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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Stephanie Hanes

June 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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This Nigerian nonprofit brings former foes together through the power of storytelling

Nathaniel Bivan

May 27, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

The Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse, or Yiavha, brings together Nigerians from ethnic groups with a history of conflict and violence to help them find common ground through community storytelling. The organization has held more than 60 storytelling sessions in Nigeria’s Plateau state and has trained more than 300 youth to become peace ambassadors tasked with organizing their own storytelling events.

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How a social network is bringing people together in increasingly divisive times

Judy Woodruff

May 07, 2025 |

PBS NewsHour |

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Response Location: United States, Colchester, Vermont

Front Porch Forum is a social networking platform that allows local community members to connect, whether it be to sell items, get together and even support each other during tough times. Despite varying politics and beliefs, the Forum helps bridge a gap during a time when divisiveness is at a peak. There are currently more than 250 forums across the state, specific to each community.

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How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Anita Hofschneider, Jake Bittle

March 19, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

The coordinated response involved decades of persistent advocacy, strategic coalition-building among Indigenous nations, environmentalists, and government officials, sustained direct activism, and innovative legal and corporate negotiations, ultimately leading to the historic removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This effort successfully restored salmon habitat and ecosystem health, setting a groundbreaking precedent for addressing environmental justice, tribal sovereignty, and dam removal conflicts nationwide.

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How the Minnesota Council of Churches is bridging divides this election year

Anna Colletto

August 26, 2024 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

The Minnesota Council of Churches’ Respectful Conversations initiative brings together members of different congregations to find empathy and common ground around divisive issues such as policing, guns, and the upcoming election. Since 2012, the program has hosted more than 300 conversations attended by over 8,000 people, the majority of whom reported a stronger sense of empathy for people with different viewpoints after participating.

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Minnesota Is Testing a Model To Add More Civility to Politics

Cinnamon Janzer

May 17, 2024 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

Minnesota’s Civility Caucus brings Democrats and Republicans together for monthly sessions where they learn more about each other and their respective districts. Members say having opportunities to get to know their fellow lawmakers helps create a better foundation for working together. At least one bill has been cosponsored by members of the caucus from opposite parties.

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How a Bipartisan Group Overcame the Odds to Pass the TikTok Divestment Bill

John McCormack, David M. Drucker

May 03, 2024 |

The Dispatch |

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Response Location: United States

To drum up bipartisan support for a bill that will require social media app TikTok to divest from the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to American users, legislators involved multiple committees in the process and enlisted the support of the Department of Justice to appeal directly to Democrats. The final version of the bill was attached to legislation providing aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and passed with little opposition.

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Chicago student group organized "peace talk" forums for conversations on Israel and Gaza

Lindsay Eanet

April 24, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Chicago |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Student organizers with Chi Youth 4 Justice facilitated PzTalks, a series of forums at Chicago high schools to encourage conversation around Israel and Gaza and build bridges between Jewish and Arab American students. The events were held at 10 public high schools around the city and were tailored to each school’s population and priorities, with some drawing on restorative justice techniques to encourage open, respectful dialogue.

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New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand 'climate-smart' acres

Sarah Derouin

March 25, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: United States

A multi-partner effort in the United States, led by The Nature Conservancy, is helping farmers adopt agroforestry practices by providing funding and training. This style of farming encourages the growing of a variety of plants to enhance biodiversity and capture more carbon dioxide.

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Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman

March 04, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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