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The Allston Brighton Health Collaborative is a network of people and organizations working together to improve community health in our neighborhood. Join us!

12/12/2025

Pizza for Produce has ben CANCELLED due to a scheduling conflict with the venue, but we’re still raising funds for Brighton Farmers Market’s 10th season coming up in 2026! See the link in our bio to make a donation—any amount helps.

Big thanks to BMC Brighton, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Franciscan Children’s Hospital, and Senator William Brownsberger for their support!

12/09/2025

The Brighton Farmers Market is turning 10! If you love your samosas, strawberries and salad greens, please contribute today to help ensure that this essential food resources stays open in 2026.

You can give at tinyurl.com/ABHCBFM

AND you can take the pledge to order pizzas on December 16 from

Thank you to our friends .brighton and for your sponsorship!

12/03/2025

We at the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative are calling on you to step up and serve your community. Your task? Eat and order as much pizza as you possibly can. From 4–9:30 PM on December 16th, a portion of proceeds from every flatbread pizza sold at American Flatbread Brighton will go to ABHC. We’ll be using these funds to support Brighton Farmers Market’s upcoming 10th season.

Hanging out at home alone or with friends? Order a pizza. Got room in your freezer? Order a bunch of pizzas. Want to double your impact? Order a pizza for a neighbor in a local English Language program.

Food insecurity is deeply felt in Allston-Brighton and ongoing threats to SNAP funding have made things all the more urgent. The Brighton Farmers Market is one of the only sources of affordable, local produce in our neighborhood. By simply ordering a delicious pizza (or several) from American Flatbread, you can help ensure this important food access remains.

11/24/2025

We are hiring our next Director!

The Director provides strategic, financial, and fundraising leadership and operational oversight to ensure ABHC’s mission, programs, and partnerships thrive. This role stewards the collaborative’s strategic growth, leads organizational culture development, and sustains strong relationships across the community, city, and state networks.

The Director works closely with staff, the Steering Committee, and the fiscal sponsor to align financial, operational, and programmatic goals with ABHC’s long-term vision and equity commitments.

Salary Range: $97,760 – $109,764 annualized equivalent, commensurate with demonstrated experience.

Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, life/disability insurance, 401K match, 3 weeks paid vacation (increasing to 4 weeks after two years), compensated professional development opportunities, and flexible hybrid work schedule and environment.

Check out this and other job openings in our network at the link in our bio!

11/19/2025

Hey ! Live near the Pike?
Join our air pollution study!

Air pollution is a major risk factor for public health. We’re collecting data about air quality conditions near the Mass Pike (I-90) highway so that we can learn, as a community, how to reduce the harms of air pollution in our own lives and advocate for cleaner air in our neighborhood.

By joining you will:
Contribute to public air quality data

Learn how to interpret air quality data to asses conditions in your own home

Learn how to mitigate the effects of air pollution on your health and your family’s health

Receive an indoor air quality sensor and air purifier to keep after the study

sign up at the link in our bio!

11/14/2025

Response to BU College Republican alleged action
As members of the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative, we are outraged by the cowardly, uninformed and blatantly racist action that BU student Zac Segal said he took to report on local hard working people, ripping families apart and harming an entire community in the process. Our network of organizations, residents, advocates, and elected officials work every day to keep our neighborhood safe and healthy, which means supporting each other regardless of where we were born. Anyone who threatens that is not welcome in our community. We want to be clear that our commitment to each other is stronger than any attempt to divide us. We have a message for anyone who reports on their neighbors and forces people to live in fear: you do not scare us and you will not stop us. We will continue to stand together, support one another and every member of our community with dignity and respect.

11/07/2025

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Allston-Brighton shows up! Last night’s Harvest Fest was a blast. We hosted over 100 folks at the Congregational Church, and received about 5 times as many food donations as we have during past food drives. These donations are going to help close the SNAP gap for a lot of our neighbors during this acute food insecurity crisis.

Thanks to the Allston Brighton food pantry for distributing this food. And thanks to all of you for sharing your warmth, your time, and your food donations.

10/31/2025

A Message from ABHC's Director:

Dear ABHC members and friends,

In June 2014, I joined this brand new neighborhood health collaborative as the first hire.

Over 11 years, we have built a network of hundreds of people and dozens of organizations who work towards a healthier Allston Brighton every day. I am deeply proud and honored that I have been able to lead ABHC over the past decade, and I am ready to pass the baton to a new Director. In December, I’ll be leaving ABHC in the dedicated hands of our team and Steering Committee. Over the next four months, ABHC’s Steering Committee will lead a search for the organization’s next Director. You can find more information about the position HERE. We hope you will share it widely!

I was welcomed into this community by so many of you, and still more of you have continued to support me over the years. Together, we launched Brighton’s first farmers market in 2016, we secured Allston’s first dedicated bus lane in 2019, we made over 2,000 food deliveries through Covid, and about a hundred other milestones along the way. We have built the neighborhood infrastructure that keeps us all better connected and working together. This is the right moment for me to make room for new leadership and growth.

ABHC is so much stronger because of our members, partners and funders, and because of the brilliant and passionate team who will lead it forward. I am so proud to work with Jessi, Jonathan, Nikhil, Elaine and Bianca. Whoever joins their team as the next Director will strike it rich with a group of people this talented and fun to work with.

Thank you for being a part of our network, and please come say hello at our Fall Food Harvest Fest next Thursday!

Anna Leslie
Director, Allston Brighton Health Collaborative

10/15/2025

Dental screenings at Brighton Farmers Market this season from Franciscan Children's! No better place to connect with community partners than BFM!

09/23/2025

Big big weekend coming up for A-B. Strap in and get ready to get out and about!

07/30/2025

The Planning Department is looking at 10 “Focus Areas” in Allston-Brighton to work through important zoning questions for the Allston-Brighton Community Plan (ABCP). The ABCP is re-zoning effort that’ll determine what can be built and where in our neighborhood for decades to come. Here, you can take a look at three of those areas: Oak Square, the IHOP Triangle, and Allston Village.

The team is already incorporating feedback from the July 14 Open House—but they need to hear from as many voices as possible.

If you didn’t get a chance to weigh in at the Open House, take their survey now! go to bit.ly/ab-focus or find the link in our bio. You’re welcome to skip any number of focus areas and just answer questions about the ones you know best.

It’s available in Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and English, and closes on August 1st

Thank you!

07/29/2025

Whether you’re looking fresh produce, live music, healthcare fairs, or multigenerational mixers, Allston Brighton has it all—and that’s just in these next 2 weeks! Hope to see you out and about 😎

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