Claim: New nonprofit tackles COVID-19 in Native, rural communities.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Oaxaca Community Foundation
text: well as in traditional arts and crafts, among others. The Oaxaca Fund Initiative is a two-year collaboration between the Oaxaca Community Foundation and International Community Foundation to support key programs in community development, education, nutrition and health. Every dollar raised is matched 1:1 by the Ford Foundation up to a maximum of US$300,000. In collaboration with Microsoft Mexico, municipal governments, and the rural youth education system BIC (Bachillerato Inter Cultural), OCF has established 6 Community Learning Centers and satellite internet connections in rural areas of Oaxaca since 2005. Each center has 300 users and trains over 150 people per year.

title: Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
text: focused on the need to upgrade the association’s services, enhance its reputation, and reach out to include a diverse, interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners interested in voluntary action and nonprofit study. Following the retreat, Kirsten Gronbjerg (co-president 1993-1994) prepared a document stating ARNOVA’s goals to present to possible funders. A second retreat was held at lifetime member David Mason’s ranch on March 19–21, 1993. Decisions made at the Mason Ranch Retreat resulted in the formalization of ARNOVA’s relationships with Independent Sector and the academic centers, and the affiliation of NVSQ with the Program on Non-Profit Organizations (PONPO) at Yale

title: Rural Action
text: is also a founding member of the organization. There are 18 organizations that fund Rural Action, since they are member based. They include: Athens Foundation, Central Appalachian Network, Earthshare of Ohio, Epstein/Teicher Foundation, Ford Foundation, Grant Foundation, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio State University, One Foundation, Serve Ohio AmeriCorps, Sisters of Saint Joseph Foundation, Sugarbush Foundation, University of Kentucky, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Interior Office of Surface Mining, and the US Forest Endowment. There are also three membership levels to subscribe to in order to

title: RIGA Project
text: the Rural Income Generating Activities Project June 2009 K. Covarrubias, A.P. de la O Campos, and A. Zezza A Profile of the Rural Poor April 2009 A. Valdés, W. Foster, G. Anríquez, C. Azzarri, K. Covarrubias, B. Davis, S. DiGiuseppe, T. Essam, T. Hertz, A.P. de la O, E. Quiñones, K. Stamoulis, P. Winters and A. Zezza Assets, Activities and Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis January 2009 P. Winters, B. Davis, G. Carletto, K.Covarrubias, K.Stamoulis, E. Quiñones, and A. Zezza A Cross Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities January 2009 B. Davis, P. Winters, G. Carletto,

title: Givology
text: Furthermore, the use of entrepreneur or student profiles can be misleading, as money often flows to a host organization that works with these individuals instead of directly to the individual listed on such websites. Givology partners with grassroots education organizations in China, Uganda, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Argentina, Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia, Mali, Pakistan, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Ghana, Senegal, Guatemala, Tanzania, Benin, Vietnam, Rwanda, India, Kenya and Ecuador. Partners are generally local charities that lack the marketing resources of larger organizations and are not familiar with using the Internet for fundraising and awareness-building. Once a partnership is approved, Givology posts projects

title: True Colors Fund
text: the True Colors Fund developed the Youth Count Toolkit to offer communities effective strategies for counting homeless youth. A collaboration between the True Colors Fund, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the LGBT Rural Summit Series offers a unique opportunity to share information relating to policies, programs, and services that exist to protect, promote, and strengthen LGBT rural communities. Summits have been held in Greensboro, NC; Lost River, WV; Wayne, NE; Baton Rouge, LA; Dallas, TX; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Seattle, WA; and

title: Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation
text: July 10, and decline any further donations from the Original Americans Foundation. After accepting a $200,000 donation for the prior year, the Indian National Finals Rodeo (INFR), which says it is the U.S.' and Canada's largest rodeo organization for Native Americans, sent a letter refusing any further donations. INFR Vice President Michael Bo Vocu stated "After much soul searching, we have decided that we cannot in good conscience accept resources from you on the terms you have offered, no matter how desperately we need it ... because, as you know, the resources you are offering are not truly philanthropic --

title: Coastal Community Foundation
text: a community-wide, online challenge that trained nonprofits on the use of online giving tools and social media. It generated $4 million for local charities on its inaugural day. and nearly double that amount in its second year. Anita Zucker and other philanthropic leaders pledged to augment giving on Lowcountry Giving Day in proportion to the gifts made to each nonprofit participant. The foundation also works with donors to create meaningful philanthropic experiences. Starting in 2010, Social Venture Partners Charleston is one such donor education forum. It is affiliated with Social Venture Partners International and has granted out more than $155,000

title: Fundación Pro Vivienda Social
text: disseminated. To this end, the "Training and Education" project will create a Community Leaders Training Center. The center will bring together different community resources in a collaborative environment. The center will thus serve as place where problems facing the community can be discussed and analyzed. FPVS hopes that the center will integrate existing community resources and put them to use in improving living conditions and catalyzing necessary social developments. It is an unfortunate reality in Buenos Aires that many poor people are unable to fully realize their property rights because of irregularities in the chain of their home's title. This

title: David Walls (academic)
text: in the Community Action Program, assisting Jule Sugarman with the launch of Project Head Start and funding student volunteer programs. In fall 1966 Walls joined the staff of the Appalachian Volunteers (AV), a nonprofit agency conducting community organizing projects in the central Appalachian coalfields of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia. He moved to Harlan County, Kentucky to supervise VISTA volunteers. A year later he became field coordinator for the AV in the state, and moved to Berea, Kentucky. When founding executive director Milton Ogle resigned in August 1968, Walls became the director for the organization's final year.

title: Elder village
text: ready to join, while the people most in need of a Village's services are less likely to hear about them. Individual Villages may share ideas and experiences through the Village to Village ("VtV") network. VtV was established in 2010 by Beacon Hill Village and Capital Impact in response to requests from a number of Villages. At the end of 2014, Capital Impact withdrew from the partnership and in March 2015, the organization, formally organized as a limited liability company, was converted to a corporation, named Village to Village Network, Inc. It serves as a clearinghouse for inter-Village communications, and provides

title: Video Volunteers
text: developed a toolkit on how community-based organizations and the adolescent girls they serve can harness, produce and use the power of the visual media to tell their stories. In collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India’s leading business school, VV implemented a research project to explore methods of evolving community-based media to generate high levels of financial sustainability. IIM’s centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship and VV work together to explore methods and possibilities of generating revenue through the mainstream media in collaboration with other NGOs. Another area that the project aims to explore is how such community

title: Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre
text: with a Rural Residency. Two isolated communities are chosen each year to host a group of about 15 Dell'Arte students for a 10-day residency. The students in turn create a show for the community and offer workshops to children and adults. The communities of Bridgeville, Petrolia, Forks of Salmon, Orleans, Whale Gulch (Mendocino County) Spring Valley (Lake County) and Takilma, OR have benefited from this innovative and unique program. In 2010 the students assisted Yurok tribal member Willard Carlson in developing an off-the-grid site for traditional healing at Ah-Pah Creek. With the help of local business sponsors, Dell’Arte brings free

title: Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation
text: by rural upland communities." Idzenga, who was a marine engineer, developed the hydraulic ram pump as a solution. Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc is a non-profit organisation that helps with upland irrigation for farmers in the Philippines. It was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011. The foundation was formed in 1991 by Auke Idzenga, Leonidas Baterna, Gina Veloria, and Edmund Villorosa, who worked with sugar workers in Bacolod City. Originally, it was a labor union which supported sugar workers who had participated in the government's new agrarian reform program. Idzenga, Baterna, Veloria, and Villorosa founded

title: Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs
text: communities. The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA), the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority (IHCDA), and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), along with the State Revolving Fund, are participating in this innovative program. The program seeks to leverage state and federal funding from multiple agencies to undertake large-scale projects in rural communities. Only cities with a population of 50,000 or fewer were welcome to apply, and somewhere between 46-48 cities submitted initial applications. 12 finalists were selected to submit proposals and the first winners of grant funding are the communities of Greencastle and North Vernon. DePauw

title: Elouise P. Cobell
text: Foundation, which "provides financial assistance to tribes and nonprofits that serve Native American communities..." has said that it gave more than $7 million in grants to the Blackfeet fund from 1998 to 2009 to support the litigation, in the expectation that the grants would be repaid in full after settlement. In 2013 in a suit filed in Washington, the Lannan Foundation said it was still seeking payment from Gingold, the lead counsel in the case, and had received only $1.8 million. The class-action suit was filed in October 1996 and is known as "Cobell v. Salazar" (Salazar was Secretary of

title: Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation
text: in Canada. Originally known as the Agricultural and Rural Restructuring Group (ARRG), CRRF is a national nonprofit society chartered in the Province of Alberta and a federally registered charity. CRRF assembles creative minds from rural communities, governments, universities and businesses to enable rural populations to succeed with these challenges. Specifically CRRF addresses: CRRF is governed by an elected board of directors. Current directors include: Ryan Gibson - President (Saskatchewan), William Ashton Treasurer (Manitoba), Heather Hall - Secretary (Newfoundland and Labrador), Robert Annis - Past President (British Columbia), Matthew Brett (Québec), Lars Hallstrom (Alberta), Al Lauzon (Ontario), Terri MacDonald (British Columbia),

title: Rural Action
text: is one of the largest rural developmental programs in the country. It has engaged more than 360 volunteers to help the communities in Appalachian, Ohio and was hosted until 2009. Since then, Rural Action has continued its tradition as a supporter of national service through the Ohio Stream Restore Corps, an AmeriCorps program of 14 members across six watersheds working on reclamation, water quality monitoring, environmental education, trail access, and waste and recycling. Michelle Decker is the current CEO of Rural Action. The last longterm Executive Director, and the first one, was Athens County social justice activist, Carol Kuhre. She

title: Lisa Kivirist
text: Sale", "Farmstead Chef", "ECOpreneuring" and "Rural Renaissance". As a writer, Kivirist contributes to Mother Earth News, Hobby Farms, Natural Awakenings and many other magazines. Kivirist founded and leads the Rural Women’s Project of the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES). In collaboration with other women farmers and the South Central Chapter of the Wisconsin Farmers Union and the Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation, Renewing the Countryside and the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, Kivirist guided the development of Soil Sisters: A Celebration of Wisconsin Farms and Rural Life, which has now grown to an annual weekend showcasing women farmers

title: Oaxaca Community Foundation
text: • Through the Youth for Oaxaca Summer Volunteerism Camp, OCF, in collaboration with the Oaxaca Fund for Nature Conservation, invites international, and local university students to spend three weeks in remote indigenous villages to participate in cultural exchanges and to work on community development projects. Oaxaca Community Foundation The Oaxaca Community Foundation (OCF), (Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca) is located in the city of Oaxaca de Juarez, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The foundation aims to support marginalized communities in the state of Oaxaca. Through donations and investments totaling nearly US$20 million from 13 foundations, 167 companies, three levels of various