Villa Victoria

This series documents IBA's founding, fundraising activities, public relations, staff activities, retreats and trainings, restructuring with ETC, resident relations, and Villa Victoria's housing regulations. Also documented are the activities of state and local social service agencies with which IBA collaborated, including the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, The Boston Foundation, Casa Myrna Vasquez, Community Jobs Collaborative, Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation, La Alianza Hispana, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, Local Initiatives Support Coalition, and South End Cluster. Also documented are local and national arts organizations with whom IBA collaborated, including the Community Development Corporations Arts Resource Initiative, National Endowment for the Arts, National Theater Task Force, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Records include organizational assessments, correspondence to and from funding sources, historical narratives of IBA written by staff members, statistics and demographics of the South End and Villa Victoria, strategic planning and transition reports, IBA newsletters, resident handbooks, diversity and fundraising committee minutes, and management team meeting minutes. Of special interest are the records documenting the restructuring of IBA and ETC (Box 6); newspaper clippings documenting the history of Villa Victoria (Box 7); IBA's Five-Year Report (Box 6); the article "Villa Victoria, Boston" for its in-depth discussion of IBA's beginning, how Villa Victoria was designed, and the history of the Areyto program (Box 6); Voz De Lucha (Box 8) newsletter; IBA's fundraising history, sources, and strategies (Boxes 4-6); the Pie in the Sky Company (Box 7); and the South End / Lower Roxbury Development Illustrative Site Plan (FF6 / D1).