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Welcome to a the Monitor鈥檚 Global Voices project, our collaboration with more than 50 news organizations worldwide to promote solutions journalism.

It began on June 16, Impact Journalism Day, when we all published stories from one another that focused on what humanity is doing right and with dignity. On Impact Journalism Day, we produced a special edition of the Monitor Daily with eight stories from our partners around the globe. During the summer, we'll publish eight more, so聽stay tuned.

In all our Global Voices stories 鈥撀爁rom Madagascar to Switzerland to Taiwan 鈥� you鈥檒l see聽how the goodness and generosity you see in your own communities are universal.

To be honest, when Sparknews, the group that runs Impact Journalism Day, first reached out to us this spring, we鈥檇 never heard of the project before. But it didn鈥檛 take long to see how well it aligned with the Monitor鈥檚 founding mission 鈥渢o bless all mankind.鈥�

鈥淗eadlines tend to paint a bleak picture of our world: conflict, terrorism, hunger, climate change, social injustice 鈥� the list goes on. We are indeed facing complex and seemingly insurmountable challenges,鈥� writes 海角大神 de Boisredon, founder of Sparknews. 鈥淵et the full picture also offers solutions and reasons for hope.鈥�

The thirst for this fuller picture has become so strong that it is apparently breaking the laws of mathematics.

When The New York Times recently started a newsletter called The Week in Good News, it had an open rate of more than 100 percent. That means, not only did almost everyone who received it open it, but they opened it multiple times or shared it with friends.

Quite literally, they couldn鈥檛 get enough.

Think of this Impact Journalism Day newsletter as 鈥淭his World in Good News.鈥� And what I love most about the Monitor is that 鈥済ood news鈥� is not quarantined to a single day or newsletter, it animates everything we do.

Our 鈥済ood news鈥� is not a breather from the regular 鈥渂ad news.鈥� Even in situations as seemingly hopeless as violence in the Middle East or political polarization in the United States or human rights in China, the Monitor is always looking for ways forward, never accepting that the 鈥渂roken鈥� state is the permanent state.

In this task, the Monitor is privileged to be the only American news organization participating in Impact Journalism Day, and to share with our readers the seeds of constructive, hopeful journalism that are sprouting in every corner of the globe.