RESEARCH IN ACTION

Water quality and quantity has always been a central concern of the environmental movement.

A recent surge in grassroots activism points to a new set of water worries – bottled water extraction and the privatization of public water supplies.

Bottled Water Battles

The board and staff of the Cox Trust noticed a trend of bottled water battles in many New England towns. As a regional foundation with an interest in protecting water, the Trust asked its colleagues at the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund to document the problem. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Boston Globe

After investing $9 million in renovating its planetarium and installing a new state-of-the-art Zeiss Starmaster projector, the Museum of Science is ready to unveil a new experience in star gazing. The museum expects that the new program, which will transport visitors through a virtual tour of the solar system, will attract a new generation of visitors.

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Featuring Museum of Science, a grantee of the Charles Hayden Foundation.

RESEARCH IN ACTION

The University of Massachusetts Boston’s William Monroe Trotter Institute studied immigrants’ impact on Boston’s and New England’s demographics. The institute’s scholarly journal, the Trotter Review, published devoted a special issue on immigrants’ successes in asserting their political, economic, social and civil rights.

The articles were part of a larger interdisciplinary research project on intergroup cooperative strategies among immigrant-based community organizations funded in part by the Sociological Initiatives Foundation. Continue Reading »