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Resourceful Communities Network Notes - Fall 2007

The Partnership Issue

About this Issue
Our partners are our greatest resource.
Our diverse partners and communities drive our mission. This issue of Network Notes is dedicated to them: the folks working hard to put the triple bottom line into practice. We’ll feature a partner spotlight in subsequent editions, and we hope you enjoy learning more about their innovations and accomplishments.
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Conservation-Based Affordable Housing Planning

Forging New Partnerships
Land trusts and community development corporations join forces for conservation-based affordable housing projects.
Located in one of the most economically distressed areas of NC, Blue Springs-Hoke County Community Development Corporation (CDC) is one of seven CDCs improving residents' quality of life through an innovative affordable housing program. Blue Springs-Hoke County CDC has joined Sandhills Area Land Trust, a local conservation partner, in a new alliance to provide quality housing and protect natural resources.
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Roanoke River Partners launch eleventh camping platform. Ecotourism in the Roanoke River Region
“Place-based” initiative promotes environmental stewardship and economic growth.
Roanoke River Partners has launched thirteen camping platforms along its Roanoke Paddle Trail. The trail and platforms provide paddlers and nature enthusiasts the opportunity to experience firsthand the river’s beauty and varied wildlife.
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Native Plants Strengthen Communities in Appalachia
Partnership produces value-added crops, creates jobs, preserves traditions.
Smoky Mountain Native Plants Association

Smoky Mountain Native Plants Association

The Smoky Mountain Native Plants Association (SMNPA) is located in Graham County, an economically distressed county in the NC mountains. The group's diverse members use native plant propagation to preserve Appalachian plant resources and mountain cultural heritage, provide economic opportunity and develop job skills and alternative crops.
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Our Partners

Working for more than 15 years in distressed communities throughout North Carolina, Resourceful Communities follows the lead and wisdom of local leaders. Learn more about our partners.

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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.