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Celebrating and Continuing Bob Terrell’s Legacy
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2025/04/25/celebrating-and-continuing-bob-terrells-legacy/
Published: April 25, 2025 21:05
Robert “Bob” Terrell passed on January 29, 2025. Nearly 100 of his colleagues, friends, and students gathered on April 23 at Tufts University (and online) to celebrate and continue his legacy. As many noted, Bob would not have wanted an event to glorify…
Podcast: Mutual Aid — Lessons from East Boston
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2025/02/04/podcast-mutual-aid-lessons-from-east-boston/
Published: February 4, 2025 19:05
Check out this new podcast featuring the panel on Mutual Aid — Lessons from East Boston from October 3, 2024. This panel shared findings from our May 2024 report Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thanks to Cities@Tufts and Shareable for…
Article published in Nonprofit Quarterly on Building Solidarity Economy in Boston
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/10/30/article-published-in-nonprofit-quarterly-on-building-solidarity-economy-in-boston/
Published: October 30, 2024 17:48
I’m excited to share this article “Building the Solidarity Economy: A Decade’s Assessment” in Nonprofit Quarterly. This piece is basd on the work I’ve been involved with over the last fifteen years with community partners, including the Solidarity Economy…
Report Launch: Cooperatizing Boston
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/10/24/report-launch-cooperatizing-boston/
Published: October 24, 2024 13:01
Check out the new report Cooperatizing Boston: Advancing Municipal Support for Worker Ownership, just released by the Center for Economic Democracy’s Solidarity Economy Initiative. I helped advise this project and its main author Erwin Li, who is a recent…
Solidarity Economies as Relational Practice to Build Worlds Beyond Capitalism
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/09/09/solidarity-economies-as-relational-practice-to-build-worlds-beyond-capitalism/
Published: September 9, 2024 19:27
Lessons Learned from the Solidarity Economy Initiative 2014 – 2021 By Penn Loh, Michelle de Lima, and Erwin Li “We want to change the mentality of people from individual to collective thinking and not only to keep it in the mind but also to transfer that…
Op-Ed on Highway Removal in Next City
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/08/22/op-ed-on-highway-removal-in-next-city/
Published: August 22, 2024 17:05
Morgan Florsheim recently published an op-ed on highway removal in Next City. This piece is based on her Tufts UEP Master’s thesis, completed in July 2024 (titled “Deconstruction Ahead: Examining the History and Potential of Highway Removal in Milwaukee”).…
Community Land Trusts featured in Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2023
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/06/03/community-land-trusts-featured-in-greater-boston-housing-report-card-2023/
Published: June 3, 2024 22:35
The annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, most recently released in November 2023, featured a special chapter focusing on community land trusts. I had the honor of leading a team that included Tufts UEP graduate students Chelsey Gao and Johnny Shively…
New Report — Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Care
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/05/22/new-report-mutual-aid-lessons-from-the-covid-19-pandemic-strengthening-civic-infrastructure-in-east-boston-through-community-care/
Published: May 22, 2024 18:04
Our final report is now released -- Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Care.Continue reading New Report — Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic…
Nuevo informe — Lo que la pandemia del COVID-19 nos enseñó sobre el apoyo mutuo: CĂłmo fortalecer la infraestructura cĂvica en East Boston mediante el cuidado comunitario
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/05/22/nuevo-informe-lo-que-la-pandemia-del-covid-19-nos-enseno-sobre-el-apoyo-mutuo-como-fortalecer-la-infraestructura-civica-en-east-boston-mediante-el-cuidado-comunitario/
Published: May 22, 2024 18:04
Nuestro informe final ha sido publicado -- Lo que la pandemia del COVID-19 nos enseñó sobre el apoyo mutuo: CĂłmo fortalecer la infraestructura cĂvica en East Boston mediante el cuidado comunitario.Continue reading Nuevo informe — Lo que la pandemia del…
When We Fight (and Build), We Win: How community organizing helped create the East Boston Neighborhood Trust
https://pennloh-practical.vision/2024/02/26/when-we-fight-and-build-we-win-how-community-organizing-helped-create-the-east-boston-neighborhood-trust/
Published: February 26, 2024 22:02
[This case study is an adaptation of a May 2023 assignment for “Solidarity Economy Movements”, a course in Tufts University’s Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning program. Credits to contributors Sarah Jane Huber and Eda Kosma. Also available to view…