GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

This week the youth empowerment and advocacy group Hyde Square Task Force released survey data that reported tensions between Boston youth and MBTA police officers. The survey data was presented at a press conference attended by the Transit Police Chief.

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Featuring Hyde Square Task Force, a grantee of the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation, Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation, Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation and Ludcke Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The New York Times

The New York Times features a unique collaboration between City Life/Vida Urbana , Boston Community Capital and Harvard Law School that is helping families impacted by the foreclosure crisis. Through advocacy and post-foreclosure negotiations, a number of families in working-class neighborhoods of Boston are able to stay in their homes and rent or buy back their foreclosed properties.

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Featuring City Life/Vida Urbana and Boston Community Capital, grantees of the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation has named Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) of Chicago, Illinois the 2010 recipient of the Leo P. Chall Award. The Chall award recognizes exemplary research projects funded by the foundation. It honors organizations that successfully link research with social action, thereby strengthening community organizations and influencing public policy. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Shelterforce Magazine

The work of Greater Boston community development corporations to improve transit access and spur local development is discussed in this article appearing in Shelterforce magazine. Specifically highlighted are Somerville Community Corporation and the community development corporations making up the Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative.

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Featuring Somerville Community Corporation and Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative, grantees of the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation.

Our movement is not just about changing laws. It’s about changing hearts and minds.
–Deivid Ribiero.

Young people have helped shape all of the major struggles for social justice of the modern era. As in the past, young people are starting to figure more prominently in recent efforts to reform immigration and increase access to higher education. Continue Reading »

NEW BOOKS

Community Labor United’s effective coalition work with organized labor is highlighted in A New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement by Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds. The book examines new forms of organizing and politics that support working families. Continue Reading »