Arise for Social Justice Records, 1956-2010 (bulk 1985-2010)
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Historical Note Arise for Social Justice is a Springfield, Massachusetts-based low-income rights organization founded by a small group of women on public assistance in 1985. It is an organization led by low-income members who believe that "we as poor people have a right to speak for ourselves, and that as we do, we learn how to build political power for ourselves." Its many and varied programs and alliances seek to educate, organize, unite, and empower low-income people to know their rights and stand up for them; to promote involvement in the political process; to promote self-esteem; to educate the community at large to its common interest in social and economic justice; and to educate low-income people to fight oppression in all its manifestations. The founding members of Arise, Michaelann Bewsee, Cindy Montoya, Hollee Patterson, Karen Rock, Pam Scott, and Terrill Winston, were initially brought together through the Boston-based group Coalition for Basic Human Needs. Montoya and Rock, who lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, soon formed a separate group in that city. The remaining Springfield women were later joined by Terrill's sister Marsha Burnett and Darlene Nellis among others. Drawing made for use in Arise for Social Justice publications and flyers, circa 1992. Artist unknown. Though the members initially conceived of the group as a welfare rights organization "because all of us were recipients," they "soon realized that all people who live below the poverty line are suffering from discrimination, violation of rights, and threats to their survival and that the working poor and recipients were being played off against each other instead of coming together for your common survival." 1 "By the time we wrote our by-laws we had become a low-income rights organization." 2 In the mid-1990s, Arise added a significant element of "anti-oppression work" to its mission. Initial efforts focused on injustices in the welfare system. Issues listed on the agenda for Arise's first outreach meeting in March 1985 include child support, the "Up to Poverty" campaign and "Other Issues" (including federal budget cuts, sensitivity, information network, employment training and work incentives, child care, and Pell grants). By the second meeting, the members added the issue of Medicaid access. Arise incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1986. It hired its first director, opened its first office, and became a delegate agency of the Springfield Action Commission, a local anti-poverty agency in 1987. A six- to ten-member Board of Directors oversaw business affairs and property. Committees provided the "strategic thinking" for the organization. The small paid staff worked primarily on financial development, training, and volunteer coordination. Grants sometimes allowed for hiring staff to work on special projects. Arise has created its own programs and worked on many projects and campaigns in coalition with other groups on a regional, state, and national level. The organization's interests and activities, while varied, are strongly interconnected, with social and economic justice at their core. In most instances Arise has combined work for specific goals, or to provide services which would directly impact its members and the residents of Springfield, while also working to change underlying systems. At its founding, Arise joined the "Up to Poverty" Campaign, a statewide, grassroots effort led by welfare recipients to create a minimum welfare payment level for families and individuals who relied on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or General Relief (GR) for all or part of their income. The concept was to bring the amount of the grant up to the federal poverty level. The coalition of over ninety Massachusetts organizations working on the campaign took as its motto, "A right to thrive, not barely survive." They scored an early success when two of the organizations, the Coalition for Basic Human Needs and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, filed a lawsuit in 1985 that claimed that the low level of grants violated state law. The presiding judge agreed, and in September of 1986, the state issued a report establishing a guaranteed minimum grant. Though the group felt this minimum was still inadequate, this early victory helped launch Arise. By 1988 the Massachusetts coalition had joined with the national "Up and Out of Poverty Now" Campaign. In 1986 Arise formed support groups called Justice for Parents and Children Under Protective Services and Children and Parent's Advocacy (CAPA) to publicize the difficulties parents confronted in dealing with the Department of Social Services (DSS). They outlined their needs for better information; improved communication; clear protocols, definitions, and policies; translators; and cultural sensitivity. The groups held demonstrations, vigils, and letter-writing and media campaigns. They worked on child custody issues, foster care and adoption issues, false accusations of child abuse, and advocated for the reorganization of DSS and an examination of its practices both in specific cases and in general. Arise members trained as Citizen Advocates to assist individuals in navigating the legal system, health care infrastructure, and a variety of city, state, and federal offices and departments, such as Veterans Affairs, Public Welfare, Housing Authority, Social Services, and Prisons. The training emphasized knowledge of clients' rights and effective advocacy techniques. Advocates aided clients with welfare system issues, such as food stamps, Medicaid cards, and fair hearings. They also helped with housing issues, evictions and problems with landlords; and other matters, such as divorce, separation, restraining orders, and child support payments; social security; and disability. Arise-trained Citizen Advocates helped Springfield residents to write letters, fill out forms, and would accompany them on visits to various offices. Arise also helped individuals through referrals to social service and aid agencies such as the Salvation Army, Open Pantry, Love Center, and Gray House for food, shelter, clothing, and other necessities. Members organized a Speakers Bureau and sought opportunities to share their firsthand knowledge of living in poverty at conferences and meetings, and give testimony at legislative hearings. Arise also facilitated support groups and workshops for parenting, empowerment, health, stress reduction, and skills building through its Self-Reliance Center (1992-), Homeless Action Center (1987-), and Myles Horton Free School (circa 1994-). By the late 1980s Arise was also working on homelessness. Arise members served on various city committees and in coalitions working to provide more shelter beds; shelter for different populations (families, battered women); as well as a variety of services, benefits, and facilities to help the homeless find and keep permanent housing. Arise members served on committees working to develop a Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) for Springfield in the early 1990s. The organization constantly explored a wide variety of alternatives, such as community land trusts, limited equity cooperatives, and AIDS housing. It also worked with public housing tenants to form tenant organizations through the Massachusetts Tenants Organization (MTO) and Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, and served as resources for tenants' rights. The organization advocated for a rent control initiative in Springfield in 1988-89, and to prevent the loss of "at-risk" (or expiring use) subsidized housing. Beginning in 1992 Arise participated in a collective of non-profit organizations working to rehabilitate the Rainville Hotel at 32 Byers St. in Springfield, as a single-room occupancy (SRO) residence for single, low-income men and women. The collective consisted of Arise, Open Pantry, the Springfield Action Commission, Gandara Mental Health Center, the Housing Allowance Project, the South Middlesex Non-Profit Housing Corp., and the Community Builders. Arise later managed the building which not only provided housing, but a range of social services emphasizing self-help and mutual support. As part of this effort, Arise also established its Self-Reliance Center/Program to be a community-based economic development and homelessness support center for homeless, formerly homeless, and those at-risk of becoming homeless. The program fostered peer support, the development of organizational and leadership skills, and featured a skills exchange. By 1993 Arise had also established a Hot Meals program for homeless families placed in motels, organized against one of Springfield's most negligent landlords, and registered more than 2,000 new voters. Arise's involvement with the criminal justice system began when the organization agreed to employ individuals sentenced to do community service work in 1988. The membership has worked on issues related to police brutality, community policing, citizen review of police, criminal offender record information (CORI) regulations, prison conditions, mandatory minimum sentences, political prisoners, youth violence, and the death penalty. Though access to health care is one of Arise's continuing long-term interests, the group participated especially vigorously in two events in the 1990s--debates related to President Clinton's proposed health care reform plan in 1993-94, and a Massachusetts public policy ballot referendum to establish a single-payer health care system in the state in 1994. Other campaigns sought to increase the participation of low-income citizens on city-wide boards, and in the political process, especially through a campaign to replace the all at-large seats on City Council with a system including some ward representatives. Arise worked to defeat the Citizens for Limited Taxation ballot initiative in 1990 and participated in an especially extensive effort for voter registration and mobilization in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Beginning with the People's Quincentenary Celebration in 1992, Arise launched international Solidarity efforts including sending a delegation to Nicaragua in the fall 1996. They established close ties with the New England Central America Network (NECAN) to work on labor rights, environmental degradation, anti-imperialism and militarism, anti-apartheid advocacy. In the late 1990s Arise joined the Economic Human Rights Campaign of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union of Philadelphia. The Campaign works "to unite the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty," taking as its basis "economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication and a living wage job." 3 Arise began work on HIV/AIDS prevention, awareness, and care in the early 1990s. By 1997 they had developed a program, written a grant, and received funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's HIV/AIDS Bureau to establish and run an HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Program. As with other Arise activities, the Program aimed to provide direct services (such as needle exchange, condom distribution, and health care information) and education aimed at prevention, while also working on larger societal issues. The Program funded establishment of a Sex Worker Outreach Team (SWOT) to promote self-protection among women engaged in, or at risk for being pushed to engage in, sex work in Springfield. SWOT aimed to "develop and share with Arise membership and the wider community a political-economic analysis of sex work and strategies for changing the social and economic conditions which push women into street sex work." The program, under the clinical supervision of Nancy Lyman-Shaver, included monthly individual sessions and group sessions. In its second year, the group changed its name to Women in Support of Each Other (WISE) "to make ourselves more accessible sounding to women that do not identify with the title sex worker." The group distributed condoms, bleach and water kits, and educational materials. Its long-range goals included improved working conditions for club workers and decriminalization of prostitution, teaching self-advocacy skills, and providing space and resources to help break down barriers between women. Arise worked with the Springfield Harm Reduction Coalition (ShaRC), the Springfield Users Council and the Springfield Alliance for Needle Exchange (SANE) to attempt implementation of a legal needle exchange program in city of Springfield. In 2010 Arise listed its key issues and campaigns as economic justice (to make sure people on public assistance get their rights), "digital divide" computer education, free school education to empower individuals, and peace with solidarity and anti-violence work to educate the community about the waging of wars abroad. As of 2011, Arise and its co-founder Michaelann Bewsee maintain blogs at the following URLs: Arise for Social Justice blogMichaelann Bewsee's blog Notes 1. Grant proposal to the Haymarket Peoples Fund, 30 Dec 1985. 2. From "Excerpts from the Common Grant Application," circa 1996. 3. Mission statement of the Poor Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign.
The Arise for Social Justice Board of Directors began donating the organization's records to the Sophia Smith Collection in 2002.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Arise for Social Justice Records consist of 30.25 linear feet of materials dating from 1956 to 2010. Types of materials include brochures, conference files, correspondence, financial records, flyers, grant proposals and reports, minutes and agendas, speeches, organizations files, photographs, press releases, newsletters and other publications, reports, newspaper clippings, notes, surveys, training materials, subject files, and memorabilia. The bulk of the records date from 1985 to 2000. They provide a remarkably detailed record of the activities, decision-making processes, and political foundation of the organization and its work in coalition with regional, state, national, and international groups. In addition to materials documenting the work of Arise, the records contain a wealth of mailings, newsletters, and other resources produced by wide variety of organizations working for social and economic justice in late twentieth century America. Because Arise also served as an information clearinghouse, the records are rich with resource lists and reference files on a wide variety of subjects compiled to provide background information and serve as source materials for future activities. Major topics found in the records include criminal justice, economic justice, HIV/AIDS prevention, homelessness, housing, poverty, social justice, and welfare rights.
The bulk of the Records are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection, although researchers must sign the "Access Agreement Form" before viewing some restricted records (as noted in container listing).
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to unpublished works created by Arise for Social Justice members and employees as part of their participation in the group. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by persons other than Arise for Social Justice members and employees as part of their participation in the organization may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
See also: oral history with Arise co-founder Michaelann Bewsee is included in the SSC's Voices of Feminism Oral History Project and the Survivors, Inc. Records. Materials on Gray Panthers of Hampden County were transferred to Special Collections and Archives at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst.
Processed by Maida Goodwin, Alyssa Pluss, and Lori Satter, 2012.
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SERIES I. ADMINISTRATION
This series provides an overview of the history and administrative structure of Arise for Social Justice, its Board of Directors, committees, and staff. The extensive minutes and reports are especially rich in detail about the workings of the organization. Notebooks, notes, and "to-do" lists kept by various Arise members give a good sense of the day-to-day workings of the organization. Events files document planning and arrangements for enrichment and fundraising events sponsored by the organization. Publications include general information brochures and flyers as well as newsletters and publications by the creative writing group. Arizine, the publication of the WISE (Women in Support of Each Other) group, can be found in SERIES X. HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND EDUCATION.
SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS
This series contains some records of day-to-day financial business and record keeping, but is primarily related to fundraising. Included are general fundraising mailings as well as grant proposals and reports to foundations and other organizations. Grant-related records are a rich source for detailed descriptions of Arise and its programs and also give a sense of the foundations and organizations funding social justice work in the late-twentieth century.
SERIES III. CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Records in this series include extensive materials related to Arise's work to reform the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) and advocate on behalf of individuals dealing with the Department. There are also records of children's and youth groups within Arise, and advocacy materials related to legislation on a variety of related subjects such as child care and child abuse. Organizations files document Arise's work on strengthening family support mechanisms, preventing teenage pregnancy, and helping to provide employment for youth. Related materials can be found in SERIES IV. CRIMINAL JUSTICE and SERIES XXIII. VIOLENCE.
SERIES IV. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Materials in this series document activities associated with creating an effective and responsible police force, police sensitivity training, crime legislation, prisons and prisoners' rights, alternatives to incarceration, anti-death penalty activism, political prisoners, youth violence, and gangs. Included are materials related to the Springfield, Massachusetts, police department, particularly police-community relations in light of controversial shootings and other incidents in the city. Also documented is Arise's program of advocacy on behalf of individuals within the criminal justice system. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional materials about various Criminal Justice/Community Justice projects.
SERIES V. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
This series contains materials about classes, workshops, and training sessions presented by Arise for its members and the general public. Topics include building job skills, self-sufficiency, empowerment and leadership, and organization-building. There are also files on education and training groups and events run by other organizations in which Arise members participated. Reference files document a variety of educational issues and techniques. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about the Myles Horton Free School. Related materials can also be found in SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS, and SERIES XVI. PEER SUPPORT.
SERIES VI. THE ELDERLY
This small series consists primarily of reference materials on resources available to the elderly and on advocacy and service organizations working on elderly issues.
SERIES VII. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Materials in this series document Arise's activities related to environmental and environmental justice issues at the local, national, and international level particularly those impacting low-income people.
SERIES VIII. FOOD AND HUNGER
This series documents a wide array of activities related to food and hunger, from a Community Garden Project and the establishment of an Arise Food Coop to provide nutritious and low-cost options for obtaining food, to a program to cook and deliver hot meals to homeless families temporarily housed in motels, to Food Stamp eligibility training and advocacy, to involvement with regional, state, and national organizations and campaigns working to address hunger in the United States. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about the Food Coop and the Hot Meals Program. Related materials are in SERIES XXIV. WELFARE.
SERIES IX. HEALTH CARE
Health Care materials document Arise's early concerns about Medicaid access through statewide and national health care access campaigns in the middle 1990s. In addition to materials documenting Arise's Medicaid advocacy and training sessions, Arise members did research on Medicaid providers and private insurers in the Springfield area. The bulk of the records document mid-1990s work on universal health care campaigns at the national level and the Arise Health Care Access Campaign which advocated for a single-payer health care referendum question on the Massachusetts state ballot in 1994. Subject files document Arise's role as a clearinghouse for information about available health care, the insurance industry, and health care access legislation. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about the Health Insurance Access Campaign (aka Arise Health Care Access Campaign).
SERIES X. HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND EDUCATION
This series documents Arise's multi-faceted HIV/AIDS work, including efforts to establish a needle exchange program in the city of Springfield, the Sex Worker Outreach Project, and general educational efforts about HIV/AIDS. Included are extensive records of Arise's contract work for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and substantial reference files. Records related to Women in Support of Each Other (WISE) include notes on women's group meetings and issues of Arizine, the magazine published by WISE beginning in 1998. The bulk of the materials date from the late 1990s to 2003.
SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS
Materials about Arise's work on homelessness include records of direct service initiatives such as Arise's Homeless Action Center, Homeless Support Group, Marsha's Apartment, and Hot Meals Program for homeless people housed in motels. There are also records of state and local committee, task force, and board work, and the organization of vigils, rallies, and other visibility campaigns, such as Sanctuary City (a warm weather "tent city" for homeless people), advocating for more shelter options and affordable housing in Springfield. The series also includes records of work in coalition with organizations such as the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. Materials about shelters include a collection of shelter residents' accounts of violence and mistreatment by staff in these facilities. The content of this series is especially closely connected to materials in SERIES XII. HOUSING. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about various projects. Other related materials can also be found in SERIES IX. HEALTH CARE, SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE, and SERIES XXIV. WELFARE
SERIES XII. HOUSING
This series contains materials related to the development of affordable housing and preservation of existing subsidized units. It includes records of advocacy for legislation, work on committees and boards, as well as Arise's collaboration with Service Providers, Inc., to rehabilitate the Rainville Hotel into a single room occupancy residence with in-house support services. Files about the Rainville Hotel project include extensive research materials as well as funding and construction files. Materials in this series also document Arise's work to help meet the need for affordable and transitional housing alternatives suitable for different populations, such as single parent families, the disabled, and the elderly. There are also records of activities aimed at improvement of substandard conditions in private and public low-cost and subsidized housing and advocacy on behalf of tenants. These include work on a 1989 rent control initiative in Springfield, fact sheets and training sessions about tenants' rights, and records of efforts to organize tenants in public and private housing in collaboration with the Massachusetts Tenants Organization (MTO) and the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants. Materials in this series are especially closely related to those in SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about various projects. Related materials can also be found in SERIES IX. HEALTH CARE, SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE, and SERIES XXIV. WELFARE.
SERIES XIII. IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
Materials in this small series primarily document organizations and legislation related to immigrant and refugee issues which intersect with Arise's social and economic justice activities.
SERIES XIV. JOBS AND LABOR
This small series contains records related to a Job Bank and the Arise Jobs and Skills Committee from the 1990s plus files related to workers' issues such as minimum wage and sexual harassment, as well as materials from state and national organizations seeking to refocus national priorities and advocate for social justice in the workplace. Related materials can be found in SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS, SERIES XV. PEACE, SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE, SERIES XX. SOLIDARITY, and SERIES XXIV. WELFARE.
SERIES XV. PEACE
Materials in this small series document Arise members' participation in demonstrations against the Gulf War and advocacy for a shift in federal budget priorities away from military and defense spending toward social and economic justice issues. Related materials can be found in SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE, SERIES XX. SOLIDARITY, and SERIES XXIII. VIOLENCE.
SERIES XVI. PEER SUPPORT
Records in this series document Arise's advocacy training and services, support groups and services for the disabled, veterans, "moms in stress," and GLBT people. A significant portion of the materials are about Arise's Self-Reliance Center/Project which coordinated such things as skills, resources, and tool exchanges. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain information about various peer support projects. Related materials can also be found in SERIES III. CHILDREN AND YOUTH, SERIES V. EDUCATION AND TRAINING, SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS, and SERIES XII. HOUSING.
SERIES XVII. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Materials in this series primarily document work to increase political participation of low-income people through campaigns to register and mobilize voters and to change representation on the Springfield City Council from all at-large seats to some representation by ward. In addition there is information about a variety of third-party candidates and organizations working to reform the election process. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about various projects. Related materials can be found in SERIES IX. HEALTH CARE.
SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE
This series documents work at the core of Arise's mission from its founding. Included is Arise's early work with the statewide "Up to Poverty" campaign of late 1980s which sought to bring welfare benefits up to the federal poverty level. Other projects included early 1990s campaigns to prevent utilities from shutting off low-income customers who fell behind on paying their bills, compilation of a directory of social justice organizations in New England, and work toward a fair tax code, including efforts to defeat a the Citizens for Limited Taxation ballot initiative in Massachusetts in 1990. Arise also established a Speakers Bureau through which low-income people could speak for themselves, promoting self-esteem and educating the community at large to its common interest in social and economic justice. Speakers Bureau members presented testimony before the state legislature and its committees, spoke at rallies and vigils, to church and community groups and organizations, in classrooms at area colleges, and at conferences. The records in this series include detailed planning materials for a proposed New England People's Economic Summit in 1996 that was ultimately cancelled. There are also materials detailing Arise's participation in the Kensington Welfare Rights Union's Economic Human Rights Campaign which advocates for the economic human rights of housing, health care, a living wage job, and education as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There are also files related to many organizations working on changing national budget priorities to address income disparity. There are also extensive reference files on subjects such as banking, the state and federal budget, community development, economic sustainability, and trade. Related materials can also be found in SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS, SERIES XII. HOUSING, SERIES XV. PEACE, and SERIES XXIV. WELFARE.
SERIES XVIX. RACISM
This small series documents efforts to confront racism within Arise and collaborations with other Connecticut River Valley organizations seeking to address racism in the community.
SERIES XX. SOLIDARITY
Materials in this series document work aimed at the integration of issues and activities with low-income people outside of the U.S., particularly in central and south America, especially the effects of the U.S. lifestyle and standard of living on other people and places. Included are files related to hosting visits from Nicaraguan women and a return visit by Arise members to Nicaragua. Arise worked closely with the New England Central America Network (NECAN) for much of the 1990s and with other organizations such as the Western Massachusetts Coalition Against Apartheid, the Springfield Area Central America Project, the Central America Solidarity Association and the American Friends Service Committee. Files document rallies, vigils, and public education events, such as the People's Quincentenary Celebration 1992 which presented an alternative interpretation of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about various projects. Related materials can also be found in SERIES VII. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, SERIES XV. PEACE, and SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE.
SERIES XXI. SPRINGFIELD AND PIONEER VALLEY
This series documents Arise's involvement with the local community as it advocated for low-income residents and sought funding, members, and partner organizations. Arise's wide-ranging mission and activities can be seen in the range of organizations represented, from churches to neighborhood councils, to NOW and the League of Women Voters, to Community Resources Against Community Killers (CRACK). The most extensive files in the series are those associated with Arise's role as a delegate agency for the Springfield Action Commission. Materials include correspondence, notes on meetings, newsletters, and clippings.
SERIES XXII. SUBSTANCE ABUSE
This small series contains materials about Arise members' participation in conferences and groups working on substance abuse issues. Related materials can be found in SERIES X. HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND EDUCATION.
SERIES XXIII. VIOLENCE
Materials in this series are primarily related to violence against women. Included are reference files and resource materials about local organizations and services available to victims of sexual assault, and to battered women. Arise was especially active in the middle 1990s organizing a series of vigils in honor of women murdered by partners and ex-partners as well as training and events aimed at improving media coverage of domestic violence. Related materials can be found in SERIES III. CHILDREN AND YOUTH which contains materials about gang and youth violence, and SERIES IV. CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
SERIES XXIV. WELFARE
This series documents Arise's work related to the welfare system. Various federal and state social support programs are included, such as Food Stamps; Transitional Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); General Relief (GR); Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Children's Clothing Allowance, Emergency Assistance (EA); Chapter 707 Rental Assistance Program (707); Emergency Assistance to Elderly, Disabled, and Children (EAEDC); Supplemental Security Income (SSI); and Transitional Assistance to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC). From its early work to increase benefits in order to bring them up to the federal poverty level, through various state and national "reforms," Arise organized demonstrations, rallies, and speak outs, lobbied and testified at hearings, gathered petitions, participated in conferences and workshops, served as a general information resource, and provided training. Arise members served on state and local committees, discussion groups, and advisory boards, and cooperated with a wide variety of organizations working for the rights of welfare recipients, and to influence welfare policy and reform. The files are especially rich in fact sheets, reference, and training materials about the specifics of the various programs and the many changes to them through the 1980s and 1990s. They also reveal some of the ways groups sought to counter the prevailing narratives about welfare recipients, welfare fraud, and the efficacy of state and national welfare reforms, time limits, and welfare to work programs. Grant proposals and reports in SERIES II. FINANCIAL MATERIALS contain additional information about various projects. Additional materials about Food Stamps and WIC are in in SERIES VIII. FOOD AND HUNGER. Related materials can be found in SERIES XII. HOUSING, SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS, and SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE.
SERIES XXV. PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORABILIA
This series contains a small collection of photographs of Arise members and activities. Most are unlabeled and undated.
RESTRICTED MATERIALS
Restricted materials include information about Arise's financial donors; case files for individuals helped through Arise's Citizen Advocacy program; records on individuals who worked with Arise as part of their Community Service; and intake and referral forms for food, clothes, and shelter.
Researchers must sign an access agreement form before viewing these files.
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
Oversize materials include posters, newsletters, clippings, and other materials.
General
General information re goals/programs/campaigns of Arise 1987-93, n.d.
"Arise and Be Heard: an analysis of grass-roots organizing in Springfield, Massachusetts" by Debra A. Joyce, paper for a Women's Studies seminar 1986
Brochures, flyers, and information sheets re: Arise n.d.
By-laws 1988-95, n.d.
"Early Arise" chronological file 1985-89
Incorporation n.d.
Media
General 1990-2001, n.d.
Media mailing lists 1999, n.d.
Newspaper clippings 1985-2003, n.d.
Press releases 1985-2005
Reference file 1985-2000, n.d.
Organization charts n.d.
Organization development 1992-2002, n.d.
Purpose statements n.d.
Policies
General 1995-97, n.d.
Personnel 1992-96, n.d.
Personnel policies reference file 1991-92, n.d.
Web site 1999, n.d.
Annual meetings 1987-89, 1992-99, 2001-2005, n.d.
Board of Directors
General 1991, n.d.
Rosters 1989-2003, n.d.
Meetings; minutes, agendas, and notes
Correspondence 1988-2004, n.d.
Retreats 1987, 1998, 2005
Committees
General 1993, n.d.
Meetings sign-in sheets 1992-94, n.d.
Lists of committees circa 1989-97, n.d.
Rosters 1990, 2003, n.d.
Training and procedures 1993, n.d.
Action Team 1995, n.d.
Ad-hoc Committee 1994
Communications Committee n.d.
Coordinating Committee 1994
Executive Committee 1989, 1993
Interim Steering Committee 1995
Long-Range Planning Committee
Minutes, agenda, and notes 1988-96, n.d.
Survey circa 1988
Nominating Committee 1991
Personnel Committee 1987-93
Workplace Democracy Committee 1996
Membership and Outreach
General 1987-99, n.d.
Correspondence 1985-95, n.d.
Flyers n.d.
Forms and questionnaires 1988-96, n.d.
Meetings 1985-96, n.d.
Lists 1985-2003, n.d.
Phone list/phone tree n.d.
Survey n.d.
Sign-in sheets from meetings and events 1991-2004, n.d.
Office
General 1986-94, n.d.
501 Worthington St 1992-94, n.d.
718 State St. (Goodwill Industries building) 1989-99, n.d.
Almighty Latin King Queen Nation (ALKQN) space sharing 1997
Calendar [incomplete] 1987-2002, n.d.
Committee 1993
Fax log and phone logs 1986-2000, n.d.
Forms (blank) n.d.
"Log In-Out Book," 2003-04
Mailing lists 1993, n.d.
Notes and "to do" lists
Miscellaneous 1989-2004, n.d.
Hugh Birdwell notebook 1993
Marsha Burnett notebook 1993
Jeremy Smith notebook 1997-99'
Office Manager reports 1991, n.d.
Office procedures 1999, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Legal Services, Inc. 1997-99, n.d.
Staff
Curriculum vitae and biographical materials 1993, n.d.
Division of Employment Security and Department of Revenue: taxes and unemployment insurance 1987-93, n.d.
Department of Employment and Training report 1991
Grievances/incidents 1992, 1999
Job descriptions 1992-93, n.d.
Performance evaluation forms n.d.
Staff meetings 1986-2002, n.d.
Staff reports 1987-88, n.d.
Time and Attendance reports/Activity Reports 1987-2000, n.d.
Worker time sheets/Sign-in sheets 1989-90
Internships
General 1989, 1999, n.d.
Correspondence with area colleges 1988-2000, n.d.
Arise/New England Central American Network Intern n.d.
Campus Organizing Project 1999-2000
Internship Journal, Cathy McNally summer 1988
Outreach Internship Log Book summer 1997
Volunteers
General 1986-2004, n.d.
Questionnaire 1992
Vista 1989-94, n.d.
Correspondence
Incoming 1985-2006, n.d.
Outgoing 1986-99, n.d.
Events
Miscellaneous 1987-99, n.d.
Blanket Giveaway 1992-93
Block Party 1987
Christmas Party for Homeless Children 1987-93, n.d.
Circus Party 1987
Clothing Giveaway, 199-91
Council of Churches Mothers Fund Family Outings 1988, n.d.
Eastern States Exposition bus trip 1988
Family Day at Coney Island 1988
Recognition Dinner 2005-06
Reference file 1989, 1994, n.d.
Publications
Buttons "to be done" n.d.
Graphics n.d.
Poetry n.d.
Membership Memo/Memo 1994-2000
Newsletter
Our Voices Heard 1990-95
Surviving Together 2003
Taking it to the Streets 2005-06
Unidentified undated pages
Arizine
Words of the People [creative writing group] n.d.
The Voice 2002, n.d.
Resources
Brochures and lists for referrals 1993-2005, n.d.
Songs, poems, cartoons, and inspirational quotes 1993-2003, n.d.
Statistics 1980-97, n.d.
Arise Fiscal Committee 1987-2003, n.d.
Arise Loan Fund 2003-2004, n.d.
Bookkeeping 1988-2004, n.d.
Budget 1988-2005, n.d.
Financial statements 1987-2006, n.d.
Fundraising
General 1993-2003, n.d.
Plan 2004-05
Arise Fundraising Committee 1986-93, n.d.
Arise Resource Development Committee 1993-2004, n.d.
Appeal letters
General 1989-2010, n.d.
May 1993
Organizers' training 1999
Marsha's Apartment 2004-05
Corporate Giving program n.d.
Miscellaneous 1987-2005, n.d.
Block Party Aug 1986
Cheap Chic Fashion Show May 1987
Raffle 1987, 1993
Spring Fling/BYOB Dance 1988-89
Grants
General 1993-2001, n.d.
Grantwriting 1991-2004, n.d.
Proposals and reports
General support
Miscellaneous 1994-97, n.d.
Anonymous donor 2000-01
Haymarket People's Fund 1986, 1999
Norman Foundation 1992-94
Springfield Action Commission 1986
Archives of Poor People's History, Skaggs Foundation 1993
Be a Father to Your Child Workshops, Springfield Infant Mortality and Teenage Pregnancy Coalition 1992
Criminal Justice/Community Justice
Community Justice, Campaign for Human Development 1997-98
Community Policing, Resist circa 1998
Criminal Justice Project
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts 1995
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation 1993
Criminal Justice Committee development, Haymarket People's Fund 1993
Know Your Rights Project, Campaign for Human Development 1997
Restorative Justice is Smart on Crime, Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation 2004
SpY 4 Justice (Springfield Youth for Justice), to unknown grantmaker 1994
Department of Social Services system change organizing proposal to Campaign for Human Development
Economic Human Rights Project, to various grantmakers 1999, n.d.
Empowerment
Empowerment Workshops, Discount Foundation 1992
Empowerment Workshops for Low-Income Women
Agnes Lindsay Trust 1993
Family Community Leadership Mini-Grant 1992
Teenage Empowerment Workshop Series, Springfield Infant Mortality and Teenage Pregnancy Coalition 1991
Family Support, Education, and Advocacy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation 1993
Food Coop 1996
Health Insurance Access Campaign
Miscellaneous n.d.
Ben and Jerry's Foundation 1993
Families U.S.A. 1993
Haymarket People's Fund 1993
Public Welfare Foundation 1992
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1992
Hot Meals Program, United Way 1989, n.d.
Housing/Homelessness
Various projects, Fund for the Hungry and Homeless 1988-93
Eviction Prevention Program, United Way of Pioneer Valley n.d.
Mason Square Neighborhood Community Land Trust, generic proposal n.d.
Neighborhood Community Land Trust Project, Discount Foundation 1993
Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Housing (with Service Providers, Inc.)
Institute for Community Economics Revolving Loan Fund n.d.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development, Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) 1985-98
Public Welfare Foundation n.d.
Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Tenants' Union Organizing, Discount Foundation 1993
Springfield Initiative (with Open Pantry Community Services), unidentified U.S. Government program 1994
Transitional Housing for One Parent Families Project, United Way of Pioneer Valley 1987
Winter Overflow Shelter emergency funding, Haymarket People's Fund 1992
Myles Horton Free School, Peace Development Fund 1996
Neighborhood Freedom Choir, to unknown grantmaker n.d.
New England People's Economic Summit
Haymarket People's Fund 1996-99
Lawson Valentine Foundation 1996
People Living with AIDS Consumer Group, unknown n.d.
People's Quincentenary Celebration, Warren Plaut Memorial Fund 1992
Political Reform/Voter Education
Organizers' Training Project, Xeric Foundation 1999
Political Reform in Springfield, Ford Foundation 1994
Voter Education Committee, Piper Fund 1999
Ward Representation Campaign, Community Training and Assistance Center n.d.
Self-Reliance Center
To various grantmakers 1992-94, n.d.
Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation 1992
Solidarity
Miscellaneous 1992
U.S. Nicaragua Low-Income Links Project, Tides Foundation 1995
Truth Squad Speakers' Bureau, to various grantmakers 1997-2000
Volunteer Coordinator, Mott Foundation 1987
Welfare
Miscellaneous 1985, 1997, n.d.
Economic Survival Coaltion (with Women's Alliance), unspecified 1997-99
Welfare Rights Organizing Project, Peace Development Fund 1995-96
Working Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts Chapter establishment, Catholic Campaign for Human Development 1999
Youth Conference, various 1997
Reference files
General 1989-2004, n.d.
Foundation/Fund research 1985-2004, n.d.
Workshops 1993
Miscellaneous 1995-2003, n.d.
Reports 1989-93
Taxes 1988-2005, n.d.
Tax exemption certificates 1987, 1992
Department of Social Services (DSS) Advocacy? Reform?
General 1986-99, n.d.
Clippings 1986-94, n.d.
Arise Justice for Parents and Children Under DSS Advisory Board 1986, n.d.
Arise DSS Committee 1991-94, n.d.
Arise DSS Support Group
General 1992-94, n.d.
Meeting notes 1992-94, n.d.
[Arise] Children and Parents' Advocates (CAPA) 1993-94, n.d.
Play and rally "State of Destruction" 16 Jul 1992
Training materials and fact sheets n.d.
The Kids in Arise [group for children] 1989, n.d.
Arise Youth Group
General 1998, n.d.
Conference, "Be a Father to Your Child," 1993
Legislation
General 1992-93, n.d.
ACE (Affordable Childcare for Everyone) Bill 1993-98, n.d.
H4247 (Child Abuse) 1997-98
Organizations
Alliance for the Rights of Children (ARCH) 1993
Massachusetts Department of Social Services
Area 4 Advisory Board 1985
Forms and regulations 1983-98, n.d.
Family Law Task Force, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute 1994
Single Parent Interactive Network (SPIN) 1993, n.d.
Special Committee on Family Support and the Child Welfare System 1992-95, n.d.
Springfield Infant Mortality and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition 1985-94, n.d.
Summer Youth Employment and Training Program (SYETP), New England Farmworkers Council 1990-99, n.d.
Subject files
General and miscellaneous 1984-97, n.d.
Adoption/Foster care 1986-2003, n.d.
Child abuse and neglect 1992-94, n.d.
Child abuse and child psychiatry 1979-95, n.d.
Child care and Day care 1985-97, n.d.
Child custody 1987-98
Child support 1988-95
Children and poverty 1990-98
Gangs n.d.
Parenting 1991-95, n.d.
Teenage pregnancy n.d.
Arise Criminal Justice Committee
General 1992-96, n.d.
Campaign for a Responsible Police Commission 1995
Community Service 1988-94, n.d.
Criminal Justice Project grant 1993-95
Know Your Rights Project
General 1994-98, n.d.
Criminal Justice Advocacy Training Oct 1994
Pamphlet 1994
Lawsuit, Officer Robert McFarlin vs. Arise 1995
Police Complaint Advocacy Training 1997
Criminal Justice Survey n.d.
Arise Community Justice Committee
General 1996-99, n.d.
Community Justice Survey 1998
Alternatives to Incarceration petition n.d.
Crime
General 1992-98, n.d.
Crime bills 1993-94, n.d.
Victims/Survivors 1996-2000
Criminal Justice System
General 1990-2004, n.d.
American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program 1992-2001, n.d.
Political prisoners 1992-2003, n.d.
Sentencing/mandatory minimums 1993-2004, n.d.
Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) 1990, 2005, n.d.
Death penalty
General 1977-2005, n.d.
Judge Albert Sabo, Pennsylvania 1997-98
Massachusetts legislative hearing 1 Jul 1994
Miscellaneous cases 1993-98, n.d.
Mumia Abu-Jamal case 1994-98, nd.
Coalition Against Violence and the Death Penalty (CAVDP) 2001, n.d.
Equal Justice USA 1997, n.d.
Massachusetts Coalition Against the Death Penalty 1991-2001, n.d.
National Coalition Against the Death Penalty 1994-98, n.d.
Massachusetts Justice Network 1992-94
Police--General
Abuse/violence
General 1991-98, n.d.
Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA), Los Angeles 1993-95
"Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual," ACLU 1992
Civilian review of police: general 1991-95
Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, national and international (NACOLE, IACOLE) 1994-95, n.d.
National Coalition on Police Accountability (N-COPA) 1995-96
Police-Springfield and Pioneer Valley
General 1993-98, n.d.
Brutality/violence 1996-2004, n.d.
Chief selection process 1995, n.d.
Citizens' complaints 1995-98, n.d.
Citizen Review Board 1992-95, n.d.
Community Policing
Citizens for Effective Community Policing (CECP) 1994-95, n.d.
Fryar, Charles case 1993-95, n.d.
Police-Community relations 1992-97, n.d.
Octagon Lounge incident 1965-95, n.d.
October 22 Coalition, National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality 1998
Quinn Bill and attack on City Councilor Morris Jones 1990-94
Rally following Rodney King verdict 1992-93, n.d.
Report, "Policing Springfield," 1993
Schoolfield, Benjamin shooting
General 1993-99, n.d.
Party for officer Don Brown 1994, n.d.
Springfield Dialogue 1994-95
Prisons and jails
National 1994-2001, n.d.
Massachusetts 1990-2004, n.d.
Campaign to Stop Construction of the Chicopee Women's Prison, Springfield Harm Reduction Coalition (ShaRC) 2003-2005, n.d.
Class Action lawsuit vs. NYNEX 1994-95
Health care 1994, 1999
Interfaith Prison Pilgrimage 1997-2000
Massachusetts Department of Corrections policies 1994, n.d.
Prison Awareness Week 1996, n.d.
Prison Connections newsletter 1996-98
Private prisons 1998
Too Many Americans in Prison Summit April 1995
Women/mothers in criminal justice system
General 1992-2001, n.d.
YWCA Female Offender Program n.d.
Youth violence
General 1988-97, n.d.
Gangs
Community in Support of the Gang Truce, Los Angeles n.d.
Springfield 1994-95, n.d.
Youth curfew, Springfield 1995-96
Arise
General training manual 1994, n.d.
Board training 1986-2003
Workshops and presentations
General and miscellaneous 1988-2004, n.d.
Advocacy 1992, n.d.
Basic Maintenance 1994, n.d.
Basic Secretarial Skills 1993-94, n.d.
Building Church Relationships 1998, n.d.
Civil disobedience 1998, n.d.
Coalitions n.d.
Community Organizing 1973-96, n.d.
Conflict Resolution n.d.
Credit Counseling 1985, n.d.
Diversity n.d.
Doorknocking and Outreach n.d.
Empowerment 1989-93, n.d.
Leadership 1982, n.d.
Lobbying 1985, n.d.
Media 2001, n.d.
Meetings 1984, n.d.
Organization Development n.d.
Outreach n.d.
Petitioning n.d.
Political Education 1992, n.d.
Positive Thinking Seminar 1987
Root Cause Training 1999
Self motivation 1987
Stress n.d.
Myles Horton Free School 1994, 1997-2001, n.d.
Writing Group 1992, 2005, n.d.
Other organizations
Center for Popular Economics 1986-96, n.d.
Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC) n.d.
Family Community Leadership Training Institute 1991-92
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI), Challenge and Change: Legal Services in the '90s series n.d.
New World Theatre Arts Partners Project 1994, n.d.
Organizing and Leadership Training Center (OLTC) 1986-87, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Regional Popular Educators 2000
Education, general and miscellaneous 1988-98, n.d.
Consumer education 1987-97, n.d.
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 1999-2000, n.d.
New England Education Loan Marketing Association (Nellie Mae) 1997-98, n.d.
Popular and people's education 2001-02, nd.
Springfield and area schools 1992-2003, n.d.
Training resources, miscellaneous 1988-99, n.d.
SERIES VI. ELDERLY
General 1976-96, n.d.
Health care
General 1983-93, n.d.
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) n.d.
General 1989-91, n.d.
Gray Panthers 1979-93, n.d.
Massachusetts Senior Action Council 1988-93
Social Security 1983-98, n.d.
Volunteering 1993-2006, n.d.
General 1985-2006, n.d.
Arise n.d.
Economic Sustainability 1992-93, n.d.
Healthy Schools Network 1997
Save James Bay 1991-92
Toxics Action Center 1996-98, n.d.
SERIES VIII. FOOD/HUNGER
Arise Community Garden Project 1994, n.d.
Arise Food Coop
General 1989-98, n.d.
Committee 1996-97, n.d.
Brochures 1996, n.d.
Northeast Cooperatives 1995-98, n.d.
Reference file re: cooperatives 1993-96, n.d.
Arise Hot Meals Program 1987-89, n.d.
[see also SERIES XI. HOMELESSNESS]
General 1983-92, n.d.
Financial 1987-89, n.d.
Menus 1987-89, n.d.
Worksheets 1987-88, n.d.
Food/hunger: general 1983-96, n.d.
Food and nutrition fact sheets 1990, n.d.
Food Banks 1988-2004, n.d.
Food For All 1990-95, n.d.
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
General 1989-97, n.d.
Campaign to End Childhood Hunger 1991-92
Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project: A Survey of Childhood Hunger in the United States 1995
Foodlines newsletter 1988-93
Food Stamps
Advocacy and training 1997
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Basic Benefits Training: Food Stamps 1993
Project Bread Food Stamps Hotline 1992, n.d.
Hunger in Massachusetts 1987-91, n.d.
Massachusetts Anti-Hunger Coalition
General 1988-89
Training, Springfield 1989
Massachusetts Nutrition Board 1989
Medford Declaration to End Hunger in the U.S. 1989-92, n.d.
Open Pantry Community Services 1987-97, n.d.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Summer Food Service Programs 1987-92
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
General 1985, n.d.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
General 1992-92
The WIC Project 1993
Arise Health Care Committee
General 1985-97, n.d.
Notebook Sep-Dec 1996
Arise Member Health Care Questionnaire 1994
Health Care Access Information Line 1995, n.d.
Health Care/Health Insurance Access Questionnaire circa 1993
Neighborhood Health Center, Mason Square 1993-95, n.d.
Telephone poll of Medicaid providers 1990
Wellness groups 1987-94, n.d.
Arise Health Care Access Campaign (aka Health Insurance Access Campaign)
General 1993-94, n.d.
Coalition
Research 1993
Fair Care Coalition/Cuidado de Salud para Todas
Press conference 23 Sep 1993
Meeting packet 13 Oct 1993
Protest at Senator Kennedy hearing 25 Oct 1993
Stark/Wellstone bill Nov 1993
Franklin/Hampshire Health Care Coalition (F/HHCC) 1993-96, n.d.
Single Payer Across the Nation (SPAN) 1994, n.d.
State-wide Campaign for a Single Payer Health Care Referendum 1993-95
Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
Conference, "Universal Health Care: Setting a Course for '95 and Beyond" Oct 1994
Grant funding 1995-97
Reports to Arise Board 1993-94
Notes for presentation n.d.
Insurance research
General 1993
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) 1993
Insurance companies 1992-93, n.d.
Small business advertising campaign circa 1994
Single payer public policy ballot referendum
General 1993-94
Petitioning 1994
Clippings 1985-98, n.d.
Conferences and summits
Family Health Summit: Infant Survival, Western New England College 4 Jun 1993
"The Fight for Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom," Hampshire College 1993-94, 1997-98
Legislation (proposed)
National, miscellaneous 1990-94, n.d.
American Health Security Act of 1993
Clinton Health Care Plan 1993-94
Wellstone bill (S491) 1993-94
Massachusetts 1987-2005, n.d.
Organizations and programs
Miscellaneous circa 1988-2000, n.d.
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (AMI) of Western Massachusetts 1986-88
American Public Health Association (APHA) 1993, n.d.
Baystate Medical Center: Conversations in Community Health 1993-96, n.d.
Commonhealth 1992-93, n.d.
Families USA: Health Reform Action Party kit Oct 1993
Gray Panthers 1987-95, n.d.
Health Action Committee circa 1994
Health Care for All
General 1986-96, n.d.
Conference: Health Care Organizing in the New Millennium May 1995
Hemlock Society: Hemlock Quarterly 1992
Interreligious Health Care Access Campaign 1993, n.d.
Massachusetts Fair Share 1986, n.d.
Massachusetts Healthy Start Coalition 1990-92, n.d.
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Basic Benefits Training re: health care 1993
Medicaid
General 1984-98, n.d.
Basic Benefits Training, MLRI 30 Nov 1993
Masshealth: managed care 1992-2001, n.d.
Medicare 1985-92, n.d.
Northeast Ohio Coalition for National Health Care 1993-95
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) 1989-96, n.d.
Springfield Department of Health and Human Services 1989-97
Springfield Southwest Community Health Center 1997, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Working Group for National Health Care 1990
Subjects
Alternative medicine 1992-93, n.d.
Children 1987-98, n.d.
Disabled 1988-93
Free and low-cost care 1988, n.d.
Homeless 1993-94
Reproductive health/rights 1992-95
Seniors 1989-93, n.d.
Single-payer
General 1992-95, n.d.
Fact sheets 1992-94, n.d.
Unemployed 1991-96, n.d.
Women 1993-98, n.d.
General 1989-99, n.d.
Medical industry PAC contributions to members of congress 1993
Clippings 1992-93, n.d.
Needle exchange
Advocacy 1997-2004, n.d.
Funding proposals 2002, n.d.
Reference files 1995-98
Reports for Massachusetts Program 1995-97
Sex Worker Outreach Team/Project (SWOT)
General 1998-2003, n.d.
Committee 1997-99, n.d.
National prostitution legislation
Reference files 1993-2002, n.d.
Women in Support of Each Other (WISE)
General 1998-2002, n.d.
Committee 1999-2005, n.d.
Group/popular education 1998-2000, n.d.
Staff 1999-2000, n.d.
Street outreach 1996-99, n.d.
Women's Group 2000-02, n.d.
Miscellaneous undated pages
Manuscripts 1996, n.d.
Arise HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Bureau contract
General 1993-2002, n.d.
Women at Risk/Sex Worker Outreach Program Development meetings 1998-2001
Financial
Budgets 1997-2001, n.d.
Order forms 2000-01, n.d.
Reports n.d.
Collaborating organizations
Colectiva de Proyectos de Educación Popular del VIH (CPEP) 1997
Springfield Southwest Community Health Center (SSCHC) 1997-2003, n.d.
Proposal 1997-99, n.d.
Work plans 1997-2000, n.d.
Work plans response 1998-2001, n.d.
Correspondence and site visits 1998-2000, n.d.
Reports
Quarterly reports 1997-2000, n.d.
Contract Monitoring and Assessment Reports (CMAR) 1998-2002, n.d.
Monthly Data Reports 2001
Service Delivery Reports 1998-2001
Conferences and workshops
"Women and AIDS: Advanced Certification Training," (Marsha Burnett was a presenter), Massachusetts AIDS Training Institute 1994
"Replicating Effective Programs," Common Visions Conference 30 Oct 2001
Miscellaneous
ACT UP [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power] n.d.
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts 1988-98, n.d.
AIDS Allies, Inc., Springfield 1992, n.d.
ALTO AIDS [Alliance of Latinos to Overcome AIDS] 1993-94, n.d.
National Association of People with AIDS 1992-94, n.d.
Positive Directions, Boston 1992-93, n.d.
Springfield HIV Consortia 1993-94, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Women and AIDS Work Group/Network 1992-95, n.d.
General 1988-2003, n.d.
Western Massachusetts 1990-2000, n.d.
Massachusetts and New England 1987-2001, n.d.
People of color 1992-2000, n.d.
Prevention and education 1991-2000, n.d.
Safe sex/condoms 1986-93, n.d.
Treatment 1986-2001, n.d.
Women 1988-94, n.d.
Newsletters
Miscellaneous 1992-93
Allies Today, Springfield 1991-92
The Body Positive 1989, 1992-94
The Common Factor 1992-93
Positively Aware 1992-94
The Project News, Massachusetts north shore 1993-95
PWA[C] Newsline,1992-94
Wellspring 1990-93, n.d.
General 1986-2005, n.d.
Arise/ Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare dialogue 1989-92
Homeless Action Center 1987-88, n.d.
Homeless Committee
General n.d.
Meetings and correspondence 1992
Homeless Committee and Homeless Support Group 1993
Homeless Employment Leadership Project (HELP) n.d.
Homeless to Homes Project 1987
Housing and Homelessness Task Force 2003
Marsha's Apartment 2004, n.d.
Sanctuary City
General 2004-06, n.d.
Emergency Shelter meetings 2004
Homeless Openly United to Shelter Everyone (HOUSE) 2004, n.d.
HOUSE Gazette newsletter 2002, 2004
Summit Motor Inn organizing and Hot Meals 1987-89, n.d.
Vigil to End Homelessness 31 Dec 1987
Welfare/AFDC and homelessness
Emergency Assistance (EA) Program (includes Section 8 and 707 housing vouchers) 1987-94, n.d.
Springfield and Pioneer Valley
Clippings, fact sheets, correspondence, and reports 1984-2003, n.d.
Census 1989-91, n.d.
Homelessness needs assessment notes circa 1986
"Policy on Homelessness in Springfield" by Peter Friedland n.d.
"Springfield's Homeless Families" by Cheryl Pikora 1991
Organizations/committees
Community 2000 Task Force on Homelessness 1988-89
Fund for the Hungry and Homeless of Greater Springfield
General 1987-93, n.d.
Walk for the Hungry and Homeless 1988-94
Greater Springfield Committee on Homelessness
General 1989
Greater Springfield Homeless Coalition
Notes and reference materials n.d.
General 1987-90, n.d.
Service Providers' meetings 1986-87, 2003
Homeless Information Exchange Network 1988
Human Rights Committee for the Homeless of Greater Springfield 1987, n.d.
Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee for Adequate Sheltering 1989
Sheltering the Homeless in Springfield 1989-90
Service Providers, Inc.
General 1985-87, n.d.
Board meetings 1985-88, n.d.
Springfield Living Center 1993
Shelters
General 1984-93, n.d.
Armory Street 1986, n.d.
Goodwill Building, 718 State St. (proposed) 1986
Horizons 1988, n.d.
Open Pantry
Warming Place 2006, n.d.
Rotating/Overflow Shelter 1990-2003, n.d.
Springfield Redevelopment Authority Open Bed Shelter 1992, n.d.
Unified Shelter (proposed) 1988
Worthington Street 1989-92, n.d.
Massachusetts
Clippings, fact sheets, press releases, and correspondence 1986-2003, n.d.
"Homelessness: Critical Issues for Policy and Practice," The Boston Foundation 1987
Homeless Empowerment Program, Spare Change News sales 1993-94
Metro West 1990-93, n.d.
Northern Berkshire Homeless Program 1988-89, n.d.
Results of a Study to Investigate Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Homelessness in Massachusetts Jun 1990
Shelters 1990-95, n.d.
Weld Administration Briefing Packet on Homelessness 1991
Homeless Advocacy Task Force of Western Massachusetts 1992-94
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
General 1986-2006, n.d.
Shelter Access Summit Feb 1991
Streetlife/StreetSmarts newsletter 1987-2000
Massachusetts Right to Housing Project 1986
Masschusetts Shelter Providers Association,
General 1990
Community meetings 1993
National
General 1983-95, n.d.
Clippings 1984-95, n.d.
Empty the Shelters (ETS) [student arm of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union] 1994, n.d.
National Coalition for the Homeless
General 1987-98, n.d.
Conference "America's Homeless: Strategies for '88" 11 Sep 1987
Safety Network newsletter 1987-98
Oakland, California, homeless services 1990-93, n.d.
U.S. House of Representatives hearing, "Homelessness in America" 23 Apr 1993
Homeless veterans 1989-90, n.d.
Homeless voters 1991-93
Arise for Social Justice activities 1987-2003, n.d.
Housing, general 1990-93, n.d.
Affordable housing 1983-98, n.d.
Affordable Housing Alliance
"At-Risk"/Expiring Use Subsidized Housing
General 1988-91, n.d.
Ad-hoc Massachusetts At-Risk Housing Network 1990-91
Springfield and region 1989-91, n.d.
Condominium conversion 1983-91, n.d.
Habitat for Humanity n.d.
Habitat International Coalition, Women and Shelter Network 1989
Holyoke/Chicopee/Springfield Housing Coalition 1988, n.d.
Holyoke Housing Group 1988-91, n.d.
Housing and Land Bank Bill 1987-88
Housing Now! Campaign 1988-91
Housing Opportunities in Massachusetts for Everyone (HOME) Coalition
General 1990-94, n.d.
Workshop: Building Your Network circa 1990
Justice Demands Housing 1989, n.d.
Low-Income Housing Information Service and Anti-Displacement Project
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of
General 1985-91, n.d.
Affordable Housing Act 1988
Department of Community Affairs 1976-78
Executive Office of Communities and Development
Housing Court
General 1986-91, n.d.
Landlord Stephen Gray 1988
Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency 1986-88, n.d.
Massachusetts Housing Partnership 1985-93, n.d.
Massachusetts Housing Network, newsletter of Massachusetts Human Services Coalition 1985
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Housing Advocates 1986-91
Housing Information Memo 1988-94
Massachusetts Right to Housing Project 1986-87, n.d.
National Low-Income Housing Coalition 1986-2003
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials 1987-88
October 6th Coalition,1987
People's Conference on Affordable Housing
First 1986
Second 1987
Third 1988
Fourth 1990
Public housing
Council of Large Public Housing Authorities 1987-88
Massachusetts 1986-92, n.d.
Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants
General 1980-91, n.d.
"Handbook for Public Housing Grievance Procedures" n.d.
"Starting a Tenant Organization: Training Materials for Community Organizations" n.d.
Springfield Housing Authority 1983-90, n.d.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
General 1972-94, n.d.
Public Housing Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program Handbook Dec 1983
Lease and grievance rules 1988, n.d.
Rent control
Rent Control Task Force/Tenant Electoral Organizing Initiative (TEOI) 1990, n.d.
Springfield Rent Control Initiative Campaign
Clippings 1988-89, n.d.
Correspondence 1988-89, n.d.
Endorsements n.d.
Fact sheets 1988, n.d.
Fliers 1989, n.d.
Meetings 1988-89, n.d.
Petition process 1989
Petition photocopies 1989
Phone banks 1989
Legal/research files
General 1981-89, n.d.
"An Act Enabling the City of Springfield to Control Residential Rents," 1989
"Summary of Proposed Rent and Eviction Control Law" circa 1989
Landlords 1989, n.d.
Springfield research studies 1989, n.d.
Single Room Occupancy Residences (SRO)
Reports, brochures, clippings 1979-91, n.d.
Models
California 1984-86
Denver, Colorado n.d.
New York 1979-86, n.d.
Oregon
General 1980-86
SRO Housing Management Handbook, Burnside Consortium, Portland, Oregon 1983
Seattle, Washington 1985, n.d.
Reports and research papers
"Elderly and Transients in SRO Dwellings" n.d.
"Single Room Occupancy Hotels: Standing in the Way of the Gentry," Coalition for the Homeless 1985
"The Single State: Shelters, Rooming Houses, Boarding Houses, and Residential Hotels," Michael Mostoller n.d.
SRO Development and Management conferences 1985-92
General 1984-89, n.d.
"The Case for Preserving and Creating SRO Housing in Massachusetts," Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) 1990
Executive Office of Communities and Development SRO Inventory 1990-91
"The Preservation of Rooming Houses in Massachusetts," SRO Working Group 1986
Report on the Beacon Chambers Hotel fire, Boston circa 1981
SRO Moratorium bill 1989-90
Springfield
General 1956-88
Report 1985-86
Research and notes 1984-85, n.d.
Contacts n.d.
Service Providers, Inc., SRO Project
General 1985-86, n.d.
Grant proposal to Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development 1986
Potential funding sources 1985, n.d.
Buildings - possibilities for SRO
Carlton Hotel 1986
Hotel Charles 1988-94, n.d.
Tapley School 1989, n.d.
Rainville Hotel, 32 Byers St.
General 1990-2006, n.d.
Administration and management n.d.
Architects and contractors 1992-1994, n.d.
Board and meeting minutes 1991-2001, n.d.
The Community Builders 1991-94
Financial 1988-94, n.d.
Legal 1992-94
Market Feasibility Evaluation 1992
National Register of Historic Places 1992
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Subsidies application 1992
Social Services Plan and associated organizations 1992-94
South Middlesex Non-Profit Housing Corp (SMOC) 1993-94
Subsurface 21E Investigations 1992
Tenants 1994-97, n.d.
Springfield, Massachusetts and region
General 1980-98, n.d.
Affordable housing development 1985-91
Coalition of Springfield Housing Nonprofits 1988-89
Housing Allowance Project/Hamden Hampshire Housing Partnership (HAP, Inc.) 1985-97, n.d.
McKnight Community Residential Program 1988-89, n.d.
Metro Center Community Development Corporation 1988-90, n.d.
Springfield City-Wide Tenants Meeting 1988, n.d.
Springfield Community Land Trust 1988-92, n.d.
West Springfield Urban Development Action Grant 1989
Springfield, City of
General 1982-91, n.d.
Community Development Block Grant Performance Audit Review 1987
Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)
General 1990-91
Preliminary plan Aug 1991
Final plan Oct 1991
Draft Annual 1993 Plan and 1992 Performance Report1992-93
Mayor's Housing Task Force 1988
Minutes
Report
"Springfield Housing Opportunity," 1989
Springfield Redevelopment Authority (SRA) 1990, n.d.
Tenant organizations
General 1985-89, n.d.
Tenant Organizations in Public Housing 1971-83, n.d.
Allen Park Apartments Tenants Association, Springfield 1988-90
Indian Motorcycle Tenants Council, Springfield 1989, n.d.
Marble Street Apartments Tenants Advisory Council, Springfield 1984-88
Massachusetts Tenants Organization (MTO)
General 1988-90, n.d.
Clippings and press releases 1987-91, n.d.
Correspondence 1986-91, n.d.
Fundraising 1991, n.d.
Log book 1988-90, n.d.
Meeting and Organizing Summary forms 1990
Omni Group bankruptcy 1989, n.d.
Publications and Fact Sheets 1985-89, n.d.
South Summer Street, Holyoke 1990, n.d.
Pine James Tenants Council, Springfield n.d.
Security Manor Apartments and Van Deene Manor Tenants Associations, Westfield and West Springfield 1989
Sullivan Tenant Council, Springfield 1987-2000, n.d.
Whiting Farms/Holyoke Hills Tenant Council, Holyoke 1989-91, n.d.
Transitional Housing for Single Parent Families Project (Arise) 1986-88, n.d.
Voucher Programs (U.S. Section 8 and Massachusetts Chapter 707 and 726 certificates) 1986-98, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Legal Services 1987-95, n.d.
AIDS housing 1993
Code enforcement 1988, n.d.
Co-housing 1989, n.d.
Community Development Corporations 1989, n.d.
Community Land Trusts 1982-88, n.d.
Discrimination in housing/"Fair housing," 1986-98, n.d.
Elderly housing 1985-89, n.d.
Eviction 1986-89, n.d.
Fair market rents 1980-83, n.d.
Funding alternatives 1988-93, n.d.
Handicapped 1991
Homesteading n.d.
Inclusionary zoning/"Linkage," 1981-87, n.d.
Lead poisoning 1988-93
Limited Equity Cooperatives 1990-95
Local housing partnerships 1988-90
Mobile homes and mobile home parks 1986-90, n.d.
Rent strikes 1986, n.d.
Tenant screening 1985-88, n.d.
Tenants' rights
General 1986-89, n.d.
"Public and Subsidized Housing: An Overview of Tenants' Rights" by Mac McCreight 1986
Reference file
Fact sheets n.d.
General 1980-90, n.d.
General 1985-2003, n.d.
Friends of Immigrants Network 1996, n.d.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) 1995-98, n.d.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 1993-96
Proposition 187 1995, n.d.
Welfare reform and immigrants
General 1996-98
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Basic Benefits Training 22 Jan 1997
General 1988-98, n.d.
Job Bank 1990-96, n.d.
Jobs and Skills Committee 1992
Farm workers 1983-91, n.d.
Jobs With Justice 1987-98, n.d.
Massachusetts Campaign for Jobs and Justice 1989
Mine workers 1989, n.d.
Minimum wage 1987-89, n.d.
National Jobs for All Coalition 1998, n.d.
Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO 1992-98, n.d.
Sexual harassment 1993-97, n.d.
Unemployment and Workers' Compensation 1991, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (Western MassCOSH) 1993, 1998, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Labor Action 1988, n.d.
Working Massachusetts 1997-99, n.d.
Arise Peace Committee/Peace With Justice Committee 2002-05, n.d.
Gulf War 1990-91, n.d.
Jobs With Peace Campaign, "Homes Not Bombs," 1988-90, n.d.
Military/defense spending 1982-2005, n.d.
Military recruiting in schools 1991, n.d.
National Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East 1991, n.d.
Sedition Committee 1988-89, n.d.
Springfield Anti-war Coalition 1990-91, n.d.
War tax resisters (Kehler and Corner) 1992
Reference file 1990-2005
General 1986, n.d.
Advocacy
Educator/Advocate's report to Arise Board 1993
Referral lists 1991-92
Training 1989-93, n.d.
Springfield Citizen Advocacy Project 1985, n.d.
Disability
General 1990-96, n.d.
Social Security 1990-93
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) 1993-2000
Moms in Stress Support Group 1986, n.d.
Self-Reliance Center/Self-Reliance Project
Budget and grants 1994, n.d.
Worthington St. lease 1993
Local Currency/Ithaca Hours 1933, 1991-94, n.d.
Notes 1994, n.d.
SHARE (Self-Help and Resource Exchange) 1988-93, n.d.
Skills Exchange 1989-95, n.d.
Tool Lending Library 1978-93, n.d.
Veterans
Advocacy 1986-92, n.d.
Reference file 1978-97, n.d.
General and miscellaneous 1985-2005, n.d.
Arise Electoral Committee 2003
Ballot initiatives
General 1987-2004, n.d.
Question 3 sponsored by Citizens for Limited Taxation 1990
Campaign finance reform/clean elections 1988-97, n.d.
Conference "Private Money in Public Elections, Electoral and Legislative Consequences," Center for Responsive Politics 1991
Democratic Party platform 1985
Legislator contact information 1993-98, n.d.
New Alliance Party/Lenora Fulani 1987-88
New Party 1993
Jesse Jackson for President/Rainbow Coalition 1987-88
Neighbor to Neighbor 1997-99
Pioneer Valley Pro-Democracy Campaign 1990-92, n.d.
Voter registration
Arise campaigns
Organizers' Training Project/Voter Registration and Mobilization 1999
Voter Reg-a-thon 1999
Voter Mobilization, "Turn up the heat, get out the vote campaign," 1997-2003
Women's Statewide Legislative Network 1986-94, nd.
Springfield, Massachusetts, Ward Representation/Campaign for Fair Politics
General 1993-2004, n.d.
Flyers and handouts 1993-2004, n.d.
Press releases and clippings 1956, 1997-2004
Voting Rights Conference 1993
Voter information
General 1997, 2005, n.d.
Arise Anti-Poverty [Issues] Committee 1996-99, n.d.
Arise Economic Justice Committee 2003-06, n.d.
Speakers Bureau
General 1985-2005, n.d.
Western New England College Social Work Conference 1988
Bertha Capen Reynolds Society Annual Conference 1997-98
The Fight for Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom 1993
Notes and texts n.d.
Truth Squad Project 1999-2000, n.d.
Conferences/summits
"The War on Poverty Revisited: Strategies for the 90s," 1988
First National Survival Summit, Philadelphia 21-23 Jul 1989
Poverty: How it Affects Your Community, co-sponsored by Arise 16-18 Aug 1989
Up and Out of Poverty Now Southern Summit 20-22 Jul 1990
New England People's Economic Summit, United for Social Justice Project (cancelled)
General and miscellaneous 1995-96, n.d.
Correspondence 1995-96, n.d.
Committees 1995-97, n.d.
Southern Regional Team/Outreach Committee
General 1996, n.d.
Minutes 1996
Hiring process for organizers 1996
Planning and logistics 1995-96
Financial 1995-96
Interested organizations list n.d.
Mailing list n.d.
Poor People's Summit, Philadelphia 9-11 Oct 1998
Towards a Fair Economy 1999
Projects, programs, and campaigns
General 1987, 1991
Economic Human Rights Campaign, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
General 1997-2004
Freedom Bus 1998
National Planning Meeting 4 Dec 1998
Bus trip to United Nations 1999
Economic Human Rights Violation Report forms 1998-99, n.d.
Financial Democracy Campaign 1990-91, n.d.
Fuel Assistance 1984-95, n.d.
National People's Campaign 1993, n.d.
National Priorities Project
Petition for New Priorities circa 1996
Share the Wealth Project 1993-95, n.d.
Taxes
General 1988-95, n.d.
Anti-Citizens for Limited Taxation Ballot Question 3 fall 1990
Campaign for Massachusetts' Future 1990
Massachusetts Human Services Coalition 1990
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute 1990
Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts (TEAM) 1989-99, n.d.
Unite for Social Justice Project: Directory of Low-Income, Membership-Based Social Justice Organizations
Maine organizations 1996, n.d.
Massachusetts organizations 1996, n.d.
Vermont organizations 1995-96, n.d.
"Up to Poverty" (Massachusetts) and "Up and Out of Poverty Now" (national)
General 1985-94, n.d.
Women for Economic Justice 1984-85, n.d.
Women's Campaign for Social Justice 1985-88, n.d.
Utilities campaigns
General 1993-2005, n.d.
Western Massachusetts Electric Company rate revolt 1977-88, n.d.
Utility shut-offs 1993
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 1995, n.d.
Committee on Economic Insecurity 1996, n.d.
Community Reinvestment Coalition 1992-93, n.d.
Economic Survival Coalition 1997-99, n.d.
Empowerment Planning Group 1994
Haymarket People's Fund: Western Massachusetts Board (Marsha Burnett) 1993-94
Institute for Community Economics 1984-93
Low Income Students for Survival (LISS) 1987
Maine Economic Conversion Project 1993-94
National Council of La Raza Poverty Project Newsletter
National Impact 1988-90, n.d.
Piedmont Peace Project 1994
Poverty and Race Research Action Council 1992-97
Western Massachusetts Community Loan Fund: Board of Directors 1988-89
Reference materials
General 1983-2004, n.d.
"Running in Place: A Report on Poverty in Massachusetts," Massachusetts Community Action Program Nov 1997
"The War Against the Poor: A Defense Manual" n.d.
"Women in Community Service (WICS) Alexandria, Virginia: Developmental Evaluation Interim Report No. 2" Sep 1996
Banking
General 1986-92, n.d.
Community Reinvestment Act 1989-90
"Halting Displacement and Neighborhood Blight Through Lender Liability" by Erin Kemple circa 1992
Budget, Massachusetts
General 1986-95, n.d.
Poor People's Budget, FY 86, FY 89, FY 91, 1985-95, n.d.
Budget, U.S. 1983-96, n.d.
Community development/healthy communities
General 1986-88, n.d.
Community Empowerment Act 1995, n.d.
Lower Pioneer Valley Healthy Communities Dialogues 1996-2002
Corporations 1993-98
Economic justice 1987, n.d.
Economic sustainability 1992-94
Energy and the poor 1990
Human rights 1994-98, n.d.
Springfield and New England 1986, n.d.
Trade 1993, n.d.
Utilities 1985-96, n.d.
Women 1985, n.d.
Arise Board and Committee Diversity Training Jan 1993
Dismantling Racism workshops 1993-94
FORWARD (Fighting Oppression Racism Wrongness Advocating Rights Dignity) 1992, n.d.
Undoing Racism Organizing Committee of Western Massachusetts 1997-2005, n.d.
Reference file 1990-2001, n.d.
Arise Solidarity Committee
General 1993-96, n.d.
Minutes and agendas 1994-95
Campaign for Labor Rights 1992-97, n.d.
Nicaragua delegation (with NECAN)
Funding proposal 1996, n.d.
Reports 1994-96, n.d.
American Friends Service Committee 1989-97, n.d.
Center for Communication and Popular Education in Nicaragua (CANTERA) 1995
Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) 1993, n.d.
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) 1996-97, n.d.
Network in Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua (NISGUA)
General 1994-95, n.d.
Speaking tour 1994-96, n.d.
New England Central America Network (NECAN)
General 1994-97, n.d.
Fall Conference 1990
Financial 1992-93
Regional Council 1992-94, n.d.
Nicaragua trip Oct 1996
Nicaragua Network
Education Fund 1993-96
Hotline bulletins 1993-96, n.d.
National Leadership Meeting 1997
Springfield Area Central America Project (SECAP)
People's Quincentenary Celebration 1992
Western Massachusetts Coalition Against Apartheid
Africa 1987-91, n.d.
Central America and Solidarity movement 1992-94, n.d.
Cuba 1989-2002, n.d.
El Salvador 1989-95, n.d.
Guatemala 1992-98, n.d.
Haiti 1994
Labor issues 1993-96, n.d.
Mexico 1994-95, n.d.
Native Americans 1992-97, n.d.
Nicaragua 1990-97
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 1991-92, n.d.
General 1985-2004, n.d.
Churches
General 1985-2000, n.d.
Catholic Diocese of Springfield 1990, n.d.
City Council, Springfield 1991, 2004, n.d.
Neighborhoods
General 1989-2000, n.d.
McKnight Neighborhood Council 1988
Upper State Street Community Development Corporation 1985-86
General 1989-2001, n.d.
Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño, Inc. 1987
Community 2000, 1987-2000
Community Action Program 1985, n.d.
Community Resources Against Community Killers (C.R.A.C.K.) 1986-89, n.d.
Gardening the Community 2004-05, n.d.
Greater Springfield National Organization for Women 1989-95
Hampden County Women's Center 1985-86, n.d.
League of Women Voters of the Springfield Area 1993, 1999, n.d.
Mass Action for Women West 1995-99, n.d.
Open Pantry Community Services 1989-2003, n.d.
Pioneer Valley Project 1994-99, n.d.
Project Self-Sufficiency 1984-86, n.d.
Springfield Action Commission
General 1986-90, n.d.
General 1987-98
Low-Income Board Member elections 1993-98
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) reports 1986-99
Consumer Action Center 1986-88, n.d.
Contracts with Arise 1986-94
Correspondence 1987-99
Financial materials 1986-89
Springfield Progressives group/alliance 1995
Springfield Project for a United Neighborhood (SPUN) 1984-87, n.d.
Springfield School Committee 1988-97
United Way of the Pioneer Valley 1988-93
Valley Feminist Action Coalition 1995, n.d.
Earthline "Building the Movement in Western Mass," 1990-92
Murphy Ford's Springfield Gazette 1994
Conference: "The War on Substance Abuse-How Does it Affect You and Your Community" Nov 1990
Springfield Community Partnership and Prevention Alliance 1992-94, n.d.
Springfield Users' Council 2003-05
Arise Violence Against Women Committee
General 1992-2003
Event: "Framingham Eight" screening and talk by Lisa Grimshaw 21 Jun 1994
March for Zero Tolerance/Take Back the Night 1993-2006
Media Roundtable 4 Feb 1994
Media Responsibility Training 3 Feb 1995
Petition re: media treatment of victims n.d.
Membership Conference "Working to End Violence Against Women"
Support Group n.d.
Vigils for victims of violence
Jennifer Davile 1993-94
Elizabeth Delgado 1993
Lisa Dolley 1993
Robin Jackson n.d.
Kelly Richard 1993
Victoria Sleeper 1993
Marvina "Tasha" Stroman 1994
Miriam "Vicky" Tyson 1993-94
Lisa Ziegert 1992, n.d.
Women's Self-Defense Classes/Workshops, Valley Women's Martial Arts 1985-98, n.d.
Organizations and resources
General 1986-97, n.d.
Battered and Homeless Shelter Linkage Project 1993, n.d.
Baystate Medical Center Domestic Violence Working Group 1994-95
Hotline to End Rape and Abuse (HERA) 1982-87, n.d.
Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women's Service Groups 1993-95, n.d.
Women's Action Coalition n.d.
YWCA of Western Massachusetts/ARCH (Abuse and Rape Crisis Hotline) 1992-94
General 1986-98
Domestic violence (includes children, partners, & elderly) 1992-96
Fact sheets 1992-97, n.d.
Laws 1995, n.d.
Shelters 1990-94, n.d.
Springfield 1994-98
Violence Against Women-General
General 1991-95, n.d.
Rape/sexual assault 1978-93, n.d.
Welfare 1995-97, n.d.
General 1985-99, n.d.
Welfare/Welfare Issues Committee 1989-94, n.d.
Demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils
Ways and Means Committee testimony 10 May 1989
Speak Out, Dorchester 26 Sep 1998
Pell Grants and Food Stamp eligibility
General 1984-86, n.d.
Low-Income Students for Survival 1986, n.d.
Petitions re EA, GR, Children's Clothing Allowance and 707 cuts n.d.
Welfare Advocacy Training 30 Nov 1990
Welfare workshop 20 Aug 1997
Clippings 1985-99, n.d.
Miscellaneous 1993-95, n.d.
"Survival in the 80s" workshop 1985
Northeastern Regional Welfare Rights Conference 1993
"Welfare Reform and the Faith Community," [original title "Standing With the Poor"] interfaith seminar 19 Oct 1995
"Revisiting, Redefining and Revisioning 'Welfare'," Kathleen Ridder Conference, Smith College 1998
"Get Up, Stand Up," Bertha Capen Reynolds Society National Conference 1999
Fact sheets
Coalition for Basic Human Needs n.d.
Re: legislation 1988-97, n.d.
"Survival Tips" n.d.
Your Rights Under Welfare Reform, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute 1995, 1997
Center for Community Change 1997-2000, n.d.
Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law 1983-85
Coalition for Basic Human Needs (CBHN) 1985-96, n.d.
Connecticut Alliance for Basic Human Needs 1993-98, n.d.
Dottie Stevens for Governor 1990-91
Family Economic Initiative 1997-2001, n.d.
Human Service Forum 1988-93
Institute for Women's Policy Research 1994, n.d.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union n.d.
Labor and Welfare Coalition: Legislative Fact Sheets circa 1997
General 1985-98, n.d.
Welfare Discussion Group 1990-91
Department of Public Welfare (DPW)
Budget hearings 1985
Employment and Training (ET) Program n.d.
"Guide for Advisory Boards" n.d.
Springfield Community Service Area Welfare Advisory Board
By-laws n.d.
General 1985-88
Welfare application and information 1985, n.d.
Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) 1995-98, n.d.
Massachusetts Human Services Coalition
General 1989-96, n.d.
Campaign for Real Welfare Reform 1992-95, n.d.
Women's Campaign for Social Justice 1987-89
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute: Welfare Lobbying/Strategy Group 1992-98
Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union 1998
National Welfare Rights Union 1993, n.d.
National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund 1997-98
Pioneer Valley Welfare Rights Coalition: Holyoke outreach 1998, n.d.
Public Welfare Foundation: Welfare Reform Meeting 7-8 Apr 1997
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee: Welfare and Human Rights Monitoring Project
General 1995-96, n.d.
Project reports 1996-98
Human rights violation reports 1996, n.d.
Welfare Education Training Access Coalition (WETAC) 1996-2001, n.d.
Welfare Law Center 1996-99, n.d.
Welfare Mothers' Voice 1989-92
Welfare Reform Response Team, Springfield 1998-99
Welfare Warriors 1993, n.d.
Women's Alliance 1998-99
Working Family Agenda 1998-99, n.d.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
General 1985-95, n.d.
"AFDC Advocacy Guide," Massachusetts Legal Reform Insitute Nov 1995
"Changes to AFDC Program in Massachusetts," Coalition for Basic Human Needs Jun 1995
Children's Clothing Allowance 1985-93, n.d.
Emergency Assistance (EA) and Chapter 707 Rental Assistance Program (707)
Survey for "Women in Transition" n.d.
Emergency Assistance to Elderly, Disabled, and Children (EAEDC)
General 1993-99
"EAEDC Advocacy Guide," Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Sep 1994
Training 1995
General Relief (GR)
General 1990-91, n.d.
Training 1990
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
General 1990-95, n.d.
SSI Aware Training Jul 1991
Basic Benefits Training circa 1996
Transitional Assistance to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC)
General 1995-99, n.d.
Advocacy Guide, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute 1996
Facing Time Limits interviews 1998
Time Limit petitions n.d.
Time Limits Training, Western Mass. Legal Services Oct 1998
Time Limits Training n.d.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 1997-99
Welfare fraud 1990, 1995, n.d.
Workfare/MassJobs 1991-97, n.d.
Reference file 1988-2001, n.d.
Photographs n.d.
Memorabilia 1993, n.d.
Researchers must sign an access agreement form
Staff: grievances/incidents 1992, 1999
SERIES II. FINANCIAL
Donors 1987-99, n.d.
DSS Advocacy case files [CONFIDENTIAL] 1985-98, n.d.
Community service
Attendance 1998-2006
Individuals,
Hot Meals 1987-88
Referrals
Love Center 1988-90
Salvation Army 1988-90
Women in Support of Each Other (WISE): staff 1999-2000
Homeless Action Center phone log/intake forms 1987-89
Phone line questionnaire 1990
Advocacy intake forms 1985-2005, n.d.
Referrals 1991-93, n.d.
SERIES I. ADMINISTRATION: Wall calendar with appointments and dates 1994, n.d.
SERIES IV. CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Drawings, n.d.; poster for Political Prisoner Conference, n.d.; issues of Mass Rail publication of the Massachusetts Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) 1995-98
SERIES VIII. FOOD AND HUNGER: Food Coop signs
SERIES IX. HEALTH CARE: UHCAN fan
SERIES XII. HOUSING: Rainville Hotel architects' Progress Prints for meeting 9 Sep 1992; poster for "No Housing No Peace" popular assembly coordinated by the October 6th Coaltion, n.d.; issues of Housing Matters, published by the Massachusetts Legal Reform Institute, 1989-93; winter 1990 issue of The Mass Tenant, published by the Massachusetts Tenants Resource Center and the MTO1989-93
SERIES XIV. JOBS AND LABOR: Feb 1979 issue of New Unity, Springfield, MA1979
SERIES XVII. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: maps and statistics re Springfield mayoral and council races, after the Nov 2001 election
SERIES XVIII. POVERTY/ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Economic Human Rights Campaign posters 1998
SERIES XXI. SPRINGFIELD AND PIONEER VALLEY: copies of Springfield publications The Springfield Inquirer, 1994-97; la nueva era, 1994-98; the New Contract, Jul-Aug 1996; Springfield and Pioneer Valley Voice, 2000-021994-2002
SERIES XXIV. WELFARE: Clippings, 1997-98; issues of Welfare Mothers Voice, 1994-951994-98
SERIES XXI. SPRINGFIELD AND PIONEER VALLEY: Layout materials for Pioneer Valley Voice 2002