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Being Outside: The Importance of Centering Black Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

There was never an inherited belief that I could be a scientist or a person who could have an environmental impact. Perhaps our activism can change when we think of ourselves as part of the overall ecosystem rather than separate from it. Activism is healing for many of us. Maybe this alone was the inherited belief.

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Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp

Affnetz

This will help you tailor the curriculum, activities, and overall experience to meet the needs and interests of your target audience. Determine the Camp’s Theme and Curriculum: Choose a theme or focus area for your STEAM camp , such as robotics, environmental science, or digital arts. Will the curriculum be flexible?

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Boston Nonprofit: Rewards of Cause Marketing are Absolut

Selfish Giving

Under the agreement, CRC will receive a $50,000 gift from Absolut that the Boston-based environmental group will use for programs that are generally difficult to fund. Environmental causes are very popular right now. But she’s thrilled they did. I told her I thought it would.

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How Indigenous and Environmental Coalitions Pushed for Beaver Restoration in California’s Budget

NonProfit Quarterly

Scientists plan to collaborate with partners to relocate beavers into watersheds where their dams can have positive environmental impacts, such as helping to restore hydrologic connectivity, creating and improving habitat for other species, increasing groundwater recharge, and promoting resilience to climate change and wildfire.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

The water crisis in Jackson is also part of a larger set of interconnected injustices that reveal the complexity of environmental racism. In that same year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the city had at least 2,300 unauthorized sanitary sewer overflows in the previous five years.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Collective, People-Centered Approach to Conservation Until the early 2000s, fortress conservationsetting up private conservation areas, displacing local and Indigenous groups, and violating their human rightswas the predominant strategy in the environmental field. Its also working via partners to catalyze the model across the Pan-Amazon.

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From Microfinance to Mutual Aid—Moving Resources to People, Not Banks

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, the model involves 30 active community-based families, 80 percent of which are led by women, and 10 external savers, totaling 40 members, focusing on building local economies that are sustainable and rooted in Indigenous knowledge. My colleague and partner Ignacio Krell and I designed the initial initiative in 2014.