by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 14, 2015 | Community development, Crowdfunding
September 22 marks the start of a crowdfunding campaign for A Place at the Table, a Raleigh, N.C., cafe breaking ground with its flexible payments for the food it serves. The cafe — appealing to the homeless as well as the affluent — is a fiscally sponsored project of...
by Marjorie Beggs | Aug 5, 2015 | Community development, Media
Local history and politics, environmental concerns, arts news, civic improvement, residents’ accomplishments — such stories and more are lifelines that connect people living on the isolated northern tip of the big island of Hawai’i. That’s what the Kohala Mountain...
by Marjorie Beggs | Jul 9, 2015 | Arts and culture, Children, youth and families, Civil rights, Education, Health and mental health, LGBTQ, Media, Social justice
Minnesota’s largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, in 2009 adopted a hands-off policy requiring teachers and staff to “remain neutral on matters regarding sexual orientation” — a follow-up to an earlier school board prohibition on teaching about homosexuality as a...
by Marjorie Beggs | May 14, 2015 | Animals, Environment
Worth A Dam (martinezbeavers.org) has been saving beavers and their Martinez, Calif., habitat for more than eight years. Fiscally sponsored by Inquiring Systems Inc., Worth a Dam was formed by a group of citizens when the beavers of Alhambra Creek were threatened with...
by Marjorie Beggs | May 14, 2015 | Arts and culture, Community development
Lincoln Park Steps are ready for their grand re-entrance. Built in 1909 at the northwestern edge of San Francisco, they’re the gateway to the surrounding urban neighborhood, the park’s golf course, playground and two landmarks — the Legion of Honor museum and Lands...