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 »
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The New York Times
The New York Times profiles Inner City Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting small, urban business owners through programs such as their nine-month “StreetWise MBA.”
Featuring Inner City Entrepreneurs, a grantee of the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation.
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GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe describes efforts to ensure an accurate 2010 census count in Massachusetts, including work by the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund. The Fund recently awarded grants to local nonprofits for census outreach activities to encourage participation by historically hard-to-count populations. The data collected from the census will have a significant impact on the allocation of federal funds and congressional representation in Massachusetts.
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Featuring the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund, a donor collaborative supported by the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation, Theodore Edson Parker Foundation and Mabel Louise Riley Foundation.
