Boston 4 Social Change

Earlier this month, Boston Scores celebrated 20 years of serving Boston youth with a gala event held in the Seaport District. The Boston Scores story began in 1998 with the mission being to provide after-school soccer and enrichment programs to urban youth. Initially, the non-profit only served students in grades …

A decade has passed since a small group of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design met with Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health, to design the first hospital in Butaro, Rwanda. The integrated model of design that the Harvard students collaborated with Partners In Health led to …

Gail’s Snowden retirement as CEO of Freedom House in 2013 resulted in a transitional stage for the non-profit. It was Gail’s parents, Muriel and Otto, who founded Freedom House in 1949 as an organization that committed to neighborhood improvement, quality education and racial and religious harmony in Boston. Five years …

Like many of the surrounding structures, the red brick Emerson Hall building holds a formidable presence in Harvard Yard. The hall, the home of Harvard University’s Philosophy Department, has been in place since 1906. It has been the base for so much critical thinking and as recent as 2012, the …

Friends of the Children is a non-profit organization that provides children from high-risk communities with a professional mentor that guides them from kindergarten right through to graduation from high school. The non-profit, established in Portland, Oregon in 1993 is now based in 11 locations across the United States including Boston, …

Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Bridge) is a Downtown Boston based non-profit organization that has been in existence for almost a half century, battling to prevent long-term homelessness for vulnerable youths so they may become self-sufficient. Since 1970, Bridge has strived to provide life changing services for homeless and high-risk youth …

Soccer Without Borders (SWB) has expanded since its formation in Oakland, California in 2006 to serve in other cities in the United States such as Baltimore, Seattle and Boston as well as providing international programs in Nicaragua and Uganda. The non-profit was created over a decade ago with its aim …

The Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) was established in 1982 and serves as a trade organization for community development corporations (CDC’s) located within the Commonwealth. About MACDC MACDC’s base is situated right in the heart of Downtown Boston. The non-profit currently has nine employees, including John Fitterer. John …

Jon Gay has been with Playworks since the national non-profit opened its New England branch in Boston in 2006. Twelve years ago, Jon started as a Playworks coach when the organization served only six elementary schools in Boston. He progressed to other roles including program manager and development director and …

Thirty years after its formation, the Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA) was recognized for its innovative approach to ending homelessness in March 2018 with the $100,000 Hearst Health Prize for Excellence in Population Health. MHSA President & Executive Director Joe Finn accepted the prize for the non-profits Home & …