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Resourceful Communities Network Notes - Summer 2007

Conservation-Based Affordable Housing; 11th Annual Grassroots Convening; Triple Bottom Line Projects Launched; Creating New Economies Fund.

Conservation-Based Affordable Housing
Site visits produce preliminary designs that preserve open space, wetlands
Renowned landscape architect, Randall Arendt, visits sites in Hoke and Brunswick Counties to develop preliminary designs for affordable housing projects. Funded in part by the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, the effort creates new partnerships that include Sandhills Area Land Trust and Blue Springs-Hoke County Community Development Corporation. Each site design preserves critical natural resources, such as wetlands and stream buffers, and minimizes development cost.
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11th Annual Grassroots Convening
More than 100 attend statewide gathering

Partner input shaped this year's offerings, which included sessions on youth involvement, community organizing and focus groups led by resource professionals. Our grassroots network includes more than 100 organizations that represent a broad range of interests.
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More Triple Bottom Line Projects Launched
$4 million leveraged through Creating New Economies Fund program
Centro de Enlace's Tortilleria

Tortilleria Coop in Western NC

12 CNEF grants awarded in April will help partners implement innovative projects, including community kitchens, a land loss summit, heritage tours and coalition building. To date, 123 grants totaling nearly $1 million have helped partners effect positive change throughout North Carolina's under resourced communities.
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NC Division of Tourism features Resourceful Communities Partner
Sandhills Family Heritage Association receives recognition
The Division of Tourism will feature a display highlighting Sandhills Family Heritage Association's work to preserve cultural heritage and land ownership. On display in Raleigh until August, visitors can view publications, photos and more from Sandhills.
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Project Spotlight
NC's First Community Forest
Resourceful Communities is working with partners to establish NC's first community forest on a 532-acre parcel in Hoke County.

Community forestry engages local partners in planning, management and stewardship. Adjacent to forestlands with the second largest US population of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, this community forest will restore habitat, provide economic opportunities and more.