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Closing racial wealth gaps with community land trustsĀ 

Candid

In 2023, with funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation and the Citi Foundation, Living Cities awarded grants totaling $3.2 Paul, Minnesota, and Memphis, Tennessee, are exploring community and trusts supports an expanded approach to making homeownership accessible. Memphis is doing something similar in its Orange Mound neighborhood.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. Blog posts. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. NTEN Honors Memphis Startup Founder Tal Frankfurt , Nibletz 2.0. Whew, what an NTC!

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. Blog posts. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. NTEN Honors Memphis Startup Founder Tal Frankfurt , Nibletz 2.0. Whew, what an NTC!

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and both sets of my grandparents came from rural Mississippi. Check out Bryant's blog on his website www.bryant-terry.com Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

VisionLink

His comments for Martin Luther King Day are included below, and the link to his blog above will take you to the half dozen or so essays he does annually. Three and a half years before we adopted Jonathan, Cathy and I had sat together, tears streaming down our faces, when we heard the news that Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis.