Copies of the DVD are available for a $50 contribution to its community improvement projects.
Miss Cats works with elementary school children and on community improvement projects in the Hyde Park section of Boston.
"I see fewer bars on windows," said Jan Mattimoe, a middle-school teacher who helps organize a community improvement project.
"Furthermore, HUD officials shouldn't be holding hostage grant monies aimed at community improvement based on its unrealistic utopian ideas of what every community should resemble".
The Heart of the City Farmers' Market, founded in 1981 by Quakers as a community improvement project, draws 30 farmers and food makers.
As Mr. McIntyre wondered, can it be called community improvement if, amid gentrification, the schools and hospitals on which longtime lower-income residents depend continue to decline?
They double as neighbourhood organisations that run community improvement projects but can also act as vigilante groups that intimidate political opponents.
The trick for other companies getting ready to wade into the waters of community improvement is to choose areas where they can have an impact without courting controversy.
Monsanto and Solutia, which was spun out off the company in 1997, will pay the damages and fund community improvement programmes to settle the state and federal cases.
New York City's neighborhood groups have been coming together for a few centuries now to carry out community improvement projects that address any kind of quality-of-life issue.
The Washington Post did a story the other day about the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, which runs a contest for middle school students who have ideas about community improvement.
