From 2015 to 2017 our chapter partnered with Egleston Square Main Streets, a local non-for-profit organization, to improve and revitalize the Egleston Square Peace Garden. Once a vacant lot situated across the street from the Community Youth Center, the park was transformed from an underutilized and unmaintained plot of land into a desirable local amenity. […]

In 2012, our chapter designed and built an ADA ramp for the Congregation Eitz Chayim in Cambridge, MA. Upon hearing about the work Freedom by Design had done on their previous project, congregation member David Eisen offered his synagogue as a potential project. As the congregation of the synagogue has aged, the importance of accessibility […]

In 2010, a Dorchester family was in need of an accessible exit for their son, Samir, who is severely disabled and confined to a wheelchair. The living room on the first floor was transformed into the son’s bedroom for medical emergencies. The existing conditions of the house included a temporary, metal clip-on ramp at the […]