Last year, our Leadership Training Institute cohort created a fantastic resource guide for eating healthy and local in Crown Heights that includes information on community gardens, educational programming, farmers markets, food justice organizations, and community supported agriculture. We just now re-printed a new batch of these excellent brochures and are excited to share them with […]
CONTINUE READINGLast Friday, August 19th, 2011, The Crown Heights Community Mediation Center was featured in a news segment on NY1 about neighborhood relationships in Crown Heights today, 20 years after the disturbance of 1991. Director Amy Ellenbogen, and Deputy Director Ife Charles spoke about the work we are doing at the Mediation Center to make Crown […]
CONTINUE READINGChicago Magazine recently ran a great piece by the producer of The Interrupters, Alex Kotlowitz, titled, “The Trauma of Violence and Our Broken Communities.” The essay reflects on the trauma that communities plagued by gun violence experience, using the example of Chicago Ceasefire Violence Interrupter, Eddie Bocanegra (Eddie was one of the central characters in […]
CONTINUE READINGOn Saturday, August 20th, S.O.S. hosted our second annual Lead By Example basketball tournament and community event at St. Johns Recreation Center. The scores were close and the competition was fierce as the guys and the girls teams battled back and forth, trading point for point. By the end of the day, the winners were […]
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