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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S CORNER
Philanthropy for the 99%
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FOUNDER INSIGHTS
 Greg Jobin-Leeds is co-founder of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, Access Strategies Fund and Partnership for Democracy and Education, LLC. He writes and speaks on successful social movements, highly effective international educational practices, school leadership, and political strategies. A former high school teacher and teacher trainer, he is a public school parent. We are pleased to share his new blog on Education Week with our network. Click on the link below to comment and read more from Greg's Blog. |
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GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
The Barr Foundation is guided by a vision of a vibrant, just, and sustainable world with hopeful futures for children. Its mission is to support gifted leaders and networked
organizations working in Boston and beyond to enhance educational and economic
opportunities, to achieve environmental sustainability, and to create rich cultural
experiences-all with particular attention to children and families living in poverty.
Click Here for information about the Barr Foundation's Request for Concept Papers.
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To receive the latest information visit our website www.accessstrategies.org
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ACCESS STRATEGIES FUND STANDS WITH THE 99%
Access Strategies Fund stands with the 99% that want corporations out of our politics and economic justice for all. Access is rolling out a strategy to provide funding and technical assistance to Occupy sites and community-based organizations in Massachusetts that are part of the movement for economic equality and favoring people's needs and interests over corporate interests.
Access is also playing a coordinating role with funders, providing regular updates and strategic advice to donors on how to support the evolving movement. The Access staff, board, and our newly formed grants working group are deeply involved in Occupy Boston and related networks such as Occupy the Hood and Right to the City. We are educating funders, attending community meetings, and identifying the needs of organizations and Occupies around the state so we can connect them to resources.
We believe this is an exciting moment for youth and elders of all backgrounds, especially low-income communities of color, women, immigrants, and people with disabilities who suffer the most in our economy, to come together to change the national debate around our economy and get money, once and for all, out of our politics. |
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DRAWING DEMOCRACY PROJECT UPDATE
VICTORY FOR COMMUNITIES
The political landscape has changed for the better in Massachusetts. We are proud to announce that the Drawing Democracy Project had a hand in effecting this change in our Commonwealth. Led by Access Strategies Fund, The Drawing Democracy Project is a donor collaborative supporting community based organizations to get involved in the redistricting process by providing grants and technical assistance.
We are pleased to announce that our grantees got the State House to double the number of minority-majority districts (from 10 to 20) and added a total of three such districts in the Senate (one in Hampden County and two in Boston). Also, seven will be single-minority districts - three where blacks represent a majority and four, including a new open seat in Lawrence where Hispanics represent the majority.
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FEATURED GRANTEE
Gloribell Mota, Executive Director
Neighbors United for a Better East Boston - Visit NUBE
What was the most exciting aspect of your work during the past Municipal elections?
For NUBE it was our third round of doing civic engagement and our member leadership ability and personal development to collaborate with other civic engagement groups throughout the city was exciting and positive. NUBE was civically active in our community and in our city and made those connections to move our target groups (youth, immigrants and people of color) to work in a more collaborative way. We worked with city and statewide organizations including, Chinese Progressive Association, New England United for Justice, Boston Workers' Alliance, MassVOTE and Oiste. In East Boston, we worked with East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) and Maverick community residents. We were deliberative with our civic engagement, and participated actively in engagement groups in east Boston and throughout the city.
What, if any, were some of the challenges engaging voters? What were some of your achievements?
In general, our targeted voters who should be the most civically engaged are really the least civically engaged. The motivation, desire and consciousness of why voting matters is a hard barrier. Our canvassers had that challenge and it is not something that is new in a sense, but the Municipal election made it easier to get voters to be inspired at the local level. Our preliminary achievement is that we targeted 3 sections in East Boston giving voters information and that we received calls from voters that needed our assistance. Our members felt good that we co-hosted candidate forums with other allied organizations. The biggest accomplishment in our target precincts we had a great increased voter turnout from 20 - 80% in some areas.
Click here to read our entire interview with Gloribell Mota, Executive Director of NUBE. |
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