Bird Street Community Center's mission is to serve, through a unique partnership with residents, the needs of a vibrant community by providing quality, affordable child care and recreational, educational, and developmental activities for youth and their families.
Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
The primary mission of the NDC is to enhance the quality of life for all residents of Codman Square and to foster the stabilization of the community. This mission is carried out through comprehensive initiatives that encompass real estate development, economic development, and community planning and community building.
The Crispus Attucks Children's Center's mission is to establish and maintain a comprehensive child development/early childhood education program that promotes the individual child's physical, emotional, social and intellectual growth and development, with a special emphasis on increasing the confidence, self-respect and dignity of both the child and the child's parent.
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation acts to build a strong, thriving and diverse community. Working closely with neighborhood residents and partners, we access resources to develop and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; create and sustain commercial and economic development opportunities; and build community power through organizing and leadership development.
The Dorchester Youth Collaborative is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual community based youth agency in the Fields Corner area of Dorchester. The agency's mission is to provide comprehensive services to high risk youth in the aarea, with a special emphasis on racially and linguistically isolated, low socio-economic, youth for whom the more traditional social services have proven ineffective.
Our Mission: To work with others to build nurturing communities where children are cherished, families are supported, and healthy human development is promoted by all.
Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. serves the Dorchester community as a catalyst for action and change, helping to build a community of caring individuals. Through a new kind of settlement house, they are helping to build a dynamic community, where the strength of diversity is valued and where families and individuals have possibilities for personal growth and an improved quality of life in and around Dorchester.
Lena Park's mission is to provide integrated programs and services which will strengthen families and build healthy communities for the underserved residents of the City of Boston.
The guiding mission of Mujeres Unidas en Acción (MUA) is to offer an educational program that provides low-income Latina women the tools and resources needed to empower themselves and to take control of their lives and effect change within their families. This enables them to participate more actively in the political, social and economic life not only of the Latino community but also of society at large.
RMSC is dedicated and committed to supporting our children, uplifiting our families and enriching our community. It defines and continuously expands the art of building family and community through quality programs, services and partnerships.
Our Mission:
To inspire and enable all young people, from diverse circumstances, to realize their full potential by providing opportunities for personal growth to become contributing, caring and responsible members of the community.
Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID)
Viet-AID's mission is to build a strong Vietnamese American community in Boston and a vibrant Fields Corner neighborhood. Viet-AID works towards this mission by developing affordable housing, promoting economic development, building community/neighborhood, and advancing youth leadership.
Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
The Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC) engages neighborhood residents in an on-going process of shaping and carrying out a common vision of a diverse and stable community in the face of sustained economic pressures. This vision is evident in community-led projects that protect and create affordable housing, create greenspace, foster a healthy local economy, provide avenues for economic self-sufficiency, and increase understanding among and between our neighborhood's diverse residents.
The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers that provides vital relief to victims of natural and man-made disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. First mandated by Congress in 1900, the American Red Cross is the ONLY voluntary organization designated to respond to disasters with the mission of alleviating human suffering and helping those affected rebuild their lives. American Red Cross disaster assistance is provided at no cost, made possible by voluntary donations of time and money from the American people. read more »
Asian American Civic Association
The Asian American Civic Association provides limited-English-speaking and economically disadvantaged Asian adults and youth programs and services to develop survival, literacy, and employability capacities needed to qualify for further education, job training, and employment opportunities. These opportunities will enhance their abilities to undertake their responsibilities towards the larger community, and to realize their potentials as contributing family members, productive workers, participating citizens, and community leaders.
The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (Task Force) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate family violence and to strengthen Asian families and communities.
In its 127th year, Associated serves diverse communities of low-income working families in 9 neighborhoods of Greater Boston. Our mission: ³To lead through experience, as educators and advocates in urban early education of children from birth, in partnership with their families and communities.² We educate, nurture, feed and provide, direct or by referral, social and mental health services to 900 children, birth to school, in center and family settings. read more »
Bird Street Community Center's mission is to serve, through a unique partnership with residents, the needs of a vibrant community by providing quality, affordable child care and recreational, educational, and developmental activities for youth and their families.
The Boston Center for Independent Living is a private nonprofit organization, which is controlled and directed by persons with disabilities. We empower others and ourselves with disabilities to advocate and take control over our lives, and become active members of the communities in which we live. As a center, we work to promote the civil rights of all people with disabilities and to respond to the needs of persons with many different disabilities.
