Catalysts for Change

<p>How do we shift to a clean energy economy, help communities adapt to climate change, and help responsible and local journalism survive?</p><p><br></p><p>Supported by an activist family foundation and often working closely with it, Vermont nonprofits have played vital roles in making positive progress on these and other complex challenges. The stories in <strong><em>Catalysts for Change</em></strong> tell what these partnerships have achieved, and how. </p><p><br></p><p>Highly readable, informative, and inspiring, <strong><em>Catalysts for Change</em></strong> begins with Claire Malcolm''s jarring experience as a newly trained nurse witnessing unsafe childbirth practices among the poor in China, where she lived and worked for nearly half a century. Widowed and living in Vermont later in life, Claire created the Lintilhac Foundation to help bring nurse-midwifery back into the American healthcare system, in Vermont''s largest hospital. Over the decades since Claire''s passing in 1