Using a strengths-based approach, Smart From the Start works to promote school readiness and eliminate the educational achievement gap among children in Boston’s lowest 10% income families. They provide an array of wrap-around services to give families the tools and resources they need to create stability in their lives and enable parents and caregivers...
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In September, I attended an Art of Hosting gathering called the Art of Participatory Leadership and Social Change in New York City. The hosting team for this event called the gathering around the question, “What is the new conversation in social justice and equity that you are longing to have?” A few weeks later,...
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In partnership with community groups, workers' rights groups, and concerned citizens, Sugar Law Center provides legal advocacy and technical support to empower individuals and communities seeking systemic change with regard to economic and social justice. Sugar Law has been instrumental in many fair-employment, mass-layoff, and environmental justice cases.
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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. With its famous polka dot...
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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.
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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 may not only survive, but thrive.
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This is the fifth in a series of podcasts from NPi’s community dialogue featuring three Boston-based social justice organizations. In this edition, Hilary Allen (Community Engagement Manager at the Boston Center for Community and Justice), David Crowley (President and Founder of Social Capital Inc.), and Kaia Stern (Director of the Prison Studies Project/Pathways Home)...
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Street Talk, Suite Talk has been developed through a collaborative process involving Anna, seven young poet-rappers, seven dancers, composer Jakov Jakoulov, and violinist Mark Berger. Advisors to the project include Anthony Toombs of Project Joy and Robert Macy from the On-Track Initiative, part of the Center for Trauma Psychology.
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This is the fourth in a series of podcasts from NPi’s community dialogue featuring three Boston-based social justice organizations. In this edition, Hilary Allen (Community Engagement Manager at the Boston Center for Community and Justice, David Crowley (President and Founder of Social Capital Inc.), and Kaia Stern (Director of the Prison Studies Project/Pathways Home) discuss...
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This is the third in a series of podcasts from NPi’s May 2009 community dialogue featuring three Boston-based social justice organizations. In this edition, Hilary Allen (Community Engagement Manager at the Boston Center for Community and Justice, David Crowley (President and Founder of Social Capital Inc.), and Kaia Stern (Director of the Prison Studies Project/Pathways...
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