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| Action for Boston Community Development | |||
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Lisa Doucett |
NE’s largest human service agency helping over 80,000 individuals and
families through Head Start, fuel assistance, educational and employment
training and other programs. | ||
| Organizations belonging to Action for Boston Community Development: | |||
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ABCD Low Cost Housing | |||
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Lisa Doucett |
Agency is committed to developing housing for persons of low and moderate
incomes and encourages expansion of housing stock in the City of Boston. | ||
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Action for Boston Community Development | |||
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Lisa Doucett |
(NACG Federation) (NE’s largest human service agency helping over 80,000
individuals and families through Head Start, fuel assistance, educational and
employment training and other programs. | ||
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Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Massachusetts | |||
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Phone: 781-938-4048 |
A powerful voice for fair treatment and services for persons with serious
mental illnesses. Provides a network of support groups. | ||
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Allston-Brighton Area Planning Action Council (APAC) | |||
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Phone: 617-783-1485 |
Provides neighborhood services including an employment center, Head Start,
food pantry, day care, fuel assistance, and social services. | ||
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Asian American Civic Association | |||
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Phone: 617-426-9492 |
Serves the needs of the Asian community, providing employment counseling, job
development, housing counseling, and interpreting and translating services. | ||
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Concerned Boston Citizens for Elder Affairs (CBCEA) | |||
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Phone: 617-357-6000 x226 |
Improves the quality of life for elders through health education and advocacy
and the promotion of other services and programs that help achieve that goal. | ||
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Dorchester Area Planning Action Council (APAC) | |||
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Phone: 617-288-2700 |
Offers a range of services to the community including child care, employment
counseling, housing, youth programs, and resources on homelessness. | ||
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East Boston Area Planning Action Council (APAC) | |||
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Phone: 617-567-8857 |
Provides services in fuel assistance, Head Start, senior health care, summer
and winter youth employment, Food Stamp and housing applications. | ||
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Four Corners Development Corporation/Langham Court | |||
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Phone: 617-437-0789 |
Assists in the development of secure, adequate and affordable housing and the
general welfare of the community. Best know for Langham Court in the South End. | ||
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Jamaica Plain Area Planning Action Council (APAC) | |||
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Phone: 617-522-4250 |
Provides supportive services in the areas of fuel assistance, youth programs,
emergency food distribution, employment and training, information and referral
and advocacy. | ||
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MARC Trust | |||
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Phone: 781-891-6270 |
Advocates for individuals with disabilities (mental retardation, mental
illness, etc) through the use of trusts while protecting the eligibility of a
beneficiary to government entitlement programs. | ||
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Massachusetts Human Services Coalition | |||
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Phone: 617-482-6119 |
Advocates for appropriate funding for a full range of health, social and
human services in the Commonwealth. Publishes the newsletter “State House
Watch.” | ||
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Positive Directions, Inc | |||
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Phone: 617-262-3456 |
Human service agency providing information, support, case management,
employment assistance and advocacy to those living with HIV infection or who are
affected by HIV. | ||
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South Boston Action Center | |||
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Phone: 617-269-5160 |
Operates programs in consumer advocacy, substance abuse, computer skills,
Head Start, and fuel assistance. | ||
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Urban College of Boston | |||
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Phone: 617-292-4723 |
Offers Associates of Arts degrees to non-traditional, low income residents
and improves their quality of life through education and employment. | ||
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Women’s Service Club | |||
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Phone: 617-262-3935 |
Offers a broad range of services including referrals for health, employment
and AIDS information and food and clothing distribution and activities for
seniors. | ||
| Community Works | |||
|
Fran Froehlich |
A cooperative partnership of grassroots organizations, bringing ordinary
people together to create community solutions and a better quality of life for
all. | ||
| Organizations belonging to Community Works: | |||
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Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) | |||
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Warren Goldstein -Gelb |
Builds the power of communities of color and lower-income communities to
become decision-makers in issues affecting their community in order to attain a
healthy environment. | ||
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Asian American Resource Workshop | |||
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Eun-Joung Lee |
Works to empower the Asian Pacific American community through community
organizing, leadership development, information and resource distribution, and
art and culture productions. | ||
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Association of Haitian Women in Boston - Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston (AFAB) | |||
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Carline Desiré |
Helps low-income women access social and economic opportunities to expand
their knowledge; become self sufficient, independent, and confident; and take
control of their destiny. | ||
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Boston Self Help Center | |||
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Kathy Mireault |
A peer-counseling, educational, and advocacy organization created by and for
people with a disability or chronic illness. | ||
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Boston Women’s Fund | |||
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Catherine Joseph |
Massachusetts’ oldest women-run foundation raising money from all economic
strata to support innovative social change and economic justice projects led by
women and girls. | ||
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Boston Women’s Health Book Collective | |||
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Judy Norsigian |
Best known for the books _Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century_ and _Nuestros
Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas_, the BWHBC empowers women with information about
health, sexuality, and reproduction. | ||
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Brazilian Immigrant Center | |||
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Fausto Mendes da Rocha |
Empowers the Brazilian community through education, organizing, and advocacy
to ensure social and economic justice for low-income immigrants. | ||
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The Childcare Project | |||
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Lourdes Sariol |
Organizes and advocates for increased quality, quantity, and affordability of
childcare for low-income families; and provides childcare services through its
network of trained and licensed family childcare providers. | ||
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Concerned United Birthparents | |||
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Libbi Campbell |
A peer support organization for birthparents and others affected by adoption,
promoting reform and understanding of adoption issues through advocacy and
educational programs. | ||
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Cooperative Artists Institute | |||
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Susan Porter |
Empowers people to solve their individual and collective problems by applying
the Arts as a catalyst for individual and institutional change. | ||
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CPPAX Education Fund | |||
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Betsy Smith |
Provides information statewide about social and economic justice issues.
These include health care, welfare, education, and becoming involved in the
political process. | ||
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Egleston Square Neighborhood Association | |||
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Phil Myrick |
A resident organization which develops local leadership and promotes
involvement of all members of its diverse community on key issues that impact
the area. | ||
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Emerge: Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence | |||
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David Adams |
Works to end violence against women through group counseling, training,
community education, and preventive education. | ||
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Four Corners Action Coalition | |||
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Marvin Martin |
Empowers poor people and people of color in the Four Corners neighborhood of
Dorchester to create social change and participate in decisions affecting their
community. | ||
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GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) | |||
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Shawn Jacobs |
New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending
discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and
expression. | ||
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Hawthorne Youth and Community Center (HYCC) | |||
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Sam Sadd |
Offers educational, cultural, vocational, recreational programs to low- and
moderate-income youth and adults in Roxbury’s Highland Park neighborhood;
empowers neighbors to address community problems. | ||
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Immigrant Workers Resource Center | |||
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Juana Hernández |
Builds the capacity of all immigrant workers to defend, protect, and expand
their rights in the workplace, in their unions, and in society. | ||
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Jane Doe Inc., The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence | |||
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Toni Troop |
Statewide coalition of battered women’s and rape crisis programs committed
to ending violence against women and their children through community education,
advocacy for social change. | ||
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Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project | |||
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Lina Sheth |
Statewide coalition providing HIV/AIDS services for Asian and Pacific
Islanders through community organizing and support, education, training, and
advocacy. | ||
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Massachusetts Senior Action Council | |||
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Geoff Wilkinson |
A statewide grassroots membership group of low- and moderate-income senior
citizens organizing for health care, housing, and economic and social justice
for all. | ||
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Mental Patients Liberation Front | |||
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George Enos |
Sponsors the Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-In Center and the Homeless
Empowerment Advisory Project, providing peer-run alternatives to traditional
mental health services. | ||
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Minorities with Disabilities Advocacy Center | |||
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Genevieve Buchanan |
Seeks to eliminate disparities for people of color with disabilities through
empowerment, education, and advocacy programs; and operates the Vivienne S.
Thomson Independent Living Center. | ||
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Poor People’s United Fund | |||
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Kip Tiernan |
Helps homeless individuals and families find shelter, food, medical and legal
services, and offers critical support to groups serving poor, disabled, elderly,
and hungry people. | ||
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Renewal House | |||
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Ada Guadalupe |
Provides emergency shelter for battered women and their children; counseling
and advocacy on self-awareness, parenting skills, and housing search; and
education and training programs. | ||
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The Welcome Project | |||
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Nelson Salazar |
Organizes residents of the Mystic Public Housing Development in Somerville to
ensure a safe community and access to quality educational, social, and health
services. | ||
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Women in the Building Trades | |||
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Maura Russell |
A training and advocacy organization committed to assisting women to enter
and stay in the skilled construction and technical trades. | ||
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Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) | |||
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Alison Bowens |
Multicultural women’s organization dedicated to developing leadership of
women of all races in workplaces and unions, and building a democratic,
inclusive, anti-racist labor movement. | ||
