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Kate Lingbeek
Kate joined the Plant With Purpose board in 2026. She works for a private foundation and brings a strong background in community development and agriculture. She earned a BA in...
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Plant With Purpose Joins the Trillion Tree Movement
...With Purpose seeks holistic change that leads to entire community development and the renewal of both people and their local environment. As a Christian organization, Plant With Purpose integrates these...
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About Our Work, Environmental Restoration, Resources, Sustainability
Top 10 World-Changing Solutions to Poverty
...Community-Led Savings Groups Savings groups are no longer the best kept secret in international development, largely because their popularity has boomed over the past few years. In communities across Africa,...
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Climate Solutions
Refocusing the Climate Change Conversation: A Conversation about Environmental Restoration
...go back to Africa from time to time. I’ve been in international development, I’ve really focused my entire career over the last over 28 years on addressing sustainable development. Particularly...
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Caroline Hui
...and Myanmar, where she led needs assessments on livelihoods, early recovery, and multi-purpose cash interventions. She previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development, providing monitoring, evaluation, and information...
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What you need to know about Ethiopia's environment
...Ethiopia’s population are rural subsistence farmers. They typically live from harvest-to-harvest and are among the most vulnerable to food shortages. A report from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development...
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All, Burundi
Knowledge Empowers
Empowerment often takes the form of learning When it comes to community development, you can give away food. You can give clothing. You can give scholarships, or water, or trees....
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About Our Work
Three Ways Plant With Purpose Practices Partners Not Projects
...savings group facilitation, and watershed restoration, it is local leaders who adapt and spread these practices in ways that fit their culture and environment. This approach fosters long-term resilience. Development...
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All, Our Response
How to prioritize listening to locals
...& Bok Chee share a meal as neighbors and friends. We believe in making decisions collaboratively So often in the world of international development, decisions are made at a central...
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About Our Work
Loaves, Fish, and the Power of Collaboration
When I was hired nearly 33 years ago, I knew relatively little about community development, reforestation, or nonprofit management. I had little cross-cultural experience and had spent one unfortunate summer...
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Remembering our friend, Peter Illyn
...implementation, and has a significant poverty alleviation component. As a result, we have been a part of both the creation care and Christian relief and development worlds. The contrast between...
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Run Like Jenny
...Fonds-Verrettes. The community in Eastern Haiti is one where Plant With Purpose has worked for many years. She and her family had helped support many initiatives towards the community’s development,...
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Plant With Purpose Appoints Craig Jaggers as New Chief Executive Officer
...announced the appointment of Craig Jaggers as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Jaggers brings over two decades of visionary leadership and global development experience helping people and planet thrive...
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The world's poorest communities dispel a major myth about the environment
...growth and development bring something very important to conversations about the environment and economic development– proof that the two are not in conflict. 85% of people living in poverty around...
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About Our Work
Causes, Effects and Solutions to Environmental Degradation
...agriculture to support my family… Relying only on agriculture hindered my development. I also dreamed of starting some commerce, but I never had the financial resources to get started with...
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