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  • Sanitation solutions: How giving people trash bins made Baltimore cleaner

    Meir Rinde
    2022-04-11 00:54:07 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore’s green bin program shows there are relatively simple steps cities can take to tangibly improve the cleanliness of neighborhoods. The solution is also working in Philadelphia, through which people who live in the city are lidded trash cans and bins to store their garbage.

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  • ESPECIAL El trabajo comunitario hace maravillas: Organizaciones que ayudan con el cuidado infantil

    Gloria Knott
    2022-07-28 00:27:00 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Visibilizar la importancia de la educación a temprana edad para el desarrollo de los niños y su impacto en los niveles superiores, pero además muestra que no todos pueden pagarlo, explica cuatro programas que apoyan a esas familias y sus niños

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  • Colleges fight hunger, fill basic needs to keep students in school

    Lee Chilcote, Asha Fairley
    2021-11-08 22:11:30 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Cleveland State University used a grant to open up Lift Up Vikes! Resource Center and Food Pantry on campus where students in need can get groceries, including fresh produce and canned goods. Many CSU students faced food insecurity during COVID-19 shutdowns after being laid off and the university aims to help with day-to-day needs in order to keep students enrolled. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, students register online and then pick up bags of groceries at the pantry with only a limited number of people allowed to visit the food pantry at one time.

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  • Morgan County High School Teacher Implements Sustainability into Agriculture Curriculum

    Anna Lyn Mobley
    2022-08-25 01:13:28 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    A high school agriculture teacher in Georgia implements sustainable agriculture into her classes through farm visits, lectures, and student application to reach all types of learners.

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  • Una oportunidad para padres y madres de Arizona de avanzar en sus estudios

    Emily Bregel
    2022-07-28 00:25:07 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Madres solteras y cuido de los niños pequeños para estudiar y poder ascender laboralmente. Una ley que debería ayudar y un programa piloto que ya lo hace a pequeña escala y ha demostrado resultados

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  • Iowa foster care system changes prove positive and effective

    Libby Dowsett
    2021-12-16 19:13:11 UTC
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    October 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Iowa in 2017 imposed new rules for the agencies that run group homes for children in foster care. The rules have greatly reduced the frequency with which children are moved from place to place far from their families, a common practice that can deepen the trauma they suffer. By paying differently for such care, the state reduced the incentive agencies had to keep their facilities full. Instead, they're working more closely with families to heal them and get children back to a healthier home life.

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  • Chauffage : des maisons sans aucun chauffage, comment est-ce possible ?

    Marie-Candice Delouvrié, T. Gardet, F. Fort
    2023-02-25 16:25:15 UTC
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    Response Location: France, Toulouse

    Alors que les prix du gaz et de l'électricité augmentent, les maisons à énergies passives permettent à ses habitants de faire des économies d'énergie. Isolation renforcée et chaleur produite par certaines pièces permettent de maintenir des températures confortables. Si ces installations entraînent un surcoût de 10 à 15% à la construction et ne sont encore qu'au nombre de 3000 en France, les habitants font des économies substantielles. Ils n'ont plus de facture de chauffage et celle de l'électricité est réduite.

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  • L'association El' Cagette, la qualité pour tous dans les assiettes

    Brianne Cousin
    2023-02-25 16:21:14 UTC
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    October 19, 2021 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Roubaix

    À Roubaix, l’association El’ Cagette s’est lancé un défi : rendre les produits de qualité accessibles au plus grand nombre. Dans leur grand local où se pressent 435 bénéficiaires, ses membres ont trouvé le moyen de mutualiser leurs commandes pour manger à moindre prix et sans gâchis.

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  • Unionization could help home health care workers with wages, experts say

    Eric D. Lawrence
    2023-10-05 20:04:22 UTC
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    October 19, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    SEIU represents about 500,000 home care workers nationwide, offering union benefits and protections like individual health care, a retirement program, raises and better wages, additional training and access to personal protective equipment. For many — especially those working in Washington, California, New York and Illinois — unionization is a large part of the solution for home caregivers to receive representation and a living wage.

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  • Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

    Sarah Taddeo
    2023-09-26 02:51:57 UTC
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    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York

    Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
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    • Presents the available evidence about the effectiveness of a response.
    • Explains the shortcomings or limitations of the response.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

    Learn more about the history of the database.

  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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