GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Utne Reader

The Utne Reader named Michelle Ajamian and Brandon Jaeger of the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative one of “25 Visionaries Changing Your World”.   Ajamian and Jaeger are figuring out how to rebuild a farm-to-table regional system for staple foods such as amaranth, quinoa, buckweat, millet, black turtle beans, and heirloom corn.  Ajamian and Jaeger established the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative in 2008. This year they opened Shagbark Seed and Mill, a prototype processing facility.

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Featuring the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative, a grantee of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation

RESEARCH IN ACTION

The South Florida chapter of Jobs with Justice and the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP) collaborated on a participatory action research project to document the problems as well as the community vitality that exists in mobile home parks in Miami-Dade County.

The research supported by the Sociological Initiatives Foundation focused on mobile home parks facing the threat of redevelopment and displacement.

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GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Boston Globe

Presently the only Catholic boys’ choir school in the country, the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School is being reinvigorated by its new director. The school is part of a resurgence of children’s choral programs, both church-related and secular, in the Boston area.

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Featuring Boston Archdiocesan Choir School, a grantee of the Schrafft Charitable Trust.