Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 January 2021
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
BlueConduit, an analytics startup, applies statistical models to identify neighborhoods and households that might have lead pipes. The models include dozens of factors, such as the age of the home and proximity of oth...
11 January 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As the coronavirus pandemic forces people into isolation and social distancing, places known as "peer respites" are providing a space for those "experiencing or nearing a mental health crisis" to seek help. While the ...
6 January 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To encourage more Black people to explore outdoors, individuals and organizations in Colorado are working to address underlying barriers such as access to transportation and gear, as well as fear and concerns of safet...
5 January 2021
Czech Republic
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the coronavirus pandemic made in-person therapy sessions too risky to schedule, therapists in the Czech Republic moved their services online and set up a hotline for patients to call when needed. Although it's ye...
2 January 2021
Italy
Text
800-1500 Words
Advancing Women Artists (AWA) is a nonprofit foundation that has identified around 2,000 pieces of art by women artists that were forgotten or stored away in Italy’s museums and churches. The organization has financed...
28 December 2020
Matamoros, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
The Global Response Management is a humanitarian nonprofit led by U.S. military veterans and staffed by U.S. volunteers and "paid asylum seekers who were medical professionals in their homelands" that offers medical h...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Nawar Al Mir Ali
26 December 2020
Syria
Text
800-1500 Words
To help Syrian women facing the threat of "sextortion" – harassment based on threats to expose women's nude photos – Gardenia magazine's It Is Your Right campaign has encouraged 1,100 women to come forward to sue thei...
24 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A network of trauma recovery centers nationwide helps victims of violence and survivors of murder victims by focusing on their emotional, medical, and financial needs first. What started as a single healing center run...
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
Portland, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
Organized groups of volunteers helped sustain over four months of Black Lives Matters protests, with centralized information sources keeping the public informed and essential support services provided. A network of ov...
23 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Baltimore, a non-profit known as the Next One Up program is helping young men who are struggling in school by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic, and social development through small group activities...
22 December 2020
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the coronavirus pandemic complicated child care options for essential workers, a care work activist in New York devised an initiative to better connect parents with care networks and redistribute money to those w...
17 December 2020
Nicaragua
Text
800-1500 Words
Small businesses in the global South were able to survive the past year of COVID-19 and the domino effect it had on the business community with the help of enterprise support organizations. In addition to financial he...
17 December 2020
Egypt
Text
800-1500 Words
A growing #MeToo movement brought sexual assault into national dialogues, even in remote governorates, and has led to arrests and legal reforms, such as allowing sexual assault victims and witnesses to remain anonymou...
Civil Eats
Hannah Ricker
14 December 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the ways in which the food system is broken, but governments, NGOs, and philanthropists are working to address the discrepancies by connecting small-scale farmers of color with bus...
9 December 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Black Lives Matters protests have been sustained by an autonomously organized mutual aid network providing a range of services for protesters and community members. Requests for information and assistance are sent usi...
8 December 2020
Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A variety of telehealth counseling options throughout several Midwestern states are helping connect farmers with mental health clinicians. One option is online training, specifically targeted towards engaged couples a...
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...
Christian Science Monitor
Noah Roertson
2 December 2020
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has become an example of American protest art as protesters have covered it in graffiti demanding racial justice and surrounded it with basketball hoops, gardens, tents, lawn chairs, an...
25 November 2020
Manaure, Colombia
Text
1500-3000 Words
A community gardening project growing the guajiro bean has allowed Wayuu farmers in the Colombian desert to achieve food security despite the effects of climate change and external pressures. While scaling this agricu...
25 November 2020
Karachi, Pakistan
Text
800-1500 Words
Pakistan's only church for transgender Christians has given its members the safety, acceptance, and joy they are often denied in the conservative, predominantly Muslim country. Called the First Church of Eunuchs – the...
24 November 2020
Fidalgo Island, Washington, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Swinomish tribe in Washington state is combining traditional knowledge and science to combat the effects of climate change and improve the health of its land, water, and people. In recent years, their salmon harve...
24 November 2020
Columbia Gorge, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The Bridges to Health program in Oregon is helping to improve community health by connecting individuals and families to resources such as housing, food aid, transportation options, and health-care facilities. Althoug...
13 November 2020
Sacramento, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An initiative being piloted in the Sacramento hospitality industry aims to decrease the stigma restaurant workers face when talking about mental health concerns with their peers. This peer-to-peer mental health suppor...
12 November 2020
Mississippi, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Across Mississippi and Georgia, mutual aid groups have formed and existing groups have expanded to address increased racial inequities in the health care system during the coronavirus pandemic. Several of the groups a...
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