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With its Black Community Commitment in its fourth year, Nike Inc. reveals an open-source grantmaking guide and announces new grant recipients.
NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Police Department is reviewing its gang list, the acting police chief said on Tuesday. This comes about a month after a Boston-based youth advocacy group, Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ), released a report critical of the city's police department and its use of a gang list. After multiple requests to schedule an interview with Acting Police Chief Paul Oliveira to discuss the department's use of a gang list, spokesperson Melissa Batchilder told the Standard-Times on Tuesday that Oliveira is currently reviewing the gang list or "database." She said...
Florida International University Search January 14, 2021 at 9:48am Vulnerable communities, which include Black and Hispanic South Florida residents, are often disproportionately impacted by disasters such as hurricanes, floods and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. FIU researchers plan to study and address these racial and ethnic disparities over the next three years with a $4.63 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Commons for Justice (CfJ) project will look for solutions to address disparities in preparing for a disaster and increasing a community’s ability ...