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  • A US pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a 'fire culture' to boost its range

    Community-led volunteer groups in the American Southeast are clearing undergrowth by lighting prescribed burns to prevent future forest fires and make space for longleaf pine trees to grow. Much of their work is done on private property, where state governments are cautious to send the burners they employ because of liability concerns.

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  • In One Community, Faith-based Services Fill the Gaps When Government Can't – or Won't

    The Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church works with other area organizations to help locals facing a range of challenges, from food insecurity to addiction. The efforts particularly focus on Black residents to fill the void left by local, state and federal government agencies. The church provides support and necessary supplies through its Showers, Health Care and Outreach Program (SHOP), as well as domestic violence counseling, housing assistance and addiction treatment.

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  • A community-led strategy to save Brazil's dry forests from desertification

    Thirty-five communities in Bahia, Brazil, are working together to restore the Caatinga dry forest by managing goat and sheep herds and fencing areas off to let nature heal itself over time.

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  • Black Investors Take Back a Legal Tool to Restore Affordable Housing

    The Community Receiver Program works with real estate professionals of color to rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed properties. These properties are then resold to local homebuyers — to preserve generational wealth — or rented out at affordable rates. The program trains people to be community receivers for free, teaching them how to acquire and rehabilitate the buildings, as well as how to leverage grants and local funding programs. Since 2020, the Program has trained about 520 people, rehabilitated 16 buildings and contributed about $4.5 million in restored property value.

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  • Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

    After they were socially, economically, and politically forced from their agricultural land, the people who have used regenerative farming principles for millennia are reimplementing the practice in their communities. This allows them to improve soil health and reconnect with the land.

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  • Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

    Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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  • A Community-Driven Path to Replenishing Groundwater in a Parched Region

    The community in Jakhni, India, reimplemented old farming practices, like building embankments to trap rainwater and planting trees to prevent erosion, to combat severe drought.

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  • Female Rangers ‘Don't Go All Alpha Like the Men' to Protect a Forest

    A team of rangers primarily made up of women is protecting 620 acres of forest around their village in Damaran Baru, Indonesia. The rangers' main priority is having conversations with squatters to prevent them from clearing the trees to use the soil, but they also provide important ecological information to researchers and act as environmental stewards.

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  • Development for Good: Crowdfunding Community Development

    Investment groups and developers Voyage Investments and Shift Capital are working to raise funds to transform abandoned buildings into useful spaces that benefit the community, like a new high school or studio space for local entrepreneurs. These projects have brought upwards of 500 jobs to locals and help keep the community involved in the city’s development by allowing them to make small investments in upcoming projects.

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  • The Black Women Who Fought for Ohio's Historic Abortion Win

    Ahead of a ballot measure to guarantee access to abortion and reproductive health care in Ohio, the Black-led Ohio Women’s Alliance spoke with more than 1.3 million young female BIPOC voters, framing the campaign as a fight for a wide range of reproductive services. Residents approved the constitutional amendment with 60 percent of female voters and 83 percent of Black voters voting in favor.

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