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Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit public education organization, has produced a series of nine half-hour radio programs on the challenges facing rural America today and the most promising strategies to address them. Featuring the voices and stories of practical innovators...
Improving Leadership Around the World: Challenges, Ideas, Innovations The International Leadership Association 2004 Annual Conference November 4-6, 2004 Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC USA SubmissionDeadline: April 5th, 2004 As the 21st century unfolds there are myriad examples -...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of "Community Correlates of Rural Youth Violence." This 12-page Bulletin was written by D. Wayne Osgood, Ph.D., Professor in the Crime, Law, and Justice Program, Pennsylvania State University,...
Some 120 raised-bed gardens will be established in six low-income neighborhoods in Des Moines, Iowa, as part of the Des Moines Community Food Project. The organization behind this project, which will be funded by a US Department of Agriculture grant,...
INSIDE THE JULY 2003 NEWSLETTER:EQIP Program Rules Released Family Farm Pork Production Falls Dramatically USDA's Conservation Compliance Effort Flawed Tupelo Model of Development New Homestead Act in U.S. House Corporate Farming Notes Nebraska Legislative Wrap-up Producer vs. Farmer or Rancher:...
Finding and creating jobs for dislocated workers, low-income individuals and welfare recipients is much more successful when government agencies and the private and non-profit sectors collaborate to pool resources, expertise and services. That was the experience of the Work, Education,...
"Communities, children, and change" is the theme of Y&E Lessons in Learning, a twice-yearly update on Youth and Education Programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. This edition examines how community partnerships are working toward the unit's goal to increase learning...
LANSING--Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today signed Executive Directive 2003-22, which implements the first of the 150 recommendations put forth by the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council following its slate of hearings around the state. The executive directive directs state departments...
One of the goals of the Food and Society (FAS) initiative is to encourage and assist locally owned agricultural businesses to thrive in a community-based food system where consumers have access to healthy, sustainably produced food. Local food systems entrepreneurs...