The Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy
&
The 2009 Laurel Ball Committee Present
The Sixth Annual Laurel Ball
Friday, December 18th
7:30 to 11:00 p.m.
Taj Boston Hotel
15 Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
To Benefit
Boston Ballet's Adaptive Dance Program
&
B~Safe After School Program
Boston Ballets Adaptive Dance Program
provides access to dance for children with Down syndrome. With the TLA
donation, we will be supporting to extend this program so that many
wait~listed can begin to participate.
http://www.bostonballet.org/community/adaptive-dance.html
B~Safe After school Program gives a
safe haven to hundreds of inner city children at risk after
school. B~Safe Summer Camp provides enrichment for younger children and
paying summer jobs for teen counselors in training. With TLA donation
we can provide added teen counselor positions benefiting the children
and their families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjrZLwc6Pg4
The 2009 Laurel Ball is organized with the participation of high
school students representing the classes of 2010,
2011, and 2012
in diverse New England Private and Public Schools; as well as
many communities from the greater Boston area. The annual Committee of
Students and their parents provide the outreach effort and support for
the event.
We thank this year's
dedicated parents for their collaboration and support.
Mr. & Mrs. Michael K.
Fee Mr. & Mrs. Alexander G.
Grant Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hunnewell
Dr. & Mrs. Fulton Kornack
Mr. & Mrs. David M.
Kozol
Mr. Tom Shirley & Ms. Sarah Kaull Mr.
& Mrs. Robert Storer Mr. & Mrs. Marshall
Taylor
A special note of appreciation and thank you to all the friends,
advisors and sponsors who continue to support the annual process
in making every year better and better for all.
Taj Boston Hotel,
Grover Daniels and all at Copy Cop, The Digital Printing Company,
The Boston Ballet, Adaptive Dance Program Directors, and St.
Stephen's B~Safe Program Leadership
Make a notable difference for kids in your city!
The Laurel Association for Student Philanthropy provides teenagers
attending high school a new Boston holiday tradition. The Laurel
Ball celebrates the season of friendship and giving with an annual
elegant dinner dance and a fundraising initiative that benefits local
childrens charities.
Marta Judson Natasha
Makowski Sharon
Redd Amy Reilly
We thank the Student Committee for their research of local
charities that benefit children's education,
health and
enrichment programs. From these nominations, the committee selects one
or two each year to receive the annual fund-raising proceeds resulting
from the Laurel Ball event.
Organizations
selected by past committees to receive fundraising proceeds
B-SAFE Program
St.Stephen's Youth Program, South End Boston,
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
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.”
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/community/adaptive-dance.html
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/
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
Other important organizations
nominated to receive fundraising proceeds
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 memberMathieu 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 memberAlek 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/
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