Location
750 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester,
MA,
02125United States
42° 19' 28.2972" N, 71° 3' 24.5844" W
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Website:
http://www.necarpenters.org
Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):
Call or visit website for hours of operation and training schedule.
Mission:
The New England Regional Council of Carpenters represents 22,000 carpenters, pile drivers, shop, millmen, and floorcoverers working in the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
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Key Programs Offered:
Workforce training, Boston Carpenters Apprenticeship and Training Program
Location
70 South Bay Avenue
Boston,
MA,
02118United States
42° 20' 3.12" N, 71° 3' 55.8" W
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Mission:
To help end hunger in eastern Massachusetts.
To achieve our mission, The Food Bank feeds more than 320,000 people annually in nine counties in eastern Massachusetts. They're poor to middle-class people who can't make ends meet. They're our friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
Catherine D'Amato, President and CEO
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Location
1601 Washington St 3rd Floor
Boston,
MA,
02118United States
42° 20' 18.0168" N, 71° 4' 27.9516" W
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Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):
Monday - 12 Noon to 8:00 PM
Tuesday - 9 am to 8:00 PM
Wednesday - 8 am to 8:00 PM
Thursday & Friday - 9 am to 8:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Weekday, Saturday, and evening appointments are available.
Mission:
Pathways to Wellness, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to providing equal access to high quality holistic care including acupuncture, shiatsu, and Chinese herbs. Within a compassionate and empowering environment, Pathways provides complementary therapies for our clients as an adjunct to their Western medical care. Working in partnership with community health centers and organizations, Pathways promotes a continuum of care for our clients in body, mind and spirit.
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
Please call for an appointment
Key Programs Offered:
Community-Style Acupuncture at Pathways to Wellness
Treatment is provided in a unique traditional acupuncture setting that utilizes a group treatment healing experience.
• Sliding scale rate: Pay what you wish from $20 - $40 per 1-hour session. Open to all regardless of income level.
• Clients receive treatment while relaxing in comfortable recliner chairs. Groups of up to six people are treated at the same time.
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Location
614 Columbia Road
Dorchester,
MA,
02125United States
42° 18' 46.08" N, 71° 3' 9" W
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Mission:
The City School develops and strengthens the power of youth to work toward building a just society. We do this through creative education and critical thinking, leadership development, action and service, and promoting understanding and relationships across differences.
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
Ruby Reyes & Seth Kirshenbaum, Co-Executive Directors
Key Programs Offered:
The Summer Leadership Program is where teens learn that individually and collectively, they are powerful agents of social change. Sixty diverse teens unite to bridge social barriers and empower themselves with hands-on leadership training, classroom learning, internships at local nonprofits, and social action projects they implement throughout the city.
Youth Outreach Weekends engage teens in the realities of homelessness and poverty. City School youth leaders guide the way with challenging discussions, learning games, workshops to uncover root causes and undo sterotypes, and community service at nearby shelters and soup kitchens.
The Prison Empowment Project connects people inside and outside of Massachusetts' prisons. Youth and adult participants travel to prisons to dialogue with volunteer inmates about the circumstances, behaviors and choices that have caused them to be behind bars. (Taught in collaboration with Boston Police Dept. Community Disorders Unit.)
The Social Justice Education Institute uses The City School's pedagogy and youth-adult model to assist teachers, youth workers, administrators, civic leaders and others in developing curricula and programming with a strong social-justice-based focus. The goal is to transform our practices and engage young people to help support youth agency, voice and leadership. (Educators can receive Professional Development Points through the BPS Center for Leadership Development.)
The Grads' Program promotes youth leadership, youth power and youth action for teens who've been through any City School program. It strengthens their leadership skills and knowledge, provides a proactive place for networking, and engages in youth-adult collaboration on advocacy, service work, retreats, the Youth Summit and more.
Rose from Concrete uncovers the leadership potential in youth who are court-involved, through workshops, leadership training and learning groups at several DYS community re-entry sites.
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Community/Cultural Center
Location
185 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester,
MA,
02121United States
42° 18' 23.4864" N, 71° 4' 38.9316" W
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Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):
Day care opens at 7am and building at 8pm
Mission:
Catholic Charities Greater Boston is a community service center of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston. Catholic Charities Greater Boston provides direct service in Dorchester at the Yawkey Center, in Somerville, and in other Boston neighborhoods through an array of programs and services including Basic Needs Services, parenting programs, an after-school program for teens, a summer camp for inner-city children, elder social services, and a variety of residential programs. All are designed to address the complex issues that many individuals and families face today. More than 38,000 are served each year.
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Haitian Multi-Service Center The Haitian Multi-Service Center, the largest social service agency serving the Haitian population in Massachusetts, is a non-profit agency founded in 1978 to meet the needs of the rapidly increasing number of Haitian refugees coming to the area. It joined the Catholic Charities network in 1984. Its mission is to serve, in a linguistically and culturally sensitive manner, the health, education, day care and the immigration/settlement/food needs of the Haitian community, numbered at about 20-25,000, and to foster economic and social self-sufficiency. Today it serves 5,000 families annually. On-site programs include: Adult Education (literacy, ESL, EDP-External Diploma Program), Citizenship, Computer Literacy, Education for Employment, Day Care, Pregnancy and Parenting Support Programs, Immigration and Refugee assistance, Food Pantry, and Haitian Elders. The Center serves clients primarily from Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury.
Yawkey Konbit-Kreyol Center for Early Education & Care: Offered from 7:30 - 5:30p.m. Open to children ages 2 months to 9 years. Financial Aid: -Vouchers accepted -HeadStart -Sliding scale
Also (or Previously) Known As...:
Haitian Multi-Service Center
Location
727 Atlantic Avenue 3rd Floor
Boston,
MA,
02111United States
42° 21' 2.52" N, 71° 3' 24.48" W
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Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):
Monday- Friday: 9-5:30 pm
Mission:
Adoption & Foster Care Mentoring empowers adopted and foster youth to flourish through committed mentoring relationships.
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
Key Partners:
Department of Social Services
Mass Mentoring Partnership
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
We achieve our mission through our programming that serves youth in out-of-home care, including:
AFCMentors:
One-to-One mentoring for foster & adopted youth ages 7-14
* To find out more about our mentoring program and to download a mentor or mentee application, visit www.afcmentoring.org
* To become a mentor, email mentor@afcmentoring.org or call 617-224-1302
*To refer a mentee, call 617-224-1301
Team AFC:
Group mentoring for foster and adopted youth ages 7-14
* Visit www.afcmentoring.org for more information about Team AFC or call 617-224-1300
AFCInterns:
Internships for youth ages 15-22 in out-of-home care
* Visit www.afcmentoring.org for more information about AFCInterns or call 617-224-1300
AFCVolunteers:
Volunteers assist AFC in a variety of ways! Join our team of volunteers and make a difference.
* To become a volunteer, email volunteer@afcmentoring.org or call 617-224-1302
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Location
500 Columbia Road
Dorchester,
MA,
02125United States
42° 18' 52.74" N, 71° 4' 2.748" W
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Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):
Mon through Weds: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Thurs: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Fri: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Mission:
The Boston Public Library's mission is to preserve and provide access to historical record of our society, and to serve the cultural, educational, and informational needs of the City and the Commonwealth
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
Georgia Titonis, Branch Library
Key Partners:
Part of the Boston Public Library system. Click here to learn more about Dorchester's libraries!
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
Click here to register for a free library card online!
Key Programs Offered:
- Homework Assistance Program
Free one-on-one homework help for students in grades K-8 from high-achieving high school mentors. Available at every BPL branch Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:30PM.
- Boston Teachers' Union Tutors
Tutoring for students in all grades from BPS teachers. Days and times vary by location. Upham's Corner: Thursday 4-6PM.
- Ongoing Programs
Wednesdays: 10:30am, Reading Readiness Dance Workshop: Erica Siegel will lead pre-reading children in a fun reading readiness program that incorporates dance, movement, and stories.
Thursdays: 5pm, Crafts with Mrs. C: Children aged 8-16 are invited to come make a craft to take home.
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State/City/Municipal Building
DISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF THE COLLECTION
The Uphams Corner Branch has a collection which reflects the needs and interest of the surrounding community. In addition to a core group of popular fiction and representative nonfiction, there are materials in French, Portuguese and Spanish languages, well rounded African American authors and reference sections and a large DVD collection.
RECURRING PROGRAMMING OFFERED
Preschool, Reading Readiness and toddler programs are offered weekly. Teenagers are available four afternoons a week to help children with their homework through the HAP program.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING OFFERED
The branch hosts monthly programs for adults and families alternating between informational and entertaining offerings. During the summer Uphams Corner participates in the Read Your Way to Fenway and Statewide Summer Reading programs.
HISTORY
In 1904 the Uphams Corner Branch Library moved from a temporary store-front location on Dudley Street to the two-year-old municipal building on Columbia Road. Upon entering the building, the adult room was on the left, a floor above the swimming pool, and the children's room used a common area on the right side of the hall. When the swimming pool developed leaks and fell into disuse for some time, the children's room took occupancy in this space. It maintained a separate entrance and circulation desk until the 1970s. After renovations to the building in 1989, only one entrance to the Library remained -- through the adult room. Many residents still recall the swimming pool and public showers of their childhood.
Location
492 Dudley Street
Roxbury,
MA,
02119United States
42° 19' 22.8" N, 71° 4' 22.44" W
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Mission:
Cape Verdean Community (CVC) UNIDO's mission is to outreach to, inform, and organize the Cape Verdean community around issues of self-empowerment and social and economic development, while advocating for and accessing resources that meet the self-identified needs of the community.
Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:
Luzia Centeio, Executive Director
Key Partners:
Bird Street Community Center, City of Boston, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), Log School, Settlement House, MassCosh, Northeastern University, St. Patricks Church, Upham's Corner Health Center
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Location
200 Bowdoin Street
Dorchester,
MA,
02122United States
42° 18' 18.5004" N, 71° 4' 6.5064" W
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The mission of Dorchester CARES is to coordinate, develop and institutionalize comprehensive, community-based programs which will support families and prevent child abuse and neglect in target neighborhoods.
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Key Partners:
Department of Social Services Department of Youth Services As well as the 20+ Coalition member organizations serving families in Dorchester.
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
Contact our Family Support Advocate, Remetrious Pena-Rogers at 617-474-1256 x231 for volunteer opportunities. Contact Lyndsey Firneno, Executive Director, to get involved in program development and planning and membership opportunities on the Board of Directors.
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Location
45 Magnolia Street
Dorchester,
MA,
02125United States
42° 19' 0.7392" N, 71° 4' 14.4372" W
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Project Hope works in partnership with families so they can move up and out of poverty. We do this by being a catalyst for change in the lives of families and in the systems which keep them poor; developing and providing family support solutions for homeless.
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Community/Cultural Center
