Fairmount Line Commuter Rail - Uphams Corner

The Upham's Corner Improvement Association is an organization from many cultures whose membership seeks to improve the:

• Our motto is "Upham's Corner Shines" and is meant to suggest cleanliness, beauty and an attractive community where everyone feels important and welcome.
• We believe that cooperation begins with effective relationships.  We will be developing our relationships through an attitude of thoughtfulness, love and respect.
• We will seek to effect change by demonstrating through our own actions and by engaging others in active participation.
• We are an organization committed to action.  Every "meeting" will be an opportunity to make progress, not just talk.
• By taking one small step every day/week, and by encouraging the people around us to do the same, we can make a big difference.

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community in Boston’s north Dorchester neighborhoods. Working closely with neighborhood residents and partners, we access resources to:
Develop and preserve affordable home ownership and rental housing,
Create and sustain commercial and economic development opportunities, and
Build community power through organizing and leadership development.

Touchable Stories began in 1996 with the idea of using the talents of contemporary artists to help individual communities define their own voice and give it public expression. The idea caught on, and has since become a series of community profiles telling the unique stories of these routinely marginalized neighborhoods.

Artists create rooms based on themes from the community. Ten to twelve rooms are then connected to form a walk-through maze, each interactive, each designed by a different hand, each using soundtracks created from the recorded interviews. The result is an intimate and dramatic journey in the life of a singular place through time—a journey with many voices.

Through a process of listening and observation, Touchable Stories networks to bring people and resources together in an effort to create sustainable futures.

Our objective is to provide social day health programs with a caring staff which enhances the quality of life for our clients and caregivers. We strive to offer social outlet that provide continued enrichment and opportunity for our elders to make new friends.

The program will provide six hours of nursing care and health supervision using an individualized plan of care. Two meal, and one nourishing snack will be prepared in accordance with the physicians’ order, and served daily. A therapeutic program inclusive of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, as well as educational, social, and recreational services, will be offered as needed, to obtain and maintain the participant’s maximum level of functioning. Group and family counseling will be provided with referrals made to community agencies if appropriate.

GOTCHA, (Get Off the Corner Hanging Around) started in 2003 as an annual summer youth workforce development collaborative based in the Dudley Street, Uphams Corner and Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhoods of Roxbury and Dorchester with 150-250 teens working at 20-25 nonprofit organizations.

In 2008 GOTCHA launched its first year round program with youth working after school. Six of the organizations (Bird Street Community Center, Cape Verdean Community UNIDO, Bowdoin Street Health Center, Dorchester Bay EDC, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and The City School) play a planning role (Planning Partners) and the remaining, which varies from year to year, are worksites for teens.

The 20-25 organizations or worksites represent a variety of non-profit organizations that work on community organizing, planning, advocacy, education, legal, health, human services and community development. The Planning Partners located in Roxbury and/or Dorchester all work with youth and families and are linked by their shared commitment to community building, youth leadership development and youth services.