Higher Ground Boston

Boston’s Higher Ground, Inc. (“Higher Ground”) is a nonprofit organization that works with residents and partners to achieve excellent outcomes in education and promote health and well-being of children and families in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. We offer a different approach – a collaborative, “collective impact” model focused on mobilizing community voices to advance equity in the areas of housing, education, health and community capacity. Higher Ground recently completed its 12^th year of operation and has served more than 1,300 students in its partner public schools, has helped place families of 425 homeless students into homes, collaborated with more than 65 partners to increase impacts on the well-being of children and families; and has organized parents into an increasingly strong coalition to shift power and disrupt chronic social issues rooted in unresolved inequity.