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The face behind Select Books
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2021-issue-1/face-behind-select-booksDid someone say free books? Since August 2000, The Ford Family Foundation has offered a select number of books free to residents of Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. Casondra Reeves, administrative associate at the Foundation,... Read More
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Influencing civilization
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2019-issue-1/influencing-civilizationWhen Indian Givers was first published in 1988, author Jack Weatherford sought to place Native American history in its proper context: not as a separate category outside mainstream history, but as an essential element that has had great... Read More
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The haves and have-nots
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2015-issue-2/haves-and-have-notsThe best clue to the subject matter of social scientist Robert Putnam’s latest best-selling book is in the title, Our Kids. As Putnam surveys the growing schism between the haves and have-nots in America today, he pounds this concept home... Read More
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Catastrophic challenges
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2015-issue-1/catastrophic-challenges“…I have also become convinced that the resilience dividend is real and achievable, and provides great opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods in the good times as well.” – Judith RodinThe Resilience DividendWhat do the towns... Read More
