Leaders of the sports and political world gathered in the Boston Seaport on Sept. 19 for its annual Celebration of Milestones event and raised $500,000 for Boston Uncornered, an organization with an innovative approach to ending gang violence and generational urban poverty. The organization sets high expectations for gang members who are its Core Influencers and have the
A Dorchester-based organization that works with gang-involved young adults has received a $1 million grant from the Barr Foundation that will help the Boston Uncornered program “expand the work of the nation’s only corner to college solution to end generational urban poverty in New England,” according to its co-founder and CEO, Mark Culliton. “They believed early on that Core