Interview by Jeanne Dasaro March 2010 The Heidelberg Project is an open-air art environment in Detroit’s East Side. I first encountered it when I was maybe 10 years old. My father’s company maintained several properties in Detroit. Each weekend we would drive from site to site to check the progress of the previous week’s work....
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Story by Ellen Lempereur On June 30th, the 29th graduating class from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization’s Moving from Debt to Assets (MFDTA) program wore colorful scarves instead of caps and gowns. With hennaed fingertips, palms and soles, 25 Somali-American women celebrated their first step on the road to financial freedom. Whether they joined...
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Photo by Heber Vega Interview by Alexis Schroeder Prosperity Candle invests in women entrepreneurs in distressed areas of the world—places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, and Rwanda—who are excited to start their own businesses producing candles for local and international markets. The company was founded to empower women entrepreneurs in places of conflict so that they...
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Story by Aaron Devine, Photographs by Leise Jones It’s been a long time coming, but the transformation of the abandoned Jack’s Store into a super-insulated, energy efficient home on the corner of Bourne and Catherine Streets in Jamaica Plain is complete. Earlier this month, Andrée Zaleska, Ken Ward, and their three children Kuba (age...
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Interview by Jeanne Dasaro The mission of Cultural Agents is simple: to promote the arts and humanities as social resources. Through arts education, Cultural Agents expands citizens’ imagination and resourcefulness so that together, people are more capable of solving community problems. The initiative identifies creative agents of change, reflects on best practices, and inspires...
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Interview by Alexis Schroeder March 2010 I first met dancer/choreographer Anna Myer as a student in her ballet class. Soon thereafter, I learned about a project she was working on called Street Talk, Suite Talk with her company, Anna Myer and Dancers. The piece addresses issues of conflict and violence, the coming together of diverse...
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Interview by Jeanne Dasaro Industrial remnants and artistic creation—two things you may not associate with each other that when paired, create a social phenomenon called Arts and Scraps. Arts and Scraps is a nonprofit organization in Detroit’s eastside, a location conducive to acquiring plenty of industrial scrap materials. Arts and Scraps reclaims and reuses...
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Interview by Elizabeth Harvey The Tamworth Community Nurse Association is a nonprofit organization in the rural town of Tamworth, New Hampshire. It provides residents free health services, such as dressing changes, medical equipment loans, and flu clinics. TCNA provides local care that may otherwise require an expensive hospital visit, as well as care typically...
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Interview by Alexis Schroeder Joe Finn has served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance since 2003. Prior to MHSA, Joe served as Executive Director of Shelter, Inc. (now Heading Home) in Cambridge and Quincy Interfaith Sheltering Coalition (now Father Bills & MainSpring) in Quincy. Throughout the 17 years he has worked on...
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Interview by Alexis Schroeder After speaking with Joe Finn, President and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, about MHSA’s history, current work, and the Housing First movement (click here to read the interview), I sat down with more MHSA staff to ask some of the bigger questions about what it is...
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