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Summer Concert Series in Woburn

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 1:54pm

Bagboys

The second concert in the 2010 Horn Pond Summer Concert Series took place on Friday, July 9^th and was a huge success. The concert featured the Bagboys, a bluegrass band, and drew a crowd of 250. The concert was coordinated by Social Capital Inc. along with the North Suburban YMCA, WREN (Woburn Residents’ Environmental Network), Woburn Arts & Culture and sponsored by Sean P. Coakley of Atlantic Power Cleaning Corp.Read more

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Susan Musinsky's Idealist Award Acceptance Speech

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 2:29pm

Susan Musinsky and David Crowley Social Capital Inc, April 7, 2010 - Susan Musinsky's Acceptance Speech – Idealist Award Read more

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SCI Cares for the Victims from Haiti

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 9:55am

Dorchester AmeriCorps Members and Supervisors SCI AmeriCorps Members working at Dotwell in Dorchester have recently been caring for the victims of the disaster in Haiti. The SCI AmeriCorps Members serving in Dorchester and their supervisors are pictured to the left. The members, along with many other Dorchester community leaders planned a series of clinics to help victims who are now in the Boston area. Our AmeriCorps members took responsibility for creating a resource guide and related handouts for the event from scratch, which involved calling organizations like the Haitian Multi-Service Center, Catholic Charities, Association of Haitian Women in Boston (AFAB), Haitian Adult Day Health, ABCD, and others. Laura Santel helped with the school resource handout by gathering information about East Zone and North Zone of the BPS system. Read more

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Recent Milford Youth Press

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 3:58pm

Jennifer Ward, pictured on the left, an SCI AmeriCorps Member serving in Milford has been in the news lately for her work with the Milford Youth Council. Jennifer has helped create two interesting events lately: a fashion show entitled "Get Dressed up, Not Messed Up, and a Milford Youth version of the Olympics.

You can check out the news coverage of the olympics event here.

Another local paper captured some pictures of the talent show here.

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Youth Council Activities

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 2:21pm

Jen Ward at PJ Drive SCI Youth Councils show their commitment, even when times are tough! Pictured to the left SCI AmeriCorps Youth Leadership Coordinator, Jennifer Ward from the SCI Milford Youth Council and Jim Sanchioni, Director of Milford Youth Center, delivered nearly 300 pairs of children's pajamas to BJ's Wholesale Club, General Manager, Joe Reardon. BJ's, in collaboration with the Boston Bruins, has been collecting children's new and unused pajamas to give to nonprofit organization, Cradles to Crayons. SCI Youth Council collections have been extremely successful in helping meet the basic needs of struggling community members; such as SCI Woburn Youth Council’s Jeans for Teens initiative, SCI Lynn’s canned food collection in conjunction with Compare Supermarket, and the Winter Coat Drive in Dorchester. Read more

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SCI-Wide MLK day Activities

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:41am

Woburn Youth Council On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, SCI celebrated with a variety of activities, both here in Woburn, and in the other communities that we serve. Our youth councils especially got into the spirit, with Woburn, Milford, and Dorchester putting on special events.

The Woburn Youth Council put on variety of service activities at the Boys & Girls Club of Woburn in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day included writing letters to troops, care packages for children in hospitals, a craft for local seniors, among other things. Read more

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SCI's Holiday Activities

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 3:50pm

Decorated House Happy Holidays from SCI! We are participating in several exciting events this holiday season.

On December 6th, we put on our 2009 Holiday House Tour, and it was a terrific success. We had a great turnout overall. We had 141 tour-goers, and raised important funds critical to our organization’s mission. People touring the homes were able to connect with each other and the home owners, which follows SCI’s mission of connecting citizens to strengthen communities. Participants got to catch up with existing friends and neighbors, as well as, meet some new ones, while touring homes and getting ideas for creative holiday decorating. Read more

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Here are Some Things We're Currently Working On!

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 3:06pm

Girls Inc. of Lynn's Part of the Solution campaign, in association with SCI's own Tosha Duester, has been involved with a project to show the Lynn community what drug paraphernalia is being sold in their stores. Along with another Girls Inc. program, POS put together a presentation that they performed for the Lynn Board of Health in October. They did such a great job that they were asked to give another performance in November.

One of the big events, SCI's Deborah Orlando, who has been serving with the United Neighbors of Fall River, has a part in planning is The Peace by Piece Summit. This year is the second year for the summit. The purpose of the Summit is to promote peace within the city and get people involved. This event will occur in March.
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SCI Welcomes new Board Chair Alberto Calvo

Submitted by Mike Cooper on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 3:24pm

Here at SCI we are pleased to welcome Alberto Calvo as our new Board Chair. By way of introducing this pillar of the community to our loyal supporters, we thought we'd share some information about Alberto and why he is excited about social capital.
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