Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
17 March 2014
Fresno, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When many Latina immigrant women arrive in the United States, they don't have access to the internet to learn about the resources available to them. Únete Latina, a program run by Latinas, sends mobile phone texts to ...
15 March 2014
New Delhi, India
Text
Over 3000 Words
Population scale and density, insanitary conditions, and malnourishment meant that eradicating polio in India was a tall order. The government, alongside WHO, managed to do it in 2014 using a comprehensive approach.
National Geographic
Laurel Neme
12 March 2014
Bharatpur, Nepal
Text
800-1500 Words
Bucking the worldwide trend, Nepal continues its successful fight against poaching, thanks to a multilayered system of information gathering, enforcement, and swift justice.
9 March 2014
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Two poor communities have contrasting approaches to the overwhelming healthcare needs in their regions. One takes a collaborative approach to medicine, creating better outcomes for residents, especially those of low-i...
Fayetteville Observer
Greg Barnes
22 February 2014
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In Memphis, a creative blight-reduction initiative called 25 Square Blocks broke down the city into blocks. Inspectors were able to quickly identify all the violations and fix them, using the same amount of funding, b...
13 February 2014
Kilis Merkez, Kilis, Turkey
Text
Over 3000 Words
Refugee camps typically look like a prison with squalid conditions and barbed wire tops. By contrast, the Kilis refugee camp in Turkey is orderly, secure, and clean; has schools for children; has grocery stores, and i...
5 February 2014
Williamson, West Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
“Sustainable Williamson” combined ideas and initiatives from local officials, community members, nonprofit organizations to address both the economy and the well-being of a community where unemployment and drug use we...
31 January 2014
Eastport, Maine, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The small town of Eastport, Maine turned its economy around by tuning in to and making use of its unique geographical features, like being the eastern-most point in the country. The town has reinvigorated its port to ...
15 January 2014
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Text
Under 800 Words
India has been able to eradicate polio through large-scale logistics, highly organized vaccine teams, proper funding, and accountability of health officials and front-line workers.
Fayetteville Observer
Greg Barnes
22 December 2013
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
For years, Chattanooga has had one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. - last year, its rate stood at 863 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 34 percent higher than Fayetteville's. But like Fayettevil...
12 December 2013
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Minnesota schools began a comprehensive program aimed at assisting children of minority groups to successfully navigate the college application process and push them towards higher education.
1 December 2013
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care m...
21 November 2013
Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Iowa, a Medicare program uses financial incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to provide the highest quality care possible. The approach has proven successful in providing comprehensive treatment for freque...
20 November 2013
Houston, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Most U.S. cities are sitting on thousands of backlogged rape kits that have gone untested. Yet in 2010, Houston (under newly elected Mayor Annise Parker) began an effort that ultimately eliminated its own staggering b...
14 November 2013
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Twilight Education Club is a non-profit working to break down the barriers – transportation, child care and cost – that typically prevent the economically disadvantaged from accessing social services such as langu...
6 November 2013
Togo
Text
1500-3000 Words
In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy...
5 November 2013
Houston, Texas, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Milwaukee County’s mental health system put more resources in expensive emergency care rather than invest in programs that offer continual care. As a result, Milwaukee County identifies nine solutions from other citie...
30 October 2013
Connecticut, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Child First is a program in Connecticut, where staff members deliver home-based parent guidance and child-parent psychotherapy to help prevent the detrimental physical and mental effects of toxic stress on children. T...
6 September 2013
Vienna, Australia
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Gender mainstreaming is the practice of creating “laws, rules and regulations that benefit men and women equally. The goal is to provide equal access to city resources.” Since the 90s the city of Vienna has adopted th...
3 August 2013
Assam, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
India faces a crisis with maternal mortality; largely due to poorly implemented maternal healthcare benefits, and high anemia rates due to harsh working conditions, the state of Assam suffers from the highest ratio of...
1 August 2013
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Public-private partnerships, nonprofit organizations, and community members themselves come together to make Brownsville, a neighborhood in NYC, a more collaborative, friendly and safe place. Though the neighborhood h...
29 July 2013
Cuba
Text
800-1500 Words
Despite the fact that Cuba and the United States have had no bilateral relations for decades, the countries' meteorological institutions do collaborate by exchanging information about weather. This relationship could ...
12 June 2013
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Text
800-1500 Words
Throughout India, wastepickers – people who scour landfills for garbage they can sell to recyclers – live at the bottom of society. But the city of Pune did something radical: with the help of a collective, they did a...
The Washington Post
Michael Alison Chandler
13 May 2013
Manassas, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home ...
8 May 2013
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Text
1500-3000 Words
Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most compre...
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