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GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Boston Globe
The number of farms in Massachusetts is on the rise, even as the average acreage of these farms is decreasing. To read the article, click here.
Featuring the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation.
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Poor safety training, risk of violence such as robbery and exposure to sexual harassment are concerns for teens working in after school or summer jobs.
Teens at Work, a project of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health teaches young people to educate their peers about workplace health and safety and to advocate for policy change.
To read the article, click here.
Featuring MASSCOSH, a grantee of the Clipper Ship Foundation and the Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation.
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 »
