Safeguarding homeownership and preventing foreclosure by fighting unscrupulous mortgage lenders and brokers. Helping our seniors with house repairs so they can stay in their homes. Educating families on ways to control and manage children's asthma. Working with homeowners to protect children from lead paint poisoning. Building community in Egleston Square through the Main Street Program and the Peace Garden. Helping young adults who have dropped out of school earn a GED and get back on track.
The mission of Family Service is to promote the self-sufficiency and well-being of at-risk families and individuals through the provision of innovative, culturally competent, and integrated health and social services, thereby contributing to healthy communities. Family Service of Greater Boston is committed to prevention, respect for individual rights to self-determination, measurement of outcomes, and continual service improvement.
HOPE exists to improve the quality of life and to increase the number, and range, of life opportunities and options for Latinos residing in Massachusetts to succeed as contributing members of their family, community and society.
The mission of the Hyde Square Task Force is to create a safe, clean, friendly neighborhood in Hyde/Jackson Square that places its priority on young people. They strive to build the skills of children, youth, and adult residents so that they are empowered to enhance their own lives and develop a stronger, vibrant urban community.
The JPNDC is dedicated to revitalizing Jamaica Plain as a healthy, diverse, and sustainable neighborhood through a comprehensive strategy of community empowerment, economic development, and affordable housing development. We work closely with neighborhood residents, organizations, and businesses to plan and carry out community development projects that benefit low-income residents of JP.
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.
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 »
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.
It is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and, in other ways, to prepare them to make ethical choices during their lifetime in achieving their full potential.
The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) is to help boys and girls, generally from disadvantaged circumstances, develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders. To achieve this, we offer a variety of program activities and support services designed to assist in the educational, emotional, physical and social development of 6-to-18 year olds, without regard to social, racial, ethnic, or religious background.
