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Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Hibernian Hall Ballroom, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA

Join us for SPARKS! 2025 – Madison Park Development Corporation’s annual creative black tie fundraising gala. Join us for a futuristic fete filled with food, dancing, live performances, and community awards, all in celebration of MPDC’s impact and work in Roxbury.

Dress to impress with your most creative black tie look and support MPDC’s mission to build a stronger, more vibrant community.

For more info on the event or sponsorships, contact
Meghan Higgins, Resource Development Director
mhiggins@madison-park.org | 617.849.6254

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Here’s what we’ve achieved together this year:
Youth Empowerment: Over 150 youth earned nearly $600,000 in stipends, creating brighter futures.
30 earned valuable credentials like ServSafe certification.
16 participants secured permanent employment.
6 young adults completed their HiSET credential!

Educational Support: $57,000 in scholarships awarded to 18 college students.

Community Engagement: The Dewitt Center served over 1,400 individuals, including 430 youth, through events, food distributions, and year-round programming.

These numbers represent lives changed and futures transformed. Jasmine T., a 23-year-old program participant, beautifully shared:
“MPDC has shaped and emboldened the woman I am today. Every opportunity and inspiring person I met blessed me with the chance to reinvent, reconnect, and reaffirm myself and the importance of community.”

Looking ahead to 2025, we’re thrilled about launching impactful programs like February’s HBCU tour, allowing young people to explore opportunities and discover their potential.

Here’s how YOU can make a difference:
$2,500 funds a life-changing college tour for 4 high school students.
$1,000 provides a month of employment stipends for youth in our workforce program.
$500 delivers 300 pounds of fresh produce to 85 older adults.
$250 offers 8 MPDC residents access to first-time homebuyer classes.

Every gift changes lives and builds stronger communities.

Donate today to help us continue this critical work. Contributions of $1,000 or more qualify for the Massachusetts Community Investment Tax Credit, offering a 50% rebate!

https://www.madison-park.org/make-an-impact/give/

Together, we can ensure that everyone we serve not only survives but thrives. Thank you for believing in the power of community.

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Sparks!

A starry night in Nubian Square

MPDC’s Annual Fundraising Gala

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Hibernian Hall Ballroom

184 Dudley Street

Roxbury, MA 02119

Tickets are on sale NOW! Purchase Tickets here.

See our 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities here.

Become a sponsor here.

Madison Park Development Corporation welcomes you to a festive, creative black-tie (*OPTIONAL*) gala at historic Hibernian Hall! Enjoy an evening of building community through meaningful awards, exciting performances, a delicious dinner, locally made beverages, and, of course, dancing!

**Please wear WHATEVER you’d like!**

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Thursday, May 30th, 2024

5:30 PM – Networking and refreshments

6:30 PM – Data presentation and panel discussion

REGISTER HERE – FREE

An evening of networking, snacks from local food businesses, a compelling presentation on data regarding racial wealth gaps in Boston and beyond, and an engaging panel with local change makers followed by audience Q & A.

First 50 registrants will receive a free copy of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar upon its release on June 18th, 2024!

Limited space capacity – register today!

About the book

Fifteen Cents on the Dollar

How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap

By Louise Story, Ebony Reed

A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system through public and private actions that created today’s Black-white wealth gap.

The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial gaps that remain between white and Black Americans. This deeply investigated book follows the lives of seven Black Americans of different economic levels, ages and professions during the three years following this period of racial reckoning.

Drawing on intimate interviews with these individuals—three of whom are well known and four of whom most readers will learn about for the first time in the book—the authors bring data, research and history to life. Fifteen Cents on the Dollar shows the scores of set-backs that have held the Black-white wealth gap in place—from enslavement to redlining to banking discrimination—and ultimately, the set-backs that occurred in the mid-2020s as the push for racial equity became a polarized political debate.

Fifteen Cents on the Dollar is a comprehensive, deeply human look at Black-white wealth-gap history, told through the lives Black Americans as well as through the development of a new bank intended to help close the Black-white wealth gap. Seasoned journalist-academics Louise Story and Ebony Reed provide crucial insights on American economic equity, Black business ownership, and political and business practices that leave Black Americans behind. In chronicling how these staggering injustices came to be, they show how and why so little progress on the wealth gap has been made and provide insights Americans should consider if they want lasting change.

Visit www.15cents.info for more information on the book. Louise and Ebony jointly teach an MBA class on racial wealth gaps at The Yale School of Management.

About the authors/moderators

Louise and Ebony jointly teach an MBA class on racial wealth gaps at The Yale School of Management.

Louise Story

Louise is a prize-winning investigative journalist who spent more than 15 years at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, where she was the top masthead editor running coverage strategy. Her work investigating corruption led to the largest kleptocracy forfeiture in U.S. history, a scandal known as the 1MDB case. Her work during the 2008 financial crisis led to a multi-billion dollar settlement in the derivative market and to Goldman Sachs’s S.E.C. settlement. Projects she led have received honors including Emmy Awards, Pulitzer Prize finalist citations, and Online News Association awards. Louise’s film “The Kleptocrats” aired on the BBC, Apple and Amazon. She teaches about racial wealth gaps at The Yale School of Management.

Ebony Reed

Ebony began her career as a reporter at The Plain Dealer, covering Cleveland public schools, documenting public education’s inequities, with her work recognized by The Investigative Reporters & Editors organization. At the Detroit News, she managed the local coverage during the 2008 economic crisis. Now the Chief Strategy Officer at The Marshall Project, she has held other senior roles at the Associated Press, Boston Business Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. She’s taught at more than a half dozen institutions, including The Yale

School of Management, where she co-teaches with Louise.

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