National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center: Native Advocacy Organizations Release Joint Statement Recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month This October

November 18, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

(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.

Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities on CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY IN SCHOOL DURING COVID-19 CONTEST

November 18, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.

Elizabeth Carr from National Indigenous Women's Resource Center On Signs of Domestic Violence

November 18, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.

Giving Tomorrow features Marlo Schalesky of Wonder Wood Ranch

November 18, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

In November 2020, Marlo Schalesky of Wonder Wood Ranch was featured in Giving Tomorrow magazine by Planning Giving.

Organic Farming Research Foundation - Navigate the Complex World of Soil Health

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Highlighted on National TV Show “Yellowstone” This Sunday

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

(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.

UndocuFund Monterey Bay has distributed almost $2 million in aid to undocumented people

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.”

Darren Gertler of City of Watsonville Receives Cesar E. Chavez Community Award

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.

The Legacy Newsletter from Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.”

Secrets from the World's Happiest Environmentalist - Kyle Thiermann

November 17, 2020 by Evelyn Fasheh

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.