Street level Civic Engagement - 3 views

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  #1 Mark Dempsey on 21 Sep 13

   

  http://bostonfoundation.org/Content.aspx?ID=9398
  
  Street Safe Boston, an initiative sponsored by The Boston Foundation, aims to help reduce street violence through direct interventions in the cities most violent neighborhoods. They do this through direct engagement of affected youth with a team of trained Streetworkers, establishing relationships in an effort to mediate and resolve conflicts, and encouraging at risk youth to take advantage of pro-social programs and services. StreetSafe Boston provides intensive case-management and wrap around support through direct service with Program Coordinators as well as immediate access to vital community-based services and programs for gang involved youth. In addition to education, legal services, housing services, family services, re-entry, mental health services and recreation, StreetSafe Boston offers an in-house transitional employment program providing each participant with the opportunity to experience on the job training with an intentional focus on building life skills.
  The Boston Foundation, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the nation. Serving the Greater Boston area, it is made up of some 900 separate charitable funds established by thousands of donors over more than 90 years. Funds are set up either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes, such as supporting individual nonprofit organizations in perpetuity. Today the Foundation is the oldest and largest community foundation in New England, making more than $88 million in grants in 2012. Since 2001, the Boston Foundation has also served as a civic leader by commissioning and publishing research and providing a platform for discussion and progress related to a wide range of challenges facing Boston and the region. As Greater Boston's community foundation since 1915, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone. It fulfills this mission in three principal ways:
  * Making grants to nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community's critical challenges;
  * Working in partnership with donors to achieve high-impact philanthropy; and
  * Serving as a civic hub and center of information, where ideas are shared, levers for change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://bostonfoundation.org/Content.aspx?ID=9398" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bostonfoundation.org/Content.aspx?ID=9398</a> <br /> <br /> Street Safe Boston, an initiative sponsored by The Boston Foundation, aims to help reduce street violence through direct interventions in the cities most violent neighborhoods. They do this through direct engagement of affected youth with a team of trained Streetworkers, establishing relationships in an effort to mediate and resolve conflicts, and encouraging at risk youth to take advantage of pro-social programs and services. StreetSafe Boston provides intensive case-management and wrap around support through direct service with Program Coordinators as well as immediate access to vital community-based services and programs for gang involved youth. In addition to education, legal services, housing services, family services, re-entry, mental health services and recreation, StreetSafe Boston offers an in-house transitional employment program providing each participant with the opportunity to experience on the job training with an intentional focus on building life skills. <br /> The Boston Foundation, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the nation. Serving the Greater Boston area, it is made up of some 900 separate charitable funds established by thousands of donors over more than 90 years. Funds are set up either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes, such as supporting individual nonprofit organizations in perpetuity. Today the Foundation is the oldest and largest community foundation in New England, making more than $88 million in grants in 2012. Since 2001, the Boston Foundation has also served as a civic leader by commissioning and publishing research and providing a platform for discussion and progress related to a wide range of challenges facing Boston and the region. As Greater Boston's community foundation since 1915, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone. It fulfills this mission in three principal ways: <br /> * Making grants to nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community's critical challenges; <br /> * Working in partnership with donors to achieve high-impact philanthropy; and <br /> * Serving as a civic hub and center of information, where ideas are shared, levers for change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed.</div>

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