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 »

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

Strong Women, Strong Girls, a Boston-based national nonprofit that provides mentoring programs for low-income girls, today announced that it has been named the national Philanthropic Business of the Year by Classy Awards. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Boston Globe

Hubie Jones founded the Boston Children’s Chorus in 2003 with 30 students and has seen it grow to more than 400 singers. He is particularly proud of the group’s annual Martin Luther King Day concert.

At age 67 Jones has added another honor to a long list of achievements.  He is one of ten 2010 recipients chosen from 1,500 nominees of the nationally-recognized Purpose Prize.

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Featuring the Boston Children’s Chorus, a grantee of the A. C. Ratshesky Foundation, the Schrafft Charitable Trust and the Ludcke Foundation.