Boston Community Organizers Fight Foreclosure and Eviction—Successfully! In a Boston neighborhood, a nonprofit called City Life/Vida Urbana is fighting foreclosure and eviction, home by home.  Staffed largely by volunteers, including lawyers, organizers and ordinary homeowners who have been threatened with home loss, CLVU has one of the most successful rates of retaining homes for both […]

Eileen had to escape from an abusive relationship, but felt overwhelmed and afraid.  She consented to her friend Donna pulling together a “personal safety net” team, starting with a practical Excel spreadsheet of names and contact information of friends who would help her with the transition. “I was in tears as we met to compile […]

Thanks to our studious and charming intern Evan Easterbrooks-Dick, we were able to spend part of the summer researching the specific economic issues that effect young people (between the ages of the 18 and 30, approximately).  Unlike any previous generation, young people today are leaving school with tremendous burdens that affect the success of their […]

Ramadan in Dunkin Donuts This story comes from Adnan Onart, a Turkish Muslim living in Boston, Massachusetts, who is a member of the Resilience Circle Network. He and his wife are active members of a Unitarian-Universalist congregation where, he says, they can best live out their Muslim faith. He recites his poem, “Ramadan in Dunkin […]

A Midwestern Church Steps Up to the Plate Michael Greenman seemed a little amused at the question of why he organized his church around the needs of its own community just after the “economic meltdown” of 2008. “I’m an activist. I saw a need and nobody was addressing it.” First Church Unitarian Universalist in Columbus, […]

While many Clubs took the summer off, we were busy doing outreach that has led to a lot of new relationships. Vicki Robin and Monique Tilford, co-authors of Your Money or Your Life, stopped in for a workshop we gave on the Resilience Circle at the Jamaica Plain Forum in June, and charmed our audience! […]