City Service Projects for 2003
For more information about any of these projects or
the City Service Program, contact City Service Committee
Chair Terri Hootstein at hootsteint@ajc.org
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Project Manager: Katie DeBonville
Volunteer: Katie DeBonville
The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents the best contemporary
films on Jewish themes from around the world at its
annual Festival and throughout the year. Through features,
shorts, documentaries, and conversations with visiting
artists, the Festival explores Jewish identity, the
current Jewish experience, and the richness of Jewish
culture in relation to a diverse modern world.
Community Outreach For Landscape
Design
Project Manager: Caroline Campbell
Volunteers: Robin Cohn and Ann Kazer
Community Outreach For Landscape Design (COGdesign)
provides quality design services to communities in need
of continuing professional development and educational
enrichment for landscape designers who work pro bono
on community-based projects.
Cultural Access Consortium
Project Manager: Megan Haggerty
Volunteer: Jane Brower
The Cultural Access Consortium champions the belief
that the arts must be accessible to all regardless of
physical or cognitive abilities or financial means.
CAC works in partnership with community members to provide
cultural institutions with:
- Access technical support
- Access information and referral
- Outreach initiatives linking human services and
arts organizations
Hawthorne Youth and Community Center
Project Managers: Terri Hootstein
and Elizabeth Perry
Volunteers: Terri Hootstein and Elizabeth Perry
HYCC's mission is to strengthen the quality and expand
the quantity of educational, cultural, recreational,
and vocational programs available to community youths
and adults, celebrate the diversity of the community,
and work with neighbors to improve the quality of life
in Roxbury's Highland Park neighborhood.
Hope For The Children of Haiti
Project Manager: CJ Tolman
Volunteer: Mary Beth Cotter
Hope for the Children of Haiti is called to promote
Christ's kingdom by giving children, particularly orphans,
the opportunity to become well-rounded adults who are
self-sufficient in Christ.
Integrative Medicine Alliance
Project Manager: Rachel Smith Silver
Volunteer: Michelle Kweder
The Integrative Medicine Alliance promotes education
about alternative medicine and its role in healing.
MissionSAFE: A New Beginning, Inc.
Project Manager: Megan Donovan
Volunteer: Brooke Harrell
MissionSAFE is a youth development organization working
primarily with adolescent youth who are highly at-risk,
have faced trauma in their lives, come from single parent,
very low income families and are primarily African American
and Latino. MissionSAFE utilizes a relational/developmental
approach to working with youth that involves listening,
problem-solving, skill building, leadership development,
and the principles of compassion, inclusivity, and values
review. Their mission is to work with at-risk families
and youth so that they may develop the skills and confidence
to thrive, not just survive; to develop their unique
potential and dreams; and the ability to work together
to make their community and the larger world around
them a better place in which to live.
Multicultural AIDS Coalition
Project Managers: Eleni Eliades and Gina Federico
Volunteers: Mark Sieffert and Amy Winnewisser
The Multicultural AIDS Coalition is a nonprofit community-based
organization committed to the delivery of HIV/AIDS-related
prevention, education, and intervention services for
communities of color. The MAC emphasizes intervention
strategies to promote individual and community empowerment
and institutional capacity building. The MAC is committed
to these strategies for the effective prevention, advocacy
and public policy development in the fight against HIV/AIDS
disease. - www.mac-boston.org
Project STEP
Project Manager: Diane Zapach
Volunteers: Charlotte Harris and Sarah Wood Torrey
Project STEP (String Training & Educational Program
for Students of Color) prepares highly talented students
of color for careers in the classical music profession.
The program identified, trains, educates and guides
students for careers as classic music soloists, teachers,
chamber music performers, and orchestra members. - www.projectstep.org
Project Think Different
Project Manager: Cariann Harsh
Volunteer: Olivia Woodward
Project Think Different is committed to providing media
outlets for those who want to get their message heard.
Sustainable Step New England
Project Manager: Shaké Sulikyan
Volunteer: Mariann Bucina
Sustainable Step New England (SSNE) focuses on pioneering
tools and techniques that move businesses and individuals
to understand how their relationships with nature and
their communities are key to long-term success. SSNE
does this by offering services in three areas: (1) helping
organizations respond strategically to environmental
and social trends, (2) helping individuals expand their
understanding and skills in applying sustainability
concepts, and (3) facilitating consensus-building conversations.
- www.ssne.org
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