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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Youth unemployment was a critical issue for the city at that time – an issue that aligned with John Hancock’s business goals of providing meaningful job opportunities to young people in the community as well as helping them to be better prepared to enter the workforce. How did these groups come together?

Boston 27
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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. What the Frac?

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. We just have to think differently about how we craft job positions and expectations. Empowerment? What is participation for?