Eversource held an information session at Action for Boston Community Development in Dorchester to help customers save energy and stay cool in the summer months. This comes after a winter of high bill costs due to massive increases in gas prices and delivery. Energy usage tends to increase by 30% in the summer months as households use their air conditioners…
On March 29, 2022, ABCD—Action for Boston Community Development—received the shocking news that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Population Affairs, was terminating funding of the anti-poverty organization’s Title X Family Planning program as of March 31, 2022. For more than 50 years, in collaboration with a vital community health center network, ABCD has done an…
BOSTON – Families living on tight budgets are facing another tough week with brutal wind chills and snow in the forecast. But some households across the state can’t pay for home heating oil as their fuel assistance benefits run out. Cynthia Lewis and her husband have lived in their 100-year-old Dorchester home since 1969. All four of their kids grew…
Three months after Donald Trump began his second term as president, change was being felt at the Talbot-Bernard senior housing development in Dorchester. It was just one more spot in a flooded zone of funding and policy shifts under the new administration, many of them aimed at programs and services provided by community-based organizations (CBOs) around the country. Built in…
Craig LeMoult April 25, 2024 Dana Hayden is a self-described “YouTube junkie” who especially likes watching classical music videos online. The 74-year-old lives in a Brighton apartment building for seniors run by the Boston Housing Authority, and has been getting his internet access for free through a federal program called the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). “I have cancer, so it’s very it’s…
Financial literacy – having the financial knowledge to understand money and your options for budgeting, saving and investing it – sounds like an essential education for any adult. But according to a December 2023 report by Ramsey, only 17% of U.S. adults said they took a personal finance class in high school, even though 72% of U.S. adults believe they would…
Your very own hoop dreams Ever wonder what it would be like to shoot hoops on the Celtics’ historic parquet floor? A week from this Wednesday — on Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. — the 11th annual Hoop Dreams takes place, the charity basketball tournament to raise money for human services nonprofit ABCD at TD Garden. I recently spoke with the…
You might think that with significant advances in clean energy happening every year, these technologies would be easily accessible regardless of class or background. Unfortunately, like so many other things, such access has historically been concentrated in Boston’s more affluent neighborhoods. Now, ABCD’s Climate Equity and Impact (CE&I) department is working to reverse this decades-long trend and bring innovative energy…
Amid growing concerns about living expenses, declining incomes and inflation, Boston residents are experiencing increased food prices, insecurity and inaccessibility. Approximately 1.8 million Massachusetts residents, 32% of the state’s population, struggled with food insecurity in 2021, according to a survey conducted by the Greater Boston Food Bank. Nick Owen, program director of food insecurity at Action for Boston Community Development,…
Mass. needs 34,000 clean energy jobs. Training programs are recruiting from populations underrepresented in the existing workforce. Gripping a soldering iron firmly in his right hand, Osvaldo Medina angled the tip toward the circuit board and prepared to attach a small red lightbulb. He watched puffs of smoke curl up as hot silver drops melted onto the board, fixing the…