Portal For Change

by Cindy Barnard
All in one day, as it so happened, my ideas came together as to what Portal for Change could accomplish.
Since the Obama campaign, I’ve wanted to keep the momentum alive, within myself and my community. I want a new direction for affordable health care and a cleaner environment. I want what then presidential [...]

by Norm Parker
Are You With It?
People in the greater Newburyport area are getting involved in community service in greater numbers than ever before, it seems.
Volunteering has a long and proud history here, as in most other American communities. What has changed is the expanded variety of volunteer opportunities and the recognition that the quality of community life is enhanced when its citizens are engaged.
In [...]

by Katherine Blake
On Saturday, May 2nd there was a Meditation and Psychotherapy Conference in Boston with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.
It was a real treat to see and hear him answer the questions of many of the most eminent Boston psychiatric and meditation scholars. There were many long, involved questions asked, which he answered simply, [...]

by Norm Parker
(synopsis of newspaper article)
We all hope President Obama and his staff have a real take on the nature and depth of America’s troubles, and will make the tough, wise moves necessary to create needed change.
The changes the government, and equally important, the American people, will have to maneuver into place in order to [...]

Since THE inauguration, the members of Portal For Change have been making plans for our first general membership meeting. If that was all we had been up to, that meeting would have taken place before this. .But much has taken place since that great day in January, and we would like to tell you a [...]