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Five Things To Be Grateful For in the Ruby Together Community

It’s hard to believe that December is here. Even more mind-boggling: in the next few weeks we’ll be winding down a decade. This was a tough year. We want to commend and thank all of the developers who helped us maintain healthy projects and a kind community in a year where no connection or offer of support was taken for granted. It might be easy for any of us to list...

Across Two Reservations, Building a Spiritual Community

←BACK     Each winter, Red Cloud’s parish team creates a unique day-long retreat for confirmation candidates—both youth and adult parishioners who are preparing to take the next step in their spiritual journey in the Church. But this December, something even more special happened. Parish teams from both the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations created a retreat...

CSA Community Spotlight: Risk Manager Heinrich Smit

Written by Megan Theimer, Content Program Specialist, CSA. In 2009, CSA was officially incorporated and we released the first version of our Security Guidance. The following year, CSA launched the industry’s first cloud security user certificate, the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), now the benchmark for professional competency in cloud security. This...

Organizers balance state-sanctioned voter suppression and community survivalTo prevent abhorrent state-run voter suppression and police brutality, look to local action beyond election years – Scalawag

Last Saturday, Melanie Mitchell took her family to the “I Am Change Legacy March To the Polls” in downtown Graham, North Carolina, because she felt it was important for her children and mother to stand with their neighbors in the fight for justice and voting rights.  “We got together as a community,” Mitchell said of the initial spirit of the...

First Nations Receives Grant to Invest in Native Community Programs to Strengthen Well-being of Native Youth

First Nations Receives Grant to Invest in Native Community Programs to Strengthen Well-being of Native Youth

Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will go to supporting Native Youth education, mental health, and identity strengthening LONGMONT, Colorado (December 16, 2020) – The board and staff of First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) are honored to announce the receipt of a $1.6 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The funding will...

Lessons from Texas and Florida community organizers – Scalawag

“Building political power” and “people-powered movements” are two phrases that have become organizing buzzwords over recent years. But what exactly do either of them mean? We dig deeper into both in the third episode of As the South Votes. While major elections are underway at the state and federal levels, more groups are shifting their...