CSR's mission is to provide quality social services to economically disadvantaged infants, children, adolescents and their families, thereby promoting and strengthening family life and individual growth.
La Alianza Hispana, Inc. (LAH) is a community-based non-profit agency dedicated to providing advocacy for equal access to basic human services and providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services to the Latino community of greater Boston, specifically the residents of the Roxbury/Dorchester area. This mission reinforces LAH's vision to foster self-determination, social-economic opportunities and greater civic participation by its constituents.
Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation is devoted to building the wealth and enhancing the physical, economic and social well-being of Roxbury, through a community driven process which promotes self-sufficiency and neighborhood revitalization.
Project Hope's mission is to end family homelessness; to build community that promotes dignity, self-reliance and interdependence; to create new structures which support families; and to be unyielding in challenging systems that threaten basic human rights.
Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. (RYI) is a community-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to create healthy families and communities by inspiring young men and women to recognize and develop their strengths to prepare them to lead self-sufficient and independent lives. We combat the roots of juvenile delinquency in the inner-city neighborhoods of Boston by providing innovative support services to court-involved and other youth up to 21 years of age.
Sociedad Latina, Inc. in partnership with Latino youth enhances the overall health and well being of the Greater Boston community, by delivering programs which encourage and promote community leadership through educational attainment and the strengthening of cultural identity and continuation of traditions.
Urban Edge is a partnership of residents, business, institutions and local government that is committed to developing and sustaining stable, healthy and diverse communities in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and surrounding areas. They accomplish this through development of high quality, affordable rental and owner occupied housing, assistance to small businesses, homeownership education and lending, and development of educational and recreational facilities for youth.
The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (ULEM) is an interracial, non-profit community-based organization that provides programs of service and advocacy in the areas of education, technology, career/personal development and employment and training for African Americans and other residents of color. The League's focus is poor and lower-income urban areas of Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. Through direct service and broad-based advocacy programs, the Urban League strives to secure equal opportunity in all sectors of our society.
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.
