A resource list of interesting items on civic engagement.
Having spent so much time trying to remember all that lobbying information, I thought it would be interesting to read about an organization experiencing some successes. The story also seemed releva...
An initiative in Boston started in 2010 to reduce the amount of violence in the city. Multiple organizations and committees have come together in this joint initiative. This is a prime example of...
This link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQSCQcfY18 provides a brief summary of hunger in America. It focuses on individual families and faces, which ties into the idea from the readings of 'mak...
This link I shared is what I talked about in my reflection it is a Golf Tournament my family has done for the past 20 years in honor of my Aunt and Uncle. We donate all of the money made to several...
Students working together to help design a digital learning lab for low-income students to use. "As they design the lab and raise money for its ultimate creation, the teens will learn skills in gr...
This piece is less an example of civic engagement but commentary on the status of contemporary college students and what the changing global structure required of higher education today. I thought ...
Nice piece. It's too bad we couldn't have heard more from the kids. The idea that they are helping children who need protection probably made quite an impression. Learning by using skills so practi...
This is my delayed post from week 3 and combines the CIRCLE survey look at young adults and their civic involvement and the Better Together look at Branch Libraries. This piece is a press release f...
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://www.cnn.com/2012/10/21/opinion/change-the-list-voter-turnout-hawaii/index.html?iref=allsearch This is a story about a woman who had never taken the time to vote or become politically invo...
http://www.mass-service.org/service_volunteerism/our_programs/community_service_learning This is an article about a group of students in a Sociology Class at Malden High School to take upon the iss...
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 ...
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 rec...
This story covers the success of the Community Watershed Stewardship Program in Portland, OR where partnership between Portland State University and the city of Portland's Bureau of Environmental S...
This article is about a family that was in a car accident and only one 7 year old girl survived and the community came together to help this little girl.
http://www.bu.edu/sed/community-outreach/engaged-with-the-city/civiced/ Program for teachers to that want to incorporate a political perspective into their classrooms through civic engagement. Th...
Program for teachers to that want to incorporate a political perspective into their classrooms through civic engagement. These teachers allow their students to voice their opinions to internationa...
This article talks about how many students went out to help Covernor Deval Patrick with Project 351. They set out to many schools and places such as food banks, pine street in and 5 other locations...
http://www.upworthy.com/this-kid-was-bullied-a-lot-he-could-have-told-his-teacher-or-his-principal-he-had-bigger-plans?c=reccon1
http://support.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_main This website is the site for the project breads walk for hunger. You can donate and or learn about the different ways to voluntee...
