Pictured above: Frank and the Newton Crime Commission recognizing Kayla Torres for her efforts to help small children, who are often the unseen victims of domestic violence.  Seeing this as an opportunity to also encourage understanding between races, he offered a poem for her "Teddy Bear Campaign". From that poem, quoted by Frank, "Whether they are the same or different, it doesn't matter as such, Because whichever kind we have, we love it very much!"

Newton Community Experience - Volunteering in Newton for Many Years

Being a voice for community policing and safe streets would also not be new for Frank Wolpe since he currently serves as a Commissioner on the City of Newton / Crime Prevention Commission, with tenure of over 14 years, (6 years as the Chair) and an advisory member of the Newton Human Rights Commission.

Frank has successfully worked on the following local projects.   

• Leading the Newton Crime Commission for six years helping work with police and residents to keep our city safe for all
• Moderating two debates at the Newton Women’s Club: (1) on Prison Reform (with AG Maura Healey versus her election opponent: and (2) on Gun Control with equal time for speakers on both sides.
  
• Co-sponsoring  the RAD program (viz. Rape Aggression Defense) as a life-saving system for our high school younger women and older women too;
  
• Co-sponsoring programs on Teen Dating Violence, which at the time had been an unspoken dilemma;
  
• Offering Seniors at the JCC an instructional program delivered by the Middlesex County Sheriff, Peter Koutoujian, about elder fraud and scams;
  
• Establishing  a new kind of neighborhood watch system in Nonantum village (Sterns Park); 
  
• Recommending a danger alert system, called NIXLE, eventually adopted by the NPD  / free-of-charge  to residents; and
  
• Participating in a wonderful NSHS Restorative Justice program, which ended as an inspiring story and lesson about how both sides can rebound from a horrible racial incident; and
• Working for our youngsters, most recently nominated for membership on the Board of Directors of Newton’s John Barry Boys and Girls Club.

Frank has also served to assist the campaigns of many Democratic candidates for statewide and federal office. Frank is a member of the Newton Democratic City Committee's executive board and a dedicated member of the Ward 8 Democratic Committee. 

Other non-City posts of local responsibility have included chair of the Audit Committee for nearby Waltham Hospital, later merged into other hospital facilities; and chair of the Audit Committee for the Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank, later merged into Mutual Bank of Newton and downtown Boston.