Check out some of the amazing articles and press releases of our past and current grant recipients.
Planetwalk’s core mission is the development and coordination of a global network of Planetwalkers. Planetwalk will sponsor walks nationally and internationally with the purpose of promoting environmental education and responsibility and a vision of world peace and cooperation. Planetwalk is modeled on Dr. John Francis’s worldwide pilgrimage that works to transcend cultural, social and political boundaries by fostering communication between young people, scientists and environmental practitioners.
Years in the making, this report is the culmination of the Aquaculture Visioning Project (AVP), which NAMA launched in 2020 to articulate a network-generated vision and values for ‘sustainable aquaculture’ and provide aligned policy ideas and framework.
February 13, 2023 - Call it a regeneration of soul and soil. That’s what students, faculty, and professional staff are calling Roots of Justice, a recently launched, MiraCosta College initiative supporting the formerly incarcerated through gardening.
February 10, 2022 by Amanda Brandeis with ABC 10News San Diego - VISTA, Calif. — With more than 2 million people in the nation's prisons and jails, the U.S. leads the world in incarceration. About one-third of people released from prison will return at some point in their lives.
July 21, 2022 by Bree Steffan with Spectrum News 1 - SAN DIEGO — Garden 31 is a community-based farming organization that empowers people and reconnects them to the Earth.
April 7, 2021 by Sharon Sullivan – Salt Lake City native Jim Moore was aware of Grand Junction’s uranium mill tailings legacy when he moved to western Colorado in 1981. However, it wasn’t on his mind, nor did the seller or real estate agent mention the presence of radioactive mill tailings when he bought a house there in 2010. He’s not alone.
November 20, 2020 - 2020 has indeed been a tumultuous year for the entire world. As COVID-19 spread around the globe, community efforts to strengthen local food systems proved critical for surviving the pandemic’s effects. CAN’s partners have exuded hope and resilience during these trying times and have mitigated health risks, financial strain, and misinformation impacting small farmers, farm working families, and essential workers in Mexico, Nicaragua, and California.
Céline Cousteau, Beto Borges and Cheyenne Coxon, December 17, 2020 - Beto Borges, Director of Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative talks with Céline Cousteau, humanitarian, environmental activist, filmmaker, and founder of the Javari Project for a conversation on her work with indigenous communities in Brazil.
We are excited to share our new report, Land Policy: Towards a More Equitable Farming Future, and accompanying land policy website.
Tree-Generation Fest is dedicated to engaging youth in positive and connective ways, even in this time of COVID.
Inspired by Tewa Women United’s “Regeneration Fest Española,” which was held at the Española Healing Foods Oasis every fall for the past four years, Tree-Generation Fest is about holding space for young people to know that they are loved and cared for by their community. We are proud to collaborate with the Northern Youth Project on this project.
Kristi House was awarded a major three-year grant from the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Kristi House’s program for sex trafficked girls, Project GOLD, will partner with Ark of Freedom Alliance to expand services to males, LGBTQ+ individuals and labor victims in this new initiative called Project TEAM.
Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott launched his new book, PERILOUS BOUNTY: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It, and it has been receiving raving reviews. It was noted in The New Yorker in the October 12, 2020 issue here, and was included in The New York Times article here titled, The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis, by Corby Kummer on September 7, 2020.
Stay up-to-date with The Mariposa DR Foundation. Check out the past and present articles that it has featured, including its most recent article from October 28, 2020 titled, Addressing the Current Situation.
Thank you to The Children's Trust for recognizing Project GOLD as a 2020 Program of the Year. This extraordinary honor. We feel privileged every day to do this work; being recognized for it is truly humbling. Congratulations to the other honorees.
November 16, 2020 - Like you, we’re taking a big, deep breath as 2020 wraps up.
Our local organizing is a critically important step toward a more just food and agriculture system. And we know ultimately, the solutions will take hard work from all of us — on farms and in communities around the world.
Jeanette Marantos, July 10, 2020 - Ron Finley — the self-proclaimed Gangsta Gardener — carries his persona like a shield. He’s this tall dude with hemp Patagonia pants and a slightly silver goatee who seems pretty laid-back until you’re close enough to read the keep-your-distance tension in his eyes.
September 22, 2020 - The coronavirus has changed so much in our world, but it has not stopped OSA’s work to meet the seed needs of growers. In response to the pandemic, OSA has expanded outreach efforts to farmers in need and donated seed and produce from our research projects to classrooms and communities.
November 5, 2020 - SAFSF is excited to announce the release of The Fibers Roadmap: Integrated Capital Opportunities to Support Revitalization of U.S.-Grown Fiber, Textiles, and Leather. This report for grantmakers and investors lays out a seven-year vision for values-based investment and funding needed to support regenerative fiber agriculture and revitalize U.S.-based textile processing and manufacturing.
Julia Turshen, October 30, 2020. Photos and video by Brian Dawson. - Arriving at Soul Fire Farm’s gravel road means slowing down, literally. On the property, in addition to stacks and stacks of crates, buckets and shovels, there are also cardboard boxes to pack food for community groups, each one labeled in marker: Church. Refugee center.
(LAME DEER, Mont., October 1, 2020)—Today marks the first day of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which offers a critical opportunity to continue to shed light on the issue of domestic violence. The number of survivors is devastatingly high within Native communities: more than four out of five American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence with more than half (55.5 percent) who have endured physical violence by an intimate partner. Over 90 percent of those committing such crimes against Native women are non-Native.
Within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, education has suffered greatly. According to UNESCO, approximately 1.5 billion students in 190 countries around the world have been kept from school. In Brazil, schools are closed, with many young people left isolated at home and unable to study or spend time with their peers. In addition to the negative impact this this has on learning, prolonged home confinement and loss of the scholastic routine have their own negative impacts on the well-being of younger populations.
Indian Country Today, October 27, 2020 - Elizabeth Carr talks about the signs of domestic violence and how to find help during the pandemic. Plus our correspondents Dalton Walker and Kolby KickingWoman share the stories they are covering.
In November 2020, Marlo Schalesky of Wonder Wood Ranch was featured in Giving Tomorrow magazine by Planning Giving.
Vicki Lowell, October 7, 2020 - Are you trying to navigate the complex world of soil health management?
OFRF has the resources you need!
Our free series of guidebooks and webinars on soil health provide up-to-date, science-based information to help guide you in your efforts to build and sustain the health of our most valuable resource, soil.
(LAME DEER, Mont., July 26, 2020)—This weekend, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) will be featured as a resource at the end of Episode 6, Season 3, of Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone" television show airing Sunday, July 26, 2020, reaching millions of viewers of the drama series. Taylor Sheridan, a creator of the “Yellowstone” series, continues to support NIWRC’s work to raise awareness of violence against Native women and girls in the United States.
Marielle Argueza at Monterey County Weekly, August 3, 2020. Photo by Nic Coury. - “With federal leadership sitting on longterm solutions for the pandemic and a new aid package, there is at least some good news on the local level. Santa Cruz Community Ventures, a nonprofit that helps create equitable local economies on the Central Coast, announced that they have distributed $1.7 million in aid for undocumented people through their collaborative project UnodcuFund Monterey Bay since April.”
Friends of Watsonville - In July 2020, Darren Gertler, Environmental Education Coordinator for the Science Workshop at City of Watsonville, was awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Community Award. This award recognizes men and women who are youth leaders in the Watsonville community.
From Director Shirley M . Sherrod - “The Southwest Georgia Project is a sixty-year old service organization that covers a 14-county area. We began as a project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later incorporated and became a 501(c)3 know as The Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc. (SWGP). Our work over the years includes, but is not limited to, working on welfare rights, school integration, voter education, voter rights, Black land loss, and community organizing, which led to creating the first community land trust in the United States.”
OutsideOnline.com, October 21, 2021 - Feeling pessimistic about the environment? If so, here’s a cure—or seven. Earlier this week in San Francisco, the Earth Island Institute doled out its annual Brower Youth Awards to seven of the country’s boldest young environmental leaders, teens and early 20-somethings who aren’t sitting around bitching about problems but are actually doing something about them. Now there’s an idea.
November 3, 2023 by Asha Sharma - If you subscribe to PAN’s news feed and received our recent California content, then you have already heard the great news that the primary bill that PAN co-sponsored in California this year has been signed into law by Governor Newsom.