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  • Nonprofit Sector Needs to Recruit and Promote Leaders of Color, Report Finds

    Nonprofit Sector Needs to Recruit and Promote Leaders of Color, Report Finds

    From left to right_ Michael James of Old Colony YMCA, Imari Paris Jeffries of Parenting Journey, Cassie Scarano of Commongood Careers (ceo and co-founder), Celina Miranda executive director of the Hyde Square Task Force and Jocelyn Sarg\Nonprofit leaders were asked to take an inward look at their sector to analyze why its leadership is not…

  • Mass. Bill Pushes Back Against Implementation of Video Only Prison Visits

    Maintaining contact with family is important to the wellbeing of people who are incarcerated, and a bill in Massachusetts’ state legislature would ensure that in-person visits are protected. The visitation provision is part of a much larger criminal justice reform bill. According to Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, some sheriffs’ departments…

  • Domonique Williams Appointed Boston’s Deputy Director of the Office of Housing Stability’s

    Domonique Williams Appointed Boston’s Deputy Director of the Office of Housing Stability’s

    On Wednesday, April 4, Domonique Williams became Boston’s Office of Housing Stability’s new deputy director. Williams is a Roxbury resident and former housing attorney, and Mayor Marty Walsh — who announced Williams’ appointment through a press release — hopes that under her leadership, the city can expand its efforts to tackle a burgeoning housing crisis.…

  • Cap on State Assistance for Children Challenged

    Members of the Ways and Means House Committee were met with dozens of advocates during a session on Friday, March 16, at the Massachusetts State House who were in favor of lifting the welfare cap on kids conceived after families start to receive benefits. Current law denies assistance of up to $100 a month per…

  • Mass. Advocates for Children: Fighting for the Rights of Young Students

    Readers, imagine yourself waiting for the most opulent being in your life: your child. As the yellow bus approaches, you feel calm, ready to hear your child’s stories of the day. The bus stops, you see your child. As your little one runs to your arms, you ask the same question you have asked a…

  • Home and Healthy for Good Wins Hearst Health Award

    The Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA) has received the Hearst Health Prize for Excellence in Population Health. The prize recognizes MHSA’s Home & Healthy for Good (HHG) program, which was founded in 2006. The win was announced on Tuesday, March 20 at the 18th annual Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia. “All of us at…

  • Salvadoran Deportations: U.S. Rejects Refugees From Country it Helped Destabilize

    Salvadoran Deportations: U.S. Rejects Refugees From Country it Helped Destabilize

    Carrying a red plastic bag containing an old pair of shoes and a few other belongings, David Antonio Pérez arrives in El Salvador, deported from the United States. David Antonio, 42, is a divorced father of two who has lived in the U.S. for a total of 12 years. He has spent five years in…

  • The Ruins of Pahokee

    Suddenly the dreams come.  For a second there is the face of Ar Lain Ta laughing and then I am back in Pahokee, Fla., with my wife.  She stares at me with her giant eyes, the corners of her full lips are turned down, she is dark with the bite of the tropical sun as…

  • New Opera Brings Stories of Marginalized and Brutalized Women to Life

    New Opera Brings Stories of Marginalized and Brutalized Women to Life

    For years, Coreen Douglas and Colleen Maybin would see each other every December when Maybin, from the Vancouver Opera (VO), would bring Douglas, from The Kettle Society, clothes for her organization’s clients. Every year they would talk about working together in the future, but neither was sure it would ever happen. Two years ago, the…

  • Bike Share Program Offers Discounts for SNAP Participants and Those in Other Programs

    This past January Hubway, Boston’s bike share system, announced a new discount program for low-income EBT card holders to participate. The Department of Transitional Assistance, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Motivate, the operator of Hubway, launched the “SNAP Card to Ride.” Hubway was started in 2011 by the late Boston Mayor…

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