Dedham Savings Community Foundation Supports Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
Paola Liendo-Baez | JPNDC
Dick Burke | Dedham Savings
Franco Devin Avila | JPNDC
The Dedham Savings Community Foundation has made a grant to Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) to support their Family Prosperity Services program. Grant funds will be used to purchase mobile office equipment, including tablets, hot spots, and portable printers, that will enhance JPNCD’s work of strengthening low-income families’ access to career development, asset building, and early education resources. Mobility Coaches and Family Engagement Specialists will be empowered to serve people on-site at multiple affordable housing properties to assist with identifying employment and training opportunities, connect clients to new benefits, and address clients’ needs and goals. Additionally, the purchase of a projector, screen, tables and banner stands will allow coaches to run workshops and recruiting sessions in community rooms. These gatherings will help break down the barriers – transportation, time, childcare, fear – that stand between many low-income people and opportunities for upward mobility.
ABOUT JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The mission of JPNDC is to transform the lives and amplify the voices of Boston residents who have been excluded from prosperity by racial and economic inequities. JPNDC develops affordable housing that allows people to thrive, provides services that help people build on their strengths, and organizes people to pursue the changes they desire. Based in Jamaica Plain, JPNDC envisions an equitable and inclusive Boston in which all people have access to secure housing, economic prosperity, safe and vibrant neighborhoods, political power, and opportunities to fulfill their potential.
ABOUT DEDHAM SAVINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
The Dedham Savings Community Foundation is a privately funded foundation created by Dedham Savings to provide financial support to charitable organizations that serve disadvantaged populations within the Bank’s community reinvestment area. These communities include Dedham, Needham, Norwood, Sharon, South Boston, Walpole, Westwood, and contiguous areas. Typical requests are received from schools, libraries, family service organizations and non-profit organizations.
The Trustees of the Foundation accept grant requests from community organizations and make awards twice per year. Organizations wishing to request funding from the Foundation may apply online at www.dedhamsavings.com/community.
ABOUT DEDHAM SAVINGS
Incorporated in 1831, Dedham Savings is one of the oldest banks in Massachusetts still doing business under its original charter. The Bank delivers technology-driven solutions in a client-centric way to promote the financial success of the individuals, families, businesses, and non-profit organizations in the communities it serves. Dedham Savings manages $2.4 billion in assets through full-service locations and loan offices in Dedham, Needham, Norwood, Sharon, South Boston, Walpole, and Westwood, Massachusetts. Dedham Savings is Member FDIC, Member DIF, and an Equal Housing Lender.