THE RESPONSE FREE!
Weekly email with three solutions stories illustrating responses that work, pivoting off the latest news moments.
Welcome to SolutionsU™- We seek to unleash the agency and purpose of learners with knowledge of what is working.
SolutionsU™ is possible because of the spread of solutions journalism: rigorous reporting on responses to social problems. Our parent organization Solutions Journalism Network seeks to rebalance the news, so that every day people are exposed to stories that help them understand problems and challenges, and stories that show potential ways to respond.
“SolutionsU™ has unlimited potential: for students developing project ideas, in providing leads for field research on solving intractable social problems, and for helping educators with well-vetted and organized teaching content and materials.”
Robert Lyon, Assistant Professor
NYU Stern School of Business
“My students are definitely more engaged and more inspired. They connect these stories to their own lives and many of them express interest in wanting to be more involved, perhaps by volunteering or donating to organizations that are featured in the articles.”
Judit Torok, Director of Teaching and Learning Commons
Berkeley College
“When [my students] learned that a community already exists that they can be a part of, and that they can learn from, that made all the difference. Solutions journalism stories can help deliver this powerful message.”
Marcy O'Neil, Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
“A great tool to prime the moral imagination. It enhances the ability to imagine the world that does not yet exist.”
David Bornstein, Co-Founder
Solutions Journalism Network
“SolutionsU™ provides a wide lens through which to explore the world of social change. The resources are not only excellent tools for the classroom, but I predict they will become a 'go to' resource for our students in their apprenticeships at social change organizations.”
Lisa Jackson, Co-Founder & Managing Director
College for Social Innovation
“SolutionsU™ is a lifeline for professors and students seeking to move beyond a problem mindset and understand how people are solving the thorny problems we face. Students leave inspired, realizing that they can make a difference.”
Jay Friedlander, Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business
College of the Atlantic
