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🎉 July is Disability Pride Month, a chance for the disability community to show the world all of its beauty. It is also a time for all disabled people to unapologetically celebrate their bodies exactly as they are.
🏳️🌈 Despite the government's national ban, the Budapest Pride parade was bigger than ever, with more than 100,000 people marching through the Hungarian capital, far more than had taken part in past events.
🗳 Following the mayoral primary in New York City, more than 5,000 people have reached out to Run For Something to express interest in running for office.
Animals
Photo: National Park Service
Texas saw a new record number of endangered sea turtle nests on its coastline
As of mid-June, biologists in Texas have documented 383 Kemp's ridley turtle nests — breaking the previous record of 353 set in 2017. Last year, there were only 340. Nesting season is still underway, so that number could end up being even higher.
Most of the world's Kemp's ridley turtles nest on a beach in Mexico, but Texas has become an important nesting ground thanks to joint conservation efforts.
Decades of collaboration, patience, and the involvement of "thousands of people" volunteering to help have helped raise the number of nests.
Why is this good news? The Kemp's ridley is the smallest and most endangered sea turtle on the planet. The commitment of both Texas and Mexico, along with local coastal communities, to aid their recovery demonstrates the importance of dedicated conservation efforts.
An Interior Department policy asked national park visitors to report 'negative' content — they're complimenting rangers instead
Even after funding and staffing cuts, the national parks were hit with a new Interior Department policy: posted signs asked visitors to report not just maintenance needs or service improvements, but "negative" history.
Fortunately, the new signs had the opposite effect. A review of hundreds of comments submitted found that the vast majority of visitors used the feedback forms to praise park programs, rangers, tour guides, and more.
"The park rangers and volunteers at Catoctin are fantastic and go above and beyond to tell the full American story," one visitor commented from the Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland.
Why is this good news? National parks and monuments are beautiful, no doubt — and they tell the whole truth about the country's history. They help us remember even the dark parts of U.S. history, like the Underground Railroad and the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Good Data
Charitable giving grew to nearly $600 billion in 2024
An annual report found that U.S. charitable giving increased 3.3% to US$593 billion in 2024, the second-highest level on record after adjusting for inflation.
Giving grew at the fastest pace since 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic led many Americans to make larger-than-usual donations. It was also the first time since then that growth in giving outpaced inflation.
The report found that a strong economy, which grew 2.8% in 2024, bolstered individual and corporate giving and allowed foundations to maintain historically high levels of giving. Additionally, stock markets performed well that year, personal income rose, and inflation eased.
After USAID cuts hit Jane Goodall's reforestation initiative, an internet search engine stepped in to fill the gap
In 2019, the Jane Goodall Institute received funding support from USAID to create its Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania initiative, a five-year, $29.5 million program that would help mitigate threats to chimpanzees and their ecosystems and uplift surrounding communities.
The program officially launched in 2023, but under the Trump administration's budget cuts, lost its funding, threatening the future of the entire initiative, but one particularly crucial reforestation effort in Tanzania's Gombe Masito Ugalla biosphere reserve.
Why is this good news? Preserving critical ecosystems around the world impacts all of us — whether we're nearby or far away. While short of the full funding amont, Ecosia's support will plant 360,000 seedlings, protect 20 existing nurseries, and preserve local jobs overseeing the care of these trees.
Providing a safe place to play, a summer camp in Ohio hosted wounded children from Gaza
Three dozen wounded Palestinian children and their families got a break from the war raging in Gaza at a summer camp in Ohio's Mohican State Park.
They were hosted by HEAL Palestine, which helps the youngest victims of the war in Gaza, running field hospitals and food kitchens, and providing educational programs.
After realizing they were confronting "the largest population of child amputees in modern history," the nonprofit organized the summer camp for the dozens of children they've brought to the U.S. to receive specialized care.
Why is this good news? All children deserve to laugh, play, and grow in safety, peace, and stability. At the camp, the children could experience all of those things alongside others like them, in a space designed for them.
We're thrilled to announce: The National Parks Edition
Whether you've recently tuned into national park news or you've been a lifelong visitor to these public lands, the (first-ever!) National Parks Edition of the Goodnewspaper will remind you that they belong to us and that we have a responsibility to protect them.
You'll read about AI breakthroughs with wolf howls at Yellowstone, the resistance and resilience of rangers, Indigenous stewardship, collaborative efforts to save public lands, ways you can join those efforts, and more.
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