The stronger a neighborhood’s social identity, the worse for boys.- Lawrence Harmon, “Deadly Streets,” Boston Globe, May 10, 2010

On August 2, GMA Foundations hosted a funders briefing with sociologist David Harding focused on his recent book, Living the Drama: Community, Conflict and Culture Among Inner-City Boys. The meeting was facilitated by Boston Globe columnist Lawrence Harmon.

Harding’s book is drawn from interviews with 60 black and Latino boys living in separate neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester and Dorchester Lower Mills. The first two neighborhoods are classified as areas of concentrated poverty, with 40 percent or more of residents living at or below the federal poverty level. Dorchester Lower Mills is primarily working and middle class and served as a control group for the study. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Lowell Sun

The United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley has awarded $100,000 to 13 youth programs in Lowell. The grants are a part of the Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell (SEGL) initiative and are largely financed by the Parker Foundation. The initiative is expected to serve 3,000 Lowell area youths with quality summer programming focused on developing leadership and social and academic skills while school is not in session.

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Featuring the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley, a grantee of the Parker Foundation

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source:  Lives, a partner publication of Scientific American

Pacific Environment and Resources Center and its partner in China, Green Anhui, were featured in an article about extreme water pollution in some of Asia’s most iconic rivers. The organizations were engaged in a two-year struggle against entrenched interests and lax enforcement of regulations to shut down three chemical plants that were dumping a toxic soup into the Huai River Basin causing an alarming increase in cancer deaths.

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Featuring Pacific Environment, a grantee of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.