Resources

Nada Djordjevich hopes to provide the opportunity for her readers and audience to experience compassion for other people’s lives and experiences, without being polemical or prescriptive about solutions. Her characters live in a society with many challenges - economic, social, and environmental. The list below identifies some of the contemporary issues raised within her feature scripts, such as the challenges of returning veterans and equitable arts access for public schools. She has curated a few links to resources for those who wish to dive more deeply into these issues.

Common Ground: Veterans, Farmers, Sustainable Agriculture and Community

Armed Services Supports

Arts In The Armed Forces:  AITAF’s mission is to use the shared experience of the arts to start conversations between military and civilian, service member and family member, the world of the arts and the world of practical action.

Numerous veteran-support organizations and the challenges they face are identified in this article “Veterans’ Groups Complete with Each Other, and Struggle with the Veteran’s Administration,”The New York Times, January 4, 2019.

Farming & Sustainable Agriculture

In this City Arts and Lectures conversation, Davia Nelson talks with Dolores Huerta and Alice Waters about the struggle for agricultural workers’ rights and sustainable food systems.

Food Tank is a news organization that highlights hope and success in agriculture from around the country and the globe.

Local Harvest provides a directory of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and local farms for those wishing to support farms directly.

Community Food Access

How to Support Black-Owned Restaurants in Your Community from FoodandWine.Com provides a list of resources for supporting black-owned restaurants across the nation during these challenging times.

“What are the implications of the  COVID-19 situation – now and in the future – for food production,  agricultural and fishery/aquaculture supply chains and markets?” from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO, 2020].

Fetch! - Environmental Issues and Animal Rescue

The Milo Foundation: The mission of The Milo Foundation is to rescue adoptable dogs and cats from high-kill animal control shelters and adopt them to loving homes best suited to provide lifetime care. This link provides more information about their organization and other like rescue agencies.

Sunrise Movement is building an army of young people to create millions of good jobs and stop climate change in the process.

Much Ado About Something - Arts Equity in Education

The Performing Arts Alliance advocates for America’s professional nonprofit arts sector before Congress and key policy makers.

Americans for the Arts envisions a country where everyone has access to—and takes part in—high quality and lifelong learning experiences in the arts, both in school and in the community.

Resources

Nada Djordjevich hopes to provide the opportunity for her readers and audience to experience compassion for other people’s lives and experiences, without being polemical or prescriptive about solutions. Her characters live in a society with many challenges - economic, social, and environmental. The list below identifies some of the contemporary issues raised within her feature scripts, such as the challenges of returning veterans and equitable arts access for public schools. She has curated a few links to resources for those who wish to dive more deeply into these issues.

Common Ground: Veterans, Farmers, Sustainable Agriculture and Community

Armed Services Supports

Arts In The Armed Forces:  AITAF’s mission is to use the shared experience of the arts to start conversations between military and civilian, service member and family member, the world of the arts and the world of practical action.

Numerous veteran-support organizations and the challenges they face are identified in this article “Veterans’ Groups Complete with Each Other, and Struggle with the Veteran’s Administration,”The New York Times, January 4, 2019.

Farming & Sustainable Agriculture

In this City Arts and Lectures conversation, Davia Nelson talks with Dolores Huerta and Alice Waters about the struggle for agricultural workers’ rights and sustainable food systems.

Food Tank is a news organization that highlights hope and success in agriculture from around the country and the globe.

Local Harvest provides a directory of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and local farms for those wishing to support farms directly.

Community Food Access

How to Support Black-Owned Restaurants in Your Community from FoodandWine.Com provides a list of resources for supporting black-owned restaurants across the nation during these challenging times.

“What are the implications of the  COVID-19 situation – now and in the future – for food production,  agricultural and fishery/aquaculture supply chains and markets?” from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO, 2020].

Fetch! - Environmental Issues and Animal Rescue

The Milo Foundation: The mission of The Milo Foundation is to rescue adoptable dogs and cats from high-kill animal control shelters and adopt them to loving homes best suited to provide lifetime care. This link provides more information about their organization and other like rescue agencies.

Sunrise Movement is building an army of young people to create millions of good jobs and stop climate change in the process.

Much Ado About Something - Arts Equity in Education

The Performing Arts Alliance advocates for America’s professional nonprofit arts sector before Congress and key policy makers.

Americans for the Arts envisions a country where everyone has access to—and takes part in—high quality and lifelong learning experiences in the arts, both in school and in the community.