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Many organizations can get a helping hand this year by applying to the 2021 A Community Thrives program, a $2.3M initiative of the Gannett Foundation.

A Community Thrives: Gannett Foundation calls for applications in national, local crowdfunding and grant program Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY © TJ Samuels , courtesy of Food Rescue US - Detroit In partnership with the Farm Link Project, Food Rescue Detroit distributes 42,000 pounds of potatoes to agencies feeding people throughout the metro area. The pandemic has created financial challenges for many nonprofits and municipal organizations aimed at helping their communities.  G...

Community Thrives launches 2021 program June 1

Plans call for affordable rental units in an underserved New Bern black community, followed by building homes for ownership.

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The arena they were working, but back at it and other states are following. friday a judge in georgia ruled that absentee ballots in fulton county -- atlanta -- could be unsealed and viewed. 61% believe the president was stolen and 53% believe hes true president right now. interesting philosophical question about what that means. doesnt help that representatives of congress are pushing the lie every day. lauren winsor of "the undercurrent," goes in to talk to members of congress. pretended to be...

Trump. 53% of republicans believe that donald trump is the true president right now. surely an interesting philosophical question about what exactly that means. now, it doesnt help that elected members of congress are out there pushing these lies day after day. i want to show you some video from a rally in arizona last week. the woman you will see talking is lauren windsor. shes executive producer of the political reporting web show, the undercurrent. she tends to go in with the camera and talk ...

Supervisor hickman, a republican who supported donald trump, told our colleague vaughn hillyard. >> i am hoping that maricopa county will be able to survive this audit process. i am hoping if something comes to court we can show maricopa county has always acted on evidence and facts and not beliefs and hunches. >> reporter: election experts have talked about whats happening in arizona as a possible dangerous precedent moving forward just a couple days ago congressman matt gates talked about what...

Theyre not finding anything, i guess. maybe the vote in arizona was actually just fine. does anyone feel better about the process there based on what weve seen with the cyber ninjas over the last few weeks? >> the question is at what point will they actually come forward with the report? because right now the folks -- only the folks that are using this to their perceived advantage are the like of matt gaetz who is in arizona on friday with marjorie taylor greene, but not just them two, they were...

I want to ask you about comment from congressman gaetz, saying your state was going to become the launch pad for this to happen in other states. are you fearful that that will happen and arizona really will be a model for this? >> i definitely hope not. well continue to hold these auditors to account. were going to question everything they come out with in terps of their report. what we conducted in 2020 was a safe, secure and accurate election. unfortunately, their candidate, the republican -- ...