Closing the Digital Divide

We want to empower people with skills so that they can
help themselves.

— A Plus Educational Research and Development

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Community Development

People who want to rebuild and save their neighborhoods, and who want to make these neighborhoods viable again, are coming together with the same old-fashioned, barn-raising ideals that this country was built on.

— Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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Preserving Land

We recommit ourselves to protecting the places that people cherish: trails where our families can walk together, the integrity of a working farm or ranch, the natural areas where the silence is broken only by the whispering of wildlife.

— Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

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Urban Growth

A general plan is the most effective mechanism for setting community goals and priorities for the future, and for promoting more orderly, efficient and attractive patterns of growth and urban revitalization.

— Blueprint Houston Committee

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Water

Over the past 50 years, we’ve laid claim to so much water from [Texas] systems that a third of our natural springs have stopped flowing, aquifers in some areas are slowly being pumped dry, and the flows in some rivers have diminished to the point where they could dry up at least part of the year.

— National Wildlife Federation

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