Uplifiting Images Of Tenderloin CommunityStudents Help Change Perception Of Tough Neighborhood See the Video From ABC7 KGO-TV/DT San Francisco By Carolyn Tyler Mar. 28 – KGO – We want to take you to a school in a tough San Francisco neighborhood that’s helping their students rise above their environment in a very creative way. De [...]

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Moving beyond prison system From the Philadelphia Inquirer By David Parrish Today, everyone is concerned about crime. We all live with the threat of becoming victims. The alarming costs of crime include loss of life, traumatized people, disrupted families, and the enormous financial burden involved in maintaining a police presence and housing an ever-growing prison [...]

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Jamesburg packs revitalization meeting From the Princeton Packet By: Audrey Levine, Special Writer 03/23/2007 The meeting focused on finding ways to better the downtown business district. JAMESBURG — More than 100 residents attended a meeting at the Grace M. Breckwedel School to talk about how to improve the borough’s downtown. The March 15 meeting was [...]

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Olympic ambitions for lots From: The Booster Wicker Park January 24, 2007 By ANITRA ROWE Staff Writer Sean Parnell of Wrigleyville is doing his part to get Chicago ready for its 2016 Olympic bid. Parnell doesn’t have millions for a new temporary stadium. But he does have a plan to turn abandoned Chicago properties into [...]

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Landmark Graduates and Jewelry Business Owners Launch a Clear Concience Project See Coverage on KTVU News Oakland, CA Lori Bonn Designs, a 15-year old jewelry business based in Oakland, CA, founded by Lori Bonn Gallagher and operated by her husband, Bill Gallagher, has launched a long term industry project called Clear Conscience jewelry and accessories [...]

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How the Other Half Lives: “Walk a Mile” dares welfare policymakers and welfare recipients to swap lives How’s this for a devastatingly simple solution to an age-old social problem? While Natasha Grossman was studying social work and interning at a welfare-reform lobbying organization in Washington state, she saw first-hand the cultural gap that existed between [...]

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Learning center for cancer patients’ children teaches new frames of reference Seattle Times March 1, 2007 By Alan Berner Staff Photographer Through My Eyes, Photography taught to kids at Hutch Cancer Research Center Hutch School A camera company used to advertise, “You push the button, we do the rest” — as if good photography comes [...]

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The Muslim Observer, Regional, Houstonian Painting for Peace at Rice University Houston Texas Houston Muslims are working with their fellow non-Muslims to paint several paintings representing Peace and Unity. The paintings will be displayed on Saturday, August 5th at the Rice University Ley Student Center (Farnsworth Pavilion) at 11 a.m. The exhibition will remain at [...]

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Originally printed inthe New Jersey Star-Ledger BY MICHELE HOWE Star-Ledger Staff Harvey Silverman retired from teaching in 1995. Sort of. Like many retirees, the former educator, who taught fourth and sixth grades in the New York City school system, stays busy giving of his time and talents. An occasional substitute teacher at Franklin High School [...]

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Brooklyn, New York— Brooklyn-based fashion designer Aja Calvitti announced today her collaboration with the 1City Youth Project , an innovative not-for-profit youth service agency dedicated to providing free programs, activities and services to inner-city youth. The agency, now celebrating its 17th year of service, has provided free programming to more than 2000 youth in New [...]

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Sophia Niarchos created a project to use Karoke to lift the spirits of people in a rehab center.  Here is a story that was published in Greek News, a Greek American newspaper.   Glen Cove, N.Y. — They couldn’t go out for New Year’s Eve revelry or even stay in their comfortable homes just to [...]

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Instead of protesting against the war, Marilyn Sjaastad created a project to get people to demonstrate for peace. Using drums and other precussion instruments, peace activists in 15 cities made noise on behalf of peace. From: The Register-Guard Eugene, Oregon By Andrea Damewood Pounding bongos and shaking cans to keep warm in the finger-numbing weather, [...]

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Heather Rozen, of Lowell Massachusetts found herself moved by the plight of low-income women trying to put their lives back together while recovering from substance abuse.  She created a community project called “Face Forward” to give them makeovers and support them in gaining a new sense of themselves  as they search for jobs and rebuild their lives. Here is a [...]

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