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"The Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School asks what we can do to create gender equality and improve the lives of women and men throughout the world.  Our work focuses on research, teaching and global impact through four initiatives to advance our understanding of: (1) how women and men think, decide and negotiate; (2) what policies contribute to closing the gender gaps in the economic sphere, politics, education, and health; (3) the strategies that enable women to participate and succeed in politics; and (4) conflict resolution and peace building."

"Through the last 20 years, Scientology Volunteer Ministers have provided emergency service at 126 worst-case disaster sites. A Scientology Volunteer Minister is a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by helping restore purpose, truth, and spiritual values to the lives of others."

"Today, members of the Boston Meditation Group comprise a diversity of countries, languages, religions, races, and ages. What brings us together is our search for God, which we find in our meditation practice and study of Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings. We enjoy this special form of fellowship and warmly welcome others to join us."

"We are the Boston branch of a worldwide organization that is dedicated to helping people bring into their daily lives their most positive energy and deepest personal values. The vehicle for exploring, and emerging, these inner resources is Raja Yoga meditation."

"The Sufi Order International of Greater Boston Constellation of Light is devoted to meditation instruction, spiritual growth, and the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Pir Zia Inayat Khan. It sponsors classes and events occurring in Boston, Massachusetts and throughout southeastern New England at a number of locations - a constellation of lights. It is a branch of the Sufi Order International, an interfaith international organization."

"The fundamental role of MCIA is to assist Native American individuals, tribes and organizations in their relationship with state and local government agencies and to advise the Commonwealth in matters pertaining to Native Americans. According to the 1990 Federal census, there are more than 12,000 Native Americans living in Massachusetts."

"Our mission is to develop and implement programs that serve the cultural and spiritual needs of Massachusetts Native Americans; to financially assist needy Native American residents with food, heating costs, and college related expenses; to increase public understanding, awareness, and appreciation about Native Americans; and to preserve the cultural, spiritual, and traditional ways of the Native American."

"Plimoth Plantation, a bicultural museum, offers powerful personal encounters with history built on thorough research about the Wampanoag People and the Colonial English community in the 1600s. Our exhibits, programs, live interpreters, and historic settings encourage a new level of understanding about present-day issues affecting communities around the world."

"The mission of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) is to promote greater self-determination, socio-economic self-sufficiency, spiritual enhancement, intercultural under-standing and other forms of empowerment for the North American Indian Community and to assist North American Indians in obtaining an improved quality of life by providing health, job training, education, housing, and other related programs and social services."

"UAINE is a Native-led organization of Native people and our supporters who fight back against racism and for the freedom of Leonard Peltier and other political prisoners. We support Indigenous struggles, not only in New England but throughout the Americas. We fight back on such issues as the racism of the Pilgrim mythology perpetuated in Plymouth and the U.S. government's assault on poor people."

"The mission of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe is to rediscover and develop our native heritage.  To take this wherever this may lead for the betterment of ourselves and our descendants."

"Our Mission is to bring together Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students and interested individuals from the Harvard community for the purpose of advancing the well-being of indigenous peoples through self-determination, academic achievement, and community service."

"The Greater Lowell Indian Cultural Association is a family orientated group of Native American Indians that come together to acknowledge and share their religion, culture, spirituality and traditions in accordance with the ways of their Ancestors. GLICA is composed of many different tribes of people from various Indian Nations. Our strength lies in our diversity and our ability to live in the present while holding on the past and looking forward to the future of our people."