About Us
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.
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Boston Promise Initiative
Boston Promise Initiative (BPI) is a child-centered place-based strategy that prioritizes high-performing schools at the center of neighborhood transformation. Our strategy is phased, starting with the creation of the Dudley Village Campus (DVC)--where every child growing up in our neighborhood is supported with high quality programs and services from birth to career--expanding to a larger area of Boston known as the Circle of Promise (CoP), and then reaching the entire City. Boston is well-positioned for success within the Promise Neighborhood Initiative as well as to serve as a learning laboratory for the Promise Neighborhood movement. Boston has a civic culture and history that encourages problem-solving and invests in social programs. As a gateway city constantly refreshed by new immigrants, a hub of a regional economy, a home to dozens of colleges and universities and hundreds of non-governmental organizations, Boston is a center for both social and civic entrepreneurship. Boston boasts a tremendous array of services for families, many of which are evidence-based and already serving as national models. Due to fragmentation among providers and constraints on service delivery models imposed by funding, contracts and public policy, the many high-quality programs of Boston are provided to some children, in some places, some of the time. And, despite this city’s abundance of wealth, talent and creativity, shameful inequities and disparities persist.
To address this, the BPI has catalyzed a very high level of both public and private sector involvement including over $70 million in aligned investments and the participation of people from across the spectrum of expertise and influence in the city. Coupled with resident leadership, this involvement and these investments are sparking innovative strategies through alignment of plans, people, and resources.
Today, we bring this together under the BPI, and through the national community of practice, we share lessons with and learn from other Promise Neighborhoods. DSNI, as the BPI lead agency, is fostering new approaches to solving chronic problems.
Like a university campus, the Dudley neighborhood is a geographic area with infrastructure, institutions, people, buildings, and technology that provide the physical places and resources for the highest quality of education for all residents. BPI partners link their success to the progress and achievements of our students and to the degree that it engages all elements of the community in planning, organizing, and evaluating that success and reducing inequities across the city. We use both hi-tech and hi-touch strategies to reach residents. By leveraging technology, partners and institutions ranging from churches and youth groups, to corner stores and social service agencies, we aim for improved population-level outcomes for children and families.
Boston Promise Initiative Partners
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Access Painting Action for Boston Community Development Inc.(ABCD) Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) Artists for Humanity Associated Early Care and Education Berklee City Music Best Buy Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Bird Street Community Center Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston Blue Hill Avenue Task Force Boston Afterschool & Beyond Boston Arts Academy Boston Centers for Youth and Families Boston Children's Museum Boston Children Thrive in 5 / Dudley Children Thrive Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness Boston College Graduate School of Social Work Boston Community Capital Boston Housing Authority Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN) Boston Parent Organizing Network Boston Plan for Excellence Boston Police Department Boston Private Industry Council (PIC) Boston Public Health Commission Boston Public Schools Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Teacher Residency Boston Tenant Coalition Boston United for Students Boston Youth Fund Bottom Line Bowdoin Street Health Center Casa Esperanza Career Collaborative Center for Law and Education Child Witness to Violence Project Children's Health Watch Children's Services of Roxbury City of Boston City Connects City Fresh City Life/Vida Urbana City Year Civic Engagement Initiative Community Servings Community Ventures Consulting Crosstown Church CVC Unido/Catholic Charities Teen Center Dearborn Middle School Discover Roxbury Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Dorchester/Roxbury Labor Committee Dotwell Dudley Neighbors, Inc. Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School
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Executive Office of Health and Human Services Fairmount Greenway Task Force Family Independence Initiative Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Family Service of Greater Boston Foreclosure Roundtable Franklin Park Coalition Full-service Schools Roundtable Gordon College GOTCHA Youth Jobs Collaborative Greater Boston Interfaith Organization Greater Four Corners Action Coalition Harvard University, Graduate School of Education Haynes Early Education Center Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Homes for Families Interaction Institute for Social Change Jeremiah E. Burke High School King and Son Affordable Construction La Alianza Hispana LIFT - Boston Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Madison Park Development Corporation Mason Elementary School Mass 2020 Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development MA Alliance for Portuguese Speakers MassVote Massachusetts Department of Mental Health MassHousing Mothers for Justice and Equality Net Work NetAge Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation Orchard Gardens Pilot School Project Bread Project HIP-HOP Project Hope Project RIGHT Quincy Street Missional Church ReadBoston Renew Boston Roxbury Builders Guild Roxbury Community College Roxbury Cultural Network Roxbury Master Plan Strategic Oversight Committee Roxbury Neighborhood Council Roxbury Presbyterian Church Social Impact Center RoxVote S.A.W. (Sisters At Work) Smart from the Start St. Kevin’s Area Planning Collaborative St. Patrick’s Church Strategy Matters Suffolk Construction |
Tech Boston Technology Goes Home The Action Center for College Educational Services and Scholarships (ACCESS) The City School The Food Project The Jones Payne Group The Salvation Army Thompson Island Outward Bound Tufts University University of Massachusetts, Boston - College of Public and Community Service University of Massachusetts, Boston - Center for Community Democracy & Democratic Literacy United States Department of Education/ Promise Neighborhoods University of Massachusetts, Boston - Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy University of Massachusetts, Boston - McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies Urban Edge Housing Corporation Vine Street Community Center Vital Pictures WAITT House Winthrop Elementary School WriteBoston Youth Hostelling International Youth Violence Systems Project YouthBuild Boston
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