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Hundreds of students, their families, teachers, and neighbors from Nanmen Primary School in Doumen, Guangdong Province, attended an educational workshop on community-based energy efficiency and sustainable development on November 13, 2009.

On October 2, 2009, citizens from across Belgrade gathered in Pioneers Park to protest growing human rights violations, violence, murder, and safety threats in Serbian society.

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), has released a new guide that describes strategies and stories of how local civic engagement has developed over the past decade.

Country reports using the increasingly popular Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework, created by RBF grantees EcoEquity (a project of Earth Island Institute) and the Stockholm Environment Institute, are now available for Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and the Netherlands.

Despite polling place issues in 2000 and 2004, and fears that they would reoccur in the last election, the vast majority of Americans said they had a positive voting experience in 2008 and intend to remain active in their communities.

The American Prospect, an RBF grantee, has issued a special report on revitalizing democracy. The special issue highlights the relationship between economic and political inequality.

Center for Climate Strategies, a project of RBF-funded Enterprising Environmental Solutions, has released a new report on the economic benefits of climate action, drawing on years of experience in several American states.

Everyday Democracy and Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantees AmericaSpeaks, Inc. and Demos, A Network for Ideas & Action, Ltd., have released a report, "An Agenda for Strengthening Our Nation's Democracy."

The Center of Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York has released a case study, "Mapping Foundation Engagement: Music Philanthropy in New York City."

Michael Northrop, director of the Sustainable Development program at the RBF, illustrates how the deepening economic crisis presents a prime opportunity for American cities to rebuild the economy based on low carbon, clean energy.