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Keyla Vega: How an auto loan led to a career in nursing

Prior to this afternoon, Keyla and I had spent a total of four hours together...

The Moores: A family making Arizona more musical

The Moores don’t just walk into a room. They tumble...
Native Seed/SEARCH

THRIVE Native Seeds/SEARCH

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support the arid-adapted crop diversity of the Southwest in support of sustainable farming and food security.
THRIVE Cafe 54

A Recipe for Empowerment: Café 54

Café 54 is a non-profit job training organization under the umbrella of Coyote TaskForce.

Conspiracy Co-Op: Serving Healthy Food to Create Healthy Communities

Twenty years ago, it was rare—if not impossible—to find organic products in conventional grocery stores. Even the term organic was a buzzword typically found in cosmopolitan locales like New York

Stronger Together: How the BIPOC Community Found Financial Empowerment in the East Valley

THE AROMA OF CIGAR SMOKE and disappointment brought so much traction, so much visibility, not just for us, wafts through the air as Christian Brantley nurses a drink with his

I Am You 360

A Place Called Home: I Am You 360

I Am You 360 is a local non-profit that has developed a green, energy-efficient tiny home model.

Collaboration Over Competition: Blax Friday

Phoenix Coqui

Don’t Call It a Comeback: How Southern Arizona and Phoenix Small Businesses Emerged From the Pandemic Stronger Than Ever

It’s 10am on a Tuesday, a mere month into the worst pandemic seen in a generation, and Alexis Carbajal stands in a parking lot, sweating nervously. Just three weeks earlier,

Hem & Her Tucson

From Farm to Label: How Hem & Her Survived the Pandemic By Sticking to Their Roots

It was the year 2000, the turn of the millennium, when Joyce Feickert and Marv Kirchler finally bought the farm. More specifically, the couple purchased a 1920s farmhouse to renovate

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