The Laurel Association for Student
Philanthropy
The Laurel Association for Student
Philanthropy has been founded to
promote community and philanthropy among teenagers whereby students are
guided to research local non-profit organizations benefiting children's
education and enrichment programs.
This effort will be documented and
made available to our community of
families and friends so they too can participate in the selection of
each year’s beneficiary from the annual fund-raising events. The
mission will continue to focus on bringing a diverse group of high
school students together to celebrate friendship and giving to others.
The Laurel Association will also provide all those involved in the past
years with annual updates of the continued happenings and charitable
work taken on each year by their younger peers.
The long term objectives are being
discussed and considered and among
these ideas is the goal to have the past, current and future Laurel
student committees and attendees informed and linked to our city’s
charitable organizations and events during their college years. This
would facilitate and expand the philanthropic participation for these
young adults in our city and provide so many charitable causes with new
energy and goodwill.
Thank you for your support.
The Laurel Association for Student
Philanthropy Officers
Zachary S.
Gordon Marta Judson Natasha
Makowski Sharon Redd
Board of Directors in Development
Please write to us:
The Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy
66 Charles Street Box 456 Boston MA 02114
We thank the 2008 Committee for their submissions to the
following charities that
benefit children's education, health and enrichment programs to bring
more
awareness and consideration for our support.
Make a notable difference for kids in your city!
Esperanza
Academy, Lawrence MA. Submitted by Jr. Committee member, Lowell
A., Brooks School, 2010
Esperanza Academy, School of Hope, is a tuition-free school that
creates an enriched environment fostering individual success and
community commitment for fifth through eighth grade girls from
Lawrence, Massachusetts. At Shore Country Day School, we helped clean
and organize their building. Students from Brooks tutor and help out
with the children. You can learn more at http://www.esperanzaacademy.org
Help
for Abused Women and their Children, Salem MA. Submitted by Becky S.,
Brooks School, MA 2010
The purpose of HAWC is to create social change by taking action
against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression. HAWC
provides services and support to victims of domestic violence residing
in 23 cities and towns on Massachusetts' North Shore in order that they
may make informed, independent decisions about their futures, and
access alternatives to living in a violent situation. For several
years, I have walked with the Youth Group from my church in the annual
Walk for HAWC. They also have many volunteer opportunities, and are
especially looking for donations of working cell phones so they can
give them to their clients. T
heir website is at http://www.helpabusedwomen.org/index.html
Help
the Greater Boston Food Bank, Submitted
by Jr. Committee member Mathieu
W., Dexter School, MA 2010
The organization I
propose sponsoring is the Greater Boston Food Bank www.gbfb.org
<http://www.gbfb.org/
Their mission statement is the following: 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.
The Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in New
England and one of the largest food banks in the country. We distribute
approximately 30 million pounds of food and grocery products annually
to a network of more than 600 member hunger-relief agencies. We are a
trusted and efficient resource for these local food pantries, soup
kitchens, homeless and residential shelters, youth programs, senior
centers, and day-care centers, providing the food they need to feed the
hungry. Still, the need for food is growing <http://www.gbfb.org/aboutHunger/HungerStudy.cfm
in the 190 communities we serve. That's why we need your help
http://www.gbfb.org/donateFunds/index.cfm
Margaret's House, the largest family
shelter in Boston, serving 32 homeless women and their children, Submitted
by Jr. Committee member Alek
M. Pomfret School, CT 2011
Margaret's House
is part of St.Mary's Women and Children's Center, They take care of
homeless women and children when the women are pregnant. They
always
need baby clothes and other children's toys. It is a way to help with a
small gift. Margaret's house does not have its own website.
Here is their address and contact information: Margaret's House 90
Cushing Avenue Dorchester, MA 02125
Also for St. Mary's Womens and Children's Center, their website that
gives you other ways to help.
http://www.smwcc.org/
B-SAFE Program
St.Stephen's Youth Program, South End Boston, Submitted
by Jr. Committee member
Dylan J. Beaver Country Day School, MA 2010
(Bishop's Summer Academic and Fun Enrichment)
http://www.ststephensbos.org/summerkids.html
The mission of St. Stephen’s Youth
Programs is to serve low income, at-risk youth in the City of Boston
and Chelsea during Out-of-School Time (AST) by providing them with a
safe, challenging, and supportive community in which they can
thrive.
We strive to build a community where all people -- in the words of the
Youth Program's theme -- “Feel Safe, Feel Big, and Feel
Connected.”
The Need:
The
Youth Programs serve over 500 children and youth ages 5-18.
Children and youth
in our program predominately identify as Latino or African American,
but our
program population also includes children and youth who identify as
Vietnamese,
Cape Verdean,
Haitian, West Indian, and Native American.
Almost
all of our families live in public housing in the City of Boston
or Chelsea in
households with incomes at or near the national poverty level and live
in
neighborhoods which that have been labeled "hot spots" for violence
(due to both gang activity and gun use) by the mayor's office and
Boston Police.
St.
Stephen's Youth Programs meets the needs of these at-risk children and
youth by
providing places to go that are physically and emotionally safe,
individual
adult attention that includes both nurture and mentoring, academic
support,
enrichment opportunities, structured and supervised social activities,
and (in
the case of our teens) quality part-time employment.
How
to Help:The Budget for the year is
about $750,000, of which parent fees cover 5% of cost. Which
means lots
left to raise, and any contribution is hugely appreciated.
The Jimmy Fund, Submitted
by Jr. Committee members John F. St.
Sebastian's School, MA 2011, &
Thomas F. Dexter School, MA 2009
We want to
remind everyone about the the Jimmy Fund . A
contribution to the Jimmy Fund helps support the Dana Farber Cancer
institute in their fight against childhood and adult cancers.
Since
so many of us know friends and family members who have been diagnosed
with cancer, supporting this charity would be very meaningful. About The Jimmy Fund: Since its
founding in 1948, the Jimmy Fund has supported the fight against cancer
in children and adults at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
helping to raise the chances of survival for cancer patients around the
world.
http://www.jimmyfund.org
The Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy would like to
provides
these links to further awareness
to these notable programs for
children in our city:
Did you know about the Education and Outreach Programs at the
Boston Ballet?
Foster
a love of dance and
creative expression in children with Down’s syndrome
The Adaptive Dance
Program, now in its fourth year, continues to
be a successful joint venture between Boston Ballet and the
Department of Physical Therapy, Children's Hospital in Boston. The
program reflects an innovative collaboration between the staff from
both facilities and is designed to foster a love of dance and
creative expression in children with Down’s syndrome.
Although the primary goal of Adaptive Dance classes is for the
children to experience the sheer joy of dance and music, program
evaluation suggests that it has many other important benefits to
the children who participate including improvements in their
coordination, overall fitness, balance, focus, listening,
self-esteem, self-expression, rhythm and musicality. http://www.bostonballet.org/educationoutreach/adaptivedance.html
Established in the fall of 1991,
Citydance is a scholarship dance program offered
to third-grade students in the Boston Public Schools. Designed to
educate and introduce public school children to a variety of dance
forms, Citydance offers students from all socio-economic and ethnic
backgrounds a chance to dance. Because of its broad scope and
commitment to excellence, Citydance has become a model dance
education program for institutions across the country. http://www.bostonballet.org/educationoutreach/citydance.html
The
Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy has supported and will
continue to consider the great work of the Conservatory Lab
Charter School
Learning
Through Music
The mission of the Conservatory Lab
Charter School is to engage all children by using the Learning
Through Music
curricular model to ensure every child's academic, artistic, creative,
and social/emotional success, as validated by qualitative and
quantitative measures. http://www.conservatorylab.org/
http://www.conservatorylab.org/
The Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy has supported and will
continue to consider the great work of Epiphany School
Never gives up on a
child
Epiphany is an independent, tuition-free, middle school
for children of
economically disadvantaged families from Boston neighborhoods. We admit
children of diverse faiths, races, cultures, and cognitive profiles,
believing in the Episcopal tradition that we find God in and through
each other's presence. Epiphany's small classes, individualized
curricula, and extended school
days provide rigorous academic, moral and social instruction. In close
partnership with families, we are an innovative learning community that
affords structured support to help students thrive. Together, we are a
school that never gives up on a child. Epiphany challenges students to
discover and develop the fullness of
their individual gifts. We seek to prepare graduates who will
contribute intelligently, morally, and actively to the society they
will inherit.
http://www.epiphanyschool.com