If not you, then who?

In Orient, Iowa, young rural leaders made the case that democracy is built one relationship at a time. They talked about what it means to show up for one another—and how the responsibility we feel toward a neighbor might extend beyond one household, one farm, or one community.

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Grantee: Change Labs
Project: Creating safe & modern workspace to support Native entrepreneurship within Native communities
Learn more: http://www.nativestartup.org

These Rice Terraces Are Said to Be 2,000 Years Old. Scholars Think There’s More to the Story

The Ifugao Rice Terraces of the Philippines have been called a wonder of the ancient world for over a century. On a hillside in northern Luzon, a class of young American leaders finds that the stories a place tells about itself are never finished being written.

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Grantee StoriesCare as Civic Repair

How can care activate civic repair? The stories in this edition of Story as Legacy suggest that civic repair begins not with abstraction, but attention: to community, to one another, and to our shared history.

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