Organizations

e5 provides shared office space for grassroots, service and advocacy organizations.

Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group

One in 3 of us, roughly 2 billion people don't have basic services such as electricity, sanitation and clean drinking water. Access to these services is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty in developing countries. 

The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water.  Through a combination of business incubation, education, and outreach, we help people get technology that will better their health and improve their lives.

Asian American Resource Workshop

The mission of the Asian American Resource Workshop is to work for the empowerment of the Asian Pacific American community to achieve its full participation in the U.S. society. We are a member-based organization that seeks to document the diverse Asian Pacific American histories, experiences, and social conditions. Our resource and activities are used to respond to current Asian Pacific American issues and to promote Asian Pacific American identity.

Chinatown Residents Association

CRA was founded in 1999. Our mission is to advance the quality of life of Chinatown residents and promote community building for Chinatown's future. CRA seeks to promote resident decision-making over the future of Chinatown, to preserve Chinatown as a neighborhood for working families and the elderly, to work for a safe and healthy living environment, and to collaborate with community organizations and businesses to strengthen Chinatown as a social, cultural, political, and economic community.

Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition

The Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition is the continuation of the broad coalition of anti-war, student, and community organizations that came together to build the October 29th march and rally on Boston Common. Contact: info@stopthewars.org

MASS CARE – The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care

Mass-Care’s mission is to establish a single payer health care system in Massachusetts so that all residents of the Commonwealth will have access to comprehensive, quality, affordable and equitable health care because it is basic to life and human dignity. Mass-Care was launched in 1995 as a coalition of Massachusetts organizations sharing a deep concern about the inequities of our health care system.

Massachusetts Global Action

MGA is a statewide membership and network organization that promotes globalization from below. Current projects include Our Communities, Our Water, Jobs and the Economy, and the Campaign for Immigrant Rights.  MGA spearheaded the organizing of the Boston Social Forum, and continues to promote and support the social forum process regionally, nationally and globally. encuentro 5 is a project of MGA.

MLK Jr. Bolivarian Circle of Boston

The Bolivarian Circles in the USA seek to inform the American public of the social revolution going on in Venezuela. We respect the laws of the US and we aim to improve the relations between our two countries. Contact: cbmlkboston@hotmail.com

Student Immigrant Movement

The movement's mission is to build the power of immigrant students by identifying, recruiting, and developing leaders across Massachusetts and the United States to address the problems in their own communities. Their vision is that all immigrant students have equal access to higher education, are not discriminated based on their immigration status and collectively realize their full potential, define their own identity and become fully engaged in every aspect of society that affects their lives.

TecsChange: Technology for Social Change

Beginning in 1992, participants of Computers and Social Change Conference in Boston came together to discuss a common interest in technological use in developing countries. Connecting our computer skills with our desire to support progressive grassroots organizing, we founded TecsChange. Several of the founders of TecsChange (and the inspiration for our name) came from the national organization called TecNica. TecNica recruited technical volunteers to work in Nicaragua, during the Sandinista era. Louis Proyect of New York, who was on the TecNica board of directors, recently digitized a video about TecNica, the organization that in many ways inspired TecsChange.

Women's Institute for Leadership Development

The Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) is an inspirational educational program that provides women with the leadership vision, confidence and skills to become more effective leaders and organizers in the labor movement and workplace in Massachusetts. We welcome rank and file union members, stewards, staff, officers, and women organizing a union or organizing around workplace justice.