Photo Credits
The photographs on weavers.org come from Weave: The Social Fabric Project, its Community Hosts, and the weavers and partners in its stories.
Photographs
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Baltimore Weaver Awardees walking together
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The 2026 Northwest Arkansas Weaver Awardees
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In Raleigh, NC, boys and mentors gather regularly to talk about what healthy masculinity means to them.
Photo: Journeymen Triangle
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Student facilitators lead conversations on education in Corbin, KY.
Photo: Kentucky Student Voice Team
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Baltimore Weaver Awardees on M&T Bank Field
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Second Helping NWA volunteers serve BBQ to neighbors in Fayetteville, AR.
Photo: Nate Walls/Second Helping NWA
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The Rev. Dr. Kyle Goodman holds a conversation with his faith community on transforming unused church property in Greensboro, N.C.
Photo: Daniel Pryfogle
In As church pews emptied, these congregations saw an opportunity
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Volunteers helping students with homework in Norcross, GA
Photo: Boy With a Ball
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Hip hop artist Colby Jeffers performing a concert for a crowd in front of Arizona’s State Capitol
Photo: Colby Jeffers
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Weave team at the Weave The People event in Wilkesboro, NC
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David Brooks at the Aspen Ideas Festival
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Executive Director Frederick Riley at the Baltimore Weaver Awards
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Weave pins, December 2022
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Neighbors in the Green Belt Movement, started by Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, plant tree seedlings in Tumutumu Hills, Kenya.
Photo: Ariel Poster / Taking Roots Film
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Packages of naloxone, a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses
Photo: Steve Rummler Hope Network
In How a young volunteer learned to care for people with addiction
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Can basket weaving build social connection? The Knox County library decided to find out.
Photo: Josh Cole
In A young volunteer returned home to build better connection
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Forested mountains of the Appalachian foothills, with a bare granite dome rising out of the trees.
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Neighbors share a meal at one long table set down the middle of a small-town main street.
Photo: Dottie Fromal
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A man in a suit stands with four young women in front of a colorful mural on a brick wall.
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In How This NYC Teacher Helps Immigrant Students ‘Weave’ Community in a New Country
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A smiling man in glasses, photographed close up indoors.
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In An Inner City Teacher Weaves Community Through Photography
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Girls and a woman pose on a stone wall below a granite mountain face.
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In Living and Learning Among Refugees in the ‘Ellis Island of the South’
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A teacher sits at her desk under a wall of framed portraits; a pennant banner on the desk reads Mrs. Helberg.
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In A Rural Teacher Challenges Students and Her Community to Wrestle With the World
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A woman with curly hair and a beaded necklace looks across a room hung with artwork.
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In A Former Journalist Reignites an Intergenerational Haven For Portland’s Youth
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“School wasn’t a place where I was ever seen… I never had anybody in my entire career as a student ever asked me how you know, what’s going on? How are you doing? And all the signs were there that I was going through a heavy amount of abuse,” said Elias, who formerly taught and worked in Portland Public Schools for two decades. “I very early learned that for my own practice, I had to see young folks as people before I saw them as students.” (Marianna McMurdock)
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A man and a boy in face masks walk along a sidewalk outside a school at dusk.
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In Educator. Mentor. Translator. How One Man Aided Immigrant Families Through COVID
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A man stands at the entrance of a school as a masked student walks down the steps past him.
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In Amid COVID, Closures & Zoom a Teacher Fights to Preserve School Relationships
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Two high school students talk with a young man in a blazer in a hallway hung with paper snowflakes.
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In Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way
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Marissa Dias, left, studies with other YPIE scholars. (Asher Lehrer-Small)
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YPIE grad Citlalli Rojas Huerta with her first academic publication. (Asher Lehrer-Small)
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A smiling man in a blazer greets people at an outdoor gathering.
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Jaclyn’s mother teaching family how to cook appetizers over a Zoom call
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In A Socially-Distant Thanksgiving Bites, But That isn’t Stopping Us from #WeavingCommunity
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The author, Bob Hone
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Frederick Riley in elementary school.
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The front window of The Hive located in Nelsonville, Ohio.
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A man and an older woman smile cheek to cheek outdoors, in front of green trees.
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In My Mother’s Advice for Living, Loving and Leading through Crisis
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Frederick Riley with his mother, Ruth Riley, and his nephew, Christian Pruitt
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Coworkers around a conference table reach in for a group high five.
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People wearing name tags serve themselves from trays of food at a community dinner.
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A man hands out food to a crowd of children gathered outside a food truck.
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People in a park hold up a hand-painted WEAVE THE PEOPLE banner at an outdoor festival.
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Portrait of Trey Jackson.
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Portrait of Komari Crisp.
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Portrait of Carmen Anarella.
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Portraits of the Weave team and Community Advisors are their own, published by Weave. National BIG READ Partner logos belong to their organizations.