Not an engagement project but an awareness that hopefully turn into an effort all over America.

While not about a certain project that is ongoing, this is an opportunity to encourage everyone to become "civically" engaged - if only for one week.

Narrator: One hundred and forty-six people died that Saturday, 125 of them, young women. They were on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floor of the Asch Building in New York City, in Greenwich Village. They couldn't get out the main exit. They raced towards the exit gate, and the exit door was locked.

the astonishing disparity between black and white health in America, find out why it exists and discover what can be done about it

Initiatives in Boston Neighborhood clinics to address the issue of Pediatric Obesity

Something that I found that confirmed some things for me that I remembered about some work I was involved in with regard to this.

An enormous effort that will bring many people from around the world together in one place!

I posted this to represent how we can be engage locally in causes that are abroad, yet still affect a person personally; has cultural signifigance.

This is an article about how Governor Duval Patrick "released a budget that removes the sales tax exemption for soda and candy" in an effort to helm stem the tide of preventable chronic illness as well as address the growing obesity epidemic. The expected revenue would provide funds to physical activity to children to tackle childhood obesity.

http://www.tbf.org/news-and-events/news/2013/january/governor-plan-to-eliminate-tax-exemption-on-soda-and-candy?News=1

This is a link to a story about an incentive/evaluation program via a computer program, the the Boston School Committee is using to try to gain some control over conduct and how suggestions are received by people in communities relative to school performance. The program awards particpants for their input/suggestions about how to better design standards to improve school performance. Users receive tokens for thier input and can spend them on "value services" they support, i.e., safety, etc. The interface has been changed recently to require users to imput demographic information, which has lessened the number of users, but the designer has said allowed for more quality data. There is no certaintly whether this tool will control the "vitriol" that occurs at the School Committee meetings, "but it's a start"!