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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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  • At This Grocery Store, Shoppers Pay What They Wish

    Sandra Larson
    2022-12-02 21:04:05 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    MARSH Grocery is a food cooperative with urban farm lots, an online catalog, a delivery program, a commercial kitchen, and a grocery store in which people can pay the amount on the sticker, 20% more, or 20% less. The cooperative is not quite profitable but is growing its customer base in a St. Louis neighborhood that previously lacked access to affordable, healthy food.

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  • Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change

    Christina Cooke
    2023-08-26 13:15:23 UTC
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    November 18, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Organizations like Milk and Dignity are filling in the worker safety gaps left behind in federal regulations by working with farms to implement worker-driven protections.

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  • Why Paid Sick Leave Is Good For Workers, Employers, and the Economy

    Peter Hull
    2022-12-09 21:35:16 UTC
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    Response Location: United States

    Research shows workers who receive paid sick leave are more likely to stay home when sick, thus limiting the spread of illness.

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  • KCATA tackled its driver shortage. Now, bus drivers want to see more change

    Mili Mansaray
    2022-12-04 18:26:57 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    In a complex effort to increase morale among bus drivers and address worker shortages, the Kansas City Area Transit Authority has negotiated a new union contract with drivers and maintenance crews to increase their hourly wage. Through the new contract and intensified recruitment efforts, the KCATA has hired an additional 55 drivers, exceeding its goal of 45 more drivers by the end of this year.

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  • In Portland's Self-Governed Dignity Village, The Unhoused Make Their Own Rules

    Roshan Abraham
    2022-11-23 21:18:55 UTC
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    November 17, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Dignity Village is a self-governed community in Portland, Oregon, where people experiencing homelessness can live as long as they want. The village houses 65-80 people who pay $75 a month and put in 10 hours of community-related work a week to live there.

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  • In New York, ‘Housing First' Approach Helps Unhoused People Find Stability

    Meryl Davids Landau
    2022-12-08 18:24:06 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, New York

    HousingPlus, a New York nonprofit, uses a housing-first approach to help women experiencing homelessness. They offer the women and their children a permanent home at a reduced rent rate based on their income, and the nonprofit covers the rest through different funding streams. The approach is intended to give women stability so they can work on other tasks like finding employment, treating addiction, or improving their mental health.

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  • The Florida Neighborhood Hurricanes Can't Gentrify

    Alexandra Applegate
    2022-11-28 19:35:04 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Big Pine Key, Florida

    In the wake of natural disasters, community land trusts (CLTs) are popping up in areas like Florida and Texas where hurricane damage is most severe. CLTs help provide affordable housing options to those impacted by natural disasters. Repairs can be extremely expensive and oftentimes in the wake of storms once affordable neighborhoods become gentrified, pushing out the original residents.

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  • Fox Island a model for disaster preparedness

    Christina Henry
    2023-02-13 04:56:36 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Gig Harbor, Washington

    The Fox Island Community and Recreation Association Emergency Response Organization is a model for community-level emergency planning. Realizing the island would be cut off from any help in the case of a major disaster, they set up a command center, bought equipment and supplies, and worked with government and NGO sources to develop a disaster plan that uses neighborhood response teams that are ready to deploy on short notice.

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  • Strong relationships lead to strong graduation rates

    Emily Rose Hamby, Megan Fitzgerald
    2022-11-25 23:16:17 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Oglethorpe County High School in Georgia increased their graduation rate to almost 95% by connecting students regularly with counselors starting freshman year to help them meet their goals.

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  • Tenants are banding together to address Jackson's housing crisis. Can they fix it?

    Mary Steurer
    2023-04-03 19:07:44 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Shelter JH is a local housing advocacy group that gathers members to work together to get better representation in housing-related decisions in the area. The group canvasses neighborhoods to recruit voters, speaks on housing bills at the statehouse and hosts meetings and educational sessions that connect people with local policymakers and housing opportunities. The group was formed in 2016 and now has about 550 members.

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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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