Satélites, mapas e trajeto do boi: saída para reduzir desmatamento já opera no Brasil

In 2020, New Mexico legislators created a permanent endowment fund to provide free universal child care to the state's families. As of 2025, all income limitations on the program have been lifted and the state is now serving about 45,000 children, though many more are eligible and the goal is to reach 70 percent of eligible families.

To help address high rates of homelessness among families, the San Diego Unified School District has begun to convert parking lots into safe sleeping sites. One of these sites, the Rose Canyon lot, provides a trailer for each family and also offers communal areas such as a shared kitchen, a small library, a space for dining and studying, and a charging station for electronic devices. According to the district, about 76 percent of families who have stayed at the Rose Canyon lot have gone on to find stable housing.

Since implementing a “science of reading” curriculum, Sharswood school has seen its reading scores jump, with 43 percent of all students scoring proficient or advanced and and more than half of third grade students meeting the mark. Teachers says a big factor in the successful implementation has been the flexibility to tailor resources to each classroom and the support of an onsite literacy coach.

Some Czech communities have taken steps to desegregate their schools, bringing Roma children into majority-Czech schools and closing "special" schools that may provide a lower quality of support. While typically launched as a cost-saving measure, integration efforts have led to improved outcomes for Roma students, such as a larger number enrolling in high school, and have also improved relations between Czech and Roma residents.

In 2022, the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York created its 0% Development Advance Program, a targeted lending program, and has since then provided $460 million in eligible loans in one of five categories: small business, climate resilience or energy efficiency, infrastructure, housing, or tribal development.

GoodVision trains local technicians to produce glasses made with flexible spring steel wire and shatterproof plastic lenses that are manufactured locally with hand-powered machines that don’t require electricity. They then distribute the glasses in their own communities, pricing them at 2-3 days' local wages (about $5-6 USD). Since 2012, the initiative has provided glasses to over 1 million people across 11 countries, employing approximately 600 people.

Illinois has implemented mental health courts across 31 counties as an alternative to incarceration for people with mental illness. These specialized courts divert defendants into community-based treatment programs lasting 1-2 years, featuring regular court appearances, counseling and drug testing. Since 2017, approximately 50% of participants have successfully graduated from mental health court programs statewide, with 11,000+ diverted from prison through the broader Adult Redeploy Illinois initiative.

The Laudato Si' Leadership Training program, a collaboration between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, uses church teachings on the environment to facilitate actions that address climate change and other socio-ecological issues in the region.

In 2020, Nigeria's Rural Electrification Agency installed a 50-kilowatt solar-hybrid system at Gombe State Specialist Hospital, providing uninterrupted electricity to critical units, including the ICU and emergency departments. Since its installation, maternal mortality dropped from 15-20 deaths monthly to 1-2 per month, and neonatal deaths also decreased from 50 to 20-25 monthly. The system has also helped healthcare workers perform life-saving surgeries without interruption, as these surgeries were often delayed or impossible due to power outages.

A community-led beetle-mapping project on Kaua'i, funded by a $25,000 county grant, has mobilized residents to track invasive coconut rhinoceros beetles. Together they created 700+ data points that identified thousands of beetles, empowering the community to fill gaps in government capacity.