Master Reference list

 Working with a purpose 

1. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. (2025). Post-fire reforestation in the western United States: Lessons from 30 years of recovery.
2. ScienceDirect. (2024). Seedling survival and vegetation regrowth in burned conifer forests of California.
3. Wired. (2022). City trees save lives: How green spaces cool neighborhoods and reduce heat-related deaths.
4. UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions. (2023). Extreme Heat and Tree Canopy Inequity in Los Angeles County
5. The Nature Conservancy. (2021). Wildfire Resilience Funding and Community Benefits. 
6. TreePeople. (2023). Climate Gardening 101: Building resilience through urban forestry.
7. California Natural Resources Agency. (2023). Forest Stewardship and Climate Workforce Strategy Report.

Seed the Change  

1. CAL FIRE. (2024). Wildfire statistics and defensible space guidelines. 
2. Brooks, M. L., et al. (2004). Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes: A BioScience Perspective 
3. USDA Forest Service. (2022). Wildland urban interface risk analysis.
4. Quinn, R. D. (1994). Fire ecology of a native California grassland. Journal of Range Management.

1. Bennett, B. J., Hall, K. D., Hu, F. B., McCartney, A. L., & Roberto, C. (2015). Nutrition and the science of disease prevention: A systems approach to support metabolic health. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1352(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12945
2. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (2023). California wildfire and forest resilience action plan. https://wildfiretaskforce.org/action-plan/
3. Carlson, A. R., Hawbaker, T. J., Mockrin, M. H., Radeloff, V. C., Bair, L. S., Caggiano, M. D., Meldrum, J. R., Alexandre, P. M., Kramer, H. A., & Steblein, P. F. (2025). Rising rates of wildfire building destruction in the conterminous United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(51), e2505886122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505886122
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5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023). National diabetes statistics report. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report
6. Dennett, J. M., Soltas, E. J., Goda, G. S., Thornhill, T. A., Werner, K., & Gonsalves, G. S. (2025). Enduring outcomes of COVID-19 work absences on the U.S. labor market. JAMA Network Open, 8(10), e2536635. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.36635
7. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2025). National Disaster Recovery Framework. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/frameworks/recovery
8. Grossi, G., & Argento, D. (2022). The fate of accounting for public governance development. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(9), 272–303. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2020-5001
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11. Huang, X., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., & Chen, J. (2025). [Article title as shown in your PDF]. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2024.109620
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13. U.S. Forest Service. (2022). The rising cost of wildfire operations: Effects on the Forest Service budget. U.S. Department of Agriculture. https://www.fs.usda.gov
14. Yu, J., & Chaturvedi, E. (2025). California’s wildfire crisis and the future of planetary resilience. In A. Cilento, F. Penna, G. Antonelli, & E. Chaturvedi (Eds.), Planetary health: Laws, policies and science on the “One Health” approach (pp. 81–109). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90621-3_6

 Navigating Revenue Diversification: Balancing Financial Sustainability and Mission Alignment in Small Environmental Nonprofits 

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2. Bruder, I. M. (2025). From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond. Organization Studies, 46(3), 385–407. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251314591
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8. Hung, C., & Hager, M. A. (2019). The Impact of Revenue Diversification on Nonprofit Financial Health: A Meta-analysis. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(1), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018807080
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