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Category: Do Good

Charities and volunteer opporunities in Newton, MA and Boston.

  • GELF Dinner Fundraiser

    GELF Dinner Fundraiser

    The Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF), Newton’s study abroad scholarship program, is turning eight.  Change students’ lives by joining Newton community members for chef’s favorites, wine, and live entertainment to support lower-income Newton students in taking advantage of international opportunities.
    GELF Dinner Fundraiser
    Mixed Race girl holding globe
    Join us for the

    Jennifer Price Global Leadership Education Fund (GELF) 

    Benefit  Dinner
    Saturday, April 2, 2016 :: 6:30 pm :: Newton North High School
    Come for food, fun, & great cause!
    • Five course gourmet tasting menu prepared by Chef Katya Salkever
    • Live music by Newton South’s very own Katani Sumner and band
    • Fine wines & beers carefully selected to accompany each course
    • Keynote speaker Jennifer Price, Superintendent of North Andover & former NNHS principal
    • Live auction
    • Excellent company (150 of the coolest members of our community!)
    • A great cause: Opening up travel opportunities to Newton students regardless of background
    • FUN AND A GOOD TIME!!
    Since its inception, GELF has funded nearly 150 students for international travel and given away more than $215,000 in scholarships!! This year alone GELF has funded:
    • nearly $38,000 in grants to
    • 20 students for
    • 8 different international trips.
    Reserve your seat today by clicking here or you may send a $150/person check (made payable to Newton Schools Foundation) to:
    Newton Schools Foundation
    P.O. Box 590020
    Newton Centre, MA 02459.
    Please write GELF on the memo line of your check and include guest names and your email address.

    Whether you are coming or not, please consider donating to support a teacher  to attend the event ($100/person) or just mail a check to the address above.

    Newton North High School
    457 Walnut Street
    Newton, MA, 02460

  • Newton Heartbreak Hill Road Race & Walk

    Newton Heartbreak Hill Road Race & Walk

    Newton Heartbreak Hill Road Race & Walk

    It already feels like Spring outside, so it’s time to start dusting off those running (or walking) shoes! The 24th annual Heartbreak Hill Road Race and Family Walk is a perfect way to shake off some of that cabin fever! Just one mile, up and down famed Heartbreak Hill!

    Newton Heartbreak Hill Road Race & Walk
    Every runner receives an official digital-clock time, a race medallion, goody bag and a free ticket to the pre-race pasta party at Newton City Hall on Saturday, April 16th. The 1st, 2nd & 3rd place runners in each category win a trophy! The first 500 registrations receive a free t-shirt.
    There are free activities for kids organized by the Lasell College Special Events students. Not a runner? Everyone can walk the course at 11:30. Register at http://www.newtoncommunitypride.org/roadrace.html
  • Global Music Concert Benefit for NPS Creative Arts and Sciences

    Global Music Concert Benefit for NPS Creative Arts and Sciences

    Global Music Concert to Benefit NPS Creative Arts and Sciences

    Newton’s Creative Arts & Sciences presents an evening with this year’s Concert Series performer, Crocodile River Music on Friday April 8th. Come celebrate the global music experience that students enjoyed this fall. Crocodile River Music brings the music of Mali, Brazil, Spain and Trinidad, and the instruments and dances that celebrate these cultures to Newton. Join musicians from Bamako, Mali and Boston, Massachusetts for an evening of world class entertainment in your own backyard. Complimentary wine, beer, and light fare round out what is certain to be a fabulous event for a 21+ audience.

    Global Music Concert Benefit for NPS Creative Arts and Sciences

    Tickets are $35/person and go on sale February 22.
    Contact Stacey Moriarty with questions: stacey_moriarty@newton.k12.ma.us

    April 8, 2016, 7 to 10 PM
    Newton South High School
    140 Brandeis Rd., Newton Centre, 02459
    No one under 21 will be admitted

  • Help Someone in Need in Newton Community

    Help Someone in Need in Newton Community

    Day Family In Need of Assistance

    Hello Day Families!

    My name is Cora – I went through Franklin, Day Middle School and graduated from Newton North. I have two younger siblings- Jack Kayser in 4th grade at Franklin, and Mikayla Kayser in 8th grade at Day.

    Our mother, Rebecca Willis Kayser, recently underwent 4 major abdominal surgeries due to a series of complications, and has been out of work since mid-December. While all paperwork for short term disability has been filed, none of the checks have been released.

    As a gift to her I have created a Go Fund Me account to try to lessen the burden through this difficult time. Contributions of any denomination would be greatly appreciated to help her get over this hump!

    Feel free to respond to or pass along the link.

    https://www.gofundme.com/agiftforrebecca

    Thank you!

    Cora Spillman

    Help Someone in Need

  • ONE NEWTON T Shirts to Help Victims from Sweet Tomatoes Tragedy

    ONE NEWTON T Shirts to Help Victims from Sweet Tomatoes Tragedy

    Newton is made up 13 villages. But when tragedy strikes, we are ONE NEWTON. Support the victims of this terrible tragedy.

    ONE NEWTON T Shirts

    All dollars raised will go to the Miele and Morin families. We are awaiting word on the establishment of a fund(s) for the victims.

    Buy t-shirts here.

  • Williams Spring Auction 2016

    Williams Spring Auction 2016

    The Williams Spring Auction 2016 opens for bidding on March 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM EST Time.

    Williams Spring Auction 2016

    Our goal this year is to raise $12,000 to fund enrichment activities for our elementary children. We raise 45% of our operating income from auction fundraising. The following is just a sampling of the many programs funded by Williams PTO:

    Creative Arts and Sciences

    Understanding Our Differences

    Intergenerational Luncheon 

    Child Abuse Prevention Program

    Instructional Technology 

    Library Books and Instructional Materials Health

    Fitness Education & Equipment

    We need your support! This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items!

    We’ll be adding new items to our auction for you to preview as the auction date approaches. Check back often to see what’s new. Feel free to place a Watch on your favorites, so that you’ll know as soon as bidding begins!

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  • UNICEF Kid Power in Boston March 7-April 1

    UNICEF Kid Power in Boston March 7-April 1

    UNICEF today announced the launch of the 2016 Kid Power school program, which will empower 70,000 elementary school children in 13 cities to help save the lives of severely malnourished children around the world. You may have also recently heard about Kid Power when UNICEF announced P!nk as an UNICEF ambassador and the program’s national spokesperson.UNICEF Kid Power in Boston March 7-April 1

     

    Third through fifth-graders will receive Kid Power Bands, the world’s first wearable for good™, and a teacher-led classroom curriculum in a 30-day program, called UNICEF Kid Power Month. By being active and having fun, kids can earn points to unlock funding that delivers lifesaving packets of food to children in need. UNICEF Kid Power Month will take place in Boston from March 7 through April 1. The more kids move, the more points they earn, the more lives they save.

    Globally, one in four children is malnourished – about 159 million children worldwide – while one in four children in the United States is inactive. Malnutrition is attributable to nearly half of all deaths of children under age five, and 16 million children suffer from the most life-threatening form of malnutrition – severe acute malnutrition – which can require specialized care with therapeutic food packets. The therapeutic food packets unlocked by UNICEF Kid Power contain a specially-designed protein and vitamin-rich peanut paste, which allows children who are severely malnourished to be treated in their communities and has the potential to transform the lives of millions of malnourished children around the world. The growth in the Kid Power school program comes on the heels of the national retail launch of UNICEF Kid Power Bands in November 2015, allowing families everywhere to join the UNICEF Kid Power Team by purchasing a Kid Power Band, available at Target.com and in select Target stores, and downloading the free companion App.** Two Star Wars: Force for Change Bands are also available in “light side” white and “dark side” black. Kids and families everywhere can use the UNICEF Kid Power Band to get active, go on missions to learn about new cultures and earn points that help save lives.

    Globally, one in four children is malnourished – about 159 million children worldwide – while one in four children in the United States is inactive. Malnutrition is attributable to nearly half of all deaths of children under age five, and 16 million children suffer from the most life-threatening form of malnutrition – severe acute malnutrition – which can require specialized care with therapeutic food packets. The therapeutic food packets unlocked by UNICEF Kid Power contain a specially-designed protein and vitamin-rich peanut paste, which allows children who are severely malnourished to be treated in their communities and has the potential to transform the lives of millions of malnourished children around the world.

     

    The growth in the Kid Power school program comes on the heels of the national retail launch of UNICEF Kid Power Bands in November 2015, allowing families everywhere to join the UNICEF Kid Power Team by purchasing a Kid Power Band, available at Target.com and in select Target stores, and downloading the free companion App.** Two Star Wars: Force for Change Bands are also available in “light side” white and “dark side” black. Kids and families everywhere can use the UNICEF Kid Power Band to get active, go on missions to learn about new cultures and earn points that help save lives.

  • 5K at Chestnut Hill Reservoir to benefit ATASK

    5K at Chestnut Hill Reservoir to benefit ATASK

    2nd Annual Community 5K
    Saturday, April 9th, 2016
    5K at Chestnut Hill Reservoir to benefit ATASK
    Mark your calendars! ATASK is once again hosting the 2nd Annual Community 5K that brings together non-profit organizations serving the diverse Asian population in Greater Boston.
    Run or walk around the beautiful Chestnut Hill Reservoir with friends and family to show your support for non-profit organizations. Registration is now open. Sign up here!
    We are still looking for some volunteers to help with event planning. Visit the volunteer section of our website for more details on the opportunities that will ensure a successful event.
    Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the Community 5K. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please email ataskc5k@gmail.com.
  • Iconic “Walden Woods” Steinway Piano Finds New Home with Philanthropists

    Iconic “Walden Woods” Steinway Piano Finds New Home with Philanthropists

    M. Steinert & Sons announces the recent sale of a one-of-a-kind Steinway & Sons grand piano to philanthropists Brian and Kathy Stevens of Marlborough, Massachusetts. The “Walden Woods” piano, an art case Steinway & Sons Model D concert grand created to commemorate the legacy of author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, will be used by the Stevens family to raise awareness and generate support for a number of non-profit organizations close to their hearts, including Special Olympics of Massachusetts and the Special People Special Needs Foundation. The purchase marks the first time the Walden Woods piano will reside in a private home.

    Iconic “Walden Woods” Steinway Piano Finds New Home with Philanthropists

    The piano was originally commissioned in 2007 by the Walden Woods Project, an organization spearheaded by musician Don Henley to help preserve land near Walden Pond in Concord. Artist Silas Kopf designed the piano, which incorporates wood indigenous to Walden Woods and other areas of New England. Kopf created twelve marquetry plaques featuring local flora, as well as a marquetry portrait of Thoreau and a long frieze with an excerpt from Thoreau’s famous book Walden: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Adding to its value, the piano was signed during a benefit concert by Billy Joel, Elton John, Emanuel Ax, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Bruce Hornsby, Evgeny Kissin, and Barbara Nissman.

    The Stevens are well-known philanthropists with a special interest in music, film, and popular culture. They cultivate and develop projects that draw interest and enthusiasm from musicians, artists, filmmakers, and children in order to attract like-minded people to events and fundraisers. In addition to the Walden Woods piano, the Stevens also curate exhibit-level art pieces and curiosities to cheer and entertain children suffering with illness or disability.

     

  • Lunar New Year Party to benefit ATASK

    Lunar New Year Party to benefit ATASK

    Saturday, February 6th, 2016

    Lunar New Year Party to benefit ATASK

    Todos Dance & Fitness Studio is hosting a Lunar New Year Party to benefit ATASK. Join us for a fun-filled evening of celebration and ballroom dancing. There will also be some light catering by Weston’s own Dumpling Daughter!

    Admission is free. Onsite donations will be accepted, and proceeds from a raffle and silent auction will benefit families in need.

    7pm-8pm: Interactive group dance lesson (no partner necessary, beginners are welcome)

    8pm-10pm: General dancing and special dance performances

    RSVP to todosstudio@gmail.com by January 29th.

    Todos Dance & Fitness Studio
    677 Worcester Street
    Natick, MA 01760