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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...

started by Paula Shane on 07 Apr 13 no follow-up yet

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

started by Edward Geary Jr on 25 Feb 13 no follow-up yet

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...

Community Engagement

started by Mark Dempsey on 21 Sep 13 no follow-up yet

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...

Engagement Civic Community Better Change

started by Cori Williams on 04 Dec 13 no follow-up yet

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...

http:__www.nytimes.com_2012_12_30_us_new-churches-focus-on-building-a-community-life.html?_r=0

started by Sade Douglas on 29 Oct 13 no follow-up yet

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...

http:__libraries.pewinternet.org_2013_12_11_libraries-in-communities_

started by Briana Bizokas on 26 Feb 14 1 follow-up, last by donna mogardo on 26 Feb 14

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 ...

started by Julius Jones on 10 Mar 14 1 follow-up, last by donna mogardo on 23 Mar 14

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...

http:__www.crossculturalsolutions.org_blog

started by donna mogardo on 23 Mar 14 no follow-up yet

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 ...

Promoting Civic Engagement Charity

started by Mark Dempsey on 16 Sep 13 no follow-up yet

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...

Project Change Promoting Community Better Together

started by Mercedes Ferguson on 18 Nov 13 no follow-up yet

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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...

Engagement Civic Community

started by Cori Williams on 03 Oct 13 no follow-up yet

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...

started by Kaitlyn Wenzel on 06 Dec 13 no follow-up yet

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...

american Community

started by Mark Dempsey on 29 Oct 13 no follow-up yet

Touching upon similar key insights from this weeks readings, another million dollar lobbying has taken place in MA over the last six months. The gaming interests has spent over $1 million in MA in ...

started by April Aguirre on 14 Oct 13 no follow-up yet

At least one of the Boston Mayoral candidates is actively seeking civic engagement from residents, and will be sponsoring workshops and seminars to seek out community leaders. I don't know that I h...

Promoting Community Civic Engagement

started by Mark Dempsey on 12 Oct 13 no follow-up yet

The SDA's chief executive officer Charles McKenna retorted, "That is not an SDA problem." "If we had new schools, it wouldn't be a problem," Hodges replied. This stood out the most to me. The pas...

started by hollybelanger on 18 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by Lori C on 19 Sep 14

This video is really interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDzAnc3yKMI It describes the importance of building social capital in the modern world and how emphasis on creating networks of peop...

started by Angela Dell'Isola on 05 May 14 no follow-up yet

http://www.habitat.org/ Habitat for humanity builds houses for people who don't have the means to get one on their own and they don't charge too much for them to be able to keep thee homes.

started by courtney gilcoine on 15 Sep 14 no follow-up yet