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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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  • Seeding Dreams with Self-Esteem: Building New Opportunities for Women in Rural Appalachia

    Kimber Ray
    2015-10-15 18:23:15 UTC
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    August 10, 2014 |

    Appalachian Voices |

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    Response Location: United States, Berea, Kentucky

    A girls camp in West Virginia and a residential program in Kentucky help Appalachian women build self esteem and enable them to turn their life around through mentoring, stem classes, and job counseling.

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  • Raj Shaunak and the Economic Boom in Eastern Mississippi

    James Fallows
    2019-10-28 02:39:56 UTC
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    July 08, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Scooba, Mississippi

    East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) helps Eastern Mississippi fill high-skill jobs by educating and training local workers. The students at EMCC are each evaluated for skillsets and gaps in education, and they work on real versions or scale models of the machinery they will be using in the local factories.

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  • Bangladesh's Chance to Get It Right

    Amy Yee
    2015-10-15 18:20:39 UTC
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    April 23, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka Division

    Bangladesh has often struggled maintaining safety in the workplace. But a new effort ensures that Bangladeshi workers are trained about how to better follow security and safety restrictions to create a safer working environment.

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  • Smaller-Town Startups: 'Stopping the Brain Drain' in South Carolina

    James Fallows
    2019-10-30 02:08:51 UTC
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    January 25, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenville, South Carolina

    The "Next" Project in Greenville, South Carolina brings local government and companies together to create a business incubator to encourage new startups to launch -- and stay -- in the area. One such business, called the Iron Yard, acts as a sort of code academy, offering a 3-month bootcamp and guaranteeing that graduates of their program will find a job in the industry. So far, they've followed through on that guarantee.

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  • An Educational Surprise From Down East: The Maine Maritime Academy

    John Tierney
    2019-10-21 00:54:39 UTC
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    November 10, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    A college in the poorest county in Maine offers a high job placement rate and a relatively cheap education for seaside communities. At Maine Maritime Academy, students get hands-on experience to pursue relevant careers as navigation officers, engineers, and roles on the business operations side.

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  • How To Turn Adult Education Into Careers, Quickly

    Kavitha Cardoza
    2015-10-15 18:22:52 UTC
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    November 02, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Shoreline, Washington

    When adults want to return to school, they face many challenges including the experience of long waitlists for classes, and poor relevance to the job skills they need for future employment. The Washington state community college system has started a program known as Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) that instead teaches in two parts: academic content and basic soft skills.

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  • Kitchen of Champions cooks up success in Oakland

    Emily Constance
    2016-07-23 20:46:24 UTC
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    October 14, 2013 |

    East Bay Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Disadvantaged individuals can often have difficulty finding employment due to lack of job training and references. A free 12-week program offers intensive culinary training at St. Vincent de Paul kitchen along with other job-training lessons for these individuals and those looking for employment.

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  • Filling India's Huge Need for Vocational Training

    Amy Yee
    2018-04-29 20:31:17 UTC
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    June 02, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Ghaziabad

    Over half of India’s population of 1.2 billion is under the age of 25. As such, there is a massive demand for skills training for young people to ensure their skills are matched with the needs of the job market. Gras Academy is a private job training center that provides classes in practical skills such as accounting, plumbing, and service job training. In the last ten years, they have trained over 28,000 students, and the center is part of a growing trend toward practical skills classes all across India.

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  • Helping Women Hurdle Employment Barriers

    Daria Solovieva
    2018-07-26 05:09:51 UTC
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    April 02, 2013 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    In order to bridge the gap between women and men in the workforce, a number of programs in the middle east are offering job mentorship and training to women. “A mentoring program is a big help for women,” Allam says, describing the association’s strategy of partnering participants with role models such as successful female entrepreneurs. “With these skills they can find the right path – to face all the things in life, whether on the professional or personal level.”

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  • Open Education for a Global Economy

    David Bornstein
    2015-10-15 18:23:09 UTC
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    July 11, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    An Irish-based company, ALISON, provides free, high-quality e-courses to people around the globe in order to help close the gap between education and workplace skills. Particularly focused on providing access to areas where more traditional forms of education and job training are difficult to get, this approach is helping to change lives and the economy for the better.

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  • 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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