DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC

Description

Organizational History

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative is a nonprofit community-based planning and organizing en@ty birthed in 1984 out of the passion, ingenuity and determination of Dudley residents seeking to reclaim a neighborhood that had been ravaged by disinvestment, arson fires and dumping. DSNI’s mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high quality neighborhood in collabora;on with community partners.

Through our Board structure, residents lead an effort that includes all neighborhood stakeholders in a democratically-elected, community accountable process. Together, we have created greater civic participation, economic opportunity, community connections, and opportunites for youth. We have built community across our diversity -of language, race & ethnicity, age. We have invested in our young people and the youth in turn have invested in the community.