Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their staff at Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, it was only a matter of time that we stopped talking about Citizen …
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Creative Micro-Philanthropy in New Orleans
New Orleans Normally, I would keep quiet about something like this since it is still so half-baked and almost pre-organizational, but our little first committee meeting to organize the New Orleans chapter of the so-called Secret Society of Creative Philanthropy got some interesting queries when I posted about the meeting on Facebook that I feel …
Recycling Partnerships with Mumbai Schools
Mumbai We were up and out early into the Monday morning traffic where Vinod had been invited to speak about about the environmental impact of recycling by our waste pickers in Dharavi to a class at the B. M. Ruia Girls’ College, a junior college of sorts with 1500 students served in two shifts by …