Boston Charities Hope to Copy N.Y. Kids’ Program Touted by Obama
May 1, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Boston nonprofit leaders are hoping to copy a successful New York education program that President Obama has touted and wants to expand nationally, reports The Boston Globe.
The activists will tour the Harlem Children’s Zone today to start a campaign to make a poverty-stricken Boston corridor one of the sites for the national expansion the president seeks to include in his budget proposal for next year. The decade-old Zone brings together social-service efforts to solve children’s health, nutrition, and well being at home to remove obstacles that impede success at school.
The Harlem project is about 70 percent charity-supported, with state and federal funds supplying the rest. The Obama administration plans to cover about half the cost of bringing the project to 20 other cities.
See an article from The Chronicle’s archive about how Harlem Children’s Zone and other charities sought to influence Mr. Obama on the campaign trail.
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