• Climate resilience

    April 22, 2022
    A community’s ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or sudden change related to weather conditions
  • Resident ownership over local changes

    April 22, 2022
    A sense of empowerment when the changes happening in your neighborhood align with the changes you think should be happening…
  • Financial Security

    April 22, 2022
    A person’s feelings of security, anxiety, and safety in relation to their financial circumstances.
  • Climate Change

    April 22, 2022
    Change in the average weather  conditions of a place — such as temperature and rainfall — over a long period…
  • Gentrification

    April 22, 2022
    The process by which central urban neighborhoods that have undergone disinvestments and economic decline, typically historically red-lined communities of color,…
  • Participatory Action Research

    April 22, 2022
    An approach to research and knowledge creation centered on two beliefs: 1. those most directly impacted by a problem are…
  • Eastern Massachusetts

    April 22, 2022
    Region of the state spanning Greater Boston, the north coast, and the south coast
  • Advocates

    April 22, 2022
    A person who publicly supports an issues or cause
  • Equitable Development

    April 22, 2022
    Neighborhood planning, investment, and development approaches that take the range of needs of all people living there into account and…