Mission, Vision, Values

Build a 'collaboratory' that facilitates and sustains ongoing collaboration amongst South Shore community stakeholders to realize our collective vision for the South Shore community.

A vibrant, culturally centered, collectively well, mixed-income community with a bustling commercial corridor, stable housing stock, good schools, and stimulating arts, recreation and entertainment outlets servicing the entire South Shore community and beyond. 

• Resident-centered

• Cross-Generational

• Transparent

• Collaborative

• Shared Governance

• Cross-stakeholder planning

• Collective Impact

• Synergy

• Evidence-based practice AND practice-based evidence

(Black) Culture Wellness is an evolving, evidenced based, outcome focused, theory of transformation that states that the unique, authentic expression of the values and principles self-determined by the Black community will lend to the long-term health, wealth and well-being of the Black community.

• It involves the promotion and practice of life affirming values, principles, and evidenced based strategies that affect essential outcomes for individuals, institutions and communities as a whole.