DSNI | Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc.

Through the Boston Promise Initiative, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) will implement a continuum of cradle to career solutions to ensure that the academic and developmental outcomes are significantly improved for 1,858 youth in the Dudley Village Campus (DVC), a 1.3 square mile area located in Boston, MA.

Food for Thought: The Dudley Real Food Hub

Neighbors will have increased access to fresh, healthy, affordable food through farmers’ markets and other sources, will be able to learn to grow their own in backyard or community gardens, to learn about healthy meal-planning and cooking, and to advocate for, and develop, food and fitness resources for their neighborhood.

New Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter...

Dudley Children Thrive!

Dudley Children Thrive When they Talk, Read, …Paint Pumpkins! Dudley Children Thrive aims to support all neighborhood children holistically beginning at birth—or even before. Part of a larger, city-wide effort known as Thrive in 5, Dudley Children Thrive’s mission is to strengthen the Dudley community’s capacity to develop high-achieving and healthy

Dudley Children Thrive

When they Talk, Read, …Paint Pumpkins!
Food for Thought

The Dudley Real Food Hub
A Winning Team

Sustainable and Economic Development

About Us

The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a nonprofit community-based planning and organizing entity rooted in the Roxbury/North Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston.

A Winning Team:

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In September, Harry Smith joined DSNI’s...

Supporting Students

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As part of our multi-pronged effort to support...

The Promise of a

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Through the Boston Promise Initiative, Dudley Street...

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A Winning Team: Sustainable and Economic Development

Submitted by Rebekah McKinney on Tue, 2011-12-20 01:16

In September, Harry Smith joined DSNI’s staff as the Director of Sustainable and Economic Development and of Dudley Neighbors, Inc. Harry is applying more than 20 years’ experience in organizing and community planning in supporting residents as they participate actively and make decisions around planning, land use, and design.

Supporting Students Every Day

Submitted by Rebekah McKinney on Tue, 2011-12-20 01:01

As part of our multi-pronged effort to support increased school achievement among neighborhood children, DSNI and Roxbury Presbyterian Church hosted the fall session of the Dearborn Middle School’s Saturday School from October 15th - November 19th. Partner, Fidelity Investments, offered financial support and helped recruit tutors. Thirty-three students spent three hours each week working with volunteer tutors trained by Dr. Holly Carter of Northeastern. Valerie Vasti, a new Teach Plus teacher and coach at the Dearborn, developed our Saturday School curriculum around Seed Folks, a book about reclaiming urban areas by planting gardens in vacant lots.

New Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School

Submitted by Rebekah McKinney on Mon, 2010-07-05 03:11

The Boston Teacher Residency program and DSNI are working to open a new Boston Public Schools (BPS) elementary school on Dudley Street this fall. Pending approval by the state and city, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School will move into the former Emerson School building and will be a centerpiece of the Dudley Village Campus. Because DSNCS will be a BPS “in-district charter school,” its principal will have broad power to implement a re-imagined school structure including an extended day and new ways of grouping students. Following the teaching hospital model, teacher residents will be mentored as educators while they help support students’ learning.