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New Magazine The Rooming Houses of Furby Street This magazine is part of a much larger historical study, Living on Furby, Narratives of Home. The larger study is a detailed history of one block of Furby, between Portage and Broadway, from its beginnings to the present day. This magazine extracts and elaborates material from the main study to focus on one aspect of the block's history -- rooming houses. The understanding of rooming houses on the block has changed throughout its history, from a commonly accepted and respectable way of life in the block's first century, to a way of warehousing low-income people in substandard housing in the last 20 years.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Book Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba,1880 – 2005 Over the century and a quarter from its first development to the early twenty-first century, the block of Furby Street between Broadway and Portage Avenue typified many of the trends in what are now downtown neighbourhoods. From a street of mostly comfortable and respectable middle- and upper-middle class homes in the first part of the twentieth-century, by the end of the century this section of Furby had come to be stereotyped as part of “Murder’s Half-Acre”, a district of large houses that had been divided into rental suites and rooms accommodating highly transient residents and a location of serious problems of drug traffic, substance abuse, and gang activities. Looking at the built environment alone, without seeing the people who lived there, leaves the impression of a history of aging, deterioration, and struggling revitalization. Hearing the stories of the people who live there provides a different perspective. Can these stories help us as we plan the future of this and other neighbourhoods?
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Click here for more details about these three research projects --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Research Reports The Impact of a Career Exploration Intervention on School Motivation and Self Esteem This research project focused on the impact of the “Career Trek” program in Winnipeg from the perspectives of the participants, their families and teachers. The primary objective of Career Trek, Inc. is to stop/break the cycle of poverty through career education. Career Trek targets young people from traditionally marginalized communities, including adolescent parents, aboriginal youth, and youth that have been assessed as being at-risk of leaving school due to structural factors of poverty, family stress, social isolation, and other social-emotional issues. The report describes the program, the implementation of the research project, as well as its findings. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the impact of this career exploration program on children’s academic resilience, and how this was impeded or facilitated within their multiple relational contexts of family, school and community.
Echoes of Inner City Voices From June 1997 to September 1999, the Winnipeg Free Press ran a weekly series of stories – Inner City Voices – that gave voice to people in the inner city. The inner city issues focussed on included “Being Born: Moms and Babies,” “Growing Up: Kids and School,” “Not Being Heard: Powerlessness,” Getting Heard: Building Power and Capacity” and “Inner City Voices: Building Bridges to All of Us.” In a series of articles building on these themes, issues ranging from poverty, through youth gangs, Aboriginal issues, housing problems, program funding, education and crime, to a host of other topics key to inner city revitalization and improving the quality of life of inner city residents, were explored from a very personal and community based perspective. Five years later the authors, Virginia Maracle and Mike Maunder, revisited some of the people they interviewed to see how their lives had changed and how the inner city had changed. This is supplemented by: statistics profiling inner city characteristics and change; program and policy based material; and, socio-economic, demographic and housing information. Echoes of Inner City Voices provides not only a commentary on inner city change but also commentary on policy and program effectiveness in a broad sense and highlights problems yet to be solved.
Financing Social Enterprise: A Scan Of Financing Providers In The Manitoba, Saskatchewan And Northwestern Ontario Region Sustainability of Social Economy agencies is often tenuous due to a heavy reliance on single source and/or project-based funding. Long term strength and viability of any organization requires a more diversified financial base; a financial strategy that addresses the differing needs for startup, ongoing operations, short term cash flow, long term investment into capital and infrastructure, research and development and so on. These various financial objectives may require different financing approaches and instruments and may involve multiple financing agencies. The objective of this research scan is to identify and describe the providers and types of financing instruments available to social enterprises in the study region: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and northwestern Ontario. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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