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Rural Training and Research Center
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The collective membership of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives owns the Rural Training and Research Center (RTRC), located between the towns of Epes and Gainesville in Sumter County, Alabama. The RTRC is also the base of operations for the Alabama State Association of Cooperatives (ASAC) outreach and technical assistance staff. RTRC staff work on projects with USDA, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the Democratizing Rural Electric Cooperatives Campaign.
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School children dance with Oklahoma Creek Stomp Dancers, during the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Southeastern Indian Festival on Thursday, April 3, 2014, near Atmore, Alabama
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School children dance with Oklahoma Creek Stomp Dancers, during the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Southeastern Indian Festival on Thursday, April 3, 2014, near Atmore, Alabama. (USDA Photo by Lance Cheung)
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Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership
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The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science & Forestry is recruiting students for graduate study in diverse environmental sciences from ecology, sustainability, conservation biology to restoration and environmental engineering. As a member of the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership, the program provides funding for full tuition and stipends for Native American students pursuing MS and PhD degrees.
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Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention
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SFLR exists to create a sustainable system of support for African American forest owners that significantly increases the value of African American owned forests, land retention, and asset development for Black families in the U.S. South. Since its inception, SFLR has improved forest management and forest retention by connecting African American landowners to established networks of forestry support, including federal and state government programs, businesses, and non-profit conservation, legal, community development, and Black social justice organizations.
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Ted Takeaways: Podcast 2 - Working with Diverse Communities
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The second of two short podcasts with Mr. Ted Coopwood III, DEI practitioner and conservation leader. Podcast II focuses on how to better work with diverse communities in the field.
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The Black Family Land Trust
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The Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (BFLT) incorporated in 2004 and based in North Carolina, is one of the nation’s only conservation land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowners assets.
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The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
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The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that protects heirs’ property and promotes its sustainable use to provide increased economic benefit to historically under-served families.
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The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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The Federation has been successfully working since 1967 to provide Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives in the Southern region with land retention assistance, cooperative development assistance, and advocacy. The Federation is a non-profit cooperative association of black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives. The majority of our farmers, landowners, cooperatives, and credit unions are in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana.
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network is an informal alliance of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers making our lives on land in the Northeast region. There are 21 founding member farms and a total of over 515 farmers, land stewards, and earth workers in our network.
Currently, the Network exists as a members-only listserv* and we also gather regionally and annually for skillshares and knowledge exchanges.
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