Civic Engagement PCSCOR 325

Great template for planning and executing a social campaign. Has great resources and case studies to learn from.

This is the website to a great program for those interested in learning more about the legislative process in Massachusetts. Its targeted towards introducing people of color and community workers and best of all it is totally free!

Great web site and article. Really short but introduces a variety of "services". Really great dialogue at the bottom of the page as well.

With summer four months away, the Boston-based Youth Jobs Coalition and more than 1,000 teens returned to the State House for an annual demonstration to push for job funding for young people. If you look at the got jobs sign, I am there with the green stripped hat but my head is turned to the side...

I think this is a great program for the community. I was actually speaking to my boss today about a Welfare program they had tried to introduce some years back that completely failed. The idea was to get people on Welfare to start working, and if certain agencies hired said employees then they would be tax exempt. But then the people hired had terrible attitudes towards the program because they didn't want to be at the job or other personal reasons. Bottom line, it was a good idea with good intentions, but since the actual people in the community weren't invested, it just couldn't work. Project QUEST seems like a much better solution because it deals with parties that have their best interests invested and best foot forward.

I liked this article because this man used his own money to help clean out an empty lot. He even remodeled it because it was such an eye sore. Now he is being asked to return the lot into it's previous trash filled condition.

Documentary about grassroots community organizing in Roxbury during the late 80's early 90's. These efforts united social service agencies, churches, elected officials, and most importantly, community residents to tackle quality of life issues of the Dudley Street Neighborhood.