Neighborhood Associations:

Fort Hill Civic Association (generally Highland Street west) meets the first Tuesday of every month at the convent at 17 Highland Park Street, from 7pm until 8:30pm; contact Co-Chairs: Ernest Coston at 617.442-3296 or Peter Lee at 617.442.3799

Hawthorne Neighborhood Association (generally Highland Street East) meets at 7 PM the second Monday of every month at 9 Fulda Street. Contact Sam at 617.427.0613

Highland Park Greenspace Committee

The Greenspace committee meets at 7 PM on the third Wed. of the month at the Cooper Center. Call Nancy Kafka at 617.442.1192

Community Gardens:

Margaret Wright Memorial Garden on Fort Avenue: contact Ruth Potee at 617.442.5985 or Valerie Madden at 617.445.4110

Cooper Community Center Garden and urban gardening education programs on Linwood Street: contact Willy Brown at 617.442.1577 or 617.722.5227.

The Cooper Center is also looking for volunteers to work with youths in their computer lab.  

Community Investing:

If you are interested in investing in our community, please check out Boston Community Capital at http://bostoncommunitycapital.org/invest.html .  Scroll to the bottom and click on Jessica Brooks name.  She has come twice to our community meetings and talked about what BCC has done since its inception 28 years ago.   It’s a good thing!