Madison Park's community action programs encompass Roxbury-wide voter education and mobilization, tenant organizing, a Dudley Square public market, public safety organizing in our Dudley Square business district and community gardening and similar neighborhood improvement projects. Our philosophy for positive community action and change is the empowerment of residents.
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Madison Park organizes low-income tenants as part of our effort to preserve "expiring use" housing that is at risk of losing affordability. In addition, strong tenant associations composed of residents from MPDC-owned properties have made a marked difference in tenant/management communications, maintenance and upkeep, reduction in crime and creation of many social programs that build the overall community fabric. For further information, please contact David Price @ or 617.849.6226.
In collaboration with Dudley Square Main Streets, the Area-B2 police and the Dudley Square Merchants, in 2002 Madison Park co-founded the "Dudley Pride" coalition aimed at revitalizing the Dudley Square business district by building support and a unified community voice. Through monthly meetings and action strategies, this campaign targets quality of life issues in the Dudley Square Business District such as littering, vagrancy, drug activity and sales of cans and nips by liquor stores. By decreasing crime, drug trafficking, vandalism and disorder, the campaign seeks to create a positive perception of Dudley Square in the minds of businesses, residents, shoppers, and other visitors from outside the neighborhood.
The Dudley Pride Campaign partners are as follows: Dudley Square Main Streets, Madison Park Development Corporation, Dudley Square Merchants Association, Boston Police Department (Area B-2), Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, Veteran's Benefit Clearinghouse, Haley House, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police, State representative Gloria Fox, City Councilor Chuck Turner, and local residents.
For further information, please contact David Price @ or 617.849.6226.
TopIn 2006, Madison Park joined with Project H.I.P. H.O.P. and Mission Works in a collaborative effort to improve youth programming in the Dudley Square area. Working with a team of teen youth workers, the collaborating agencies conducted a needs assessment, identified programming strategies, and selected an organizing project for 2007.
For further information, please contact David Price .
TopAt the 2007 NeighborWorks event, thirty-one volunteers joined in a clean-up of the Malcolm X Boulevard Community Garden at 55 Dudley Street on June 2nd. Madison Park, in collaboration with a local gardening association, in 2002 developed this garden, located on one of the busiest streets in bustling Dudley Square. Each June, Madison Park and neighborhood volunteers join in a National NeighborWorks Week project focused on improving one specific place in the community. In 2006, volunteers did a "spring cleaning" of the Intergenerational Community Garden on Malcolm X Boulevard. In 2005, over 200 volunteers from The Home Depot and the Roxbury community came together to complete four separate projects over two days: building a new playground on Winslow Street, building a dumpster enclosure for the newly-opened Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall; sidewalk cleaning and landscaping around the Dudley Square Fire Station; planting flowers in the Edward Gourdin Veterans Park; and a spring cleaning of the Intergenerational Community Garden on Malcolm X Boulevard. In 2004, 65 volunteers joined with the United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury in a cleanup of a vacant community center and surround land at 90 Windsor Street, cutting brush, picking up trash and painting park benches. For further information, please contact David Price @ .
In 2002, Madison Park completed a beautiful, intergenerational community garden in partnership with Madison Park High School and the John D. O'Bryant High School as part of a citywide Public Schoolyard Greening project. Each spring, Madison Park in partnership with the Intergenerational Community Gardeners Association organizes a "spring cleaning" to prepare the garden for another season. For further information, please contact David Price @ or 617.849.6226.
