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Building connections across communities, delivering high-quality independent research, and supporting collaborative efforts to advance a common agenda for Gateway City growth and renewal.

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Creative placemaking is an innovative strategy to drive revitalization of Gateway Cities that uses arts and culture to jump-start local economies and transform communities.

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MassINC, Community Resources for Justice, and the newly-formed Criminal Justice Reform Coalition make up the Criminal Justice Reform Initiative, an effort to fuse research, public education, and civic discourse into a multi-year campaign to make the Commonwealth a leader in the field of corrections.

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MassINC's unique Civic Sense program is geared toward a new generation of leaders. Through lively lectures, panel discussions, and after-work cocktail receptions, Civic Sense offers a forum for civic-minded citizens in their 20s and 30s to meet each other and learn about key public policy issues.

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The CommonWealth campaign for Civic Journalism is an 18-month fundraising campaign to continue CommonWealth’s legacy as one of the country’s leading independent news and information outlets.

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“Open Minds” is a civic engagement program that, in MassINC’s non-partisan tradition, brings together people from opposing viewpoints and cross-disciplines to debate issues on their merit through dialogue, not monologue.

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The American Dream Project is a multi-dimensional initiative that includes the MassINC Middle Class Index, long-form journalism in a special fall issue of CommonWealth magazine, and a major forthcoming research report prepared jointly with the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.

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Voices: Tripp Jones, Co-Founder of MassINC and Former Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at The MENTOR Network

Tripp Jones had a vision for a different kind of think tank, one that was passionately non-partisan, fact-based, and focused on one goal – the viability of the American middle class. With the backing of other non-traditional believers, such as technology industry leader Mitchell Kertzman, and attorney/political activist Michael Gritton, Jones founded the Massachusetts Institute for a New CommonWealth. MassINC quickly gained traction as an ideologically free zone upon which to analyze, debate and contribute to the policy issues that impact the middle class. Nearly 15 years later, Jones talks about the value of political neutrality and the importance of advocating for the underrepresented majority.

Voices: Mark Erlich, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Carpenters Union

Mark Erlich is Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Carpenters Union, an organization he joined in 1974 when he was a carpenters’ apprentice. He is also the author of 2 books and numerous essays and editorials on labor issues. As a MassINC Board member who regularly contributes on workforce development and the economy, we asked for his view on the plight of the American worker given the state of the American economy.

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