We envision a community where neighbors co-exist, support, and encourage each other to create a more just, sustainable, and abundant community that allows our families to prosper and attain the highest possible quality of life.

Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE), is a multi-ethnic, member-led organization officially formed in 2008. NUBE emerged as an idea in 2006 by a diverse group of East Boston residents with the strong belief in the power of organizing and shifting political power through civic engagement. 

For the past decade NUBE has been through many successes and transitions. Today we have emerged as an organization that develops abundant leaders who support social transformation and shifting political power. Our leaders organize and advocate for inclusive democratic processes and just public policies to create a vibrant economy and environment for all East Boston.

• An Abundant Leader has an open-mind and heart, practicing our values, putting them into action, and believing that our strength comes from the community and that the “gifts” we share are the solutions to the problems we face.

Our work is guided by the deep commitment to developing a more just, understanding, and sustainable neighborhood. We manifest this through learning, teaching, and practicing the following core values of welcome, justice and abundance:

• Welcome: We welcome our neighbors to create social change that is grounded in love, a force to take action against social injustices. We encourage our neighbors to act as an inspiration to build an abundant community.  

• Justice: We lead with our hearts to ensure that the public institutions serving East Boston honor all our neighbors, especially those most marginalized. We encourage and support our leaders to be in service of advancing social justice movements.  

• Abundance: We model a unified community where we share our gifts and embrace our struggles so that these are never endured alone. Our culturally diverse space promote a healthy community for present and future generations.

Our belief is that abundant leaders, who live our values and intentionally engage in social, economic, and political life, will help create alternative systems and structures that promote social transformation. Through training, actions, and practicing our values in action will build an abundant community. NUBE has faith that we are the change we want to see in the world! (to learn more–community resource page)