Hampshire Hope: DART takes national stage
Published: 5/3/2021 4:21:49 PM
A snippet of video included in our Hampshire HOPE presentation at the 2021 RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit drove our point home better than any PowerPoint ever could. Seated at a table was Adam Van Buskirk, a founding officer in the Northampton Police Department’s post-overdose response team known as DART, listening to a cellphone message he received from a woman he had worked with as a DART officer.
“I’ll never forget you bringing me to detox,” the caller said. She let Van Buskirk know that she had since moved to the Boston area, gotten a job and was doing just fine. Van Buskirk is now a detective on the Northampton force and no longer part of the DART team, but the impact he’s had during his time as a DART officer reverberates to this day.
Piloting the collective impact model in Bangladesh
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April 26, 2021 The non-profit organization H&M Foundation (H&MF), with the support of The Asia Foundation, is launching a collaborative pilot project to provide emergency assistance to female garment workers in the wake of the global pandemic. Designed to safeguard female textile workers against the immediate impacts of Covid-19 as well as in the long term, the pilot is part of H&MF’s longer-term project, Collective Impact Initiative for Female Textile Workers in Bangladesh (CIFTWB), located in one of the world’s leading garment manufacturers and exporters.
Launched in April 2021, the pilot is a unique collaborative initiative inspired by the “Collective Impact Model,” where organizations work together to tackle complex socio-economic problems for social change. Disaster relief partners CARE, WaterAid, and Save the Children coordinated by The Asia Foundation, are piloting this model in Gazirchat, Savar, an area pop
Posted By: Jason Rima April 1, 2021 @ 12:31 pm Local News, News
Springfield’s poverty rate has dropped to a five year low.
The group Prosper Springfield says the poverty rate is now 22.9 percent.
That’s still very high, but the group hopes to keep working on creating a culture of equity and inclusion.
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Officials with Prosper Springfield, a collective impact model initiative, announced today that Springfield’s poverty rate has declined to a five-year low. At 22.9 percent, however, Francine Pratt, Prosper Springfield Executive Director, says there is much more work to do.
In 2013, a 30-plus member Impacting Poverty Commission convened by Prosper Springfield backbone agency Community Partnership of the Ozarks, used a Collective Impact Model with representatives from private, public and social sectors to convene, research and understand the major causes and impacts of poverty. By October
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