Message from the President and CEO. Our mission, to build an economy that provides for life, is vital and urgent, but it also demands deep patience. This is work that requires thoughtful cultivation, a healthy appetite for exploring the unknown, and a willingness to learn from failure. Along the way, everything we do is nourished by the deepening relationships with people and place. These are the connections that grow quietly below the surface, sustaining the important action unfolding above ground. This is a garden of ideas, people, and projects that we have tended for more than thirty years. The importance of cultivating the roots of change in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities cannot be overstated. In each of these communities ...
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