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34 to explore, 3 One Good Story Project films, 2 subtopic guides and 29 curated resources, on the theme of community.

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A Second Chance at Life

Days before turning 27, Iman Aghay nearly bled to death in a hospital bed and promised himself that a second…

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Home

Getting a family off the street only works if they stay housed. Humble Design furnishes their empty spaces with care…

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(Grandma Sparky) She Survived Abuse to Start a Movement with a goal to reach 1 Billion kids.

At 37 she nearly ended her life. At 83 she has honored hundreds of thousands of people with a blue…

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Mental health

Mental Health Recovery

A man sitting alone on a curb beside a fire hydrant on a city street.

Homelessness

Documentaries

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Lead Me Home film poster

Community Lead Me Home 2021 Lead Me Home is a 2021 short documentary by Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk. Filmed over three years in cities across the… Read more

Books

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Cover of Bounce Forward by Amy Purdy

Community Bounce Forward: 21 Tools to Live a Life Beyond Limits by Amy Purdy Amy Purdy published "Bounce Forward: 21 Tools to Live a Life Beyond Limits" in April 2026, eleven years after her original memoir.… Read more

Audacity book cover, by Katie Goar

Community Audacity: Go from Wannabe Leader to the Leader Others Wannabe by Katie Goar Audacity is Katie Goar’s leadership guide for women who are ready to lead without waiting for permission. She writes from her own… Read more

Front cover of Who I Am Makes a Difference by Helice Bridges.

Community Who I Am Makes a Difference by Helice Bridges Who I Am Makes a Difference is Helice Bridges' collection of true stories from the blue ribbon ceremony she created, the same… Read more

Front cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.

Community Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Evicted follows eight families in Milwaukee, and the landlords who rent to them, through the cycle of eviction and its aftermath. Matthew… Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul book cover

Community Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen The original 1993 collection of 101 short true stories, compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen and published by Health Communications.… Read more

Podcasts

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Cover art for the Good News Gurus podcast

Community Good News Gurus Hosted by Geri Weis-Corbley and Anthony Samadani Good News Gurus is the podcast from the Good News Network. Geri Weis-Corbley and Anthony Samadani host it, the episodes share uplifting… Read more

ChangeMakers with Katie Goar podcast cover art

Community ChangeMakers with Katie Goar Hosted by Katie Goar ChangeMakers is a Forbes Books podcast hosted by Katie Goar, president of the affordable housing firm Quadel. Each episode is a long… Read more

Respark Your Life podcast cover art

Community Respark Your Life Hosted by Raymond Aaron Raymond Aaron's Respark Your Life features conversations about purpose and contribution. Episode 85, "Who I Am Makes a Difference with Grandma Sparky,"… Read more

1 Girl Revolution episode 61 artwork

Community 1 Girl Revolution Hosted by Kate Milligan 1 Girl Revolution tells the stories of women changing the world. Episode 61, "Treger's Story: Furnishing The Homes of Those Transitioning Out… Read more

Organizations

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National Alliance to End Homelessness Community National Alliance to End Homelessness The National Alliance to End Homelessness created three benchmarks to help communities see whether rapid rehousing programs are working. The goals are… Learn more

Desmond Jackson of the United States competing in the men’s T42 long jump at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, wearing a below-the-knee sports prosthesis. Photograph by Fernando Frazao, Agencia Brasil, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence.

Community So Every BODY Can Move United States, state by state So Every BODY Can Move is a national policy and advocacy effort launched in 2022 by four national nonprofit partners, the American… Learn more

Community Adaptive Action Sports Copper Mountain, Colorado Amy Purdy and Daniel Gale founded Adaptive Action Sports in 2005, after she had struggled to find a way back into snowboarding… Learn more

Eviction Lab, the eviction research lab at Princeton University

Community Eviction Lab Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey The Eviction Lab is a research team at Princeton University founded by sociologist Matthew Desmond in 2017. It published the first national… Learn more

Community The Furniture Bank Network United States and Canada The Furniture Bank Network connects local furniture banks across the United States and Canada. Each one takes donated furniture and uses it… Learn more

Vancouver Business Network banner on dark blue, headed An Entrepreneurs International Network Branch, with portraits of founder Iman Aghay and organizer Becky Askerlund.

Community Vancouver Business Network Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The Vancouver Business Network is a community of active and aspiring small business owners and entrepreneurs in Vancouver, British Columbia. Iman Aghay… Learn more

Community Humble Design Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and San Diego Humble Design furnishes empty living spaces for families coming out of homelessness, free of charge and with real attention to how each… Learn more

Community Blue Ribbons Worldwide San Diego, California Blue Ribbons Worldwide is the home of the "Who I Am Makes A Difference" Blue Ribbon Ceremony, a one-minute way to tell… Learn more

Community New Directions for Veterans Los Angeles, California New Directions for Veterans started in 1992, when two formerly homeless Vietnam veterans and a local advocate opened a five-bedroom house in… Learn more

Changemakers

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Ann Oliva Community Ann Oliva Chief Executive Officer, National Alliance to End Homelessness Ann Oliva helped build the two federal programs that now sit on either side of the same question. Rapid re-housing is short-term,… Learn more

Robin Wall Kimmerer smiling, wearing a patterned plum top and long shell earrings, in front of a painted landscape backdrop.

Community Robin Wall Kimmerer Botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor… Learn more

Robin Danehav, documentary filmmaker

Community Robin Danehav Documentary filmmaker Danehav spent years running production companies and filming for more than 600 corporate clients. In 2022 he took a big risk and… Learn more

Matthew Desmond, sociologist at Princeton University

Community Matthew Desmond Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He wrote Evicted after living for more than a… Learn more

Katie Goar, president of Quadel and host of the ChangeMakers podcast

Community Katie Goar President, Quadel Katie Goar is the president of Quadel, a national firm that helps housing agencies and property owners run affordable housing programs. She… Learn more

Treger Strasberg

Community Treger Strasberg Founder & CEO, Humble Design Strasberg’s idea is that furniture is what makes housing stick. A bed and a room that feels like yours turn a rented… Learn more

Helice “Grandma Sparky” Bridges

Community Helice “Grandma Sparky” Bridges Founder, Blue Ribbons Worldwide Sparky's premise is simple. Nearly everyone she honors tells her no one has ever told them they mattered. The ceremony exists to… Learn more

Companies

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Community Lightbeam Lightbeam Stories, Inc. produced the short documentary about Amy Purdy that Good News Network published in August 2022. Its channel describes Lightbeam… Learn more

Community Good News Network Manassas, Virginia Geri Weis-Corbley launched the Good News Network in 1997 from her lakeside home while raising three kids, and she is still its… Learn more

Community Quadel Indianapolis, Indiana Quadel is a consulting firm that has worked in affordable housing since 1975. It helps public housing agencies and property owners run… Learn more

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