RESEARCH IN ACTION
The Detroit-based chapter of Restaurant Opportunities Center United wasted no time after its founding to get its story out. It issued the most comprehensive report on labor practices in Michigan’s restaurant industry.
The bottom line: The industry has too many bad jobs and is not on its best behavior when it comes to respecting worker rights under the law. Continue Reading »
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Associated Press
As a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Buddhist monk Ly Van Aggadipo wrote poetry to help heal from the tragedy and pain he witnessed. The poems were discovered on the day of Ly Van’s death in 2008, and they are now being released as a book, O! Maha Mount Dangrek. A number of local individuals and organizations from Lowell, Massachusetts have collaborated to produce the book, including Light of Cambodian Children, Cambodian Expressions and Glory Buddhist Temple. The book will be celebrated on a cross-country tour stopping at fourteen locations with significant Cambodian American populations.
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Featuring Light of Cambodian Children, a grantee of the Theodore Edson Parker 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.
