Charlesview Charities Inc

Operations of the community center that are available to all residents of the allston/brighton community. These operations include hosting supportive service programs for children, youth, parents, adults, and seniors with partner organizations in the community. Examples of these programs are after school and summer programming for children in collaboration with the oak square ymca and the dream program, parenting groups in collaboration with the family nurturing center, health and wellness such as tai chi, yoga, nutritional cooking classes, workforce and employment support, computer training classes, english for speakers of other languages, aa and other self-help programs, arts, and music. Charlesview charities provides financial support for several of these programs, while others are leveraged by the use of classroom space in the community center. Additional activities are developed based on the needs identified by residents in allston/brighton or by community service providers who seek a space to provide new programming identified by their clients.

Promotion of affordable and mixed income housing in the allston/brighton community. The executive director represents the organization on a variety of community task forces and coalitions to further identify opportunities and through the city of boston's article 80 development process work to increase affordable rental and homeownership during the public process.