Community/Neighborhood Improvement

Haitian Women of Boston (AFAB - Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston)

Mailing Address (if different than physical location): 

330 Fuller Street Dorchester, Massachusetts, 02124

Phone: 

(617) 287-0096

Email: 

cdesire@afab-kafanm.org

Website: 

http://www.afab-kafanm.org

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates): 

Monday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Mission: 

AFAB's mission is to empower Haitian women by helping them develop their individual and collective capacity to improve social, economic and political status and thus be able to effect positive changes in their life and their families' lives.

Location

330 Fuller Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
United States
See map: Google Maps
Key Partners: 

Community Works

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures: 

Call AFAB at (617)287-0096. For information regarding the annual regarding the Domestic Violence program, please contact Carmelle Bonhomètre, Program Director at (617) 287-0096 or cbonhometre@afab-kafanm.org.

Key Programs Offered: 

AFAB's programs include: Housing: affordable housing, transitional housing, and housing advocacy; Domestic Violence: advocacy, education, and outreach; Haitian Round Table on Domestic Violence (1st Wednesdays); Adult Education: ESL and literacy classes, workshops, computer training, and personal finance and economic literacy classes; Radio Program (3rd Sundays 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.); Youth Development including a Ayiti Demen cultural group (Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.), math tutoring with the Haitian Scientific Society (Saturdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.) and Young Women's Leadership Development; and a French class (Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m). In addition to the activities at our community center in Dorchester, AFAB conducts workshops and makes presentations throughout Boston, and in communities including Cambridge, Somerville, and Brockton. 


Annual Events:

  • International Women's Day (March)
  • Clergy Breakfast (June)
  • Domestic Violence Forum (August)
  • Fundraising Dinner (October)
Created: 
12/15/2010

Boston Preservation Alliance

Email: 

admin@bostonpreservation.org

Website: 

http://www.bostonpreservation.org/index.html

The Boston Preservation Alliance is a nonprofit organization that protects and improves the quality of Boston’s distinct architectural heritage. Through advocacy and education, we bring people and organizations together to influence the future of Boston’s historic buildings, landscapes and communities.

Upham's Corner News Online

Email: 

uphamscornernews@gmail.com

Website: 

http://www.uphamscornernews.com

Mission: 

A growing (and ever incomplete) portal to Upham's Corner activities, Upham's Corner News Online seeks to create a permanent and stable archive of newsworthy events occurring in, and pertinent to, the Upham's Corner area.

Location

United States
See map: Google Maps
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures: 

Upham's Corner News Online welcomes your ideas, content, photos - whatever you believe is relevant to the community, that is appropriate to share with the community and that will add to the tapestry that defines who we are.

Our official email address is: UphamsCornerNews@gmail.com.

Key Programs Offered: 

News: articles & photos of local goings-on
Business and "deals" listing

Created: 
11/17/2010

Project Bread

Phone: 

617-723-5000 (Food Source Hotline: 1-800-645-8333)

Email: 

info@projectbread.org

Website: 

ProjectBread.org

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates): 

Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm

Mission: 

Project Bread is dedicated to alleviating, preventing, and ultimately ending hunger in Massachusetts.

Location

Project Bread 145 Border St
East Boston, MA 02128
United States
See map: Google Maps
Key Programs Offered: 

Through The Walk for Hunger, the oldest continual pledge walk in the country, Project Bread provides millions of dollars each year more than 400 emergency food programs in 128 communities statewide. Over the last four years, the organization has invested over $2 million in grants to community organizations that feed children where they live, learn, and play.

Chefs in Schools Initiative Project Bread’s Chefs in Schools provides healthy, cost-effective meals to kids during the school day. The bill, "An Act Relative to School Nutrition," calls for meals to be evaluated for scaling up throughout the Commonwealth. The school meal program is a reliable and predictable system that provides free breakfast and lunch to the most vulnerable children in the Commonwealth. School meals are a primary source of nutrition for low-income children, providing up to 55 percent of their daily caloric intake, and the Chefs in Schools Program links good cooking with real food and serves up meals that kids like to eat. For the past four years, the program has operated in the Boston Public Schools, expanding from two to eight elementary, middle, and high schools. This year it is also expanding across the state!

Project Bread FoodSource Hotline Project Bread's FoodSource Hotline is the only information and referral service in Massachusetts for people facing hunger. The Hotline respond to over 37,000 calls a year from people across the state struggling to feed their families. Counselors refer callers to food resources in their community and give them information about food stamps and other nutrition programs. The hotline can help families in 160 launguages - from Arabic to Vietnamese. Call: 1-800-645-8333 (deaf services; 1-800-377-1292)

Created: 
11/29/2010

Mt. Bowdoin Betterment Association

Mailing Address (if different than physical location): 

7 Bowdoin Avenue, Dorchester, 02121

Email: 

idupont@verizon.net

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates): 

Meets the second Saturday of each month at 15A Bowdoin Ave.

Mission: 

A neighborhood organization who's mission is to assist in maintaining a comfortable, safe community; to be a contact for local government to reach its constituents. The neighborhood association has been around since 1973 and meets monthly; keeping in touch with members by email and flyer notifications.

Location

7 Bowdoin Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02121
United States
See map: Google Maps
Key Partners: 

The Four Corners Safety Coalition and Four Corners Main Streets have assisted the group on many occasions.

How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures: 

To get involved call Iris Du Pont: 617- 288- 0683, or email: idupont@verizon.net
All residents can attend the meetings

Key Programs Offered: 

Community building and networking

Created: 
11/24/2010

Greater Ashmont Main Street

Phone: 

(617) 825-3846

Email: 

info@greaterashmont.org

Website: 

http://greaterashmont.org//

Mission: 

Greater Ashmont Main Street strives to maintain and further develop our district as a welcoming destination for those from inside and outside the area, offering:

* A transit-oriented, Complete Streets locale that benefits a culturally diverse population,

* A complementary business mix that supports the needs of area residents and civic organizations,

* The appeal of rich historical qualities melded with modern day development, and

* A vibrant social scene offering spaces favorable for community gatherings, which will attract patronage from beyond our region.

Location

1914 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02124
United States
See map: Google Maps

Upham's Corner Main Street

Phone: 

(617) 265-0363

Email: 

info@uphamscorner.org

Website: 

http://www.uphamscorner.org

Mission: 

Through a partnership of merchants, residents and civic leaders, our Main Street organization will make Upham’s Corner a thriving, multi-cultural, business and entertainment center that attracts people from all over Boston. UCMS was first created in 1996, when a group of passionate neighborhood residents, merchants, and civic leaders banded together to plan and manage the revitalization of the once vibrant Upham's Corner business and residential district. With a volunteer Board of Directors and a small but committed staff, UCMS set out to create new permanent jobs, an optimal mix of retail businesses, and shopping opportunities that fit the needs of residents.

Location

545 Columbia Road
Dorchester, MA 02125
United States
See map: Google Maps
Key Programs Offered: 

The organization operates under the Four-Point Approach, created by The National Trust for Historic Preservation, to facilitate the revitalization of Upham’s Corner. UCMS mirrors the Four-Point Approach through the use of four committees: Design, Economic Restructuring, Organization, and Promotion.

As one of the 19 programs in the Boston Main Streets network, UCMS is an enterprising program that has a track record of innovative project planning and implementation that has raised the profile of the Upham’s Corner Commercial District. Upham’s Corner is becoming more competitive in the retail and entertainment arenas of Boston and is now a highly sought location for new businesses looking for a profitable location.

Created: 
04/28/2011

DotOUT

Email: 

info@dotout.org; Chris McCoy

Website: 

http://www.dotout.org

Mission: 

DotOUT is a grassroots, member driven organization committed to the ideals of acceptance, inclusion, fairness, and equality. We believe in the strength of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (“GLBT”) community in Dorchester and recognize that together through our activism and neighborliness we can positively influence local opinion on issues that are relevant to us and our community. We recognize that Dorchester's GLBT residents have a long history of contributing to the very essence of our neighborhood. It is upon this foundation that we unite as a community to working with our neighbors and friends in an ongoing effort to improve the quality of life in Dorchester by continuing to build bridges to Dorchester's many communities. In so doing, we will advance the ideals of fairness and equality for all the residents of Dorchester.

Location

42 Plympton Street
Dorchester, MA 02118
United States
See map: Google Maps
Created: 
09/11/2012

Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association

Website: 

http://www.columbiasavinhillcivic.org/

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates): 

Meets the first Monday of each month at 7pm

Location

275 East Cottage Street
Dorchester, MA
United States
See map: Google Maps

Dorchester Park Association (DPA)

Mailing Address (if different than physical location): 

Dorchester Park Association
P.O. Box 240081
Dorchester, MA 02124

Website: 

http://www.dotpark.org/

Mission: 

Dorchester Park in Dorchester, Massachusetts was established in 1891. Having changed size over subsequent years, it remains a beautiful part of the community. Please take the opportunity to explore our website; you'll learn a lot about Dorchester Park's history and future. You'll also discover a variety of events held for the community throughout the year.
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In recent years, dwindling resources have prevented Boston Parks and Recreation from taking a proactive role in maintaining Dorchester Park. The Park Association has done what it could to fill the gaps. However, experience has shown us that volunteers and free public resources are inadequate to the task.

To assess the scope of the Park's problems, the DPA obtained preliminary reports from two landscape and forest management specialists. We learned we face two tasks – restoration to undo damage that has accumulated through years of neglect, and maintenance to preserve those gains and to enhance the forest.

Location

Dorchester Park
Dorchester, MA 02124
United States
See map: Google Maps
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures: 

Contact Richard at Cedar Grove Gardens

Created: 
01/17/2011
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