Word: abcd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Community Action Program (ABCD) will be eliminated, and with it a decentralized mechanism for community participation in decision making...
Help has now arrived with the intervention of Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), a city-wide agency that has replaced Tufts as the administrator of federal funds for the center. The group is heavily staffed with blacks and is determined to rally Columbia Point residents in support of the clinic. ABCD is trying to enforce some of the efficiency measures started by Bennet-Alder but is imposing them gradually. It has also hired a black as acting administrator and persuaded the remaining staffers to stay for a while. The agency, says ABCD Director Bob Coard, "is not about...
...Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) has taken ambitious steps to ensure that the money does reach the needy. As the local administrative arm of the federal anti-poverty program, the group has heeded an Office of Economic Opportunity mandate calling for "maximum feasible participation" of the poor. Starting in 1965, ABCD established Area Planning Action Councils (APACs) in eleven of the city's low-income neighborhoods...