DNI Partners & Supporters:
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative's (DSNI) mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high-quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
Since the foundation was established in 1936, The Ford Foundation has been working to improve people’s lives and address social justice issues across the United States. Our grantees today follow in the footsteps of those who blazed trails in civil rights, women’s rights, education reform, public interest media, diversity in the arts and voter engagement.
The National Community Land Trust Network provides research, advocacy, education, and support for its member organizations that nurture and sustain healthy and economically diverse communities by providing permanently affordable access to land, homes, and community assets.
The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.
The Urban Farming Institute’s (UFI) mission is to contribute to healthy people and sustainable cities by promoting and creating self-sustaining urban farming enterprises and farming jobs.
By enabling urban farming through farm creation, farmer training, public education and policy change, UFI brings people in urban neighborhoods closer to food production.
By enabling urban farming through farm creation, farmer training, public education and policy change, UFI brings people in urban neighborhoods closer to food production.
The Food Project's mission is to grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. We produce healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs and provide youth leadership opportunities. Most importantly, we strive to inspire and support others to create change in their own communities.
Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure (COHIF) mission is to collectively work with our members and partners to stabilize the Greater Four Corners neighborhood by providing a innovative means by which as many residents of foreclosed occupied homes can stay in their homes as possible, to develop and implement best practice models for code enforcement and ownership of foreclosed properties in the Greater Four Corners neighborhood, and to eventually help replicate those efforts in other neighborhoods in greater Boston hard-hit by foreclosures.
Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.
Goulston & Storrs is an Am Law 200 law firm, with offices in Boston, New York, Washington, DC and Beijing. With nearly 200 lawyers across multiple disciplines, Goulston & Storrs is a real estate powerhouse with leading-edge corporate, capital markets and finance, litigation, and private client and trust practices. Our lawyers employ a proven team approach that values client outcomes over individual recognition. The firm’s dedication to providing prompt, practical legal advice, cost-efficiently and tailored to our clients’ business needs, has resulted in Goulston & Storrs being acknowledged for excellence by Chambers USA, BTI’s A-Team for Client Service, Best Lawyers in America and other leading industry rankings.
The mission of the Department of Neighborhood Development is to make Boston the most livable city in the nation.
Strong, vibrant neighborhoods make this possible. Working with Boston’s communities, we help build neighborhoods through the strategic investment of public resources.
DND’s main functions are to set and implement the City’s housing policy, manage the City’s real estate portfolio, and strengthen Boston’s small businesses.
Strong, vibrant neighborhoods make this possible. Working with Boston’s communities, we help build neighborhoods through the strategic investment of public resources.
DND’s main functions are to set and implement the City’s housing policy, manage the City’s real estate portfolio, and strengthen Boston’s small businesses.