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the government was not capable to do during the emergency. There were many stories of communities organized to help restore the electricity in remote areas in the central region of Puerto Rico and NGO’s acting as first responders to save lives and provide humanitarian support beyond their original mission. All this, just a small sample of the power of the community and the collaboration of many NGO’s who certainly want to be a part in the new Puerto Rico. Now we are rebuilding and maneuvering around our mission to stay relevant in a new scenario. At the Centro, we have always strived to attack the poverty and inequality problem in a more systemic way, which call for the attention of different stakeholders and different dimensions. Fighting poverty and inequality is a monumental task that can’t be done without the involvement of other collaborators, especially after Irma and María. These conditions and the many challenges Puerto Rico is currently facing call for a new breed of leaders and change agents. If within the spirit of some collaborations, there is an opportunity to develop more change agents, organizations like ours should pursue it as well. For years, the Community Leadership Center Director, Dr. Gloria Bonilla, has maintained close collaboration ties with the Sila M. Calderón Foundation and the Centro Para Puerto Rico. This relationship has gone in line with the University Strategic Plan, which calls for academic scholarship that can address issues of inclusion, social justice and community development within the framework of scholars’ engagement, academic differentiation and experimental learning. We have seen not only what the Community Leadership Center impact in Camden has been but how Rutgers has also promoted the bridging of community development projects with the creation and sustainability of new academic programs. To have the opportunity to bring part of that to Puerto Rico in the form of a collaboration with the <strong>CLC</strong>, Rutgers University and the Centro Para Puerto Rico, was an opportunity we could not miss. As a result, high quality interdisciplinary graduate and professional programs has been offered by Rutgers in Puerto Rico at the Center. Young public service professionals have benefited from the opportunity of getting top notch educational programs, without leaving the Island and at affordable tuitions rates, covered in most cases by grants provided by the Senate of Puerto Rico, other Puerto Rico Governmental Agencies and many Private Institutions. Two programs were developed and offered under the leadership of Dr. Gloria Bonilla Santiago: A graduate Certificate Program in Community Development and the Master in Public Administration. Both programs address critical societal needs by training emerging leaders to become effective ethical agents for community development in neighborhoods around the Island. These programs were customized to provide a solid theoretical context for community development, while also building the skills repertoire of emerging leaders looking to
expand their knowledge and practical competencies, dealing in class with the problems Puerto Rico is facing today. The program has graduated 15 students from the Executive Master in Public Administration Program and other 25 from the Certificate in Community Development. Another group will be graduating in the upcoming months. The approach of hybrid teaching using online options, video conferences, intensive seminars, exchanges with Rutgers faculty teaching alongside local faculty experts in Puerto Rico, has given these students an extraordinary educational experience with the adequate balance between global and local perspectives. One of the most important features of the program were the local projects developed by the students as part of the completion requirements which targeted areas such as: housing, youth development, environmental impact and advocacy, among many others. This is certainly a beginning, and there is no doubt in our minds that this has meant a lot, not just for the students, but for all of us at the Centro para Puerto Rico in our quest to fight poverty and inequality assisting people to find their way out of it, following principles of selfmanagement and empowerment. We believe that by following this approach, progress is achievable and above everything, sustainable one person at a time. No hurricane, and no economic crisis will take what people have learned through capacity building and education. This type of collaboration change lives in Puerto Rico while preparing leaders to be part of our recover efforts. New leaders working at the hearts of the communities, while many more citizens engage in sustainable entrepreneurial projects capable of driving economic development from the bottom up. At the Sila M. Calderón Foundation and the Centro Para Puerto Rico we are very proud of what we have done. Not just at our own communities, but with the support of partners such as the Community Leadership Center and Rutgers University. Working together we can build a new Puerto Rico regardless of the challenges lying ahead.
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The Architecture of Inclusion in An
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