âThatâs what us veterans need,â Surf City nonprofits accept grants
Surf City veterans surf groups By Kendall McGee | December 19, 2020 at 6:54 PM EST - Updated December 20 at 5:37 PM
SURF CITY, N.C. (WECT) - When you think of therapy, a cold morning surf under the American flag probably isnât what comes to mind, but surf therapy is exactly what Valerie Bennett looks forward to every third Saturday of the month.
âWhen youâre out there, its just. everything gets quiet,â said Bennett of time spent in the water.
Bennett served in the Marine Corps for 11 years. She was deployed three times in the Middle East, but today shes the chapter lead of Surf Cityâs One More Wave. Its a nonprofit group that makes surf therapy accessible to all veterans.
Ray C. Anderson Foundation s NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 Grant to Cultural Survival
Published 12-15-20
Submitted by Ray C. Anderson Foundation
Comité Ixtepecano en Defensa de la Vida y el Territorio - Binizá/Zapotec (México) Project: Implementation of the Guidxi Layú Agroecological Campesino School. Agricultural training school building, built with funds from KOEF, in use for a workshop called “Communality and Territorial Defense based on Indigenous Women’s Knowledge.”
December 15, 2020 /CSRwire/ - The NextGen Committee of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Cultural Survival to support grassroots Indigenous solutions to climate change.
The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is a private family foundation that was launched in 2012 to celebrate the legacy of Ray C. Anderson (1934-2011), a globally known industrialist turned environmentalist that was once named the “Greenest CEO” by Fortune magazine and a “Hero of the Environment” by