Funding
Collaborators
- ArtSpark Boston
- Boston CASA
- Boston Climate Action Network (BCAN)
- Boston Disability Law Center
- Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
- Boston Public Schools
- Chica Project
- Circus Up!
- Family Nurturing Center of MA
- Greatest MINDS
- Primary Source
- The Loop Lab
News
Meet Boston, Unscripted: realtalk@Boston Portal Goes Live
Hearing Boston’s people, in their own voices, is a first step toward rebuilding trust in public discourse
What does Boston sound like when you stop to listen? Today, realtalk@Boston invites you to do just that—with the launch of a new public-facing portal where you can listen to hundreds of Bostonians, in their own voices, share stories about their neighborhoods, hopes, frustrations, and dreams for the future of their city.
Checking in on realtalk@Boston, one year in
The realtalk@Boston cohort has hosted dozens of conversations across the city – what’s next?
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been training local community leaders to host facilitated conversations and learn about the needs of their diverse communities. We recently passed our sensemaking milestone: the conversations have been recorded, highlighted, and thematically categorized, with support from AI tools developed by
CCC gathered local community-based organizations to explore: How might we transform Boston into Listening City?
Eighteen representatives of local community-based organizations came together for a day co-design, learning, and building connections with the mission of elevating underheard voices across the city.
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is growing a network of local key stakeholders that will invite members of their diverse communities to engage in public conversations, share their experiences, and develop a shared understanding as a way of building up our civic muscles of democracy in Boston.
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