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Welcome to a curated database of rigorous reporting on responses to social problems.

15,700 stories produced by 8,900 journalists and 2,000 news outlets from 89 countries. The stories cover responses in 192 countries, in 17 languages. This resource is made possible because of a growing movement of journalists who use solutions journalism to illuminate both problems and evidence-based responses to them.

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  • How Youth Are Stepping up Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    Siri Chilukuri
    2022-10-04 12:28:10 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Indigenous youth activists are using social media, online organizing, and art to mobilize intergenerational protests against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia. After the Inflation Reduction Act undermined court successes that had stopped the project, the movement is putting pressure on legislators to stop it, with some key senators saying they won't vote for the side deal negotiated to keep the pipeline moving forward.

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  • Get paid to get rid of turf and switch to water-saving tech

    Ben Winslow
    2023-04-30 17:29:43 UTC
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    September 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. George, Utah

    Residents of St. George, Utah, replaced the turf in their yard with native plants and rocks to conserve water. Now they’re using 14,000 fewer gallons of water per month than the year before.

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  • In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty

    Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz
    2022-09-21 16:54:18 UTC
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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Ponce

    The community in Ponce, Puerto Rico, reclaimed a neglected, abandoned area by turning it into a community garden and gathering spot they call El Huerto Urbano del Callejón Trujillo. The garden supplies food to the community and gives people a place to learn about agriculture.

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  • Report: More States Are Giving Students a Say in Education Policy

    Asher Lehrer-Small
    2022-09-26 15:51:23 UTC
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    September 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    At least 33 states now involve students in education policymaking through formal advisory roles or positions on state boards, and these youth have helped spearhead changes, such as a Massachusetts rule requiring student feedback to be considered in the teacher evaluation process and a Washington bill creating school-based liaisons to coordinate homelessness services.

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  • How "Adashe" is transforming lives of IDPs in FCT

    Hamza Alkali
    2022-09-20 15:18:53 UTC
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    Response Location: Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory

    Using grant funding from the Stand With a Girl Initiative, a group of women in a camp for Nigerians who have been internally displaced created Adashe, a collective savings program that helps families in times of need. Participants contribute regular payments toward the fund, which rotates to benefit each of the participants with lump-sum payments that can be paid back without fees or interest.

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  • Mitigating Environmental Degradation through Collecting Plastics

    Violah Natukunda
    2023-02-05 17:56:39 UTC
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    September 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    An initiative in Kigali, Rwanda, pays locals to collect plastic and glass waste to be sold for recycling. The initiative provides income for unemployed youth and women while helping clean up the city and reduce waste.

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  • How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving mangrove trees

    Geoffrey Kamadi
    2022-10-01 23:55:05 UTC
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    September 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, the Mikoko Pamoja project promotes the preservation and restoration of mangrove forests by selling carbon offset credits. The revenue is used to improve local villages by providing things like water, healthcare, and education.

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  • Youth climate councils aim to locally combat climate crisis

    Marianne Dhenin
    2022-09-14 13:52:21 UTC
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    September 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Through the San Antonio Mayor's Youth Engagement Council, students network with municipal officials, conduct research, and complete community-based projects to help them develop policy proposals around issues such as the climate crisis. Participants have organized workshops and collected food and hygiene donations to support vulnerable residents and say serving on the council has provided them a venue to work on issues that are important to them.

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  • How One Rust Belt College Is Transforming Its Local Food System

    Douglas Haynes
    2022-09-16 15:11:20 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Kalamazoo Valley Community College is revitalizing the local food system by connecting people to farmers and educating the community about the system. The college is also providing a food hub that aggregates local farmers as well as free boxes of fresh food for students.

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  • How an initiative is providing water to remote communities in northern Nigeria

    Misbahu el-Hamza
    2022-09-21 21:08:37 UTC
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    September 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Water the Needy Foundation uses donations and sponsors to provide rural, remote communities in Nigeria access to drinking water by building wells and boreholes.

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Solutions Story Tracker® FAQ

  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
    • Seeks to draw out insights that explain success or failure.
    • 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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