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Being educated and aware of Stroke symptoms can help save a life.

California American Water’s Brian A. Barreto presents Hope the Mission with a $25,000 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness grant. Learn more below 👇.

Healing from practices and beliefs that harm communities helps end injustice and enables people to thrive. It's best when communities lead the healing themselves: this blog shows an example of community-led healing and funders following a community's lead.

CCD is delighted to receive $475,000 from PA's Dept. of Community & Economic Development (DCED) to build the next phase of the Rail Park, from Vine St. to Fairmount Ave. Previous contributions from William Penn Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, the State’s DCED & PECO, have enabled CCD to have construction bid documents by April 2025. This new grant matches support from Poor Richards Charitable Trust as part of the capital funding needed to expand this public green space linking multiple neighborhoods together.   For more information about the Rail Park, please visit https://bit.ly/4gcxMwY

Today, we partnered with Ucluelet Co-op to make a joint donation of $300,000 over three years to the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Centre in Tofino, B.C. Our support will lead to the establishment of the Co-op Community Teaching Kitchen within the Centre. This facility will help facilitate the sharing of traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices with younger generations while empowering community members with newfound culinary and nutritional skills. “This is a unique opportunity for Co-op to support a special project in a diverse region of Western Canada. This project represents an important commitment to Indigenous Peoples in the region and recognizes our continued and steadfast support of truth and reconciliation,” said Heather Ryan, CEO, Federated Co-operatives Limited.

Exciting news! The North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation announced that it has awarded $6.6 million in grants for 17 land acquisition projects on state trails in nine counties. The funding comes from the Complete the Trails Program and will leverage more than $42.9 million in matching funds provided by local nonprofit state trail partners. Additionally, four projects were selected to receive a total of over $394,000 through the Connecting Communities to State Trails (CCST) grants, a subset of the Complete the Trails funding. These grants will leverage over $230,000 in matching funds and help communities with less than 25,000 residents develop trails and trail amenities that will connect to state trails. Learn more about these grants impact: https://lnkd.in/e4krfBam

Your tax-deductible contribution to Habitat for Humanity changes lives. It’s an investment in a child, a family, the community, and our future. Research shows decent housing and homeownership improve health, increase children’s educational achievement, and strengthen community ties. Each contribution, no matter the size, helps fulfill Habitat’s mission. We rely on local donations to continue our work. Become a Hope Builder today by donating $10, $20, or $40 each month and make a lasting impact on families in need - https://buff.ly/3XQa5UQ!

The UTA Planetarium has received a $10,000 grant from H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust (H-E-B TOC) to cover the cost of field trips to Planetarium shows for K-12 schools with significant numbers of economically disadvantaged students. The grant is the fourth provided by H-E-B TOC to the Planetarium to help defray the cost of field trips for area schools and will allow hundreds of students an opportunity to visit the UTA campus and see a Planetarium show. The first grant came during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021 and helped the Planetarium provide virtual field trips to K-12 students. Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gZeDE_wG #MaverickScience #UTAPlanetarium

Transport Research Foundation and RiDC (Research Institute for Disabled Consumers) have published a report on the impact of automated transport on disabled people. The research, funded by the Motability Foundation, explores the benefits and challenges of automated transport for disabled people. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4fnZOow

The mission of the CHP is to create conditions, both locally and globally, that foster peace, justice, health, connection, opportunity, hope, and human flourishing. I deeply appreciate all the ways you and others have supported this work through the years: some financially, some with your labor and material donations, all with love. Thank you . A little background on the CHP: Established in 2010 and formally gaining 501c3 status in 2012, the Community Hope Project evolved out of a pen pal relationship between two 8-year-old girls, one in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the other in San Diego, CA (my oldest daughter, Quinlan!).  I worked with over 100 students (from both MiraCosta College and UC San Diego) to raise money, travel to Sierra Leone, collaborate on constructing a school and community center, start several projects: microfinance, local gardening, water filtration, etc., and build friendships. Two local community organizations grew out of it. Human connection, curiosity, compassion, and a thirst for global and local restorative justice were (and still are) at the core of the Community Hope Project. We live in a lopsided, inequitable world where many, MANY people do not have the basic things they need to live and flourish, through no fault of their own.  Our global and local inequities have historical and structural roots, and we have the power to remedy their lingering harmful impacts, together. We need to build awareness, ignite empathetic connections across the typical social, national, regional, religious, class, and racial/ethnic boundaries that divide us, and find ways to collectively catalyze positive structural and cultural change.