Episcopal City Mission is a faith-based ministry which promotes social and economic justice working through partnerships with congregations, community-based organizations and people within the Diocese of Massachusetts with special emphasis on the urban poor and oppressed.
Building Communities Through Partnership
Partnerships with the Wider Community
June 2, 2011Burgess Urban Fund Grantee – Ex-Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA) – an organization working to create resources and opportunities for those who have paid their debt to society.
Partnerships with the Wider Community
June 2, 2011Our Morville House provides affordable housing and support services to low- and moderate-income elders and people of any age with mobility impairment.
Diocesan-wide Partnerships
June 2, 2011We provide grants for low-income urban youth to attend the Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center.
Public Policy Engagement
June 2, 2011We devote significant efforts to supporting and advocating for systemic change at the community, state and federal level. Recent efforts for Emergency Assistance Reform aim to change the system for homeless families in Massachusetts.
Partnerships with the Wider Community
June 2, 2011We provided a special grant to provide funding and resources to MA Census Equity Fund to increase census participation.
Diocesan-wide Partnerships
June 2, 2011We support the Life Together: The DIOMASS Intern Program, a program of spiritual formation and leadership development focused on mission, with an annual grant as well as pro-bono participation in the program.
Partnerships with Parishes
June 2, 2011We provide grants for Parish-Based Economic Development Programs. Episcopal City Tutoring was born to help students in Hamilton get SAT Prep. The Hamilton program helped fund free SAT Prep for students in Dorchester.
Latest News
- January 12 - Burgess Urban Fund awards 240,000 dollars to 20 grassroots community organizers.
- October 25 - Ryan McDonnell, ED, Boston Faith & Justice Network, a BUF grantee, blogs of travel to India
- October 19 - UMN, a BUF grantee, creates documentary “Can We Talk?”
- June 8 - The 167th ECM Annual Meeting with The Presiding Bishop
- March 4 - Testimony to Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Upcoming Events
- January 21 – Mission Discernment Day in Plymouth – POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW FORECASTED
- March 24 – Mission Discernment Day in Wakefield
- May 19 – Mission Discernment Day in Newton Highlands
- June 12 – ECM Annual Dinner with Keynote Speaker Professor Richard Parker, Harvard Kennedy School
- Sept. 22 – ECM Annual Business Meeting of the Corporation
ECM Mission Day 2011
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