Center for Social Policy

at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Evaluation of Comprehensive Community Change CSP is The Boston Foundation's Strategic Evaluation and Analytical Partner of the Fairmount Initiative, a comprehensive ”people and place” program being implemented in a distressed area of the city of Boston known as the Fairmount Corridor.
Community & Jobs CSP explores employment outcomes for workers by connecting workers and employers with the social mission of helping marginalized job seekers find and retain better jobs thereby impacting their communities.
Housing CSP takes a critical look at the structural causes for low wages, barriers to housing affordability, the unequal distribution of resources and the impact they have on families, communities and society as a whole.
Poverty in Massachusetts CSP researchers have created eight one-page fact sheets on poverty in Massachusetts using the recently released Census Data

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Our Partners

The center consistently forms and draws upon its partnerships internally within the university and externally with public and private organizations

Project Hope »

CSP works inclusively with our community partners
Strategic Evaluation »

CSP generates solid evidence used by decision-makers to impact change in poverty policy
Reshaping Poverty Policy Conference »

CSP gathered diverse stakeholders to launch its Reshaping Poverty Policy Agenda.

CSP/ScholarWorks

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The Center for Social Policy is affiliated with the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies.

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