• Community Cultural Center – This historic landmark can continue to fuse the surrounding areas together, much like it did as a church!!! Build community unity.
• The goal is to provide a safe, accessible community space for activities and programs that meet community needs; strengthening and uniting the community by brining together its diverse elements; and raising conscious awareness through public education, art and to promote the full inclusion of all persons - multiethnic and multicultural.
• The Center would be a venue for classes, dramatic performances, celebrations, community meetings, cultural, political, social activities and cultural events.
• The Center could provide much needed office space to a wide variety of nonprofit cultural, educational and community-based organizations.
• Senior Center/Senior Programming: Daily lunch, Monthly dinners, Computer and Yoga classes, Advice (free help with anything from navigating the Social Security System to doctors’ appointments, and referrals for almost any problem or activity).
• Forming a 501-c3 non-profit organization

• Adult/Community Learning Center

• The purpose of the Adult Learning Center is to provide for the literacy needs of adults in the community. Literacy is defined as the individual's ability to apply reading, writing, and computational skills to a career and to everyday life, promoting the attitude for lifelong learning.

• Learn basic computer literacy;
• Improve language, writing, and math skills;
• Prepare for further training in Technical College or University;
• Earn a promotion in a current job;
• English as a Second Language instruction and materials;
• Referrals to other educational and vocational programs;
• Preparation for written Driver's License examination;
• Preparation for US Citizenship tests.

• Community Museum – Legacy of Cambridge Industries, Businesses and People
• Immigrants across the years and their legacy on the community.
• A focal point for many Cambridge artifacts spread throughout Cambridge buildings, underutilized with minimal access to the public.
• A venue for citizens to donate memorabilia about Cambridge.
• A place for schools to visit, be proud and be inspired.
• Likely supported by the industrial, business and social trades, and educational institutions currently located in Cambridge, the latest in Cambridge ingenuity reinventing itself. They constitute the state of the art in the field they operate: Nanotechnology; Robotics; Wireless Technologies; Biotechnology; Clean and Efficient Energy; Recycling Technologies; Studies and Trend Setting Organizations; Political, Economic and Sociological Organizations, and Education.
• Forming a 501-c3 non-profit organization.

• Child Day-Care Center (NOT Teen Center)
• Obtaining affordable, quality child day care, especially for children under age 5, is a major concern for many parents. With the increasing number of households in which both parents work full time, this industry has been one of the fastest growing in the U.S. economy. It is widely recognized that the unavailability of child care is a barrier to the employment of many parents, especially qualified women, and that the cost of the benefits is offset by increased employee morale and reduced absenteeism.
• The rising demand for child day care services reflects in part demographic trends. Over the 2004-14 period, the number of children under age 5 is expected to increase at a faster rate than in previous years. In addition, the labor force participation rate of women of childbearing age also is expected to increase, though only slightly. This increase likely will cause more households to have both parents working full time, increasing the demand for some form of child care arrangement. ( www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs032.htm ) .
• In addition, subsidies for children from low-income families attending child day care programs will result in more children being served in centers. Legislation requiring more welfare recipients to work also could contribute to demand for child day care services.
• East Cambridge has a lot of affordable housing and city leaders are promoting families for those units. This puts an acute need for affordable child day-care services to enable the parents to become wage earners and have better quality of life.
  

• Affordable Senior Assisted Living Center (ASALC)– Keep our seniors in Cambridge
• A nonprofit assisted living facility in East Cambridge with the unique concept of providing residential care that is affordable to all.
• An ASALC encourages a lifestyle that is the ideal alternative to the isolation and challenges of living alone in ones own home, or lack of privacy in larger retirement facilities, or a premature placement in a nursing home.
• An assisted living residence is a special combination of housing and personalized care designed to permit frail elderly individuals requiring help with activities of daily living to "age in place" in a home-like setting. Care is provided 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, in a way that promotes maximum independence and dignity for each resident and involves the resident's family, neighbors, and friends.
• The City must be committed to keeping the facility affordable so that low-income elders do not have to choose between living alone unsafely and being prematurely placed in a nursing home because they cannot afford assisted living. This commitment to do the very best to keep costs down would involve participation in programs that subsidize the cost for lower income elders. These programs are based on income and assets; the room and board rate is based on a percentage of income.

• Group Adult Foster Care Program - In Massachusetts, Medicaid's Group Adult Foster Care program (GAFC) will cover some of the cost of assisted living services for financially and clinically eligible individuals. The GAFC program provides reimbursement to the center for providing you with personal care services on a daily basis. This amount - when combined with Supplemental Security Income for Assisted Living (SSI-G) - will cover the full cost of your room, board and personal care, and will leave you with approximately $127 per month for your personal expenses, shopping and activities.

• Supplemental Security Income for Assisted Living - Supplemental Security Income for Assisted Living (SSI-G) is a joint federal and state program intended to guarantee elders a minimum income, regardless of contributions to the Social Security system and resulting benefits. SSI-G supplements an individual's monthly income to assure that they can afford the room and board portion of assisted living costs.

• The former church building is a small enough facility to maintain quality individualized personal care and assure ones privacy and independence; meanwhile, it is large enough to offer friendship and social interaction when one wants companionship.

• School Admin Building – The City needs it.