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Resourceful Communities Network Notes - Spring 2008

RCP Partners Recognized; CNEF Awards Announced; Tyrell County's "Places That Matter"

Mary and Nelson James

Resourceful Communities Partners Named Small Farmers of the Year
Sustainable agriculture and community outreach recognized.
Mary and Nelson James of Dogwood Farms have been named 2008 Dudley Small Farmers of the Year. Started three generations ago in the 1800’s, this African American sustainable family farm is making the transition to certified organic.
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2008 Creating New Economies Fund Awards Announced
More than $280,000 awarded.
CNEF Thirty-one community organizations received funding to support innovative sustainable economic development projects throughout North Carolina. Funding for the awards was provided by The Ford Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation. Read More>
Places That Matter
Mapping Tyrell County's Community Assets.
Child visitor to Palmetto-Peartree Preserve in Tyrell CountyFunded with generous support from the NC Humanities Council and the NC Arts Council, Resourceful Communities is working in Tyrrell County to create a network of engaged citizens who support planning and policy decisions to protect Tyrrell County's “places that matter.” This new project builds on a comprehensive strategic planning process and the successes the county has acheived to date.
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Sandhills Family Heritage Association Receives Folklore Society Award
Group preserves the unique natural and cultural heritage of African American families in the Sandhills region.
Mikki Sager, Resourceful Communities and Ammie Jenkins, Sandhills Family Heritage AssociationLong-time Resourceful Communities partner, Sandhills Family Heritage Association (SFHA) was recognized as this year’s recipient of the NC Folklore Society’s Community Traditions Award. SFHA works to preserve the unique natural and cultural heritage of African American families in the Sandhills region, with a primary focus on documenting, sharing and “passing forward” those traditions that have helped sustain the community, the land and the culture for hundreds of years.
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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.