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Home Makeover Project

Do you have a home in need of a fresh look? Have
you fallen on hard times and are unable to make needed cosmetic changes
to your home? The International Furniture and Design Association
(IFDA) is taking applications for families in need of assistance to
take part in a "Home Makeover" contest. This contest is open to
members from any community in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. One
lucky winner will have a crew of approximately 25 professionals
providing cosmetic improvements to their home over the course of two
days (a Saturday & Sunday) in the month of October.

If you would like to be considered for this contest or
if you would like to nominate a home in need, please click here and
fill in your information. The application deadline is September
11, 2008. The winning home will be picked and notified by a
committee shortly thereafter.

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 9:29am.

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Give Back Through Service

SCI Dorchester at DotWell is currently interview candidates to serve on the 2008-2009 AmeriCorps Team.

At our Dorchester site, we are seeking seven civic minded individuals to help build social capital and increase civic engagement by engaging youth, leveraging volunteers, building bridges and connecting citizens to resources and services.

Last year's AmeriCorps team, engaged and trained over 2100 youth and adults in community service learning projects and practices; connected nearly 8,000 Dorchester residents to information and resources, and recruited over 200 community members to volunteer opportunties in the neighborhood.

Be a part of the team. Be the change you want to see in your community. If you are interested in making a difference and connecting the community through service, apply today:

Service Opportunities available:

Youth Program Coordinator

Outreach & Technology Coordinator

Health & Wellness Coordinator

Volunteer Coordinator

Arts, Culture & Technology (ACT) Coordinator

Coordinator of Community Linkages

Community Capital Builder

For full descriptions, click on the link above or go to the dot board, then click on "employment". For more information, please send your cover letter and resume to americorps@socialcapitalinc.org , or via regular mail to Social Capital Inc., 165M New Boston Street, Suite 233, Woburn, MA 01801. For more questions, please call 781-935-2244

Submitted by SCI Dorchester on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 8:17am.

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Save The Date!

Fri/Sat Sept 26th & 27th, 2008

Boston City Hall Plaza

* Exhibits * Art * Music * Dance * Food * Movies * Green Jobs * Discussions * Fun for Kids * Ways to Save energy *

Boston GreenFest 2008 is an entertaining education festival celebrating the many ways we can create a better world through greening our neighborhoods, our communities and the entire Boston area.

We will display and demonstrate many fun ways people can save energy and save money with products and systems available today.

Movies, music, art exhibits, virtual interactive experiences, youthTalks and much more...

Sponsors and exhibitors will have the ability to gain direct contact with Boston area citizens and political leaders. They will also benefit from press coverage of this festival in which we meet the challenge of global climate change together.

Come with your neighborhood friends to City Hall Plaza!

www.bostongreenfest.org

Submitted by jaycee on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 8:17am.

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Boston Greenfest 2008

As you all should be aware, there will be NO polar ice this summer in the Arctic. We have entered a very critical moment. We hope to reach out to all of Boston's neighborhoods and bring everyone to Boston City Hall Plaza on 9/26 & 9/27 to understand the climate chaos reality we are facing. We want to help them understand things in a way that will not immobilize or frighten, but will empower people and move them into action. This event will have 4 parts to it: the problem, the process, solutions, and celebration. We already have more than 30 groups, exhibitors, vendors, performers ready to join us for these two days. We need to reach out to more and we need help around certain areas.

Here are the areas we are looking for people:

Time Tunnel Entrance on to the Plaza: We have a vision to create a tented tunnel with lots of images (video/painted/collage etc.) and special effects (music/blowing air/sounds) showing the world today and how through solutions involving working together, we can begin to make a positive impact. This is the first part of "posing the problem."

We need: artists, video specialists, tech specialists - students, professionals, talented people willing to work together to make it reality in 6 weeks.

Problem Restated/Start of Process inside Main Tent: Once people leave the Time Tunnel, we want to let them get a feel for the problem in a more "hands-on" interactive way. using simple exhibits and examples such as, being passed a small cup of water and as they hear/look/learn about the problem, they will drink the water and realize that once the water is gone, there is no more. Of course, we would have them recycle the cup. It does not have to be this exact example, but this is the idea. We would want to show different angles of how we are affecting our lives and planet by the way we live right now and where things are headed if we do not change course ASAP.

We need: scientists, children's education specialists, education specialists, curriculum writers, creative thinkers, healers, artists, architects, etc. - willing to think creatively to make this a reality in 6 weeks.

Process I: Area set up for facilitated discussions to help people talk about what they are feeling and how they can start working together - youth, neighborhood leaders, young and old, university students, new immigrants, etc. There should be a section dedicated to youth, but another area where there is cross-fertilization. These discussions are meant to help heal and motivate.

We need: people interested in facilitating, organizing, brainstorming and bringing this section to reality (6 weeks).

Process II: Area adjacent to discussions for inspirational speakers and for movies such as Invconvenient Truth, 11th Hour, Greening Southie, Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff, Bill McKibben's 350.org animation, etc. as well as a children's movie section: Arctic Tale (difficulties the polar bears are having); Hoot (about burrowing owls about to be destroyed by development); Over the Hedge (problems due to development); etc.

We need: people willing to find the movies, get permission to run them, get the equipment - hopefully loans from companies/universities for the two days of Boston GreenFest.

Solutions: Series of exhibits, vendors and displays that help people find tools, resources, and networks to return to their neighborhoods and begin the work that must be done. There will be interactive exhibits that make it fun to learn to eat and grow organic food, improve nutrition and healthcare, green our city, build healthy communities, take political action, create green jobs and a green economy, and focus on youth. Specific ideas include: organic farming, CSAs, community gardening, farmers' markets, planting trees, green roofs, green cleaners, reducing consumption, recycling clothing and other goods, hand-push lawnmowers, health and wellness, recreation, transportation, energy and water conservation, clean energy, education, etc.

We need: energetic creative people who want to work with our core team to get this done in time.

Some BIM Solutions: (Building Information Models). These are virtual solutions that can help us become more efficient in planning our bulidings and our neighborhoods. Mike Bordenaro (MBordenaro@cs.com) is heading this effort and would be happy to connect with as many people that are able to put some time into this and learn more about some cutting edge BIM methods.

We need: architects, landscape architects, engineers, creative thinkers...

Celebration: We already have many people ready to participate including the Boston Community Choir (gospel); INCUS (a local band gaining national recognition); performers connected with the Boston Music Conference taking place on the same dates; and a Mexican dance group. We need much more. Christina Lanzl (christina.lanzl@massart.edu) is heading this effort and would be happy to have help. I would like to have the Blue Man Group be the Green Man Group for this event! Anyone have any connections? We are also looking for children's performers/activities.

We need: people with interest/background in art, theater, dance and music who love the excitement of public events!

**We need volunteers to help during the two days of Boston GreenFest 2008.**

**We need people who speak Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, CapeVerdean Creole, Chinese, Vietnamese... as we will have an important outreach to all our families that attend.

Submitted by jaycee on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 6:36am.