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Urban Edge Celebrates 42 Years of Building Community at the Annual Meeting
Keynote Speaker is former NHL player Graeme Townshend
WHAT: The 42nd Annual Meeting of Urban Edge will bring together members of the community to support the organization’s commitment to providing the area with a permanent recreation facility. Urban Edge recently launched a capital campaign to build the Jackson Square Recreation Center in the Jackson Square neighborhood of Boston. The center will combine athletics and academics to allow Boston’s youth and families learn, grow and succeed. The two-floor, year round, indoor center will feature a regulation-sized ice rink, turf field and supportive academic services for young people and their families.
WHO: Keynote Speaker: Graeme Townshend, former NHL hockey player for Boston Bruins, New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators
Master of Ceremonies:
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Charlie Rose, co-chair of the Jackson Square Recreation Center Capital Campaign Committee and Senior Vice President and Dean, City Year
Jim Geraghty, co-chair of the Jackson Square Recreation Center Capital Campaign Committee and, executive director, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
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Frank Shea, CEO, Urban Edge
Natacha Dunker, Urban Edge Board President
WHEN: Wednesday, April 27, 2016
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
WHERE: Urban Edge
1542 Columbus Ave
Roxbury, MA 02119
For more information click here.
About Urban Edge
For over 40 years, Urban Edge has offered a range of innovative programs that help low and moderate income families in and around Boston become economically resilient, establish homeownership, and access needed community resources. Throughout its history, the organization has developed nearly 1,500 units of affordable housing, making it one of Boston’s largest nonprofit developers of affordable units. Most recently, the agency has been a prime mover in the redevelopment of the Jackson Square neighborhood, creating new affordable housing and commercial space along eight acres of land that border Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. For more information on Urban Edge, visit http://www.urbanedge.org.