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How to Create a SolutionsU Profile

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Students read a story a day about what's working

Send your students to SolutionsU to remind them that there are people around the world working to solve challenging social and environmental problems. Your students will gain a more balanced...
Send your students to SolutionsU to remind them that there are people around the world working to solve...
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Introduction to Making a Difference Strategies for Solving Social Problems

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  • Introduce your students to the vast and complex world of social change with real-world examples of how people and organizations around the world are working to make the...

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  • Introduce your students to the vast and complex world of social change with...
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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

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Anthropology of Social Movements

In this upper-division anthropology course on social movements, Dr. Marcy O’Neil challenges her students to consider how and why our morals and beliefs divide us, both within and across cultures,...

In this upper-division anthropology course on social movements, Dr. Marcy O’Neil challenges her students to...

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Marcy Hessling O’Neil

Michigan State University

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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Students find stories and apply a theory, analyze a concept or explore a theme

In almost any discipline, educators can create an assignment using SolutionsU that allows students to select their own content for applying a theory, analyzing a concept or identifying a theme....

In almost any discipline, educators can create an assignment using SolutionsU that allows students to...

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Making a Difference Module One: Shifting the Focus to Solutions

This is the first of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the first of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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For Educators: The How and Why of "Discover"

With topics ranging from Human Rights to the Environment, and strategies ranging from Empowering People to Using Creative Financing, Discover's topics and success factors are relevant to...

With topics ranging from Human Rights to the Environment, and strategies ranging from Empowering People to...

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Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems

Scott Sherman of the Transformative Action Institute (TAI) developed and taught this semester-long course at Claremont McKenna College in Spring 2017.  He integrated TAI's dynamic,...

Scott Sherman of the Transformative Action Institute (TAI) developed and taught this semester-long...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

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Making a Difference Module Two: Discovering What Works

This is the second of 15 course modules in the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the second of 15 course modules in the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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First Year Seminar: Policies for a Perfect Country

This one-unit, first-year seminar asks students to explore successful public policies from various countries around the world. Each week the students discuss a specific policy—how it works, its...

This one-unit, first-year seminar asks students to explore successful public policies from various...

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Betsy Schmidt

UMass Amherst, School of Public Policy

Professor of Practice

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Students get to know each other by sharing stories about what's working

This assignment is intended for use in the first week of class.  Ask your students to spend 20 minutes in class discovering stories, and then another 10 minutes jotting down notes in response...

This assignment is intended for use in the first week of class.  Ask your students to spend 20 minutes...

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For Educators: How to Create Course Reading Materials

With SolutionsU collections features, educators can easily create timely and engaging course reading materials to supplement textbooks and journal articles and meet specific course learning...

With SolutionsU collections features, educators can easily create timely and engaging course reading...

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Students create story collections on topics, themes or strategies

Ask your students to create a collection of stories that illustrate concepts and theories, and illuminate patterns and themes, and provide content for reflection and analysis. As the assignment...

Ask your students to create a collection of stories that illustrate concepts and theories, and illuminate...

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Student Handout: How to Search for Stories on SolutionsU

Download this step-by-step guide for your students on how to SEARCH for stories on SolutionsU.  

Download this step-by-step guide for your students on how to SEARCH for stories on SolutionsU.  

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Making a Difference Module Three: Measuring Impact

This is the third of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the third of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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Success and Failure in Social Change

Solutions Journalism Network's co-founder Tina Rosenberg developed this syllabus for an introductory political science course she taught at Yale University. The topic was success and failure in...

Solutions Journalism Network's co-founder Tina Rosenberg developed this syllabus for an introductory...

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Tina Rosenberg

Solutions Journalism Network

Co-founder, SJN, New York Times 'Fixes' Columnist

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Student Handout: How to Create a SolutionsU Story Collection

Download this step-by-step guide for your students on how to create collections of stories on SolutionsU.  

Download this step-by-step guide for your students on how to create collections of stories on SolutionsU....

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Students find stories linking course content to the real world

With more than 4,000 stories on how people around the world are responding to social and environmental issues, the stories found on SolutionsU provide rich content for students to dig deeper into a...

With more than 4,000 stories on how people around the world are responding to social and environmental...

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Making a Difference Module Four: Creating the Greatest Possible Impact

This is the fourth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the fourth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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Making a Difference Module Five: Attacking Root Causes

This is the fifth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the fifth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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Students find and submit solutions journalism stories to SolutionsU

Searching for and identifying solutions journalism stories requires students to think critically about how news is reported, and to analyze carefully the content of stories that report on responses...

Searching for and identifying solutions journalism stories requires students to think critically about how...

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For Educators: Understanding SolutionsU Success Factor Taxonomy

Success Factors are the tactics that are critical to a response's success or failure.  The Solutions Journalism Network developed this taxonomy, and all of the stories in the SolutionsU story...

Success Factors are the tactics that are critical to a response's success or failure.  The Solutions...

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Taylor Nelson

Solutions Journalism Network

SolutionsU Program Manager

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For Educators: How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy with SolutionsU

Attached is a How to Guide for writing discussion questions to accompany SolutionsU story collections.  The guide is based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning.  We use this guide at...
Attached is a How to Guide for writing discussion questions to accompany SolutionsU story...
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Making a Difference Module Six: Cultivating Collaborations

This is the sixth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the sixth of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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Assignment example: Analysis of Solutions to Human Rights, Migration and Refugee Challenges (Anthropology)

This is one of several assignments for Anthropology 439, an upper division course on Human Rights taught in Spring 2018 by Marcy Hessling O'Neil.  The course considers human rights within...

This is one of several assignments for Anthropology 439, an upper division course on Human Rights taught in...

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Marcy Hessling O'Neil

Michigan State University

Assistant Professor & Advisor, Peace & Justice Studies

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Making a Difference Module Seven: Embracing the Power of Relationships

This is the seventh of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems Teaching Guide. Each module includes in-class activities, outside assignments, and...

This is the seventh of 15 modules that make up the Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social...

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Scott Sherman

Transformative Action Institute

Founder

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Introduction to the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide

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  • Introduce your students to the concept of business as a leading force for social innovation? 
  • Show your students case studies of businesses that benefit the financial bottom...

Do you want to ...

  • Introduce your students to the concept of business as a leading force for social...
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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Underlying Causes of Social Problems, Part I (Anthropology)

This is the first part of a two-part assignment in the Anthropology of Social Change, an upper-division social anthropology class taught by Marcy O'Neil at Michigan State University. For this...

This is the first part of a two-part assignment in the Anthropology of Social Change, an upper-division...

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Marcy Hessling O’Neil

Michigan State University

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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Abundance Cycle Module One: Breaking Down Constructs

Module One: Breaking Down Constructs is the first of ten modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on...

Module One: Breaking Down Constructs is the first of ten modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Underlying Causes of Social Problems, Part II (Anthropology)

This is the second part of a two-part assignment in the Anthropology of Social Change, an upper-division social anthropology class taught by Marcy O'Neil at Michigan State University.  For...

This is the second part of a two-part assignment in the Anthropology of Social Change, an upper-division...

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Marcy Hessling O’Neil

Michigan State University

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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Assignment example: Exploring Societal Challenges from the Perspective of Solutions (Business)

Each spring, NYU Stern's entire freshmen class embarks on the Undergraduate College’s highly-esteemed Social Impact curriculum by taking Business and Its Publics (BIP). Combining...

Each spring, NYU Stern's entire freshmen class embarks on the Undergraduate College’...

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Robert Lyons

NYU Stern

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communication

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Abundance Cycle Module Two: Exploring Problems and Solutions

Module Two: Exploring Problems and Solutions is the second of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire...

Module Two: Exploring Problems and Solutions is the second of ten course modules in the Abundance...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Abundance Cycle Module Three: Abundance as a Transformative Tool

Abundance as a Transformative Tool is the third of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on...

Abundance as a Transformative Tool is the third of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: What is a Good Life & What is Good Act? (Ethics)

This is the final assignment for a 100-level, online ethics course offered in the Spring of 2017. The final project, What is a Good Life and What is a Good Act?, offers students the...

This is the final assignment for a 100-level, online ethics course offered in the Spring of 2017. The...

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Judit Török

Berkeley College

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences & Director of Teaching and Learning Commons

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Abundance Cycle Module Four: Applying Tactics to Sustainable Development Goals

Applying Tactics to Sustainable Development Goals is fourth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. The modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on...

Applying Tactics to Sustainable Development Goals is fourth of ten course modules in the Abundance...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Solutions to Climate Change (Green Business)

This assignment is based on Climate Capitalism by L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohens. In this upper- division Green Business course, the students took turns leading the class in discussing, analyzing...

This assignment is based on Climate Capitalism by L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohens. In this upper- division...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

University of Redlands

Instructor, Environmental Studies

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Assignment example: Challenges & Solutions to "Business as Usual" (Green Business)

This was the first assignment in an upper division Green Business course offered through the Environmental Studies department at the University of Redlands. Both environmental studies majors and...

This was the first assignment in an upper division Green Business course offered through the Environmental...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

University of Redlands

Instructor, Environmental Studies

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Abundance Cycle Module Five: Abundance Cycle Purpose & SDG Solution

Abundance Cycle Purpose & SDG Solution is the fifth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. The modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on...

Abundance Cycle Purpose & SDG Solution is the fifth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Creating a Vision for Solving a Social Problem (Human Ecology)

In this experiential, project-based course, students at College of the Atlantic develop a concrete proposal for solving a societal problem of their choosing.  The students access the ...

In this experiential, project-based course, students at College of the Atlantic develop a concrete proposal...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business

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Abundance Cycle Module Six: Mapping the Enterprise Using the Abundance Cycle Canvas

Mapping the Enterprise using the Abundance Cycle Canvas is the sixth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an...

Mapping the Enterprise using the Abundance Cycle Canvas is the sixth of ten course modules in the Abundance...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Restoring Justice in Diverse Communities (Multidisciplinary)

This assignment is an example of the versatility of the SolutionsU story collection as the basis for a research, writing and presentation assignment for students.  First, the students search...

This assignment is an example of the versatility of the SolutionsU story collection as the basis for a...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

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Abundance Cycle Module Seven: Communication and Measurement

Communication and Measurement is the seventh of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on...

Communication and Measurement is the seventh of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Critical Thinking for Solution-Based Social Challenges (Philosophy)

This is the final assignment for a 100-level philosophy course on critical thinking, offered through the CUNY Schools of Professional Studies in Spring 2017.   Students read and critically...

This is the final assignment for a 100-level philosophy course on critical thinking, offered through the...

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Judit Török

Berkeley College

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences & Dir. of Teaching and Learning Commons

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Abundance Cycle Module Eight: Presenting the SDG Enterprise

This is the eighth of ten modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. The entire course period is devoted to student presentations, as outlined in the previous module.

This module includes a ...

This is the eighth of ten modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. The entire course period is...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Abundance Cycle Module Nine: Expanding Possibilities

Expanding Possibilities is the ninth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on sustainable...

Expanding Possibilities is the ninth of ten course modules in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. ...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Cash Stipend or Personal Responsibility? A Policy Debate (Public Policy)

This assignment challenges students to decide if providing cash to people -- either as an incentive to change behavior or with no strings attached -- is an effective way to solve social problems....

This assignment challenges students to decide if providing cash to people -- either as an incentive to...

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Betsy Schmidt

UMass Amherst, School of Public Policy

Professor of Practice

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Assignment example: What Defines a Successful Community? Comparing your Definition to Others (Public Policy)

This is the first assignment in an upper division public policy course on policies and strategies for social change. Throughout the course, the students analyze public policies from the perspective...

This is the first assignment in an upper division public policy course on policies and strategies for...

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Betsy Schmidt

UMass Amherst, School of Public Policy

Professor of Practice

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Abundance Cycle Module Ten: Beyond Sustainability to Abundance

Beyond Sustainability to Abundance is the final module in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These course modules can be used as the basis for creating an entire course on sustainable...

Beyond Sustainability to Abundance is the final module in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide.  These...

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Jay Friedlander

College of the Atlantic

Professor of Sustainable Business

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Assignment example: Community Engagement and Service-Learning (Sociology)

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Sandra Enos

Bryant University

Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Entrepreneurship Coordinator

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Shifting the Focus to Solutions

5 Stories

This teaching collection accompanies the first module in the Making a Difference: Strategies...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

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Discovering What Works: Using Prizes

4 Stories
1 external link

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories and discussion questions that...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

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Discovering What Works: Evidence and Rapid Results

4 Stories

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories that accompany the second...

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Measuring Impact

3 Stories

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories and discussion questions that...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

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Creating the Greatest Possible Impact: Moneyball Philanthropy

3 Stories
2 external links

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories, discussion questions and...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

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Attacking Root Causes

5 Stories

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories that accompany the fifth...

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Cultivating Collaborations

3 Stories

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories and discussion questions to...

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Embracing the Power of Relationships

4 Stories

This teaching collection contains the solutions journalism stories that accompany the seventh...

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Microfinance + Microcredit

5 Stories

Microfinance - or creating financial products such as savings plans, small loans, or insurance to...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Marketing to the Base of the Pyramid

4 Stories

Ten years ago, a book called "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," introduced the idea that...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Criminal Justice

6 Stories

According to national statistics, the U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its population...

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Elizabeth Tompkins

Solutions Journalism Network

Media Training Professional

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Sharing Economy

5 Stories

In a world of 7.5 billion people, there are innumerable scenarios where individual ownership of a...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Building trust

4 Stories

Trust fosters confidence, particularly with marginalized communities that have little faith in...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Using humor

5 Stories

Human-centered design is a social change strategy that emphasizes understanding a social...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Last mile delivery

3 Stories

Last mile delivery focuses on building the last step in a delivery model to make sure people...

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Tina Rosenberg

New York Times and SJN

Print Reporter/Digital Reporter/Staff Writer

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Practicing human centered design

4 Stories

Human-centered design mobilizes the psychology and physiology of the human individual to improve...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Focusing on assets, not needs

5 Stories

Focusing on assets, not needs explores programs that take advantage of pre-existing assets and...

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Tina Rosenberg

New York Times and SJN

Print Reporter/Digital Reporter/Staff Writer

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Empowering people

5 Stories

When disadvantaged people are given the tools to succeed, they develop confidence in their own...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Immigrants in the United States (Extended)

12 Stories

More than 13% of the U.S. population is made up of immigrants. In 2016, the U.S. welcomed 96,874...

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Elizabeth Tompkins

Solutions Journalism Network

Media Training Professional

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Crowdfunding

5 Stories

In an age of economic globalization and rapidly-increasing access to technology, new avenues are...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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School Lunch

7 Stories

This collection contains stories about efforts to improve school lunches. Several of them deal...

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Tina Rosenberg

New York Times and SJN

Print Reporter/Digital Reporter/Staff Writer

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HIV & AIDS

10 Stories

This broad collection highlights the various ways agencies, cities, governments, and entire...

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Taylor Nelson

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Using a Comprehensive Approach

6 Stories

There are very few (if any) "silver bullet" solutions for the myriad of complex problems society...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Identifying positive deviance

5 Stories

When communities have reached solutions that deviate from cultural norms, they have overcome a...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Learning from Failure

5 Stories

Learning from failure focuses on analyzing, adapting to, and making use of failure. By embracing...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

Educator

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Private-public partnerships

5 Stories

Sometimes the underlying causes of a social challenge are so large or complex that uniting...

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Lita Tirak

Solutions Journalism Network

Researcher or Data Scientists

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Addressing underlying issues

6 Stories

The root causes of familiar social challenges such as poverty or violence are often difficult to...

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Holley Gaskill

Solutions Journalism Network

Other

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Using Data to Create Accountability

5 Stories

Data is a powerful tool that can be put to use in a myriad of ways.  Advances in the way it...

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Tina Rosenberg

New York Times and SJN

Print Reporter/Digital Reporter/Staff Writer

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Health Insurance in America

6 Stories

America's healthcare is by far the most expensive in the world, and in 2014 there were still 33...

created by

Elizabeth Tompkins

Solutions Journalism Network

Media Training Professional

FAVORITE

Breaking Down Constructs

4 Stories
2 external links

This teaching collection accompanies the first module in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide. Like...

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Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

Educator

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Abundance Cycle: Purpose and SDG Solution

5 Stories
3 external links

This teaching collection accompanies the fifth module in the Abundance Cycle Teaching Guide...

created by

Katherine Noble-Goodman

SolutionsU

Educator

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Collections are versatile, powerful and simple to create. From a customized course reader to an action-guide for an upcoming service-learning trip, collections illuminate themes, guide inquiry, and provide context for how people around the world are responding to social challenges.

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