We envision a community where neighbors co-exist, support, and encourage each other to create a more just, sustainable, and abundant community that allows our families to prosper and attain the highest possible quality of life.

NUBE has had a deep commitment to developing a one-to-one intentional relationship that can deepen our daily neighbor-to-neighbor interaction. This is important to build on our shared values and create a welcoming, abundant, and just community. We never imagined that 30 Local Neighbors' Vision in 2008 could co-create, community-oriented programming, events, and the training that today we have engaged over 400 neighbors and educated over 1,000 voters in the civic engagement process.

For a Better East Boston we need abundant leadership

NUBE

Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE), is a multi-ethnic, member-led organization officially formed in 2008. NUBE emerged as an idea in 2006 by a diverse group of East Boston residents with the strong belief in the power of organizing and shifting political power through civic engagement.

It all started in a neighbor’s living room on Everett St.

NUBE believes that abundant leaders, who live our values and intentionally engage in social, economic, and political life, will help create alternative systems and structures that promote social transformation. Through trainings, actions, and building an abundant community, NUBE has faith that we are the change we want to see in the world. Our vehicle to build community and civic engagement is to expand our organizing, education, and leadership development programming to as many neighbors as possible. We want abundant leaders across our island practicing and sharing our values in their daily interactions. For the past decade, we have been faced with many successes, challenges, and inspirations that have allowed us to deepen our commitment to social justice movements, our community, and to each other.

Since its conception, NUBE has been working with a diverse cadre of leaders to build a direct-action grassroots organization. In 2007, NUBE’s members engaged for the first time in local politics through a grassroots campaign to elect the district’s first Latina who ran for office. One of the most critical aspects of the campaign’s accomplishment was the creation of a diverse core group of residents who had built trust with each other, gained concrete skills in electoral organizing, and developed a common understanding of the challenges and possibilities facing their community.

“No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves.” Ojibwa Proverb

Gratitude to our Funders & Supporters: Our work could not be possible without community, citywide and statewide gracious supporters and partners. We are a fiscally sponsored project of Ayni Institute.

Our work is supported by individuals like yourself who believe in our impact and our theory of change, thank you to our individual donors who support the sustainability of our work. If you are not yet an individual sustainer and believer, consider joining and becoming part of the creation of an abundant community. In addition, we are grateful to the following funders that have supported our work throughout the years: We are proud to work with (use links and logos for current supporters)

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