Celebrating Communities, the Holidays, and You
Calvert Foundation 
December 23rd, 2011
Every day, we at Calvert Foundation hear stories that give us hope for a brighter future. Every day, people use capital from our investors and donors to start new businesses, build affordable homes and make their communities better.
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Loading ...Ecuador, a Country Made Up of Great Human and Biological Diversity
Rare Conservation
November 8th, 2011
Ecuador is a country of geological and geographic contrasts. From the offshore islands of the Galapagos (where Rare has a campaign) to the Amazon rainforests; from the Pacific to the towering Andes, it is also a country made up of great human and biological diversity.
Read More (+6 rating) Loading ...Rare Joins Partners in Announcing Call for Nominations for the Equator Prize 2012
Rare Conservation
September 6th, 2011
Rare is a proud partner to the Equator Initiative, which has opened its call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2012, to be awarded to 25 outstanding local initiatives that are working to advance sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.
Read More (+6 rating) Loading ...Oran Hesterman’s Vision of Fair Food
Ode Wire
August 3rd, 2011
In Fair Food, Oran B. Hesterman firmly argues this vision: “It’s not unimportant to focus on what you’re doing in your kitchen,” he writes. “But it’s equally important to move beyond your refrigerator and engage as a fair food citizen.”
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Pleasant Street Video 
July 29th, 2011
A video store, that was forced to close, has come up with a novel and exciting way to keep their films alive.
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...2nd Annual If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD) Youth Film Festival
AFSC
November 9th, 2011
If you had all the power, what would you do with a TRILLION dollars?
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...Brookside Foods-Giving Back with Chocolate; Charity Tour Launches in NYC, USA
CSRwire
September 29th, 2011
Brookside Foods (www.brooksidefoods.com), a unique chocolate company, today launched the “Giving Back with Chocolate” U.S. coast-to-coast tour.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...The Down and Dirty Movement to Reinvent Farming
Yes! Magazine
August 23rd, 2011
Declining food quality, degraded farmland, an aging population of farmers, and an increasingly tight hold on food production by corporations have inspired a growing movement.
Read More (+8 rating) Loading ...ABANTU Strengthens Women
Modern Ghana
August 1st, 2011
ABANTU for Development, an international non-governmental organization, is partnering researchers across the globe to adopt measures to help Africans, particularly women deal with challenges after conflicts.
Read More (+7 rating) Loading ...The Farmer in the City: Erica Lemieux is Bringing Farming to Toronto
YongeStreet
May 23rd, 2011
The past several years of Erica Lemieux’s life have been a sequence of serendipity, odd and increasingly purposeful connections that pushed her from environmental studies at the University of Guelph to the helm of City Seed Farms, her urban farming start-up.
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