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In The News …

Good morning, Washington! Let’s see what’s in the non-profit news this week …

Stewards of the Earth: One Planet, Many Faiths – This past Sunday, CBS News aired a “religion special that examines the ways members of faith communities are caring for the environment.” Featured first on the program were Lisa and Chris Bright, founders of Catalogue non-profit Earth Sangha and practicing Buddhists, “living their dharma (or life’s path) repairing the earth.” You can watch the full video right here.

High school gets teen off the street and into college — Just weeks after their selection for the 2011/2012 Catalogue, Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School celebrated its first graduation … and was featured on CNN. The piece centers on newly-graduated Derontae Mason, who went from homeless to college-bound; Mason is part of the school’s “first graduating class of 70 students, all of whom have already been accepted to various colleges and universities.”

How Seniors Get Stuck at Home With No Transit Options — From yesterday’s DC Streets Blog: “more than 20% of seniors do not drive at all in the spread-out, transit-poor communities where many of them live, seniors who don’t drive miss out on countless opportunities.” According to a newly-released report from Transportation for America, “seniors age 65 and older who no longer drive make 15 percent fewer trips to the doctor, 59 percent fewer trips to shop or eat out.” (So check out a few Catalogue charities that are working to provide both rides and company)

On Urban Education — An interesting question posed on Urbanophile (directed from Greater Greater Washingt0n): ” The conventional wisdom would suggest that until we fix the schools, we’ll never attract families back to the city what if that reverses cause and effect? What if rather than improving the schools before we can attract families back to the city, it will be attracting families back to the city that improves the schools?” And could “bottoms up organic change” have a greater, or at least more immediate, effect that local or federal reform?

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