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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 this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

    Valeria Olivares
    2022-11-17 04:41:12 UTC
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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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  • California's fire crisis requires carceral reform and a Just Transition

    Ray Levy Uyeda
    2022-12-21 18:23:06 UTC
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    September 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A California law is making it easier for firefighters trained while incarcerated to get the emergency medical technician licensing required to work at municipal fire stations once released. The new law helps formerly incarcerated firefighters expunge felony convictions from their records that would otherwise prevent them access to licensing.

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  • Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

    Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi
    2023-01-26 15:39:15 UTC
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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

    Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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  • ‘The Mary Lyon way': A Boston inclusion school's successful approach to re-engagement

    Christopher Huffaker
    2023-03-22 01:46:03 UTC
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    September 27, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Mary Lyon School is a “full-inclusion school” designed to give students — especially those with special needs, including emotional and behavioral disabilities — the necessary resources and supports to see positive outcomes with their education. The Mary Lyon School uses community-based approaches and philosophies rooted in inclusion to stay connected with students and their families to help guide them toward their graduation day.

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  • Indianapolis Students Get ‘Leg Up' On Careers With European-Style Apprenticeships

    Patrick O’Donnell
    2022-10-11 18:10:18 UTC
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    September 26, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Europen-inspired apprenticeship programs in Indianapolis, Indiana, pay students to work and train for jobs allowing them to gain career experience and pay part, or all, of their college tuition before graduation.

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  • Recycling: Abuja residents shift waste into wealth, as economic hardship bites

    Lama Queen Godoz
    2023-01-26 15:57:39 UTC
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    September 24, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja, Abuja

    In an effort to involve more residents in recycling, the Cash for Trash initiative places drop-off hubs close to households in Abuja, Nigeria. Anyone can drop off recyclables and get paid to do so.

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  • You can ban a book, but can you stop teens from finding it online?

    Heather Kelly
    2022-10-01 01:30:35 UTC
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    September 22, 2022 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat the banned books war and issues with book access, the Books Unbanned program offers free online access to the library’s entire collection for 13-to-21-year-olds. The program has already issued more than 5,100 cards and checked out 20,000 materials. And because the program is funded independently, it can offer books to people out of state.

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  • Colorado ranchers moove into the future with virtual fences that help sustain public grasslands

    Jason Blevins
    2022-09-29 01:47:59 UTC
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    September 21, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Ranchers in the Upper Colorado River District use collars and virtual fences broadcast through antennas and cell towers to keep cows grazing in specific areas. The practice is used to promote native grass growth and sustain public grassland.

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  • Money Growing on Trees

    Melanie Lenart
    2023-03-16 16:58:30 UTC
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    September 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

    The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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  • Inside a 50-year journey to reopen the 'lungs' of the Squamish River

    Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
    2023-07-17 01:31:56 UTC
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    Response Location: Squamish Nation, Canada, British Columbia

    The Squamish Nation, the Squamish River Watershed Society, and the Canadian federal government are working together to restore the Squamish estuary and save the local salmon population. The coalition removed part of a spit that was placed in the river by a rail company in the 1970s without consulting the Squamish Nation.

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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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