Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
19 January 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood, a community effort is underway that aims to do "nothing but positive things." During the coronavirus pandemic, the group of volunteers has held fundraisers for community mem...
14 January 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Most states in the U.S. are struggling to effectively and efficiently distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, while "West Virginia became the first state to finish round one of the two-dose vaccine series in nursing homes." ...
4 January 2021
Thailand
Text
1500-3000 Words
Wat Arun Rajvaram Community Learning Centre, founded on Buddhist precepts by a former monk, has trained more than 250 Thai young women for work as nurse assistants, jobs aimed at keeping them out of the illicit sex tr...
29 December 2020
Czech Republic
Text
1500-3000 Words
Migrants and native Czechs are breaking bread together in an initiative designed to promote tolerance. Next Door Family connects locals with migrants who seek a sense of belonging and security in their new homes. Over...
24 December 2020
Italy
Text
Under 800 Words
In Italy, the “Santa’s grandchildren” program is helping to connect nursing home residents with volunteer grandchildren for visits and gifts during the holiday season. While the coronavirus pandemic has caused the mee...
23 December 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Solitary Gardens is an art project that protests prisons' solitary confinement conditions. Incarcerated people connect with volunteers on the outside who plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs in beds matching the tiny d...
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Clay Carpenter
23 December 2020
Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Texas, bingo is considered a charitable operation and can act as a revenue source, offering a significant contribution to the funding of many 501c(3) nonprofits, but it also "nourishes the community in other, less ...
21 December 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Since 2002, aging neighbors in Boston have been creating networks, known as villages, of supportive services that allow them to remain in their homes rather than leave to live in a senior center or nursing home. Now, ...
18 December 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the 1980s, a virtual messaging network, then known as bulletin board systems (BBSs), acted as a support group for many who were in search of peer support and reliable information as the AIDS epidemic spread. Althou...
14 December 2020
Adelphi, Maryland, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Prince George's County in Maryland ranks fourth in the country for the number of unaccompanied students with sponsors. Often, these students have experienced a lot of trauma by the time they arrive at school. School o...
6 December 2020
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Text
800-1500 Words
The Bearded Fisherman, a mental health charity formed by two men with their own past struggles with mental illness and homelessness, runs a weekly, virtual community support group, takes crisis-intervention calls, and...
The 19th
Alexis Lanza
25 November 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of climate activists — mostly young women — are using social media to post about sustainability and encourage others to live a greener lifestyle. While climate activism can be a slow process, people ...
24 November 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Life Do Grow Farm in Philadelphia, run by the nonprofit Urban Creators, is a two-acre plot that yields food needed to feed the community who might not be able to make ends meet. Since June, the farm has distribute...
Richmond Confidential
Isabella Bloom
20 November 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development provides classes and studio space for artists with disabilities. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization now offers six hours of daily virtual services to ...
9 November 2020
Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Text
1500-3000 Words
Nas Most uses artistic and cultural initiatives to combat loneliness among seniors. Over seven years, informal weekly meet-ups turned into formal painting and handicraft courses and membership grew from 30 to over 100...
30 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The coronavirus pandemic has caused many healthcare practice to move to a virtual space, but for Spanish-speaking communities, telehealth wasn't a solution on its own. In New Orleans, interpreters, doctors, and patien...
29 October 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
For environmental groups like Conservation Colorado looking to expand their reach, they’ve learned that they need to rebuild relationships and trust with communities that have historically been excluded from conservat...
26 October 2020
West Yellowstone, Montana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Promotoras de salud is a term that describe lay Latina community members who have been trained to provide health education to community members, and it's a concept that has helped eliminate barriers and improve health...
26 October 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Muslim civic advocacy groups Emgage and Ismailis Rise Up have partnered to engage a more diverse Muslim population in the 2020 election. They added thousands of contacts among new Muslim voters in six states, trained ...
23 October 2020
Botswana
Text
Over 3000 Words
Botswanans have deprioritized deeply held tribal identities, created a national identity, and found societal stability by using the practice of randomly assigning civil servants to different parts of the country. Send...
23 October 2020
Colville, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A collective of timber companies, conservationists, and forestry professionals has made the adjacent national forest more resilient to wildfires by focusing on small-diameter trees while preserving old growth. In 2019...
21 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
In the 1960s, a psychologist and a team of researchers in San Francisco began sending “caring letters" as a means of suicide intervention, but the practice didn't continue outside of the research study, despite showin...
20 October 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Ameelio is a technology startup launched by Yale students to facilitate free communication between people who are incarcerated and loved ones. In their first six months, the group went from sending 300 to over 4,000 l...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
19 October 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Citizens' assemblies, where a randomly selected representative sample of people work together to make decisions and find policy solutions to social issues, is an effective approach to decision-making that bridges pola...
8 October 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Native American Community Clinic in Minneapolis is utilizing telehealth practices to treat both the medical and spiritual needs of the community and its patients. Although the "spiritual-meets-traditional care pro...
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