Click here to check out a great blog post featuring four JOI alumni and their thoughts thoughts and perspectives on how community organizing has shaped them as practitioners of tikkun olam.
Importance of alumnus work highlighted in New York Times
Dan Gelbtuch (JOI 07-08) and the teens he works with as part of Youth Force at the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation have been working hard on the issue of youth jobs for months. Click here to read recent coverage of the issue in the New York Times and check out the picture taken at a rally they organized in February.
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JOI Siyyum and Graduation, June 27, 2010
Join us in celebrating our 2009-2010 Fellows and the work that they’ve done this year.
Location: 126 High Street
Date: June 27, 2010
Time: 3-5 PM
Dessert will be served
RSVP to: rherst@jewishorganizing.org
If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation in honor of the Fellows. Click here to support their work!
Alumni Organize Interfaith Efforts in Foreclosure Crisis
As this article shows, members of interfaith organizing efforts in Boston are having a national impact as they fight not just to save their own houses but to make sure that policies are put in place to prevent foreclosure on a much wider basis.
JOI alumni Lauren Jacobson and Dan Lesser, both JOI ’09, are working with the organizations highlighted in this article (the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and United Interfaith Action which is part of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network respectively) to make sure that people are able to advocate for themselves against unfair policies. Read more in the Boston Globe!
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Community Garden at Clarendon Hill Public Housing Development.
Thanks to the organizing Rachel Bedick JOI ‘09 has done, there’s going to be a new community garden at the Clarendon Hill Public Housing Development. In December, the Housing Authority granted the committee Rachel has been working with 1,575 square feet of land for a garden and access to water and annual help maintaining it. Read more at Wicked Local!
