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Morwell Neighbourhood House – “From our Neighbourhood House to yours” series
Blog by Tracie Lund, Morwell Neighbourhood House's Manager in Australia. The Morwell Neighbourhood House is located in the middle of a public housing estate, 2 hours drive east of Melbourne in the Latrobe Valley. The region is often described as...
Youth Participatory Action Research in Hungary after US CSP experience and more!
Zsuzsanna was part of the Hungarian fellow of Community Solutions Program (CSP) carried out by Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) after the 4-month-long fellowship program organized by IREX. As a fellow at Greater Cleveland Neighborhood...
COVID-19: Urgent action needed to support community organisations
Why we need urgent government action to support our communities and community organisations through this crisis. Now more than ever we need strong and resilient communities, to support us all through the immediate crisis and in the months and years...
Here’s how the power of networking builds the Settlement House Movement
When Ana K. from one of the IFS member organizations in Hungary became a successful International Fellow in the highly competitive IREX Community Solutions Program in 2018 (funded by the US State Department for 4-month professional exchanges for...
Stopping Homelessness Before it Starts
Goddard Riverside Community Center of New York in the USA has been an active participant in the Right to Counsel movement, which passed a bill in 2017 providing free lawyers for people facing eviction in NYC. New statistics show the law is working,...
Inspiration and solidarity
Why our international relationships matter now more than ever. Bursaries for Locality members to attend the IFS conference in Sydney. Tony Armstrong, Locality chief executive in London, UK, discusses the importance of building and maintaining...
“Let’s all be brave and creative builders of a good and just world”.
Dear colleagues, IFS is 93 years old this year and was established to support democracy, human rights, equality and social justice all over the world. It is wonderful to see that IFS is growing. An Italian NGO has decided to join the IFS family. In...