Dorchester is by far Boston's largest and most populous community. But Dot, as it's known to locals, is hard to define as a singular neighborhood: rather, it's a cluster of villages covering six square miles that's home to a fifth of Bostonians.
CISA offering SNAP, HIP training sessions Farm employees are invited to a series of training sessions organized by the South Deerfield-based Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) that are focused on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance.
In Boston, the CommonWealth Kitchen has cooked up a successful model of community economic development by incubating businesses in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Crucially, financial profit was not the main goal but the real rewards might be invaluable.