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...according to outgoing Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd, who reflected on the anecdote of Hammonds’ youth that she once heard from the Dean herself, “Evelynn just decided to show him,” going on to excel in school despite stifling circumstances...
...Barron, who is on leave from Harvard for a job in the Obama administration, also seems unlikely to leave D.C. for the Griswold office. One faculty member added that, given his youth, Barron will likely have another chance to attain the top job at the Law School...
...additionally end up costing the state more than the $78 million it saves in cutting these services in the short term. To understand why, it is important to clarify where this money was being funneled in the first place. One of the biggest problems for disabled youth is connecting with their peers and being taught how to live independently; often, they lack opportunities to enjoy regular lives and interactions. The bulk of the existing funding goes toward helping support centers sponsor events like bowling trips and athletic contests to encourage fellowship and social time. Built into many of these events...
Certainly, the move was also a personal career restart. It might have seemed a somewhat obvious next step for me, coming directly as I did from City Year, a youth service organization founded in Boston that was the model for President Clinton’s Americorps program. My position at City Year was already a personal and deliberate restart for myself, which I had taken after six years managing contributions for a bank and an additional two years raising funds and guiding donors at the Boston Foundation. I had craved a way to make a bigger impact on social problems...
There didn’t seem to be a path within the established organizations to make this impact, so I leapt out of the predictable world of banks and community foundations to work with a fledging entrepreneurial youth service organization that was always on the brink of insolvency. In my three and a half years at City Year, we grew from one site to six, from a leaky and cold donated wharf office to a renovated center city space, from an independent privately funded start-up to a member of Americorps, receiving over half of our funds from the federal...