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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...
...knowledge that in the last nine years Boston has been losing white population at an extremely rapid rate while the nonwhite population has been rising. Is it honest then to use 1960 figures? Do they respond that no more recent data are available? Two phone calls this afternoon, to ABCD and the Cambridge Community Development Office, ascertained that in fact some pretty current figures are available. A 1968 Boston census indicates that the city's population (apart from those living in group quarters: hospitals, dormitories, prisons, etc.. who amount to 35-40,000) is 535,000-a precipitous drop...
Kinnard said that the workers would come from both Cambridge and Boston. Recruiting will be done through agencies already established, like ABCD and the Workers' Defense League...
...RESULT of the interest last fall, the COC, and Cornelius May in particular, have tried to explore new means of improving employment at the Coop. "Besides ABCD, we have been working with a number of tenants associations and merchants in Roxbury and Cambridge in an effort to provide additional employment opportunities, "May said. We've pulled in a number of people from Roxbury in an attempt to set up some sort of self-replenishing feeder organization to supply the Coop with a steady stream of employees...