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Community snapshot

27 Sep 2007

Strategy When the Robert Land school closed in The Hamilton Roundtable on Poverty 2004, former resident and community organizer Reduction (HRPR) – initiated by the City of Don MacVicar and members of the Robert Land Hamilton and the Hamilton Community Community Association dreamed about buying Foundation – had already involved Mohawk in the property and making it available as community many of its [...] They were building on the efforts of the suggested to college administrators in the spring Keith Neighbourhood Renewal Committee, a of 2006 that they get more involved in the Robert group of residents who also envisioned a neigh- Land work, the time was right for considering bourhood that reached out to families. [...] The link to Community Foundation, individual donors and Robert Land and HRPR would provide real life the Ontario Trillium Foundation, upgrades were experience in living out the college’s vision: made to the facility, but Don MacVicar wanted inspiring learning, leadership and citizenship. [...] With 10,000 full-time and 42,000 continuing education Despite the wonderful projects, Mohawk students, 1,100 staff, 70,000 alumni and many staff knew that they would not necessarily be cooperative placements, class and special enough to keep children in school and moving on projects already operating, the possibilities for to postsecondary education opportunities. [...] Rather than create support from the Hamilton Roundtable for a new process for the work, Jay’s strategy was Poverty Reduction, the college invited 90 people to include Robert Land in everything the college to a Social Innovation Café in April 2007 which was already doing.
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Authors

Makhoul, Anne

ISBN
1553822498
Pages
3
Published in
Canada

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