Erica can also be found elsewhere on this blog. 2016
Author Archives: craigmcgarvey
National Civic Review 2005
The magazine asked for two articles adapted from the author’s report, Pursuing Democracy’s Promise: Newcomer Civic Participation in America, published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (and included below on this blog).
Networks in a New “Gateway” Spring 2005
Immigrants and Civic Engagement Fall 2005
A Thin Gossamer Thread (Fiction)
Where Would He Be Without Esme
Where? This occasional series attempts to answer the question. (Esme, owner of the author, is the inspiration for the blog.) 2015
Dispatches from Southeast Asia, Summer 2005
Before there were blogs, there was email. The author thanks his friend Jim Quay for collecting these under one cover.
Pursuing Democracy’s Promise: Newcomer Civic Participation in America/Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
The report offers an extensive overview of immigrant participation in American civic life: how to think about it, how it is happening, how it can be supported by philanthropy. 2004
Scrivner Conversation/Foundation News & Commentary
Article about the Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship, the Irvine Foundation-funded work that received the Council on Foundation’s Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking in 2001.
A Third Way/Foundation News & Commentary
Using the Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship as its example, this piece argues that the philanthropic support of community organizing–as compared to charity or advocacy approaches–can best help people themselves promote positive social change. 2000
Heart the Earth Has Torn/Estero (Fiction)
This story was inspired by the author’s love of Point Reyes National Seashore, his love of his daughter, and his love of Salinger’s “The Laughing Man,” which tells a story within a story. 1997
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