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The Children's Agenda polled 600 Monroe County parents and came away with a grim picture of the effects of poverty on their households. Most mid-income Rochester families must ration food, can't ...
Hank Rubin (author of Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools, Corwin press, 2009) and Leonard Brock (former director of the Rochester NY Anti-Poverty Initiative) offer a practical interpretation of collective impact by contrasting it with collaboration: “Collective impact really is much more than collaboration!
New housing now sits on what was once a part of the Inner Loop East, a section between Monroe and East Avenues in Rochester. A view of S. Union St. intersecting with E. Broad St.
In 2003, along with other leaders from KWRU and the related Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, she established the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary and the "Poverty Scholars Program" to build a network of grassroots organizations united around ending poverty. [7] The Poverty Initiative launched the Kairos Center for ...
In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new anti-poverty programs and alternative forms of municipal government. Model Cities represented a new approach that emphasized social program as well as physical renewal, and sought to coordinate the actions of numerous government agencies in ...
Monroe County and Rochester-area schools will receive $7.4 million for anti-vaping efforts as part of a multi-state settlement with the company Juul, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
On June 23, the campaign hung two banners on both sides of a raised stage at the National Mall that read, "Fight Poverty Not The Poor." [9] More than 2,000 people were arrested nationwide during the 40 day protest. [9] Protesters participated in a variety of nonviolent direct actions, including "stopp[ing] traffic and petition[ing] state ...
Edgerton is a neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Rochester, New York that sits between the Genesee River on the east and the Erie Canal bed on the west. One of the city's oldest and largest residential areas, Edgerton is among the most ethnically, linguistically, and racially diverse communities in Western New York.