With communities challenged by Covid-19, it’s time to embrace digital transformation and provide local people with the tools to optimise grassroots mobilisation. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Read MoreRomanians frustrated at country’s insufficient healthcare have taken a DIY approach to fixing the problem. Since 2015, more than 300,000 people and over 4,000 companies have donated money to construct the facility, which will treat children with cancer and will be the first state hospital built entirely through private donations. THE GUARDIAN
Read MoreYou can only live in this block of flats if you are under 25 or a pensioner - and you have to socialise. It's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness. BBC NEWS
Read MoreUganda’s grey crowned crane has been in sharp decline due to loss of habitat and poaching. The Cranes and Wetlands initiative is creating self-sustaining incentives for communities living around wetlands to rehabilitate and protect wetlands areas. MONGABAY
Read MoreThe impact of poverty in 21st Century Britain is the focus of a new exhibition which showcases those trying to help their struggling neighbours. Four people making a difference in their communities explain how they became involved. BBC NEWS
Read MoreCommunity Ecology Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to reunite people with nature, one of over 2,000 organizations and individuals across the country growing food in climate victory gardens ― be it on a balcony or in a backyard, a community garden or larger urban farm project ― in a bid to mitigate the climate crisis. HUFFPOST
Read MoreIt took almost two years to arrange, but the kindness of local people has made a young Syrian family feel welcome. THE GUARDIAN
Read MoreTo better protect themselves from wildfires worsened by climate change, communities are pulling together to share information. Typically, the COPE network might collect and share information such as where doctors live, where a resident might be house-bound or where swimming pools are located that could be used in fighting a fire. PLACE
Read MoreFrom a festival that helps artists trade work for healthcare to a regional micro-currency, Kingston is trying to build an inclusive and self-sufficient local ecosystem. THE GUARDIAN
Read MoreWith co-housing on the rise in the UK, it is touted as a model for better homes and stronger communities. In Brexit Britain, can this type of living – where decisions are made by consensus and everybody pulls together in times of crisis – also help us become better citizens? POSITIVE NEWS
Read MoreThe chaos of Dhaka's roads inspired Jon Moussally, a physician in Massachusetts and instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to cofound a volunteer-based emergency response system aimed at reducing death from road traffic injuries (RTIs). STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW
Read MoreWith epidemic levels of loneliness and the breakdown of supportive communities in society, what can we do we take on the enormous challenge of ensuring everyone is listened to and cared about? A growing social movement called Camerados has a simple, but powerful approach that means that people from Baltimore to Blackpool are coming together to get through tough times by looking out for each other. ATLAS OF THE FUTURE
Read MoreSomething important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Taking into account that opportunity for ownership and participation is a powerful tool for change, the model recognises the unique role cooperatives can play in the creation of community wealth. ATLAS OF THE FUTURE
Read MoreSouth Africa's iconic vuvuzela trumpet is being used to alert women in Soweto that their local patrol group is ready to safely escort them to public transport. PLACE
Read MoreIn the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of both the community and our planet’s most precious and vital natural habitat. ATLAS OF THE FUTURE
Read MoreEthiopia’s conflicts are reflected at universities but, by walking in each other’s shoes on stage, students learn to do so in life. THE GUARDIAN
Read MoreAfter rising to the top of the criminal pyramid in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, George Okewa rejected violence in favour of local leadership. THE GUARDIAN
Read MoreIn this Louisiana parish, residents are already surrounded by industrial plants and factories. They’re desperate to stop a new plastic company. THE HUFFINGTON POST
Read MoreThe prime minister says it is clear that land should not be viewed simply as a tradeable commodity like goods and services. She says that there is support across the political spectrum for restricting the purchase of land in Iceland by wealthy individuals. RÚV
Read MoreAn inside look at how three cities are aligning a new tax incentive with land-use plans to revitalize neighborhoods. URBAN INSTITUTE
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