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The
University of Massachusetts-Dartmout
(UMD) brought over two hundred and fifty community
leaders, faculty, and students together on May 6, 2009, to consider ways
of strengthening social capital in the Southcoast.
Social
capital
refers to stocks of social trust, norms and
networks that people can draw upon to solve common problems. Planned by
the
Center for Civic Engagement at UMD,
the summit included a keynote address by Tom
Sander, Director of the
Saguaro Seminar at Harvard
University,
a presentation of social capital indicators in the
Southcoast by Dr. Clyde Barrow, Director of the
Center for Policy
Analysis
at UMD, and comments from Maureen Curley, the
president of the
Campus Compact,
New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang, and others for the afternoon event.
Workshops were offered on recruiting volunteers, improving social
capital through service-learning, and improving social capital through
alternative media.
Click here for the Herald News article about the event.
For more information
about the event, contact Deirdre
Healy, Director of Service-Learning in the
Center for Civic Engagement,
at 508-999-8641.(Bottom
center photo courtesy Nate Byrnes)
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(Top row, left)
Dr. Clyde Barrow, Director of the
Center for Policy
Analysis, meets with Deirdre Healy, Director of Service-Learning in
the
Center for Civic Engagement, prior to the beginning of the
conference. (Top row, center) Keynote speaker
Dr. Tom Sander
talks with UMD
Chancellor Jean
F. MacCormack. (Top row, right)
Center for Civic Engagement Assistant Provost Matthew Roy welcomes
participants to the conference. (Middle row, left) Michael Metzler,
Executive Director of Leadership SouthCoast and former CEO of Saint
Anne's Hospital, poses a question to the panel. (Middle row, right) Tom Khoury
of B.M.C. Durfee High School poses a question about the engagement of
youth in communities as Community-Development Recreation Program
Director Jamison Souza, Fall River City Councilor Steven Camara, Fall
River Housing Authority Director of Family and Youth Services Joseph
DaSilva and B.O.L.D. staff member listen. (Bottom row, left) Elizabeth
Clay of the Governor's Office of Civic Engagement, David Magnani of
MassNonprofitNet, and New
Bedford Mayor Scott Lang. (Bottom row, center and right) Dr. David Weed,
coordinator of Healthy City Fall River, listens as David Crowley of
Social Capital, Inc., describes the technology that enables people in
Fall River to engage in social connections through the new
www.MyFallRiver.org and
www.FallRiverYOUthZone.com
web sites.
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