Perci PBC

02/01/2024

Respond to the Eastie Speaks! Community Needs Survey
https://go.perci.app/eastie-speaks/survey
Responda a la ¡Eastie Habla! Encuesta de Necesidades Comunitarias
https://go.perci.app/eastie-habla/encuesta

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Support the work of residents and service providers in addressing unmet needs by filling out an anonymous survey to share your experience and perspectives on topics such as housing, food access, economic opportunity, and education. Your responses will contribute to a public data resource of neighborhood priorities and advance the work of creating an East Boston that’s better for you.
For more information about Eastie Speaks!, including upcoming office hours: https://go.perci.app/eastie-speaks

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Apoye el trabajo de los residentes y proveedores de servicios para abordar las necesidades insatisfechas completando una encuesta anónima para compartir su experiencia y perspectivas sobre temas como vivienda, acceso a alimentos, oportunidades económicas y educación. Tus respuestas contribuirán a un recurso de datos públicos sobre las prioridades del vecindario y avanzarán el trabajo de crear un East Boston que sea mejor para ti.
Para más información sobre ¡Eastie Habla!, incluido el próximo horario de oficina: https://go.perci.app/eastie-habla

01/10/2024

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Just a friendly reminder that Eastie Speaks kicks off tonight! As the event is over dinnertime, food will be provided. To make the event as accessible as possible, there will also be Spanish interpretation.

Assuming the technology works as expected, we hope to also make a virtual call-in option available as well as record the event. Once available, details will be posted on the event page at https://go.perci.app/eastie-speaks.

(English above)
Sólo un recordatorio amistoso de que nuestro evento es esta noche. Como el evento es durante la cena, se proporcionará comida. Para que el evento sea lo más accesible posible, también habrá interpretación en español.

Planeamos poner a disposición una opción de llamada virtual y grabar el evento. Una vez que estén disponibles, los detalles se publicarán en la página del evento en https://go.perci.app/eastie-speaks.

12/20/2023

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Join us on January 10th to learn about how you can help shape the future of your neighborhood to be more equitable and resilient! Register at go.perci.app/eastie-speaks

Perci PBC is facilitating a grassroots needs assessment and participatory budgeting process to help empower local residents and service providers.

When: January 10th, 2024 @ 6pm
Where: East Boston Neighborhood Health Center Education and Training Institute (ETI), 250 Sumner St, East Boston

Light dinner will be provided. If you need interpretation services, please indicate your preferred language upon registration.

(English above)
¡Únase a nosotros el 10 de enero para aprender cómo puede ayudar a moldear el futuro de su barrio para que sea más equitativo y resiliente! Registra: go.perci.app/eastie-speaks

Perci PBC está facilitando una evaluación de necesidades y un proceso de elaboración de presupuestos participativos para ayudar a empoderar a los residentes locales y a los proveedores de servicios.

Cuándo: 10 de enero de 2024 a las 6 p.m.
Dónde: Instituto de Educación y Entrenamiento del East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), 250 Sumner St, East Boston

Se proporcionará una cena ligera. Si necesita servicios de interpretación, indique su idioma preferido al registrarse.

07/06/2023

Can neighborhood associations help make communities more affordable and inclusive?

Too often these groups are a small minority working against the interests of the majority, so we wrote up a guide to make them better! Here are some highlights:

- Researchers at BU found that participants in land use politics skew towards older, whiter homeowners. Just because a forum is open to the public doesn't make it representative! Know potential blind spots by comparing statistics to the overall population.

- Use the Census's American Community Survey to go beyond gender, race, and age to look at income, housing tenancy (rent vs. own), vehicle availability, housing cost burden, household size, and language stats down to the block group level.

- Decisions are often made case-by-case by the majority of those who happen to attend. Consider a more holistic approach that works towards a shared future vision. Which parts of your neighborhood should be preserved vs. change and evolve over time?

- Supplement your membership's lived experiences by leveraging outside reports and data. If you're in Boston, City of Boston publishes a great open data set of issues reported via 311.

- A process that's unclear, unpredictable, subject to discretion, and overly complex undermines political legitimacy. Develop a standardized evaluation rubric that even new members could use to judge development proposals

Which of these strategies are your favorite? What else would you recommend to forward-looking neighborhood associations? Let us know below 👇

Neighborhood associations play a critical role in shaping a community both tangibly (buildings, businesses, sidewalks, etc.) and intangibly (safety, public services, sense of community, etc.). Here are 3 strategies to start improving your local neighborhood association, distilled from our work at Pe...

12/16/2022

We're so excited to co-host this event with Housing Navigator and Boston Artist Impact! Open to all, join us on 1/10!
Visit to register: https://tinyurl.com/4hdwze9h

What is the meaning of home and how do we tap into our own stories to both build community and help drive our advocacy around housing?

Our lived experiences in housing are just as important as the technical experience we bring to our housing advocacy.

A home is so much more than a physical place- a home provides refuge, stability, the facilitation of connection, and access to opportunities. In this social creative arts event, participants will explore what home means to them through creative writing/art prompts.

Participants will hone and share their stories of home as it relates to their activism and also leave with resources/tools to bring arts as activism techniques into their own activism and pro-housing group.

11/16/2022

Today's our day! Let's solve the , together

Last month, The Boston Foundation released its annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, telling an all-too-familiar story amidst the growing national housing affordability crisis: too few homes are being produced to keep up with growing demand and those that are built don’t serve the people who ...