LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers have conducted and published extensive research studies on how evidence-based positive sport environments help athletes learn from mistakes, stay with sports and experience more positive development. Now, those researchers have collaborated with an Indigenous community sporting program to understand how the program can beContinue Reading
The Vanguard Accelerator grant program will make investments of $5,000 each to three businesses in the Twin Cities region. In addition, the grant recipients will receive a scholarship to the Founders First esteemed Zebra Leadership Program to provide continued education and leadership development. ST. PAUL, Minn. (PRWEB) JanuaryContinue Reading
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 379, Issue 6627.Download PDF This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Soon after sunrise one warm day in September 2022, 26-year-old Josiel Pereira Juruna boards a small motorboat and sets outContinue Reading
Effective Jan. 2, Brazil’s President Lula issued six decrees revoking or altering anti-environment-and-Indigenous measures from his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, acts highly celebrated by environmentalists and activists. One of the decrees annuls mining in Indigenous lands and protected areas, another resumes plans to combat deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes,Continue Reading
Protecting forests by investing in Indigenous peoples and local communities, or IPLCs, is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change and halt the global loss of biodiversity. The trouble is that a lot of the funding flow doesn’t reach the IPLC-led organisations that can tackle these issues, saysContinue Reading
SÃO PAULO — As President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepares to take office on January 1, indigenous organizations in Brazil are pressuring him to revert President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies on land grants for native peoples and on environmental protection. According to such groups, deep transformations are needed, given thatContinue Reading
Near the southern border of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, a curved translucent roof peeks out a few feet above the dusty plains. It’s a blustery November afternoon and the last remaining greens outside are fading fast. But below ground, at the bottom of a short flight ofContinue Reading
Patrick Ayota, NSSF Deputy Managing Director (c) and Adrian Bukenya, Mastercard Foundation Country Director (with yellow tie) with the project team at the launch of the NSSF Hi-innovator Women Accelerator cohort at Mestil Hotel (PHOTO/Courtesy). KAMPALA – The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation has earmarkedContinue Reading
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Sam Olbekson was first exposed to architecture at age five, when his uncle was a construction worker on a project to build the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Decades later, Olbekson, 51, now runs his own architecture firm, Full Circle Indigenous Planning. He’s also MAIC’s boardContinue Reading
Sam Olbekson was first exposed to architecture at age five, when his uncle was a construction worker on a project to build the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Decades later, Olbekson, 51, now runs his own architecture firm, Full Circle Indigenous Planning. He’s also MAIC’s board president, designing an addition toContinue Reading
