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Blog Entries - Dec. 2025

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Photo courtesy of REACH

Grantee Spotlight: Refugee Education and Adventure Challenge

Refugee Education and Adventure Challenge (REACH) is an outdoor recreation organization based in Chicago that serves refugee youth and their families. REACH was founded in 2015 by Shana Wills, who had decades of

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Heather Kuhlken
Image courtesy of Families in Nature.

Heather Kuhlken Awarded NRF’s 2025 Crawford Prize

For the past 10 years, I have been planning how we [Families in Nature] can meaningfully scale our work, how we can replicate it, and how there can be thousands of me instead of just me. The Crawford Prize will allow us

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Middle Childhood Needs Increased Focus

Many youth development interventions focus on two critical periods of childhood: the early years and the adolescent years. While there is a lot of data to suggest that these are the two greatest periods of change for

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