Satélites, mapas e trajeto do boi: saída para reduzir desmatamento já opera no Brasil

Move-In Day Mafia supports youth aging out of the foster care system by helping them transition to college life at HBCUs, from assisting them with dorm move-in to providing customized interior design for their rooms and delivering monthly care packages to help them cover household essentials. So far, the organization has supported more than 100 students across 26 universities.

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing's Mental Health First Aid for Rural Communities trains local residents to recognize mental health warning signs and provide critical support until professional help arrives. The program equips non-medical community members with skills to spot crises, have supportive conversations, and navigate people to appropriate resources. In central New York alone, more than 6,000 people have been trained across 10 rural counties, providing life-saving interventions, particularly in areas where emergency services are hard to access.

In the push to pass SB 277, a California bill that sought to do away with personal belief exemptions for vaccine requirements and keep unvaccinated children from attending school, lawmakers invited the family of Rhett Krawitt, who was immunocompromised due to leukemia, to speak in favor of the legislation. The personal testimony helped ensure the bill’s passage and childhood vaccination rates in California have risen as national rates have fallen, with the rate of kindergarten MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccinations at 96.2% as of 2023.

Bogotá’s "care blocks" provide a wide range of services for women who take on unpaid caregiving responsibilities, from job skills training and health appointments to help with laundry and exercise classes, plus child or elder care for the people they look after while they’re using the programs. Through the initiative’s combination of on-site programs, mobile services, and at-home help, more than 3,500 women have completed training courses, caregivers have saved thousands of hours, and other cities across the globe are now looking to replicate the model.

The Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Kenya brings together private landowners who lease their plots to a collectively-managed conservancy for renewable 10-year terms. In exchange for payments, landowners agree not to fence their land or sell it to outsiders, creating a 2,400-hectare wildlife corridor to help safeguard the local environment. The conservancy also employs locals and runs an educational center that provides connections to other jobs and restoration efforts. Since its establishment in 2016, vegetation density has significantly increased, along with wildlife populations.

The Connecticut Green Bank's Solar MAP+ program acts as a "public developer" that bundles, finances, and directly develops solar projects for schools and municipalities that private developers avoid. To date, they've installed nearly 54 megawatts of solar, programmed to save $57 million in energy costs.

Braver Angels brings together people across the political spectrum to find common ground on polarizing political issues. Participants in Ohio, where the group started, said the practice of listening to other perspectives is a stepping stone to solving some of the country’s most divisive concerns.

A 2018 Supreme Court decision allowed states to begin legalizing sports betting, creating a new stream of potential tax revenue to support state programs. However, with gaming operators moving faster than state regulations and legislative processes can keep up, actual revenues in most states that have legalized the practice have lagged behind projections, and rates of problem gambling are also on the rise.

To address overdose deaths, multiple organizations across Athens County and Ohio University have implemented free Narcan distribution and training programs since 2023, including overdose response training sessions and no-barrier access to free Narcan kits through campus cabinets, health departments, and community organizations partnered with Ohio's Project DAWN network. The programs have helped distribute hundreds of Narcan boxes and to normalize overdose response training and reduce stigma around addiction.

In an effort to improve street safety and push the city of Los Angeles to speed up its process for implementing infrastructure updates, People’s Vision Zero paints guerrilla crosswalks at intersections with known safety concerns. The community group has painted crosswalks at ten intersections so far, and in at least one case, their activism prompted the city to install official crosswalks.