Quiet safety effort gets noticed
26 Oct 2008
$10,000 grant to help fight crime
The Boston Globe published an article about Boston's Roxbury Community Safety Partners winning a $10,000 MetLife Foundation grant for its community-building partnership. The partnership, which includes residents on the Orchard Gardens Public Safety Committee, the Boston Police Department, and Madison Park Development Corporation, had formed around the common goal of revitalizing Orchard Gardens, and was one of six recipients of the MetLife Foundation's Neighborhood Revitalization award.
Bob Van Meter of Boston LISC and Julia Ryan of LISC's Community Safety Initiative (CSI) are quoted.
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