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Viewpoint: Can Boston’s inner city be the next Innovation District? Mark Culliton is CEO of College Bound Dorchester, a Boston-based nonprofit organization. By Mark Culliton  – CEO, College Bound Dorchester Mar 19, 2018, 11:07am EDT Updated a day ago   What is innovation? It’s change, and we have created great change in Boston, yet

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August 22, 2017 Updated August 22, 2017 4:32 PM  PM By Fred Thys Mark Culliton has some big ambitions. He would like to end gang-related violence in the United States. For now, his mission has kicked off in Boston, or more specifically, Boston’s most-populous neighborhood: Dorchester. There, Culliton targets gang members he

By Valerie Strauss August 26 Who would pay former gang members to help them go to college? A program in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, is doing just that — and for some of its students, it seems to be working. The nonprofit organization College Bound Dorchester — which works to help at-risk prepare

Matt Jackson, 34, recently wrapped up his first full semester at Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts. He hopes to have an associate degree by 2019 and eventually add bachelor’s and master’s degrees to his collection. Jackson got his GED while he was in prison in 2004, two years before

A Boston non-profit is paying gang members in the city’s poorest, most dangerous neighbourhoods to earn their high school equivalency and go to college. In the three-year pilot, College Bound Dorchester plans to keep gang members and ex-offenders on the straight and narrow by offering them a $400 weekly incentive.