A resource list of interesting items on civic engagement.
http://www.rockthevote.com/ Rock the Vote, started 20 plus years ago, was a media savvy organization started to encourage the youth of the country to register to vote and to continue to vote every ...
An example of civic engagement which relates a bit to this week's reading is the donation of $3million which Bain Capital gave City Year to help the nonprofit group continue its services in helping...
http://www.ywcaboston.org/blog/bid/31580/Boston-Public-School-Creates-Racial-Ripple-Effect This is a link that was posted three years ago but it began the start of the Race Dialogue that is a curr...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/education-reform-through-community-action/2011/11/29/gIQApxcf9N_blog.html I really liked this article because I felt it continued on the...
http://www.cityyear.org/localcontent.aspx?id=973 City Year Boston is an organization that focuses on intervention (3rd-9th grades) for those at risk of dropping out in the future whether related t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xjv5nUGDos This video is an example of civic engagment in communities. The video shows a youthgroup who got together in an effort to clean up boston, the "Boston S...
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...
http://www.gbio.org/ The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is a group that very much mirrors the IAF. It was established to traverse the divisions of class and race in Boston. Centralized ...
One example of civic engagement which i found interesting was the Muslim Youth Peace Rally, where 20 members of "Muslims for Peace" rallied together at the Boston common in order to try to make a d...
On September 26th Boston will celebrate its 23rd "Rally for Recovery" day where politicians, educators, families and indivuals in recovery come together for a march throughout Boston, along with ce...
LINK: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/dorchester/2013/08/hold_in_dorchester_a_slaying_youth_is_remembered_through_art.html This week I chose an article that reminded me of this weeks readings...
I happened to be on Facebook and stumbled upon this article. Karrie Brown's story displays the benefits of technology and social media for various civic engagement opportunities. Karrie made her dr...
After reading Chapter 1 in our text book a particular organization from my hometown came to mind. EMPOWER San Diego is a community organization that motivates citizens who feel that their voices g...
Score4More Inc., established in 2009, was formed to create, organize, promote, and advocate for programs and services to support and serve the needs of Massachusetts student athletes ages 9 to 19, ...
The clothesline project is a T-shirt project started out in Cape Cod. Women who have suffered abuse. Each color represents a different type (eg rape, domestic violence, incest) and a sufferer can p...
I am apart of Project Hope's Speaker's Bureau and it is a group of women that travel throughout the Boston area spreading awareness about homelessness, shelters, domestic violence, subtance abuse, ...
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 ...
In my internship site in the Aspire program, there has been an ongoing issue with children using their phones to send sexually explicit material to other students. This raises red flags for the ch...
http://www.tbf.org/impact/objectives-and-strategies/strategies/reduce-youth-violence The StreetSafe Boston Initiative is working with at risk youth to try to prevent them from being stuck in the ...
