Mission and Vision

Since nonprofit community centers use positive organizational relationships to encourage their staff, clients, and volunteers to come together and create real change, Archventures seeks to facilitate this process through three main objectives: community building, creating productive work environments, and green design.

Community Building Productive & Healthy Work Environments Green Design
  • Utilize construction as a means to the nonprofit's self-empowerment
  • Re-create a nonprofit's physical environment to enhance its mission
  • Provide green design-build services to organizations
  • Open limes of communication between local nonprofits to form coalitions
  • Eliminate health hazards which plague financially limited nonprofits
  • Allow nonprofits to re-envision their space to enable their long-term existence
  • Collaborate with builders, nonprofits, and volunteers to accomplish short-term goals and propose long-term solutions in the neighborhood
  • Maximize the capacity of an organization to handle the community's needs
  • Advocate green energy and energy-saving alternatives as a way to cut costs
Kai at the Hawthorne Shed Project

Goals

Each of these objectives is important in its own fashion. Archventures supports community building since individual empowerment comes from an individual's background within a cultured and thriving community. When communities are strengthened, all benefit. Additionally, a lot of nonprofits simply do not have the funding to repair or improve their work environments. Volunteers work in environments which can be falling apart, inadequately lit, or simply poorly designed. All projects which Archventures works on are improved from an environmentally friendly aspect, from using green insulation to installing a more efficient lighting-grid. In all of our projects, Archventures:

  • Grants donors the opportunity to make concrete changes in the heart of Boston
  • Challenges nonprofits to seek innovative solutions to overcome their current conditions
  • Develops coalitions amongst neighbors, organizations and local nonprofits
  • Creates a rich, hands-on learning environment for students and volunteers
  • Challenges the creative potential of Boston's architects and builders
  • Offers a new avenue in Boston to civic participation and public service