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On Mentorship, a Note from Friends Alliance Executive Director Katie Nyberg
I recently attended a retirement party for a good friend and mentor from the early days of my career. Like a lot of people, I graduated college without a clear sense of what I was going to do for work. Happily, I stumbled into a paid internship at the Bell Museum of Natural History in […]
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123 Partners Urge Congress to Reauthorize Legacy Restoration Fund
We, the National Park Foundation, the National Park Friends Alliance, and the community of official national park philanthropic partners listed below, urge Congress to reauthorize the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF) by passing the bipartisan America the Beautiful Act (S.1547 / H.R.9250) to continue supporting, protecting, and enhancing America’s 433 national parks.The LRF was first established […]
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Emmett Till Interpretive Center: Where History Sparks a Fire in Your Belly to Make the World a Better Place
Based in Sumner, Mississippi, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC) promotes restorative justice through public education, storytelling, and historic preservation, focusing on the 1955 Emmett Till tragedy to foster community healing and understanding to create a more equitable future. As an official park partner of the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument and as […]
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