who we support
Life is Good Kids Foundation
Boston, MA
mission…
The Life is Good Kids Foundation is dedicated to helping children overcome life-threatening challenges such as violence, poverty and severe illness. Leading this charge with the Life is Good Kids Foundation are thousands of teachers, counselors, social workers and healthcare professionals who have dedicated their lives to healing and strenghtening children. They call these amazing men and women, **BOLD STARTS** Playmakers.**BOLD ENDS** By
providing play-based training, support, and resources to these frontline community heroes, the Life is Good Kids Foundation is helping children reach their full, joyful potential. …read more
More Than Words
Waltham, MA
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More Than Words empowers youth who are in the foster care system, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. The youth work as a team to manage their online book business, cafe and community space. They drive all facets of the business. In addition, they receive intensive case management and support developing action plans for their transition to meaningful jobs and further education. More Than Words provides ongoing support for the youth in the community after their employment at the store in order to ensure their successful transition to self-sufficiency in adulthood. A Step Up raised over $3,000 to help the youth at More Than Words reach their goals as they prepare for adulthood. In addition, many of our guests held book drives to collect books to donate to the bookstore. Hundreds of books have been collected and donated and our guests continue to support this important organization.
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Reach
Waltham, MA
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Reach is committed to creating healthy communities by ending domestic violence. Their mission is to advance the safety, healing, and empowerment of those who experience domestic or relationship violence, through direct services and education while promoting social justice for individuals and families of all backgrounds. Reach works to end domestic violence through community education and early intervention, They provide adults and their children with the sanctuary and support services necessary to empower their realization of permanent safety, financial independence and well-being. Additionally, Reach provides extensive preventive education to the community, particularly teens, to break the cycle of domestic violence and reduce the long-term harms associated with domestic violence.
Reach serves an average of 6,000 adults and children every year through shelter, hot line and community based programs. Their education and prevention programming – including training for volunteers and others- reaches thousands of student and community members each year.
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School on Wheels
Brockton, MA
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The mission of School of Wheels (SOW) is to educate children impacted by homelessness by providing academic support and one-on-one mentoring so they can reach their full potential. Since starting in 2003, School on Wheels has distributed over 2,300 new backpacks and provided customized tutoring and support to over 900 children living in shelters, hotels or unstable housing. This past year SOW began a High School Plus program and enrolled 10 students in college. Learn more at ww.sowma.org
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Silbling Connections: Sibling Sundays and Camp To Belong
Marblehead, MA
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Sibling Connections is a year-round sibling connection initiative designed to bring sisters and brothers together who have been separated when placed in foster care and create joyous shared memories building life long sibling relationships.
The primary mission of Sibling Connections is to create enduring relationships for sisters and brothers who experience foster care through innovative programs and practices. …read more
Strong Women Strong Girls
Boston, MA
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The founder and President of SWSG Lindsay Hyde, will join us to talk about how Strong Women Strong Girls is supporting the empowerment of nearly 1,000 girls in the Boston area and engaging 220 college women as volunteer mentors.
The mission of Strong Women, Strong Girls is to utilize the lesson learned from strong women throughout historic to help girls and young women to become strong women themselves. By building communities of women committed to supporting positive social change, Strong Women, Strong Girls works to create cycles of mutual empowerment for women and girls.
To achieve this mission, Strong Women, Strong Girls fosters high aspirations among diverse, low-income elementary school girls in grades 3-4 and helps them to develop the skills they need for life-long success. SWSG is designed as a group mentoring program that engages small groups of 10-12 girls with a team 2-3 college undergraduate women who serve as volunteer mentors. These college mentors lead the girls in an innovative after school model that includes the study of contemporary and historical female role models, research-based learning activities, community service projects, and horizon-broadening field trips.
In addition to supporting the development of the elementary school girls, Strong Women, Strong Girls also fosters the development of the college undergraduate women who serve as volunteer mentors. Recognizing the potential of these motivated and passionate young women to be social change agents, Strong Women, Strong Girls provides them with the skills and experiences to be great mentors for girls now, as well as to be life-long advocates for positive change in their communities.
Strong Women, Strong Girls was founded in 2000 by Lindsay Hyde as a student group at Harvard University. Since that time, requests from parents, teachers, and principals have drive the program’s rapid growth. In the 2009-2010 program year, Strong Women, Strong Girls served nearly 1,000 girls and engaged 220 college undergraduate women as volunteer mentors!
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The Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
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The Treehouse Foundation’s primary mission is to provide children in the public foster care system with enduring family relationship and supportive community connections by implementing innovative programs and practices.
In 2006, the Treehouse Foundation opened the first Treehouse Community – a planned multi-generational neighborhood where families adopting children from foster care live with caring neighbors in a vibrant village setting. Over 00 people, ranging in age from 4-90, live on Treehouse Circle. Treehouse community members and on-site staff are co-creating an exciting new paradigm that is answering the question, “Under what conditions do children who have experienced foster care flourish?” This exciting national model is inspiring others across the country to re-envision the way we care for our young people whose lives have been impacted by foster care. …read more
Walker
Needham, MA
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Each year, Walker provides intensive services for hundreds of the most troubled children, yough and families. The Walker network of facilities and professionals provides state-of-the-art special education and world-class mental health services to children and adolescents, ages 3 to 22, in multidisciplinary programs at The Walker School, Beacon High School, and Walker Partnerships. A wide range of Walker support and outreach services extend these specialized therapeutic environments beyond our classrooms into family homes, public schools, and community settings.
Walker’s mission is teaching, caring, and building hope for the most troubled children and youth, their families, and those who serve them. With the help of the dedicated professionals at Walker, seriously troubled children, adolescents, and their struggling families are able to rediscover their strengths, develop new skills, and begin the work of rebuilding their lives.
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Web of Benefit
Wellesley, MA
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Web of Benefit is a not-for-profit organization, created by women affected by domestic violence for women escaping domestic violence, with the purpose of creating Web of Benefit to promote freedom from domestic violence and the personal independence of women, while breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse. …read more
Women of Means
Wellesley, MA
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Women of Means is a 501c3 non-profit of volunteer physicians and staff nurses who provide free medical care to homeless and battered women and their families in shelters around Boston. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Roseanna Means, this women-helping-women model is now the largest volunteer physician program in MA, reaching 2,500 vulnerable women and children annually. Since its inception it has provided over 65,000 free medical visits, thus saving the Boston hospitals millions. …read more