Action For Boston Community Development Inc

• Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Donna E. Shalala, as She is the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children, and Families, Region I, Defendants, Appellees., 136 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 1998)

Janet Steckel Lundberg with whom Richard M. Bluestein, Krokidas & Bluestein, Boston, MA, Garrick F. Cole and Smith & Duggan, Boston, MA, were on brief...

• Federal Circuits

• Thousands of Suffolk County Residents May Be Eligible for Prescription Drug Assistance

Unfortunately, people who potentially qualify for programs like these are often challenging to reach. Only about a third of those who qualify for government assistance programs ever sign up for them," said Ruth Blackman, director of elder affairs at Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. (ABCD), a member of the Medicare Rx Access Network of Massachusetts. "Access to medications is critical to health, so there is a special urgency to reach as many people who qualify for this prescription-drug subsidy as possible and encourage them to apply.

• Boston Banner, The
• August 11, 2009

• In the News: Robert M. Coard

Robert M. Coard, president and CEO of Action for Boston Community Development Inc. (ABCD), recently received the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus' "Good Guy" Award at a ceremony held at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel. Coard has served as president and CEO of ABCD - Boston's official antipoverty agency and the largest human services agency in New England, with a budget of $125 million and almost 1,000 staff members - since 1968. As the agency's Community Action Program Director from 1965 to 1968, he created ABCD's decentralized neighborhood network system, which provides programs, services and opportunities that meet specific needs in every city neighborhood effectively with major programs administered from ABCD's downtown offices.

• Boston Banner, The
• August 24, 2009

• Part II

...: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and. Development, HUD. ACTION: Notice of ...City of Boston............. MA. 18,855,665. City of Cambridge, Ma...

• FR, September 24, 2008
• Separate parts
• Housing and Urban Development Department

• In the News

John J. Drew, president and CEO of Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. (ABCD), recently announced the appointment of [Yvette Rodriguez] as director, ABCD Head Start and Children's Services. Rodriguez brings a wealth of expertise to this position. Since 2007, she has served as deputy director of program operations for ABCD Head Start and Children's Services. Prior to that appointment, she was chief operating officer (COO) at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA).

• Boston Banner, The
• March 29, 2010

• Caring for incarcerated women.

... organs, body size, muscle development and hormones."(3) Correctional practitioners who d..., public health, academia, research and community-based organizations. Recent topics of interest are... with women and girls; and 4) create an action plan for next steps in developing gender-responsiv...* Action for Boston Community Development Corp. . * AIDS Foundation Ho...

• Corrections Today
• Vol. 71 Nbr. 5, October 2009

• Cuts in Heating Aid Could Mean a Cold Winter for the Poor

By Andrew Miga The Associated Press

...She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148... people's lives," said John Drew, who heads Action for Boston Community Development Inc., which provi...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 12, 2011

• Local economic development joint ventures and metropolitan networks.

... a problem of "institutional collective action" (Feiock 2004). Local and regional economic, demog... entities not in competition with the community "have an active involvement in economic developmen...(1.) The 12 metropolitan areas are Boston-Cambridge-Quincy MA, Buffalo-Niagara Falls NY, Col...

• Public Administration Quarterly
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, March 2011

• Poor Brace for Heating Aid Cuts: ; Reduction in Federal Benefits, Rise in Oil Prices Mean Cold Winter for Many

WASHINGTON - Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm. She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans.

... people's lives," said John Drew, who heads Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., which prov...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 13, 2011

• Northeast Poor Brace for Difficult Winter After Heating Aid Cuts

WASHINGTON - Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm. She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans.

... people's lives," said John Drew, who heads Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., which prov...

• Charleston Gazette
• December 13, 2011