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Nashville Nonprofit Providing More Than Hope To The Formerly Incarcerated

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According widely published data, as well as Project Return’s website, the United States makes up only 5% of the world’s total population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The  nonprofit describes incarceration as a growth industry in Tennessee, ranking 12th in the nation in terms of per capita incarceration – which they document grew […]

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Get Preteens, Teen and Young Adults Into Volunteering- The Sooner, The Better

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According to 2023 research data from Volgistics, a volunteer management software, kids that volunteer are 25% less likely to experience anxiety and 50% less likely to engage in destructive behaviors like smoking or  misusing alcohol. There’s no question, volunteerism translates into mastering important adult life skills. To name a few; Social and Professional Communication Skills

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Finishing A Loved One’s Passion Project  With A Young Person Builds Bonds And Helps Healing

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Taking on a loved one’s unfinished passion project after they die or become too incapacitated to complete, with  your preteen – young adult, can be both a healing and bonding. Maybe while reorganizing after a major family illness, or loss, you find an incomplete quilt, half knit sweater, unfinished carpentry project.  Committing to finish the

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Paving The Way For Baltimore’s Youth

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KEYS (Keep Encouraging Youth to Succeed)  Enterprises is a Maryland-based 501c3 nonprofit, grounded in the  mission of empowering the marginalized and disadvantaged. Services and support are delivered using innovative methods designed especially to meet each individual’s unique needs. KEYS’ initiatives focus on supporting Baltimore’s underserved communities. . Through its programs the organization provides services  and

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Empathy Is  A Muscle And A Trait We Can Grow And Nurture

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The more I learn about Empathy Lab UK, the more I felt I had to share. They may not be US-based but this is an organization worth being on our radar.  I’m not connected to them in any way.  But, I’m always on the lookout for inspiring fresh ideas centering on young children. Their perspective

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Wild Horses Can Aid The Fight Against Wildfires

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Hear me out. I know this may seem out of left field. Wild horses and burros were granted protection by Congress in 1971 deemed “living symbols of history.” With the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burro Act, Congress outlawed, capture, branding, harassment or killing of wild horses and burros. And As a result, thinking

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Guarding A Treasure- Preserving The Cherokee Language

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This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com. And, it was subsequently reported in David Byrne’s digital “good news” magazine  Reasons To Be Cheerful. We are all, at least most of  us very aware of the many public and charter school dual language immersion programs; Spanish,

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FORCE BLUE Special Ops Veterans Come Together With Marine Science….

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The result, “mission therapy” for Veterans  and  cleaner oceans and waterways for all of us. The idea for FORCE BLUE grew out of a trip co-founders Jim Ritterhoff and Rudy Reyes took in 2015 to go reef diving. Since returning home from several tours in Afghanistan Reyes, a former Recon Marine,  had been struggling with

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Microplastics Concerns Are Not New

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For the Algalita Marine Research and Education  their 3 decades of plastic pollution research  and education it all started in the 1990’s with an eye-opening discovery in the North Pacific by the organizations Founder, Charles Moore.   The organization’s initial mission was to restore the disappearing kelp forests and improve water quality along the California

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