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  • U.S. carbon farming takes root - but do the economics add up?

    Carey L. Biron
    2022-12-13 23:52:21 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Farmers in the United States are participating in the growing carbon offset credit industry with regenerative farming. These farmers use practices like planting cover crops and not tilling fields to improve soil quality, therefore, trapping more carbon emissions which they can sell as offset credits.

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  • Microfinance helps Indian women borrow – with dignity

    Annie Banerji
    2022-12-13 23:35:54 UTC
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    December 12, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India

    Microfinance institutions in India are providing low-cost loans to women in remote areas that typically only have access to loan sharks. The women are using the money to break poverty cycles and start their own businesses.

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  • The Working Approach, This Not-For-Profit Is Changing Out-of-School Incidence in Northern Nigeria

    Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi
    2022-12-29 02:26:21 UTC
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    December 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    Girlsforhealth helps girls interested in furthering their education who are unable to access a nursing education, pays for their school, and provides essentials and a monthly stipend. At the end of their education, the girls are employed at a workplace back in their communities to fill staff shortages.

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  • The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead

    Andy Kopsa
    2022-12-29 18:08:39 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Des Moines, Iowa

    Theodore Roosevelt Highschool in Des Moines, Iowa, transitioned from employing armed school resource officers to a restorative practices team to prevent and mediate violence with proactive support instead of immediate punishment.

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  • Rising death rate: group takes fight against malaria to high-burdened rural Nigerian communities

    Abdulrasheed Hammad
    2023-02-21 04:32:13 UTC
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    Response Location: Nigeria, Danja, Katsina

    To help address rising death rates caused by malaria, the Society for Family Health distributes insecticide nets to residents in rural communities for free and educates them on the importance of using them to protect against malaria-causing mosquito bites. The group has distributed 122.5 million nets between 2009 and 2021 and also provides diagnostic testing for malaria and advocates for more investing from government officials to address the disease.

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  • Saying it with soup in Lanesborough: We want to ease the isolation of our elders

    Aina de Lapparent Alvarez
    2023-01-20 04:03:59 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

    The Community Produce Program organized by the Heart & Soil Collective delivers weekly produce to seniors in need. Not only does the program increase food access, but it also provides seniors with community, wellness checks, and friendships that they struggle to access otherwise.

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  • What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed?

    Nick Romeo
    2023-02-03 15:51:44 UTC
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    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Austria, Gramatneusiedl

    The government-run Job Guarantee program in Gramatneusiedl, Austria, provides employment for residents who have experienced unemployment for at least a year. After a training course and discussion of their wants and needs, the person can choose to accept the offered job in which they will earn at least as much as they would receive from unemployment benefits.

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  • Youth organizers rallied their peers to vote in the Georgia Senate runoff, building off high voter turnout in the midterms

    Shannon Coan
    2022-12-15 16:31:35 UTC
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    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Ahead of Georgia's runoff election, organizations such as Georgia Youth Justice Coalition and Voters of Tomorrow pushed their outreach with Gen Z voters into high gear through text messages, phone calls, in-person conversations, and campaigns to get early voting centers on college campuses. Their efforts helped members of Gen Z outperform voters ages 25 to 40 in early and absentee voting during the runoff election.

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  • Twin Cities electric vehicle car-share program finds success

    Frank Jossi
    2022-12-14 03:35:43 UTC
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    December 09, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Evie Community Carshare is an electric-vehicle service in areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, with high poverty and pollution rates. Users can pick up a car and leave it anywhere within the service area.

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  • This Group Wants to Teach You How to Get Abortions Even Where They're Banned

    Charlotte Alter
    2022-12-13 01:56:16 UTC
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    December 09, 2022 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Mayday Health is a health-education nonprofit that helps patients in states that have banned abortion figure out how to get abortions anyway. For people living in states where abortion is banned, Mayday provides step-by-step instructions for how to obtain abortion pills, as well as medical information about the safety and reliability of medication abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.

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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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