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...Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, which will award a total of $500,000 in grants to neighborhood nonprofit organizations over five years, began accepting its second round of applications this month...
...have no complaint about the role Harvard may have played in its demise. (And, while we appreciate Harvard’s interest in the well-being of the Harvard Square community when choosing its tenants, it would be nice to see the same interest relayed across the river in Allston where the university currently owns a number of properties in anticipation of construction...
After a delay that caused the first application period to occur in April 2009 rather than 2008, the program has resumed its schedule to distribute $100,000 each year to nonprofit organizations until 2012, as part of the $25 million in benefits that Harvard agreed to give the Allston community in order to proceed with construction of its Allston Science Complex...
Paul Berkeley, who is a member of the mayor-appointed group, said that he thought the grant program’s initial round had been successful. He added that in this second round, the Fund would again target groups that deliver services or programs benefiting the North Allston-Brighton community—the area most impacted by Harvard’s institutional expansion...
...It’s easy to point to Harvard and say give more land, but maybe the Community Builders should try to develop this land in a different way,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association. “There’s no one person that holds...