Donna Haig Friedman, Ph.D.
Center Director and Research Associate Professor
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Donna, a 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar, is the Director of the Center for Social Policy and Associate Research Professor within UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. For the past decade, Dr. Friedman has led the Center for Social Policy's team in its applied research and evaluation work in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the United States. Throughout her career, Donna has been engaged in the: management and delivery of human services; analysis of poverty-related social policies; evaluation of government and NGO social policy innovations; and implementation of models of consumer involvement in social service and social policy planning.
Recent Center Work:
Homeless Prevention
Noteworthy News
Françoise Carré Discusses President Obama's Jobs Summit on NECN
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Through funding from the Hyams Foundation and the Sociological Initiatives Fund, the Center for Social Policy contributed to this CHAPA Briefing Paper, authored by Ann Verrilli: The Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program: Maintaining the State’s Primary Homeless Prevention Tool, June
October 28, 2009
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Revenue Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Expenditure Budgets:
Randy Albelda's testimony on Understanding and Reforming Tax Expenditures to the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Revenue.
October 28, 2009
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"Connecting Vulnerable Job Seekers with Employers." 2009.
Françoise Carré. Diversity Executive.com. September 13.
Mott Foundation Facebook
Creative Economy Initiative:
Counting On Care Work:
Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts by Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre
Executive Summary Full Report
FEATURED VIDEO from Reshaping Poverty Policy Conference
Youth Voices
Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network article:
Unaffordable "Affordable" Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income
by Michael E. Stone
Citizen Lobbyists Speaking OUT for Real Health Care Reform.
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Reshaping Poverty Policy
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