In Amarillo, Texas, a local food bank, and two school districts are feeding students. “Between Amarillo and Canyon school dist...
9 November 2020
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In Austin, some families pay upwards of $1,300 a month to place their children in learning pods, an option not all families can afford. To help working families an organization launched Community Pods, which offers th...
9 November 2020
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
The Springdale School District in Arkansas has turned to visual communications in order to address the needs of ESL students. The district started by hiring bilingual communication specialists who help produce multime...
9 November 2020
Moulton, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Around 20% of high school students in rural Moulton Independent School District in Texas don't have the vital internet connection they need to complete their assignments. Students at Shiner Independent School District...
6 November 2020
Portland, Maine, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A free mobile app, Safe House, gives victims of domestic abuse a simple and quick way to call for help and find needed resources in four states. Putting local crisis helplines, shelters, and other local resources in o...
16 October 2020
United States
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
This T.V. segment showcases multiple solutions used by school districts and nonprofits across the nation, from creating cell phone towers so students have access to reliable wifi, to curbside meals, to learning pods. ...
14 October 2020
Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In southern Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, sheriff's deputy Valerie Martinez Jordan used her history as a domestic violence victim to create a countywide program to legally seize the guns of people convicted of domesti...
12 October 2020
Travelers Rest, South Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In South Carolina, 180,000 households don’t have access to Wifi, according to estimates. A problem for students who are trying to attend virtual classes. Using CARES funds, the state purchased hotspots. In one county,...
KXAN-TV
Laney Valian
12 October 2020
Hutto, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
While virtual learning can work for some, for special education students, many services and lessons get lost. “When it comes to those occupational needs and those speech needs, they’re not getting those services met b...
12 October 2020
Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In order to bridge the digital divide one school district in Virginia is putting Wi-Fi routers on its school buses. They call them Smart Buses. They buses drive out to neighborhoods where students don't have access to...
12 October 2020
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The African American Youth Harvest Foundation in Austin, Texas, is aiming to close the gap for young Black boys who are not ready for kindergarten. The nonprofit works closely with families, and helps provide for imme...
12 October 2020
Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, small business in Texas are struggling to stay afloat. A university sponsored crash course might help struggling businesses find solutions catered to their community. 58 communities partic...
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