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 . . . → Read More: Importance of alumnus work highlighted in New York Times
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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 Google Map 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 . . . → Read More: JOI Siyyum and Graduation, June 27, 2010 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 . . . → Read More: Alumni Organize Interfaith Efforts in Foreclosure Crisis 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! Over 800 people came together on Sunday night November 14th to ask the candidates for Senate to work together on issues like bringing more jobs to Massachusetts, ensuring the strength of the Massachusetts health reform, lowering high credit card interest rates and making higher education more accessible. All 4 Democratic candidates came and made commitments to the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to work together. GBIO has hosted 2 JOI Fellows, Lisa Vinikoor, JOI ’07 . . . → Read More: GBIO hosts Dem Candidates for Senate |
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