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Earth Day 2021: Climate Impacts Everything

Media Cause

Although COVID halted travel and slowed down our manufacturing, climate change continued to fuel raging wildfires and an endless hurricane season. Advocate for systematic change – Things like community organizing, public education, mobilizing the base, and elevating voices. This is approximately 2.3

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. Second , national policy must incentivize and prioritize the recruitment and deployment of local, proximate leadership. First published on Ozy.com.

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

Achieve

Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. is any indication, it is the millennial generation who is standing up and using their voice – and in many different octaves – to combat the hate we are currently witnessing. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. The horror of Charlottesville. If Achieve’s.

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6 Trends Shaping Corporate Engagement Today

Connection Cafe

As the city of Houston responded to hurricane Harvey, even small collaboratives like Sketch City , jumped in to help, using their skills to develop a custom app to coordinate volunteers, nonprofits and resources. And we all witnessed the role that tech innovators like Tesla played in reconnecting Puerto Rico.

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3 Ways to Engage Community to Drive Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

By elevating the voices of community leaders and shining a light on the importance of climate justice, we can help bridge the connection between policy-level decisions and tangible impacts on local communities. It’s twofold: It’s the policies we can set, but how we act upon those comes down to the local community level.”.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

And we are bracing for yet another intense, potentially deadly hurricane season. That’s the reality on the ground, as communities on the Gulf Coast try to recover from another hurricane. Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

Have Fun - Do Good

They were going to go out to those cities and try to form partnerships with the cities, to get the Mayors or the council members of those cities, at a policy level, to endorse the Plug-In Partner campaign, and then subsequently to get them to place a soft fleet order. They began by setting a target of 50 U.S.