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Children's Librarians: Community Champions for Children’s Mental Health Storytimes
Being a librarian these days goes beyond wandering among stocked books and beyond the library walls. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Children's Librarians across Boston Public Library neighborhood branches have dedicated their time...

Reimagining Funding Partnership
In the late spring of 2021 NOW partnered with 15 community champions from across the country to embark on a journey of reimagining funding structures to center, honor, and uphold the values of local communities and coalitions.
News Clips

Here’s what doulas do, and how they’re fighting for Black maternal health
By Dasia Moore · The Boston Globe ·Rhode Island is expanding access to doulas and investing in healthier birth outcomes. Why isn’t the rest of the country doing the same?

As School Reopens, Don’t Forget The Hidden Victims Of Police Violence: Children
By Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Marisha L. Humphries and Stephanie M. Curenton · WBUR ·So many of our students will have an additional, often less visible, burden to bear: the police violence they have seen, heard and experienced this spring and summer.