Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 June 2019
Durango, Colorado, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Funded by a grant from the Colorado Health Foundation, several nonprofits are working to fill the summer food security gap for children who rely on school meals. Several groups, including Pine River Shares and Friends...
5 June 2019
Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Hope Harbor, an emergency and transitional shelter in Grand Island, Nebraska, is renovating its facilities to include a playground for the shelter’s children. Funded by various grants, the new addition will provide ch...
Carolina Public Press
Emily Weaver
3 June 2019
Cherokee, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Individuals, churches, and nonprofits are joining together in North Carolina's food deserts to help address childhood hunger throughout the state. In one particularly food-insecure county, an alliance between three co...
Nigeria Health Watch
Bashar Abubakar
3 June 2019
Jigawa, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Enrolling community members as Volunteer Community Mobilizers (VCMs) dramatically increases the effectiveness of public health campaigns. In Nigeria, the Jigawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has made pro...
10 May 2019
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the United States, most playgrounds are equipped with the same types of monkey bars, slides and swings, but a few are replacing these typical options with "dismembered store mannequins, wooden packing crates, tires...
1 May 2019
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Increasing the confidence of parents in directing their children toward healthy choices is crucial in the battle against childhood obesity. In Leeds, England, the HENRY (Health, Exercise, and Nutrition for the Really ...
9 April 2019
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Millennials are having fewer children and caring more about environmental impact, so the toy industry is now experimenting with a newly popular "toy subscription" service. Rather than accumulating mass quantities of p...
30 March 2019
British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
Making child care an electoral priority in British Columbia helped decrease the burden of costs for working parents. Childcare advocates directed the government’s attention to providing quality, affordable childcare s...
6 March 2019
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Ohio, the Richland County Children Services' Kinship Care program is helping care providers support children in their custody, when the parents are unwilling or unable to provide care themselves. The program functi...
7 February 2019
Bar Elias, Lebanon
Text
1500-3000 Words
Designers around the world explore ideas and tactics to make inviting, safe, and engaging playgrounds for underserved children. From Lebanon to Belgium, engineers and builders work together to make play accessible and...
2 January 2019
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, philanthropist George Kaiser has invested heavily in Educare, a year-round early learning program, and wraparound services, such as prison-diversion and family-based programs, with the belief that ...
17 December 2018
Tirana, Albania
Text
1500-3000 Words
Making adults change their habits and viewpoints is hard. Helping children change is easier. That’s the basic principle around which the recent recreational development of Tirana, Albania is based. By making green sp...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
James E. Causey
7 December 2018
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
In the middle of Milwaukee's toughest neighborhood, an organization called We Got This helps kids get off the streets and into the garden. Each summer, teens spend Saturdays working in a community garden to produce fo...
5 December 2018
Bangladesh
Text
800-1500 Words
More than half of the almost 70 million people who have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced are children. The Lego Foundation and Sesame Workshop are teaming up with organizations in the countries surro...
4 December 2018
Cork, Ireland
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
In Ireland, schools across the country have installed "Buddy Benches," a space where children can go to let others know they want to play. The benches, which are built by volunteers from the Men's Shed, are part of a ...
26 November 2018
Pontevedra, Spain
Text
800-1500 Words
Nearly two decades ago, Pontevedra, Spain, made a radical shift away from cars and focused on redesigning the center from the sight line of a child walking on the street. Combined with affordable residences in the urb...
26 November 2018
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Positive touch through human contact is a crucial for newborn babies, especially those that have to remain in the neonatal intensive care unit, but parents often can't provide it on a 24/7 schedule. Trained volunteer ...
Apolitical
Anoush Darabi
22 November 2018
Tel Aviv, Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
Sometimes you have to see something is possible before you can do it yourself. For Tel Aviv’s city officers, it took a trip to Copenhagen to understand that each of them, no matter their office, could do something to ...
Second Wave Michigan
Jane Simons
25 October 2018
Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A neighborhood dentist asked his underserved community what he could do to improve their lives. The answer? Diapers. Now, his Battle Creek, MI organization delivers diapers to families in need around county, regardles...
23 October 2018
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Short-term volunteering trips, especially those that involve working directly with vulnerable children, can do more harm than good. Instead, volunteers should look for opportunities to support staff and primary caregi...
2 October 2018
Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Integrating behavioral health care with primary pediatric care helps address chronic, long-term issues. Using grant funding, Pediatric Partners of the Southwest improved its approach to health care. The introduction o...
13 September 2018
Zacapa, Guatemala
Text
Over 3000 Words
Voluntourism, or the practice of western volunteers paying to do service in developing countries, seems like a moral, do-good activity. However, the practice has been proven to have consequences, including reducing th...
Apolitical
Burton Bollag
7 September 2018
Wales
Text
800-1500 Words
Wales is the first country in the world to recognize playtime as a children’s right. Local authorities must access and promote playtime opportunities for children in their area. Sometimes, this means simply removing “...
28 August 2018
Landover, Maryland, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
A soccer camp has given refugee children in the Washington region a home away from home. L.A.C.E.S. — Life And Change Experienced thru Sports — shares the fun of the sport and aims to build young people’s confidence a...
24 August 2018
Johannesburg, South Africa
Text
Under 800 Words
Some urban planners argue that urban spaces should be designed around children because that makes a livable, walkable space for everyone, and also contributes to healthy early brain development. Several initiatives ar...
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