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Create Your OWN Volunteer Event
Mobilize a group to get involved in the community this spring and summer! In addition to all of the opportunities available to you each month, Building Impact staff regularly work with companies, individuals, families, friends and other groups to customize volunteer events that meet their specific needs. This is a great avenue to create a company-wide volunteer event or gather your neighbors for a Day of Service. Contact Jordan@buildingimpact.org or call 617.933.8292 for more information.
Donate
6th Annual Back to School Drive
Monday, July 28th –Friday, August 8th
Help local kids in-need start the school year off right and ready to learn. Donate basic school supplies, such as: pencils, pens, markers, crayons, calculators, ruler, scissors, & more. You can:
- Host a donation box at your company
- Drop-off donations in the lobby of your building
- Sponsor a backpack for one child with a $10 donation
- Sponsor a classroom of backpacks with a $250 donation!
For more information about how you can get involved with this great event contact Talya@buildingimpact.org
100% of all donated supplies, backpacks and money raised will be channeled to our non-profit partner organization Cradles to Crayons. For more information about Cradles to Crayons, visit cradlestocrayons.org.
Donate Old Computers
All items must be in working condition.
Donate old computers, software, parts, printers and more to World Computer Exchange. Building Impact is coordinating recycling events in various buildings and 100% all donations will be given to World Computer Exchange.
Accepted items include: working Pentium 3+ computers, working color monitors, scanners, modems, printers, network gear, software and parts. For more information, contact Alison@buildingimpact.org
World Computer Exchange is a global education & environment non-profit that helps connect youth in 65 developing countries to the skills, opportunities & understanding of the Internet while keeping working computers out of landfills. For more information about their work, please visit www.worldcomputerexchange.org.
Volunteer
Career Q&A with a Framingham High School Student
Based on Your Schedule; One Weekday Afternoon
Take an hour out of your day to speak with a Framingham High School student about your career path. The Mazie Mentoring program is looking for professionals from a variety of fields to be interviewed by a student, along with the student’s adult mentor. Each youth will meet you at your office with questions prepared in advance and will be joined by his or her adult mentor, who will guide the student along so that you can share your knowledge.
Contact Jordan@buildingimpact.org to sign up or learn more about this program.
Help Prepare Meals: Volunteer at Community Servings
Saturday, June 28th, 10:00am-2:00pm in Jamaica Plain
Volunteers will help in Community Servings’ kitchen in Jamaica Plain prepare nutritious meals to be delivered to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute life-threatening illnesses. Lunch will be served to volunteers! Contact Talya@buildingimpact.org to sign up and visit servings.org to learn more about this organization.
Cradles to Crayons’ Giving Factory
Saturday, July 12th, 1:00pm-4:00pm in Quincy
Sort toys, pack clothing, or stuff backpacks at Cradles to Crayons in Quincy to benefit local boys and girls in need. Cradles to Crayons provides low-income youth with school supplies, clothing, toys, and other items they need to be safe, warm, ready to learn and valued. Contact Alison@buildingimpact.org to sign up and visit cradlestocrayons.org to learn more about this organization.
Clean Up the Charles
Saturday, July 19th, 10:00pm-2:00pm
Join Building Impact and Single Volunteers of Boston to clean up the Charles River with the Charles River Conservancy! Volunteers will be outside working together on landscape stewardship projects like tree pruning, brush cutting, and painting benches. Contact Jordan@buildingimpact.org to sign up and visit charlesriverconservancy.org and svboston.org to learn more about these organizations.
Sort Food at The Greater Boston Food Bank
Saturday, July 26th, 9:00am-1:00pm in South Boston
Sort food at The Greater Boston Food Bank to help feed hungry individuals and families. The Greater Boston Food Bank distributes food to over 800 food pantries and food programs in Massachusetts. Contact Talya@buildingimpact.org to sign up and visit gbfb.org to learn more about this organization.
Give Blood, Give Life
Thursday, July 31st, 8:00pm-1:30pm in Downtown Boston
Bloodmobile located at the intersection of Milk Street & Arch Street
Building Impact will be holding a blood drive in Downtown Boston, at the intersection of Milk Street and Arch Street, to support Mass General Hospital. Please consider becoming a donor and giving the gift of life to your community. Donations take approximately 30 minutes. Contact Jordan@buildingimpact.org if you would like to sign up for a donation time.
Volunteer with Building Impact on a Local Farm
Saturday, August 23rd, 9am-12:00pm in Concord OR Dorchester
Volunteers will help harvest produce, prepare growing beds for succession crops, and help with weeding. Meet and work with other volunteers towards the common goal of hunger relief. Choose the location that works best for you: Gaining Ground in Concord (www.gainingground.org) or Revision House Urban Farm in Dorchester (vpi.org/Re-VisionFarm). Contact Alison@buildingimpact.org to sign up or for more information.
Become a Mentor
Whether you can commit to once a week or once a month, or if want to share your professional skills or love of the outdoors, everyone can be a mentor and change someone's life. Building Impact can help you narrow your search and choose the mentoring opportunity that fits your style and your schedule. Contact Talya@buildingimpact.org for more information or to receive Building Impact’s Mentoring Guide.
Cradles to Crayons
Cradles to Crayons provides low-income and homeless children from birth to pre-teen the basic essentials they need to be safe, warm, ready to learn, and valued. The organization also sets a foundation for lasting change through the meaningful, tangible volunteer opportunities they provide to thousands of youth and adults each year. To learn more about Cradles to Crayons, visit cradlestocrayons.org. Contact Talya@buildingimpact.org to donate or find out more!
Youth & Education
September and October will feature events and opportunities that focus on Youth & Education:
- Record for the Blind and Dyslexic to help people with print disabilities learn through listening
- Join Building Impact and other individuals for Hub On Wheels, Boston’s only citywide bike ride & festival which benefits Boston Public Schools
- Compile activity books for youth literacy programs and learn about becoming a lunchtime literacy tutor with Generations Incorporated, Power Lunch or Everybody Wins Metro Boston
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