Education:
826 Boston
826 Boston is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this understanding in mind, they provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.
Big Sister:
Since 1951, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston has been helping girls reach their full potential through positive mentoring relationships with women. Big Sister is the largest mentoring organization in Greater Boston exclusively serving girls, covering 69 cities and towns.
Homelessness:
Rosie's Place:
Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women, offers emergency and long-term assistance to women who have nowhere else to go. Founded in 1974, they welcomes each guest with respect and unconditional love. Rosie’s Place accepts no government funds, and relies instead on committed volunteers and private supporters to accomplish its effective and innovative work.
Habitat for Humanity Boston:
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston, Inc. is a Massachusetts charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to building simple low-cost homes by forming partnerships with low-income families in need of decent and affordable housing. They believe homeownership is a vital step to help families break the cycle of poverty and contributes to pride in families and communities.
Unique:
Bikes Not Bombs:
Each year they collect roughly 6,000 used bicycles and tons of used parts from supporters around Greater Boston and New England.
They ship most of these bikes overseas to economic development projects through their international programs in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Bikes that don't get shipped often land in their youth programs where teens learn bicycle safety and mechanics skills in the process of earning bikes to keep for themselves. Their retail bike shop also reconditions and sells some of the donated bikes that we receive, employing many graduates of our programs. The Shop's profit from the bicycle sales, parts sales, and repairs goes towards funding our youth and international work.
Sexual Assault:
Amirah Place:
Amirah (\a-meer-ah\) is a non-profit organization located in the Boston area dedicated to providing effective, whole person aftercare for survivors of commercial exploitation.They do this by mobilizing the greater community to create safe spaces that provide opportunities for healing, restoration and re-integration. They use individualized approaches to address the physical, mental,emotional, spiritual, social and vocational needs of each survivor in our care. Their care allows for survivors to engage with their community in a mutually meaningful manner.