history.
vision.
values.
Mission
VISION
Lena Park’s mission for the 21st century is to provide integrated programs, services and access to resources that will help youth and families in the Lena Park catchment area build healthy lives, healthy families, and a healthy community.
Furthermore, Lena Park’s vision for its community is one in which youth have supports to achieve academic success that enables them to complete college and/or a career oriented job; youth and families have access to activities and recreation that provide alternatives to violence and that build positive youth development assets; and families have access to community, private and government resources and services that they can use to strengthen their families.
VALUES
We hold these core values in our own work and promote them during our interaction with the community and our constituencies. They represent what we believe in, what we do, what we stand for, and how we approach our services to the community:
Innovation and Hope
Integrity and Accountability
Outstanding Service
Responsible Stewardship
Sustainability
History
Lena Park Community Development Center (LPCDC) was founded in 1968 by community residents concerned with affordable housing needs and youth development. The organization is a SOMWBA certified and we received our IRS 501(c) 3 not-for-profit status in 1973. Over the decades, LPCDC has impacted thousands of children, youth, and families as a key service provider of quality affordable housing and effective human services.
In 2009, after years of service to the community through access to affordable housing, services for the disabled and workforce development programs, LPCDC’s Board determined that it was best to temporarily suspend its social service programming and focus solely on affordable housing while they reassessed the organization’s programs and mission for the 21st Century. LPCDC identified unique services needed for the community through a comprehensive community assessment and planning process led by an external consulting company. This assessment was completed in 2013 and guided the organization to its reopening on April 30, 2015. As part of the reorganization, LPCDC sold half of its building (12,000 sq. ft) and completed a $1.4 million capital campaign to renovate the other half of the building (10,000 sq ft.). This was a strategic decision that has led to financial solvency and ensures a better resourced and environmentally friendly physical plant through which a comprehensive set of social services are now available to children and families.
In 2013, Lena Park also partnered with New Boston Fund, Inc. – a private equity real estate firm – and financed a project with the Massachusetts Housing Partnership for the development of affordable rental housing developments on Olmsted Green. Olmsted Green is one of the city’s largest non-institutional developments to come online over the past decade. The project investment was $95 million and created 600 jobs, with 59 percent participation from local, minority and women craftsmen.
Today, Lena Park is both a community development corporation and a thriving and diverse community of children and families who have access to the tools and supports needed for a vibrant future.
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