Author Archives: Hannah White

Congrats to BCIL and ECCO!

Congratulations to Allegra Stout (current organizing fellow at the Boston Center for Independent Living) and to Dan Lesser (Fellowship Alumnus 2009 and Executive Director of ECCO, Essex County Community Organization) for their contributions to organizations recognized as being on the … Read More

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Training with COEJL

COEJL, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, has enlisted JOIN to train Jewish green activists from around the country in community organizing to help them organize their communities and organizations on behalf of COEJL’s Jewish Energy Network.  The … Read More

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March for Homeless Families

Recently, Massachusetts’ Department of Housing and Community Development made changes to regulations requiring that anyone applying for emergency housing , including families with children, must have spent at least one night in a place not meant for human habitation in … Read More

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Fellows Fight for Food Justice

Current organizing fellows Jenny Msall and Joel Wool not only fight for change on the job, but work for food  justice in their spare time. Both Jennie and Joel serve on the board of the Dorchester Community Food Co-op, a … Read More

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Hannah White helps lead JOIN for Justice

This article originally appeared in the Jewish Voice and Herald. By Arthur C. Norman PROVIDENCE – Hannah White, who grew up in Providence’s Jewish community, continues to see the world through, as she puts it, “Jewish-colored glasses.” White is communications … Read More

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