Policy analysis regarding volunteering & training of staff responsible for community fridge management in Boston

Throughout the Spring 2024 semester, graduate public policy students collaborated with Sage Carbone from Fenway CDC on three policy issues: 1) Volunteering 2) Marketing & 3) Regulation. Team 1’s presentation focuses on policy recommendations to increase volunteer knowledge, retention, ease of signing up, and more! Through interviews, research, and conversations with stakeholders of community fridges,…

Policy Analysis for Dress for Success DC

Illustrating slide and essay detailing the policy analysis conducted for Dress for Success DC, along with a reflection video by the students. Our reasons for choosing to present our artifact are twofold: Writing and illustration offer a traditional, detailed approach to demonstrating the concept of policy analysis. This allows for a holistic view of the…

The South End Neighborhood Mapping Project

The goal of this exercise is to continue developing a strengths-based perspective on the neighborhoods surrounding the classes service learning tutoring sites. To develop this understanding of what communities, families, and students bring to our classrooms and schools, students observed the communities during their commutes, researched the surrounding neighborhoods, and asked questions of people connected…

Food Reform in Prison Systems

The side deck shows how students explore the issue of food injustice in the prison system. Link to Presentation: View…

Teaching English through Fun Clubs!

Many refugees around the world are forced into completely new countries where they have to adapt to a new way of living. One of the hardest aspects of this adaptation is the process of learning a new language. Through student-hosted clubs, Russian-speaking children of age 10-12 were taught basic English phrases, as well as given…

Assessment of Composting at Northeastern

This is a research project performed by students in ENGW 3315 on behalf of HEAT. This project assessed Northeastern’s sustainability commitments. The group specifically looked at NEU’s campus-wide project to provide students and on-campus establishments with resources to expand composting initiatives. The result of this project was to make suggestions to improve sustainablity initiatives at…