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Stories of Impact
Practicing Rural Resilience in the Cuyama Valley
The Cuyama Valley, a small rural community in Santa Barbara County, California, has shown...
Building Climate Resilience: What We Learned from Pasadena’s Small Business Green Survey
To better understand the challenges small businesses face in becoming climate resilient, The...
How CDFIs Can Help Fix America’s Housing Affordability Crisis
This Op-Ed was co-authored by Tunua Thrash-Ntuk and Adam Briones and originally published by...
Thriving with The Center’s Contractors Accelerator
Erick Castro, owner of Kana Subsurface Engineering (KSE), was born in Mexico and grew up in...
Glaciers Italian Ice: Empowering Atlanta’s Youth Through Entrepreneurship
Founded in 2021 by Ian Elmore-Moore, Glacier's Italian Ice is a local Atlanta business with a...
California’s Small Businesses to Become Stronger, Greener With Inflow of Climate Resilience Funding
This story was written by Lila Brown for California Black Media and featured in the...