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  • A Public Space That Commemorates Victims of Gun Violence

    March 04, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Towns and cities across the countries have grieved the loss of life due to gun violence in various ways, including temporary memorials like t-shirts and shoes, exhibits, and ceremonies. But in New Haven, Connecticut, one mother has drawn from her own experience mourning in nature by setting up a permanent memorial garden to honor victims of gun violence. The memorial garden is also meant to be a call to action, to draw attention to the high levels of gun violence in the United States.

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  • How Soil Acts as a Living Witness to Racial Violence

    February 27, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

    Soil collection ceremonies offer a meaningful way to help cope with and create institutional memory of racial violence across the United States. The Equal Justice Initiative is working to keep the victims of lynching and racial violence alive in America’s collective memory by promoting a practice common across cultures—the collection of soil. Communities collect soil from sites of racially motivated killings into jars, which are then displayed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

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  • Mourning the Demise of a Zen Place to Die

    February 26, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Instead of simply prioritizing growth, nonprofits need to implement carefully sized solutions with consideration to the longevity of their model. The closure of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California, demonstrates how issues stemming from rapid growth scaling can undermine the longevity of a nonprofit’s mission. As the hospices’ human- and mindfulness-centered approach faded in the face of expansion, the toll and tensions led to a loss of crucial human capital, leading the hospice to close.

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  • Tribes Use Western and Indigenous Science to Prepare for Climate Change

    February 21, 2019 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    The University of Washington and Northwestern tribes have partnered to use their collective knowledge to create an online tool that helps regional tribes prepare for the effects of climate change. The tools uses climate forecasting that depicts how different resources in the region will be affected at a hyper-local level. The tool itself is a result of Western science, but researchers say the inputted data and information would not have been possible without the nuanced Indigenous knowledge.

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  • Wisconsin nonprofit seeks to better connect U.S. farmers with their Mexican employees

    February 21, 2019 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In the rural landscape of Wisconsin dairy farming, a local nonprofit organization connects American farmers with their immigrant employees to build a bridge with language and comprehensive job training. While the immigrant workers face many hardships on their trek to America, language and cultural barriers can prove difficult once they settle; Puentes (Bridges) offers support for folks who struggle to adapt to American lifestyle and working conditions.

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  • A Comeback for African National Parks

    February 20, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mozambique, Gorongosa, Sofala Province

    The Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has repopulated its large mammals by over 700 percent through collaborations between wildlife authorities and nonprofits. With millions of dollars in philanthropic assistance, the park’s revival is made possible by supporting and using local and indigenous knowledge, as well as taking a whole-community approach that provides services for those towns around African national parks. Such philanthropic approaches to conservation are part of a larger, global trend taking place in countries around the world.

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  • In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

    February 19, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Solomon Islands, Malaita

    In the Solomon Islands, visiting scientists and researchers have made historical and symbolic amends with the Kwaio people. The tribe, once violently attacked by colonial settlers, have felt the need for reconciliation for decades and as the scientists continued to connect with them, decided that a formal ritual of reconciliation was needed. Together, the two groups participated in the ritual, allowing the Kraio people to move forward and the researchers to continue their work.

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  • Healing and hope: how Indigenous guardians are transforming conservation

    February 13, 2019 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Enrolling indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation programs empowers communities and promotes responsible land management. Conservation programs in Australia and Canada rely on indigenous communities to monitor and maintain remote and protected areas. Investment in these programs not only furthers the goal of environmental conservation, but also pays dividends by bringing jobs to indigenous communities.

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  • In this California classroom, students teach each other their home languages — and learn acceptance

    February 12, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    An ethnic studies teacher at an Oakland high school with a large immigrant population asks each student to spend a bit of the class time teaching their home language to the class. Acacia WoodsChan has noted increasing confidence and understanding among her students.

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  • In Nigeria, documentary films spark social change

    February 07, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

    A local, grass-roots art project in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, spreads awareness about and encourages action against government-sponsored evictions in the city's low-income communities. Cinematic films, music, and journalistic storytelling help spread the humanity and character of the communities to appeal to government entities to let people stay.

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