Word: pbha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your recent article on the Phillips Brooks House Association and the House and Neighborhood Development programs portrayed an inaccurate and incomplete picture of PBHA and its interaction with HAND...
First, you stated that PBHA and HAND have broached a new topic in their talks--that of a possible "merger." In fact, nothing new is being discussed. A dialogue between the two bodies began with the inception of the HAND programs in 1982. This dialogue has consisted of both formal and informal meetings and discussions with the administration and the HAND coordinators. PBH is not "asking" the HAND programs to merge with them. Rather, as has always been the case, PBHA welcomes others to join our ranks and benefit from our resources and experience. In the past, programs such...
Under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Project Literacy, Harvard students in Chelsea and others in South Boston prepare area adults in basic language and math skills in one area and for high school and college equialency exams in another. The goals and shortcomings of the programs vary, but their purposes are the same: to help people return to school without shame and gain control over lives which have run upon hard times...
...PBHA's Project Literacy's longest running programs, the ECI group was started in 1986, says founder and co-chair Mary Ellen Ronayne '89. The urgency of the need for the program is shown by the new immigrants' shaky command of English...
...branch of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)--a large branch with its $300,000 to $400,000 annual budget--World Teach recruits student volunteers from 3000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. A World Teach staff of four full-time workers and many more part-time employees recruit, orient and speed the paperwork for dozens of volunteers each semester, placing them with Kenyan farming community leaders in Kenyan schools...