Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
3 July 2020
Bali, Indonesia
Text
1500-3000 Words
A collaborative movement in Indonesia is creating job opportunities within the creative sector for those living with disabilities. Gerakan Kreabilitas holds workshops and events to provide business training through me...
27 June 2020
Waco, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Jubilee provides an oasis in a desert - a food desert that is. The community grocery store provides the only fresh food for miles around at competitive prices and makes an effort to cater to the local clientele, stock...
26 June 2020
Iwilei, Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When Covid-19 began spreading throughout the United States, officials in Hawaii set up a quarantine facility for those experiencing homelessness that helped connect residents with other services to reduce their risk o...
22 June 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Less than one month into its use of a crisis intervention team to handle mental health calls in place of the police, Denver’s one-year STAR pilot project has been flooded with calls and already has achieved success in...
The Washington Post
Gregory Scruggs
16 June 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use...
15 June 2020
Wagram, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A former North Carolina prison has been reclaimed by the nonprofit Growing Change to teach sustainable farming to youth who otherwise might be doomed to their own prison terms without an effective intervention. The 9-...
12 June 2020
Camden, New Jersey, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A decade after Camden crime and police relations hit bottom, and five years after President Obama lauded its new police department as a model for reform, the city's successful reboot of its police force offers both en...
5 June 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
While most police-reform ideas focus on top-down imposition of standards, peer intervention puts the burden on individual police officers to prevent misconduct. Grounded in studies of bystanders’ behavior in the face ...
4 June 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Eight years after the New Orleans Police Department served as a model of how not to police, its Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) program has done more to dismantle the “blue wall of silence” than any other reform...
1 June 2020
New Mexico, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
New Mexico criminal justice officials joined forces to lower local jail populations by one-third in just 11 weeks, a rushed COVID-19 response that not only seems to have prevented widespread illness but also led law e...
22 May 2020
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A partnership between Oregon State University and the Benton County Health Department has helped one Oregon county implement TRACE – widespread coronavirus testing that is available even for those who don't show sympt...
20 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
New York City is piloting a methadone distribution system for residents struggling with opioid addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially intended to avoid unnecessary visits to medical centers, the model is no...
19 May 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The city of Philadelphia piloted a mediation program that showed how landlord-tenant disputes could be resolved short of an eviction lawsuit. Though the program only lasted two months and heard just a handful of cases...
15 May 2020
South Korea
Text
1500-3000 Words
As a response to hospital bed shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea developed a strategy that divides individuals who tested positive into four categories – mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe –...
15 May 2020
San Pedro, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
By rapidly instituting mandatory testing of all inmates at a covid-19-stricken federal prison and segregating ill inmates, authorities reduced the number of new infections within weeks. At one point, nearly 70% of the...
14 May 2020
District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Washington, D.C. is piloting an approach called Thinking for a Change to help break the cycle of recidivism. The approach itself has been around since 1997, and it brings together individuals involved in the justice s...
12 May 2020
Uganda
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Scientists from Uganda and Australia have worked together to come up with a device that produces oxygen without the use of electricity. Although this solution was originally intended to help address the high rate of c...
12 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Long the target of jail-reduction advocates, New York City’s Rikers Island jail released more than one-quarter of its inmates within the first two months of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars. The early releases stemm...
8 May 2020
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency is providing funding for businesses closed by COVID-19 to board up their windows with public art. Offering up to $2,000 per business, its purpose is to help support local art...
6 May 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), a San Francisco nonprofit, is helping those living in single-room occupancy (SRO) or public housing access food safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CCDC has part...
5 May 2020
Taiwan
Text
800-1500 Words
Around the world, sporting leagues have had to cancel or postpone their games as a response to COVID-19, but in select countries, they’re showing the world how to – safely – resume games. Taiwan’s basketball and baseb...
5 May 2020
San Diego, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When COVID-19 hit the U.S., Hotel Vouchers 4 All was created as an emergency response to finding housing for San Diego residents experiencing homelessness. Funded by donations, the initiative has partnered with a loca...
4 May 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Cleveland’s city jail has released close to 900 inmates in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in its overcrowded facilities. And the response isn’t unique – New York, LA, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, and Housto...
1 May 2020
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
A company called Mootral is studying whether changing a cattle’s diet could make the animals belch and flatulate less methane. They created a food supplement out of compounds from garlic, citrus, and other additives, ...
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Tom Hallberg
29 April 2020
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Teton County’s St. John’s Health medical center worked proactively to make sure they had the resilience needed in staffing to accommodate a potential surge in COVID-19 patients. Working quickly, they identified curren...
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