Charlesview Charities

Operation of the rabbi abraham halbfinger and Charlesview charitable fund. There are many existing resources and life-enriching relationships in the allston-brighton community. The rabbi abraham halbfinger and Charlesview charitable fund aims to strengthen, deepen, and grow these resources and relationships and ensure that they benefit low- and moderate-income individuals and families who live in allston-brighton. The fund targets support in five core areas listed below.education: examples include after-school homework and enrichment programs, adult education, youth leadership development, citizenship preparation.participatory arts education: examples include youth and adult art and/or music programs, community arts projects, expressive therapies.health/mental wellness: examples include physical, social, emotional wellness programs, nutrition, disease-specific programming, substance use services, programs that address an identified health disparity in the community for individuals, families or groups.housing/shelter: examples include housing readiness programs, resident leadership and empowerment efforts, housing transition and stabilization services.workforce/asset development: examples include job readiness and training, financial literacy.the fund gives priority to nonprofit organizations that are significantly expanding services, need support in leveraging other resources to provide improved services, or require seed funding to launch a new innovation. Food insecurity has also emerged as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. As a result the fund will also support organizations providing food resources to residents in need. Annually non-profit community based organizations based in or providing services in allston/brighton are invited to submit a letter of interest to the fund. A sub- committee of the board with the guidance of the executive director and our consultants at grant makers of america, organizations that meet the mission are invited to submit full proposals that undergo a thorough review and site visit process before final recommendations are made to the full board of directors for approval.

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.

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.