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Boston Cares offers
several different programs to accommodate
volunteers, partners and sponsors. Our current
programs include:
Calendar Program
Corporate
Volunteering
Citizen Academy
BOOYAH! Youth and Family Program
Frosty's Friends
Calendar
Program
Boston Cares’ signature initiative, the Calendar
Program, offers more than 150 team orientated
volunteer opportunities each month. Volunteers have
the flexibility of signing up for projects as their
schedules and interests allow.
Boston Care partners with more than 100 Greater
Boston
non-profits annually to provide volunteer
opportunities such as painting shelters, visiting
seniors, feeding the hungry,
stewarding the environment, helping children with
special needs, registering voters … the list goes on
and on. To view projects currently being
offered through our Calendar program,
click here.
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Corporate
Volunteering
Boston Cares consults with private corporations of
all sizes to engage employees in volunteer community
service. These programs introduce employees to
community service while generating revenues for
Boston Cares programs, helping to offset both
program and administrative costs. Our signature
programs include:
- Hands At Work, a program through
which Boston Cares develops and leads community
service opportunities for companies throughout the
year.
- Corporate Volunteer Day, our annual
day of service with Greater Boston companies, and
Boston Cares’ most visible event. Over 190 companies
have participated since the event was launched in
1997 by General Colin Powell.
To learn more about Corporate Volunteering, please
click here.
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Citizen Academy
Launched in 2003 with support from the Boston Globe
Foundation, our Citizen Academy initiative is
helping people make the shift from casual volunteers
to intentional citizens, which is critical in a city
and region intent on bridging communities. Boston
Cares volunteers are increasingly asking for tools
and support to remain engaged and to go deeper. In
response to this interest, Citizen Academy programs
offer a continuum of opportunities to encourage
civic engagement through service learning projects,
educational programs, skill-building workshops,
panel discussions, book clubs and community-wide
special events. To learn more about Citizen Academy,
click here.
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BOOYAH! Youth and Family
Program
BOOYAH! - Boston Young Active Hands - is the youth
and family program at Boston Cares. It offers
exciting and rewarding team-oriented opportunities
for students and families to engage in community
service that fit their lifestyles, schedules, and
interests. BOOYAH! programs include out-of-school
time opportunities, customized group projects,
week-long Teen TeamWorks programs, and more! To
learn more about BOOYAH!,
click here.
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Frosty’s Friends
Frosty’s Friends is a winter holiday gift-giving
program through which volunteers respond to
hand-written letters to “Frosty” from 1,700
disadvantaged children served by our project
partners.
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