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Organization
Description |
Member
Contact |
| ACORN |
ACORN
is the largest low-to-moderate income membership
organization in the country. We work at the local,
state, and national levels on issues including
housing, racial justice education, jobs and wages,
health care, and access to credit. |
Ali
Kronley |
| AIDS
Housing Coalition |
AIDS
Housing Corporation (AHC) is a Boston based,
non-profit organization established in 1990 to support
the development and operation of affordable and
supportive housing for people living with HIV and AIDS
across New England and throughout the country |
Michelle
Maslov |
| Antioch New England,
Department of Environmental Studies |
The
Department of Environmental Studies at Antioch
New England has provided a visionary, innovative,
transdisciplinary approach to environmental learning.
Our students and faculty are motivated by the urgency
of complex environmental challenges, the desire to
promote deeper ecological awareness, and the
aspiration to understand the real life needs of
people, habitats, and communities. |
Steven Chase |
| Boston Mobilization |
Boston
Mobilization is a progressive community organization
that educates, empowers, and organizes students and
local residents to engage in grassroots campaigns for
peace, economic justice, and genuine democracy. |
Eve Lyman |
| Boston Network for International Development
|
Boston
Network for International Development (BNID) is a
non-profit organization for groups and individuals in
the Boston area who are concerned with issues of
international development and global justice. |
John Gerring |
| Boston
University, Department of Political Science |
Political
Science at Boston University explores the concerns and
issues that animate public life. Using both humanistic
and scientific approaches, we study how political
communities attempt to reconcile the claims of
justice, power, liberty, and authority. |
John Gerring |
| Boston
University, School of Social Work |
The
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is
committed to education which furthers social and
economic justice in the urban environment and strives
to incorporate this commitment into its programs and
activities. The School is especially concerned with
empowerment of all oppressed groups.
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Lee
Staples |
| Brandeis
University, Department of Sociology
|
The Brandeis Department of Sociology is a
distinguished small department that has nurtured a
distinctive culture and has produced nearly two
hundred Ph.Ds. since the founding of the graduate
program in the early 1960s While the department offers
a range of methods, including historical, quantitative
and comparative, the program has specialized in
qualitative analysis. |
Carmen
Sirianni, Tom
Shields |
| Clean Water Action |
Clean
Water Action is a national citizens' organization
working for clean, safe and affordable water,
prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation
of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and
empowerment of people to make democracy work. |
Cindy Luppi |
| Community Build |
Based
in Worcester, Massachusetts, CommunityBuild engages
individuals from across Central Massachusetts,
bringing racial/ethnic, linguistic and experiential
diversity to the work. |
Suzanne
Buglione |
| Corporate Accountability International |
Corporate
Accountability International is a membership
organization that protects people by waging and
winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and
dangerous corporate actions around the world. |
Bryan Hirsch |
| Green Corps |
Green
Corps' mission is to teach the next generation of
environmental leaders the strategies and skills
they'll need to win tomorrow's environmental battles
while providing critical field support for today's
pressing environmental problems. |
Naomi Roth |
| Harvard
University, Kennedy School of Government |
The
essence of the Kennedy School has always been an
abiding commitment to advancing the public interest by
training skilled, enlightened leaders and solving
public problems through world-class scholarship and
active engagement with practitioners and
decisionmakers. |
Marshall Ganz |
| Harvard
University, School of Law |
A Harvard Law education prepares students for success in law practice, business, public service, and teaching. Through its faculty, students, and alumni, Harvard Law School is able to contribute solutions to the world's most complex legal and social challenges. |
Lani
Guinier |
| Jewish Organizing Initiative |
The
Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI) offers young adults
a chance to work for justice and create a meaningful
Jewish community that can support and sustain them in
working for justice. |
Michael
Brown |
| Mass Ballot Freedom Campaign |
The
Mass Ballot Freedom Campaign is working to repeal the
state ban against cross-endorsement voting in order to
give Massachusetts citizens more power and a stronger
way to vote their values at the polls. |
Ben Healey |
| Merrimack Valley Project |
The
Merrimack Valley Project (MVP) is a regional
organization of congregations, labor unions and other
community groups from across the Valley working to
promote the welfare of the Merrimack Valley
region. |
Loren
McArthur |
| Massachusetts
Communities Action Network |
Massachusetts
Communities Action Network (MCAN) works to develop and
support broad based community organizations in New
England. These are made up of congregations, and
sometimes other organizations and unions, acting
together for their values and interests. Our
affiliated organizations work to strengthen
households, the community, the work place, and the
congregation. They enable people to act on their
faith values and democratic values. |
Lew
Finfer |
| Phinney
EcoVilage |
Phinney
EcoVilage is an urban neighborhood project to create
sustainability and community in a north Seattle
neighborhood. The focus is bringing people together in
small groups built around interests in global warming,
participatory democracy, and localization. |
Cecile
Andrews |
| PICO
National Network |
PICO
National Network (www.piconetwork.org) is one of the
largest and most diverse community organizing networks
in the United States, with 53 local and regional
federations working in 150 cities and 17 states, as
well as Rwanda and Central America. PICO's new website
indexes the results of successful organizing efforts
to improve communities and expand opportunities for
working families |
Gordon
Whitman |
| Progressive Democrats of MA |
Progressive
Democrats of Massachusetts is a group of concerned
citizens organized to promote social justice,
political reform, and progressive values throughout
the Commonwealth. |
Cathleen Cavel |
| Safe and Sound Campaign |
Safe and Sound Campaign works to ensure all people have the basic opportunities to grow up safe, healthy and full participants in their community and the democratic process. |
Hathaway Ferebee |
| Somerville CDC |
Somerville
Community Corporation (SCC) is a membership
organization that provides leadership for sustaining
the city of Somerville as a vibrant, diverse and
tolerant community. |
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| Stand
for Children |
Stand
for Children is a citizen voice for children. We
advocate for improvements to and funding for programs
that give every child a fair chance in life. |
Meg
Ansara |
| Teen Empowerment |
The
Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc. (TE) inspires young
people, and the adults who work with them, to think
about the social problems in their schools and
communities, and gives them tools to work with others
in creating significant positive change. |
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| Toxics Action Center |
Toxics
Action Center works on a variety of issues that
threaten the health and safety of residents,
neighborhoods and the environment. |
Paul Schramski,
Sylvia Broude |
| Tufts
University, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship
and Public Service |
The
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public
Service is a national leader in preparing Tufts
students to become engaged public citizens and
community leaders who will help build a more equitable
world. Tisch College was established in 2000 to
support the core Tufts mission of promoting civic
engagement. |
Shirley
Mark |
| Tufts
University, Department of Sociology
|
The Sociology Department's
courses are vital to Tufts' interdisciplinary
offerings. Sociological methods and perspectives
remain essential to all our academic endeavors as well
as to life in the contemporary world. Our emphasis on
culture in all its forms will broaden the world of
teaching and popular consciousness. |
Susan
Ostrander |
| Tufts
University, Peace and Justice Studies |
Peace
and Justice Studies (PJS) provides an
interdisciplinary structure for examining the
obstacles, conditions, and paths to achieving a just
global peace. The program brings intellectual and
experiential inquiry to the fundamental
interrelationship of peace and justice.
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Dale
Bryan |
| Tufts
University, Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning Department |
The
Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental
Policy and Planning (UEP) offers graduate public
policy and planning programs. The programs
prepare public spirited individuals for careers in
government, nonprofit organizations, citizen advocacy
groups, and the private sector. |
James
Jennings |
| University
of New Hampshire, Thompson School of Applied Science,
Community Leadership Program |
This
"Purposefully Powerful" academic program can
help you build valuable skills-such as supervising
volunteers, facilitating meetings, speaking in public,
organizing events, writing press releases,
fundraising, and creating newsletters. It is one of
only a handful nationwide to combine hands-on
community outreach with an academic study of
communities, leadership, citizen influence, and
non-profit organization management. The program
offers for-credit courses and students can earn either
an Associates Degree or an academic diploma in
Community Leadership. |
Kate Hanson, Tim Barretto |
| Wellesley
College, Department of Political Science |
In
order to ensure that political science majors
familiarize themselves with the substantive concerns
and methodologies employed throughout the discipline,
the Department of Political Science at Wellesley
College offers courses in four subfields: American
politics and law, comparative politics, international
relations, and political theory. |
Hahrie Han |
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