No time to build your community - 1 views
Hello Everyone, I found this book at my local library, I haven't started reading it yet since I'm working so hard to catch up on some overdue assignments, but I feel that this book might answer som...
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Central Falls, R.I., Library Fights to Stay Open - 0 views
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Jen Bautista on 04 Oct 14CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. If you were to assemble a city from scratch, you would need a few things to make this place of yours more than just a functioning municipality; to make it a community. The city of Central Falls, Rhode Island is in the process of not having a library that they can call their own. There is no place for kids to go and rent books, no place for high school kids to go and use the computers or have a quiet place for homework assignment, and no place for unemployed adults to have access to computers to look for employment. The building could be boarded up along with so many other building in the city. There are no funds to keep the building open and no money to pay the library staff. Volunteers have stepped up to staff the library on a few select days with only a few hours. This gives people the opportunity to at least have access to the library a few times a week. The people that have stepped up are not being paid and doing it all on their free time. It is nice to see that there are some people who believe in helping others and trying to make a difference in their community
The Story of Stuff Project - 1 views
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Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
Session 3: Building community … street by street - 0 views
On February 21st there was an editorial in my local paper about a new group designed to bring the community together. Web link: http://www.dotnews.com/columns/2013/building-community-street-street
Street level Civic Engagement - 3 views
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 citie...
Neighborhoods United for a Better East Boston (NUBE) - 0 views
Mission Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE) is an organization explicitly of and for low-income people, people of color, immigrants and allies that uses issue and electoral organizin...
Building Congregations Around Art Galleries and Cafes as Spirituality Wanes - 0 views
Evangelicals reinventing their way of church, this one has a yoga studio, cofee shop and even art gallery. Finding a way to combine church and secular world to make a megachurch as they connect wit...
Hartford's Planning Board Says It Won't Recommend Ballpark - 0 views
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an obvious attempt to do some good for the youth, but a ballpark is undesirable for a town, and some would prefer building shops and boutiques. HARTFORD - The planning and zoning commission voted Tuesday to give an unfavorable recommendation to the city's plan to build a minor league baseball stadium, and sharply criticized the process by which officials have proceeded with the proposal. The commission voted 4-2 to send an adverse recommendation to the city council, which is considering the project.
Civic Engagement Summit - UMass-Dartmouth - 0 views
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Great video about civic engagement. To me, civic engagement means being socially responsible. It means recognizing the communities you are a part of, the needs of those communities, and how you can help. Everyone serves a different role, and everyone can help each other in different roles, strengthening the community's capabilities as a whole.
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Libraries in the Community - 1 views
This article confirmed the information in Chapter 2, Branch Libraries, of Better Together, but because of it's statistical presentation the issue of how community building is done through libraries...
Fair planned to help veterans with jobs, education - 1 views
Veterans issues seem to be getting a fair amount of attention. There are billboards encouraging people to hire vets and also TV advertisements. Vets involved in the latest conflicts in Afghanistan ...
Unique tool for acquiring cultural competence - 1 views
This link is for the blog of a company called Cross Cultural Solutions. This company sets up volunteer opportunities for people in the US to work in countries around the world. The blog has stories...
Joy as Medicine: Above the Clouds - 1 views
Gary Oberstein, a labor and employment attorney, has recently founded a charity with his wife Martha,based at Norwood airport, called "Above The Clouds". The charity is committed to spreading joy ...
The KROC CENTER! A hidden gem in Dorchester - 1 views
LINK: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/boston/dorchester/gallery/inside_kroc_center/ http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use_BostonKrocCenter.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/F51F686F3C902AED8525...
Transforming the John F. Kennedy School - 0 views
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In the Better Together reading, Valley Interfaith worked with parents, grandparents, and guardians of elementary school children to find out what they thought were the most important improvements to be made at or around the school. This article describes a school improvement project that City Year organized, getting ideas for projects from the people who use the building.
Pathways for our youths to become Civically Engaged.. - 1 views
I have always been a suppporter of the City Year Organization. Im sure this is something that we are all familiar with but if not here is a short bio of the company and a link to the website to rea...
Catholic Charities - 0 views
http://www.ccab.org/index.html Catholic Charities is one of the largest human services providers in the Commonwealth. Catholic Charities was founded over 100 years ago beginning in Boston and expa...
Non profit works to provide affordable housing - 5 views
Although they work in the 3 state region of Appalachia, they work to provide low cost construction loans and mortgages to low income families and to help build affordable housing in rural Appalachi...