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City Service Projects for 2005

Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education - Connie Nelson, VP
46 Wyman Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
617.983.3667
www.mcae.net
City Service Committee Contact: Heidi Norris

Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education is a statewide membership organization of educators, adult students, and others who support equal educational opportunities for adults. MCAE is dedicated to the advancement of adult education through high quality services and professionalism in the field from basic literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages through transitions to post-secondary education. Public policy work is also a main activity of MCAE.

MCAE is a membership organization. It provides professional development opportunities, particularly within the field of adult basic education. The main program is the Annual Professional Development Conference, called Network, which has an attendance of over 1,000. They provide annual awards, public policy and advocacy education, among other things.

Dress for Success New Hampshire - Jae Whitelaw, Board member
37 South Curtisville Road, Concord, NH 03301
603.224.6764
www.dressforsuccess.org
City Service Committee Contact: Ann Spilker

Dress for Success helps low-income women who are entering or returning to the work force by providing work-appropriate outfits for interviews and jobs, with the goal of increasing their confidence and self-esteem so as to assist them in obtaining and retaining a life-sustaining income job.

Women who are entering or returning to the work force are referred to Dress for Success by seventeen social service agencies and non-profit organizations. A volunteer "outfitter" meets with each client and selects three or more outfits, including accessories, shoes and coats at no cost. They provide booklets that describe how to enhance one's professional appearance, free samples of cosmetics and coupons donated by hairdressers for hair treatments. Information is given about other organizations that provide services that may be helpful to women in transition.

Real Life Boston - Tammy McLeod, Metro Director
1626 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
617.497.8521
www.reallifeboston.org
City Service Contact: Mariann Bucina

Real Life Boston's mission is to turn students into Christ-centered laborers. In order to recruit new people, Real Life Boston offers various programs.

Real Life Boston wants to give every Boston college student an opportunity to be exposed to Christ in a relevant way; to build transformational communities on all the college campuses in the city; send leaders into the world to do the same thing. Their programs include weekly meetings for all campuses at Harvard on Friday nights, citywide socials, a fall retreat, a winter conference, winter and spring break mission trips, summer mission trips to national and international locations, internships in Boston, and service projects in the inner city.

Project STEP for Students of Color - Leigh Creighton, Executive Director
301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
617.267.5777
www.projectstep.org
City Service Contact: Meryl Glassman

Project STEP (String Training and Educational Program for Students of Color) prepares highly talented students of color for careers in the classical music profession. Through the program students are identified, trained, educated and guided towards careers as classical music soloists, teachers, chamber music performers and orchestra members. The goal of Project STEP is to demonstrate to all aspiring young musicians that the classical music profession is open to any gifted, well-trained and disciplined performer, regardless of racial or ethnic background.

Project STEP offers African-American and Latino children a combination of instrumental lessons, classroom instruction, performance opportunities, musical instruments, summer study and career counseling. Participants are chosen on the basis of their talent, dedication and potential for future success in the classical music profession.

Concord Youth Theatre - Lisa Evans, Artistic Director
40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742
978.371.1482
www.concordyouththeatre.org
City Service Contact: Judy Christensen

Concord Youth Theatre is committed to making high-quality live theatre accessible, relevant, and memorable for young people and their families. Through our performance company productions, theatre arts classes, summer workshops, and guest artist performances, CYT brings the excitement of live theatre to hundreds of participants and audience members each season.

Concord Youth Theatre provides quality theater education to diverse youth and a broad audience in and around the Metro West area. Their unique performance focus is in staging full-scale musical theatre productions based upon children's literature to entertain, educate, and inspire interest in theatre arts. They have 3 principle theatre educations programs: Mainstage Productions (3 times per year); Teen programs featuring summer stage productions and Saturday improvisational children's theater; Education Programs with summer, fall, winter and spring courses.

Single Parent Family Outreach, Inc. - Arlisha Johnson, Executive Director
P.O. Box 1361, Brookline, MA 02446
617.278.2480
City Service Contact: Janet Rosen

SPFO seeks to enhance the quality of life for single parent families. To support and foster the rights and stability of these families through parental empowerment, spiritual growth and professionally supported education, counseling and child development services.

SPFO is a grass roots organization originally formed by 9 women as a self-help group. It is based on a spiritual model of service: the people SPFO helps participate in helping others. It serves low-income families in the Greater Boston area. Their clients are most often families who have "fallen through the cracks" in the traditional social services delivery system. They offer education focused on spiritual rejuvenation, health and welfare, leadership training and youth development; vocational networking and referrals; child development programs; tutoring; back to school supplies; summer camp scholarships; food pantry; clothes closet; Thanksgiving food baskets; youth academic award program; youth banking/money management project; recreational trips and activities; Christmas gift giving; limited emergency rental funds and community outreach.

The Volunteer Family - Heather Jack, President
161 Worcester Road, Suite 300, Framingham, MA 01701
508.405.2220
www.thevolunteerfamily.org
City Service Contact: Tricia Meyer

The Volunteer Family's mission is to encourage, facilitate, coordinate, and support family volunteering activities in order to strengthen family values, while simultaneously helping local nonprofit agencies achieve their respective goals of serving our community's most pressing needs.

The purpose of The Volunteer Family is to make volunteering with your family easy and accessible to all families. The organization has developed volunteer opportunities with over 100 Boston and Worcester area nonprofits, and has begun to recruit families. They are currently arranging a Family Volunteer Day event with 100 families.

Brookline Community Center for the Arts, Inc.
Dan Yonah Ben-Dror Marshall
President, Artistic Director & Founder
14 Green Street, Brookline, MA 02446
617.738.2800
Fax: 617.738.2801
www.BCCAonline.com
City Service Contact: Kara Stepanian

The BCCA, opened on April 13, 2003, is a non-profit organization that serves as a culturally integrated environment where members of all ages and abilities in Brookline and its surrounding towns can participate in world dance forms, martial arts, fitness, music, visual arts, acting, and other arts. The center provides arts education, practice and performance facilities, instructor training and new teaching opportunities for local and visiting artists, and hosts community events. Through the use of multimedia and telecommunication technology, it promotes and contributes to the creation of an extended network of artists and arts communities throughout the world.

The Brain Aneurysm Foundation - Christine LeBlanc - President
12 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
617.723.3870
www.bafound.org
City Service Contact: Cariann Harsh

The mission of the Brain Aneurysm Foundation is to provide support networks and education resources to raise public awareness regarding early detection and treatment of brain aneurysms. The mission is accomplished by raising public awareness through dissemination of education literature; easing the recovery process for survivors and families through support groups and the website; setting up local chapters and support groups around the country; raising money to expand the education library, coordinate symposia and eventually provide money for research.

South Africa Partners - Khosi Xaba - Outreach & Communications Coordinator
89 South Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
617.443.1072
www.sapartners.org
City Service Contact: Eleni Eliades

South Africa Partners is dedicated to the establishment of institutional partnerships between the United States and South Africa in the areas of health, education and economic development. The partnerships supported bringing together practitioners from the United States and South Africa who are committed to addressing social, political and economic needs in a way that strengthens communities, builds institutional capacity and fosters local leadership.

The programs seek to address issues such as HIV/AIDS, literacy and community empowerment in previously disadvantaged communities. SA Partners was instrumental in Massachusetts' signing a twinning agreement with The Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

Mystic River Watershed Association - Nancy Hammett, Executive Director
20 Academy Street, Suite 203, Arlington, MA 02476
781.316.3438
City Service Contact: Tara Lewis

MyRWA's mission is to restore clean water in the Mystic River watershed, protect its waters and related natural resources, and establish relevant public information and education programs. Their goal is to have the Mystic River swimmable and fishable by 2010.

The organization has three programs designed to meet their goal: Advocacy, Water Quality Monitoring and Research; and Outreach and Education. They have recently increased their membership from 250 to 460, and have a goal of 1000 members. They also want to expand their funding source, which currently relies on government and foundation grants. The Board went on a retreat in May to become more involved in fundraising.