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Coronavirus : The impacts on Neighbourhood Houses and Community Centres
Leaders and representatives of Settlement Houses from Sweden, Finland, Austria, France, Hungary, the United Kingdom and the USA met online to share news about the situation in their countries and discuss the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on...
Must Read: Special Issue of the Human Service Organizations
The article is a Special Issue of the Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance Journal! In this is Special issue researchers, educators, and practitioners were invited to explore questions at the intersection of the...
“Get to know your board members” series : Staffan Lindqvist
“Get to know your board members” series: IFS Board Member Staffan Lindqvist Where do you work and what is your title? I am partly the Executive Director of IFS and partly Education Officer in the Swedish Federation of Settlements which is a...
Reducing inequalities through community-based empowerment : NGO Committee on Human Rights Meeting in New York
Dr Bobbi Nassar, IFS representative at the United Nations and Co-Chair of the NGO Committee on Human Rights met with some of the IFS member organisations and other NGO's representatives to discuss coalition building that amplifies the work of CBOs....
Permanent Grant for the Askov Foundation’s Dialogue Against Violence (Dialog Mod Vold) treatment program for perpetrators and families
The IFS member organisation Askov Foundation in Copenhagen, Denmark has received a permanent grant for their treatment program for violence perpetrators and their families. "The Funds will contribute to strengthening efforts in the field of...
Prioritizing Truth and Reconciliation and Promoting Urban Indigenous Community Development
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has seen a growing number of Indigenous-led initiatives including the Resurfacing History Project. Resurfacing History: Land and Lives in Mount Pleasant is a...
A taste of the Big Apple – David Nugent of Canopy Housing
Four Locality members visited New York in October 2019 to take part in a peer learning event with the International Federation of Settlements (IFS). "The settlements of New York do some amazing work in incredibly difficult circumstances, often...
Urgence Climatique: Les jeunes des Centres Sociaux de France se mobilisent
"L’urgence écologique, c’est le thème que les jeunes ont choisi d’aborder lors de la 9ème édition du Réseau jeunes, organisé par la Fédération des Centres sociaux et Socioculturels de France et la Fédération des centres sociaux du Vaucluse. Du 21...
Former homeless Paula Pura: “During our walking tour, we experience empathy together”.
Paula Pura used to use drugs as a remedy to her fear and shame. Now she is walking people across Pasila, a part of Helsinki, Finland, as a street guide for Hima & Stada to help them feel more compassion. First, there was fear, then came drugs...
Democracy Crisis in Eastern Europe – The Hungary Case Event in Helsinki, Finland.
Miért bomlik a demokrácia? A magyar helyzet igazolja számunkra, milyen fontos az alulról szerveződő civil aktivitás A Finn Settlement Szövetség és a Nemzetközi Settlement Szövetség szemináriumán elemezték a civil társadalom fontosságát a demokrácia...
