November 30, 2018 We invite you to join us at The Nation Institute’s Gala on Tuesday, December 11th at 6:00pm at the IAC Building. Purchase tickets here. We are delighted to announce that we will present the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship to the Parkland Student Activists, who founded March for Our Lives to end gun violence and challenge the complacency...
April 2, 2019 May 3 to 5, 2019 Puffin presents a weekend of concerts and celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger’s birth and to recognize Toshi Seeger’s life and legacy. Pete’s 100th Anniversary Weekend Friday, May 38:00pm Guy Davis Saturday, May 412:00pm Pete and Toshi Seeger Commemoration2:00pm “Pete’s Songs” Family Concert4:00pm Outdoor...
National Academy of Public Administration Announces 2019 Class of Academy Fellows 51 Leaders in Public Administration to Join the Academy Post Date: September 16, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration today announced that 51 leaders in the field of public administration have been selected for the 2019 Class of Academy Fellows...
It’s less than a week away, and we already have a wonderful slate of items available for bid, thanks to our many donors – and we’re still not done! This year, we are going to open up the bidding early and provide a way for members and friends not in the Boston area to participate in the auction. Check Mewsings after 5 o’clock this Friday night, September 30, for...
Join us for an in-depth discussion about urban places Exploring Urban Excellence:Sustaining Vibrant Urban Places in an Era of Social DistancingThursday, July 16, 2020 at 1:00 pm EDT Bringing people, ideas, goods and services together are hallmarks of urban life. So how are places designed with that in mind adapting to the challenges—both immediate and prolonged—of...
Ruby Central is a non-profit organization dedicated to support and advocacy of the worldwide Ruby community. We produce the annual RubyConf and RailsConf conferences, support community growth, and provide vital infrastructure for the Ruby programming language by maintaining the bundler and rubygems packaging services in addition to other open source projects. The...
Learning from Practice: The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban ExcellenceThursday, November 12th, 2020 at 6:00-7:30 pm (EST) Sponsored by the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). RBA offers more than three decades of research, evaluation and writing on architecture, urban design and...
Building Community with Food | January 27th at 6:00 pm ETLarry Kearns, architect of Inspiration Kitchens—Garfield Park (2013 RBA Gold Medalist) in Chicago, and Brenda Palms Barber, Founder/President & CEO, North Lawndale Employment Network discuss food-focused initiatives on the City’s West Side including a proposal to create the first Food Innovation District...
Larry Kearns, Principal, Wheeler Kearns Architects As a Wheeler Kearns Architects principal since 1990, Lawrence Kearns pursues projects with ambitious social, economic, and environmental goals. Beyond architecture, he has won thirteen InnoCentive Challenges and was a finalist in the DoE’s 2020 Solar Prize for developing TrackerSled, which simplifies solar...
Todd Richardson, President at Crosstown Redevelopment Cooperative, Co-founder of Crosstown ArtsDr. Todd Richardson is the President of Crosstown Redevelopment Cooperative and co-founder of Crosstown Arts. Since 2010, he has led the transformation of the historic, 1.5 million-square-foot Sears Crosstown building into a vertical urban village anchored in arts...