Infographic
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
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Project details
What we need
- An easily understood visual aid that communicates complex information
- A high-resolution version of the Infographic in the Organization’s preferred format
What we have in place
- We currently have a chart describing how decisions are made at other groups, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have narrative descriptions of the processes from other groups, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,212 , allowing us to support local leaders who are fighting for housing affordability, while still being effective in facilitating a truly important internal conversation that you can help us with.
Our board and our grassroots organizing committee are working to create a new model for communication and decision-making between them. For the first meeting about this we will be presenting several models for decision-making used by 5 other similar organizations. The notes we have now area bit dense to share broadly. To ensure that everyone is prepared to talk about these models at our first meeting, we need some visuals.
We need someone to create infographics (like an organizational flow chart) showing the decision-making models that exist between committees at the other 5 organizations.
Project plan
Posted by
Erica S.
Executive Director
Our mission
Southwest Boston CDC works to sustain a thriving, economically diverse community in Hyde Park and Roslindale through a focus on affordable housing options, access to good jobs and transit, preservation of green spaces, and the development and empowerment of local leaders whose voices are not otherwise heard.
What we do
Our current programs include the following:
-- Community Building and Community Organizing: We bring residents together to solve problems, improve neighborhoods, and gain greater control over their community's future.
We do this by supporting residents in identifying the issues they want to address, and helping them develop skills and implement the plans they create. In doing this, residents who otherwise feel (and are) shut out of decision making in their own neighborhood build their own powerful voice. Residents are now taking on issues of a blighted site that used to be a playground, the need to improve public transit, and the dire need for more affordable housing -- in order to ensure that Hyde Park's continues to be an affordable, beautiful, vibrant place for families.
-- Affordable Housing: We build and preserve affordable housing. In 2016 we purchased an 8-unit property in Roslindale to prevent the displacement of the low-income families living there. We are currently under construction for a 27-unit energy efficient, transit oriented rental development underway, steps from the Fairmount Station. Rents in Boston continue to skyrocket, and more developers are looking to Hyde Park and Roslindale to create "luxury" apartments. This building will transform a blighted lot and will be the first affordable family
development in Hyde Park in nearly 25 years.
-- Environmental stewardship: Our Hyde Park Green team employs teens and young adults from the neighborhood to preserve and restore the amazing urban wild sites in Hyde Park. We work with he Boston Parks Department to outline a scope of work in order to ensure these urban wilds are preserved for the community.
-- Transit Equity: As an active member of the Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative and the Fairmount Indigo Network, we help organize residents to fight for improvements to the Fairmount line that will have a positive impact on residents all along the line, such as making all stations along the line have the same low fare.
