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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. Over the last ten years, the MLK Scholars Program has brought together partners from across the social, public and private sectors to enact positive change in the Boston community.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The blog post is about the launch of the Boston Foundation’s new resource for community organizations and media, the Boston Indicators Project website. According to the blog post: “Data and reports alone do not produce change,” said Charlotte Kahn, Senior Director of the Boston Indicators Project.

Data 101
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Seeking Clarity about the Complementary Nature of Social Work and the Arts

Museum 2.0

And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts. We all work for nonprofits.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Boston Juneteenth Events. hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Find yours here. Atlanta Juneteenth events.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). Boston Flying directly from Seoul to Boston (via Dallas), I jumped into an experts’ meeting on the Marrakesh Treaty.

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