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Amherst College

Amherst, Massachusetts

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  • Education
    community education, community engagement, participatory democracy
    Participatory Budgeting
    April 14, 2011 | Bruno Werneck
    First developed in Brazil, Participatory Budgeting (PB) has spread throughout Latin America and has been implemented in over 1,000 municipalities worldwide. But it has only recently arrived in the US—in Chicago’s 49th Ward. Chicago Alderman Joe Moore, named the “Most Valuable Local Official” in the country by The...
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    Off to CGI U
    March 30, 2011 | Bruno Werneck
    Tomorrow fellow Roosevelter Todd Faulkenberry '13 and I will grab our packed bags, head to Bradley International Airport and fly across the country to participate in this years' Clinton Global Intiative University annual meeting. Since November we have been working on our Commitment to Action 'Generation Education,' a three-year multi-...
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  • Health Disparities
    March 7, 2011 | Bruno Werneck
    Over the past three and a half weeks, our health disparities policy team has worked with and for the High Street Health Center to examine no-shows for doctor appointments in the larger context of health disparities in Springfield and in the United States. We looked at a wide variety of contributing factors to no-shows by addressing questions...
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Amherst College Projects

  • Mass 2040: Blueprint for the Millennial Massachusetts
    The Blueprint for the Millennial Massachusetts The Roosevelt Campus Network is launching Think 2040: Blueprint for the Millennial Massachusetts (Massachusetts 2040) with young people across the state. Think 2040 programming will mobilize Massachusetts’s young people to design the future that they want to inherit, then advocate for state policy that will ensure the realization of their progressive vision for Massachusetts’s future. Taking Think 2040 to the next level, Massachusetts...
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