Sharing Common Ground

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Community Service Report 2010–2011

Sharing Common Ground

1 Contents Emerson College Administration and Governance

1 A Message Administration Board of Trustees Officers from the President Dr. M. Lee Pelton Jeffrey Greenhawt, Chair President Vincent J. Di Bona, Vice Chair 2 Investing in Larry Rasky, Vice Chair ’s Neighborhoods Dr. William Gilligan Steven Samuels, Vice Chair Vice President for Information Richard Janssen, Treasurer 4 Contributing Creativity, Technology Marillyn Zacharis, Secretary Expertise, and Resources Christine Hughes, Clerk Ms. Christine Hughes 6 Bringing Town Vice President and General Counsel Board of Trustees Members and Gown Together Eric Alexander Ms. MJ Knoll-Finn Kevin Bright 8 Supporting Those Who Vice President for Enrollment Bobbi Brown Help Others Robert Friend Dr. Linda Moore Linda Gersh 10 Service Learning Vice President for Academic Affairs Tony Goldman Gary Grossman 12 Students Reaching Out Ms. Maureen Murphy Doug A. Herzog Vice President for Administration and Douglas Holloway 13 Community Partners Finance Judy Huret Al Jaffe Mr. Jeffrey Schoenherr Max Mutchnick Vice President for Development and M. Lee Pelton Alumni Relations Linda Schwartz Mission Statement Ronald Walker III Mr. Andrew Tiedemann Emerson College educates Vice President for Communications Board of Trustees Emeriti students to assume and Marketing Justin Altshuler positions of leadership in Leo Beranek communication and the arts President Emerita S. James Coppersmith and to advance scholarship Dr. Jacqueline W. Liebergott Ted Cutler and creative work that brings Helen Rose innovation, depth, and Irma Mann Stearns diversity to these disciplines.

This mission is informed by core liberal arts values that seek to promote civic engagement, encourage ethical practices, foster respect for human diversity, and inspire students to create and communicate with clarity, integrity, and conviction.

2 To Our Friends in the Boston Community

As I complete my first year as the 12th Our students’ education does not stop President of Emerson College, I feel at the doors of Emerson’s glorious privileged to lead this institution and creative laboratories, classrooms, and to have the opportunity to meet the clinical spaces, but extends into their many neighbors, residents, and lives off campus and, ultimately, to the stakeholders who work and reside in lives they will lead after they graduate. the Midtown Cultural District. Within We hope we have instilled in them a the past decade, this neighborhood has lifelong habit of seeking to add value experienced an unprecedented to––rather than extract value from–– transformation in which Emerson has the organizations and communities to played an integral part in revitalizing which they will belong. the historic Theatre District. The civic engagement of our faculty Our mission at Emerson College is to and staff set wonderful examples for educate students to assume positions of our students to emulate. We pledge to leadership in communication and the remain true to the authenticity of arts while promoting civic engagement Emerson’s mission, which has nurtured and fostering respect for human the College’s steady progress toward diversity. Part of the faculty’s job is to being a place of distinction and enhance our student’s educational excellence, and to continue our quest experiences, both in and outside the for new and exciting collaborations classroom, through service learning, that benefit Boston’s neighborhoods co-curricular coursework, and volunteer and our fellow citizens. opportunities. As Mohandas Gandhi once said, “The best way to find This report highlights many of the ways yourself is to lose yourself in the service in which Emerson faculty, staff, and of others.” students work to strengthen our shared home, this great City of Boston.

Sincerely,

M. Lee Pelton

1 Investing in B o s t o n ’ s Neighborhoods

Paramount Center Receives Numerous Awards

Since the Paramount Center officially National Trust for Historic Preservation adaptive reuse, which entailed opened in March 2010, Emerson The National Trust for Historic transforming a neglected cinema circa College has received numerous awards Preservation was founded in 1949 and 1931, an arcade building, and a vacant for its significant restoration and provides leadership, education, lot into a mixed-use performing arts, rehabilitation of its grand theater. The advocacy, and resources to save academic, and residential center. Paramount Center, a mixed-use facility, America’s diverse historic places and Established in 1867, the Boston Society includes the 596–seat renovated assist in revitalizing communities. In of Architects is a nonprofit, professional- Paramount Theatre, the 125–seat Jackie 1995, the Paramount Theatre was part service organization consisting of more Liebergott Black Box Theatre, the 170– of a group of historic Boston theaters than 4,000 members. seat Bright Family Screening Room, 9 on the National Trust for Historic studios, a soundstage, and office space, Preservation’s list of America’s 11 Most Preservation in addition to housing 262 students. Endangered Historic Places. As a Emerson College and Elkus Manfredi co-recipient, Emerson College received Architects were recognized for their Boston Preservation Alliance a Preservation Honor Award for the exemplary efforts at the Preservation In October 2010, the Boston Paramount Center on October 20, 2011, Massachusetts Awards Dinner in May Preservation Alliance presented at the National Preservation 2011, where they received the Paul E. Emerson College with a Preservation Conference held in Buffalo, . Tsongas Award. The award honors those Achievement Award for outstanding who have played an extraordinary role achievement in historic preservation Boston Society of Architects in promoting the preservation of the and compatible new construction for Elkus Manfredi Architects received a Commonwealth’s past for the benefit the Paramount Center. The award, 2010 Boston Society of Architects Honor of its future. The award recipients given in the significant rehabilitation Award for Design Excellence for the demonstrated a commitment and restoration category, was accepted Paramount Center. The award to versatility, viability, and the by Jackie Liebergott. recognizes outstanding renovation and importance of preservation at higher education institutions.

2 ArtsEmerson

Other notable awards for the Since the Paramount Center’s opening, and the Office of the Arts, KKCS Paramount Center include the ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage has administrators organized a fundraiser following: provided the community with world- to benefit the school. Held at the class productions that bring new works Paramount Mainstage in April 2011, 2011 Architecture Merit Award from in international programming, high- elementary and high school students the United States Institute for Theater quality family theater, and young artist performed in a music ensemble for Technology (USITT) groups to the city. ArtsEmerson has community supporters in the featured works never before seen in Downtown Crossing and Chinatown 2011 Design Excellence Award from the City of Boston, which is part of the neighborhoods. Live Design Magazine College’s mission to strengthen and expand its programming not only for The College is committed to 2011 Awards of Merit (exterior and its students, but also for the community contributing its time and talent to interior lighting) from Illuminating at large. support worthwhile institutions and Engineering Society programs such as Kwong Kow Chinese As part of its commitment to the School, and we look forward to sharing 2010 Design Award from the American Boston arts community, the College has our unique cultural resources with Institute of Architects, New England opened its doors to give nonprofit other organizations throughout the Chapter organizations the opportunity to utilize greater Boston area. the state-of-the-art theater designed Best of 2010 Project of the Year for small to mid-size performances. Renovation/Restoration from New York One example of this town-gown Construction Magazine partnership is with Kwong Kow Chinese School, (KKCS) located in Chinatown. In 2010 Building Project of the Year collaboration with the Office of (renovation under $100 million) from Government and Community Relations Construction Managers Association of America, New England Chapter 3 Friends of the Public Garden

Friends of the Public Garden (FOPG) is a Contributing nonprofit citizen’s advocacy group formed in 1970 to preserve and enhance the Boston Public Garden, Creativity, Expertise, Boston Common, and Commonwealth Avenue Mall in collaboration with the Mayor and the Parks Department of and Resources the City of Boston. The Friends number more than 2,500 members and many volunteers.

As FOPG celebrated its 40th anniversary, Emerson College’s Television, Radio, and Film Department produced a video about the history of the organization and its accomplishments over the years. The video explains the origins of the organization and how it has evolved and successfully worked with the City of Boston to transform what was once a run-down decaying park system into what it is today: a vibrant destination point for all those who visit, work, or reside in the City. The video premiered at the Union Club in November 2010 and is used to assist in the organization’s educational outreach and fundraising initiatives.

4 Lawyer’s Clearinghouse

In Spring 2011, Emerson Productions, a unit of the Television, Radio, and Film Department, produced a video for Lawyer’s Clearinghouse (LCH) that highlights the organization’s work and mission. The Clearinghouse has served as a model for bar–sponsored pro bono groups establishing similar programs Ellie Fund throughout the country, including the District of Columbia, Maryland, and “So often the focus is on the negative The Ellie Fund, founded in 1995, is a Rhode Island. aspects of games, but our project 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that demonstrated that, if carefully fights breast cancer and eases its effects The mission of LCH is to promote the designed, games can be a compelling on patients and families by providing development of affordable housing, vehicle for social change,” said Eric services such as transportation to reduce homelessness, and strengthen Gordon, Associate Professor of Visual medical appointments, childcare, communities by providing pro bono and Media Arts and co-principal housekeeping, groceries, and prepared/ legal services to nonprofit investigator of the project. The game’s delivered meals free of charge to organizations and to individuals who development was made possible by a hundreds of women and family are homeless or at risk of becoming grant from the John D. and Catherine T. members across Massachusetts each homeless. In addition, LCH offers free MacArthur Foundation, and involved year. legal services to nonprofit collaboration among four local organizations or those seeking institutions: the Engagement Game Lab As part of its fundraising initiatives, the nonprofit status to further their goals. at Emerson College, the Asian Ellie Fund holds an annual Ellie Fund The video premiered at the Community Development Corporation, Oscar Party, which is the only Academy organization’s 23rd Annual Meeting on the Metropolitan Area Planning Awards party in Boston officially June 7, 2011, and is used to increase Council, and Muzzy Lane Software. sanctioned by the Academy of Motion awareness about its programs and Picture Arts & Sciences. In 2010, services. Another project of Gordon’s was Emerson College’s Television, Radio, recently adopted by the Boston Public and Film Department donated its Participatory Chinatown Schools. Community PlanIt, a web- resources by providing camera based social network, turns community coverage of the event and producing a Participatory Chinatown, a 3-D planning into a game. The school highlight reel. The Ellie Fund is immersive game created in part by a system is testing the game to gain required to submit the footage to the team from Emerson, was awarded Best input on designing standards for Academy each year to ensure it has Direct Impact Game of 2011 by the gauging school performance from followed the official guidelines for an Games for Change Festival in New York students, teachers, parents, and Academy–sanctioned Oscar party. City. Often referred to as the administrators. Gordon won a grant “Sundance of video games,” the festival from the Knight Foundation to fund is an annual gathering of the world’s the project. (Excerpted from top game designers, scholars, and Expression Magazine) developers.

A panel of industry professionals recognized Participatory Chinatown as a project whose gameplay produced a profound, direct impact on players. In the case of Participatory Chinatown, residents from Boston’s Chinatown community gathered and played the game as part of a 2010 master planning process.

5 Bringing Town and Gown Together

Creative Writing Program

Co-sponsored by the Office of Enrollment and the First–Year Writing Program, EmersonWRITES is a free creative writing program for students in the Boston Public Schools. Program participants engage in college-style creative writing classes at Emerson College, where courses are structured to build writing and critical thinking skills. The program began in the fall of 2010 and is taught by volunteer graduate students and alumni who have been trained through the First– Year Writing Program to design and teach in a team environment while pursuing professional development opportunities. The workshop meets every Saturday morning and registration is open to any high school student attending a Boston public or charter school.

WERS

Emerson College radio station WERS remains active in the community by collaborating with various nonprofit organizations throughout the Boston area. Within the past two years, staff and students volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank, the Red Cross Food Pantry, and participated as a radio partner for the Life Is Good Music Festival, a two-day event to benefit the Life Is Good Playmakers charity. The Playmakers’ mission is to help children

6 children of all backgrounds and The children who benefit are those cultures participate in creative and currently living in group homes or developmental learning through songs, shelters waiting to be adopted and those stories, role-play, and hands-on living with their families below the activities. Acorn’s child-centered poverty line. curriculum serves 81 children ages 15 months through 5 years old. College Day

Robbins Speech, Language and Representatives from the College’s Hearing Center Admission Office presented to more than 175 parents and students attending the The Robbins Speech, Language and first-of-its-kind College Day held in Hearing Center provides a supportive Chinatown in Fall 2011. Sponsored by environment in which clients and their the Asian American Civic Association families learn to manage a variety of (AACA) Youth Council, admission communication disorders and representatives from area colleges had differences. Since opening in 1953, the the opportunity to meet with parents Robbins Center has provided evaluation and students to discuss topics such as and treatment for children and adults scholarships, financial aid, and the with communication problems as well admissions process. The informational as educational programs for family event attracted students from grades 7 members and caregivers. The center is to 12 with the goal of helping also the primary clinical training facility Chinatown students look at higher associated with the Emerson College education possibilities and encouraging overcome life-threatening challenges Department of Communication parents to be active participants in their such as violence, illness, and extreme Sciences and Disorders. children’s application processes. poverty. The center donates a variety of services Community Outreach at Emerson WERS also participated in the Charles to the Boston community. Each year, College Los Angeles Beard Arts and Communication the center provides speech and Exploration program, providing language screenings free of charge to a Emerson College has reached out to the Boston–area middle and high school number of preschool programs in the greater Hollywood, California, students a behind-the-scenes tour of Back Bay, East Boston, North End, and community as it begins construction on a radio broadcasting. It also hosted the Beacon Hill. Also, every fall, the center permanent facility for the College’s MathPOWER Summer Academy. provides hearing screenings for the internship program. Part of the College’s Josiah Quincy School located in neighborhood outreach includes Campus-Wide Book Drive Chinatown. Staff and graduate providing a full four-year scholarship students have also provided free or each year to a student from Helen In Fall 2010, the Office of Government reduced–fee speech and language Bernstein High School located in and Community Relations sponsored a therapy services to adults and children Hollywood. In addition, the Office of campus-wide book drive to benefit residing in Boston, Roxbury, Brighton, Government and Community Relations Acorn Center for Early Education and Dorchester, Roslindale, and West provided items for the Friends of Care. Faculty and staff donated new Roxbury. Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood books for the preschool’s library. Council holiday gift drive in 2010. Holiday Gift Drive Located in Chinatown, Acorn Center is part of Boston Chinatown Each year, the College selects a Neighborhood Center, whose mission is nonprofit organization to be the to ensure that the children it serves beneficiary of the annual holiday party have the resources and support to gift drive. For the past two years, achieve greater economic success and Emerson faculty and staff donated social well-being. pajamas to the Pajama Program. The Pajama Program is a 501(c)3 nonprofit Opened in 1972, Acorn was the first that provides sleepwear and books to bilingual (Chinese-English) child care children in underserved communities. program in Massachusetts. Today,

7 The Home for Little Wanderers Supporting Originally founded as an orphanage in 1799, The Home for Little Wanderers plays a leadership role in delivering Those Who Help vital services to thousands of children and families living in at-risk circumstances through residential, Others community-based, and prevention programs; direct care services; and advocacy.

Boston Living Center Massachusetts Commission Documentary for Social Action The Boston Living Center (BLC) provides for the Blind free programs and services to members In this class, students take an in a safe and confidential environment. Jane Pikor, production manager in the interdisciplinary approach to the study The BLC is New England’s largest Television, Radio, and Film (TRF) and storytelling aspects of social action. community and resource center for Department, and Mary Higgins, In the past two years, students people living with HIV/AIDS. Members associate director of government and produced videos for several nonprofit come to the center for education, community relations, were awarded organizations in the Boston area that treatment information, and support Certificates of Recognition by the distributed their videos to stakeholders, services with the goal of empowering Commonwealth of Massachusetts funders, potential supporters, board them to live productive lives. Commission for the Blind. The members, and other nonprofits with ceremony took place on October 15, whom they collaborate. Examples of Alternative Spring Break 2010, at the State House to coincide these videos are below: with International White Cane Day. The 2011 Alternative Spring Break The project involved sponsorship and Bikes Not Bombs (ASB) program involved three groups of production of an instructional video for For 25 years, Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) students taking on community service Certified Orientation and Mobility has been a nexus of bike recycling and projects in Boston, , and Specialists (COMS) from collaborating community empowerment in lower- . Spring Break takes on a agencies. The video focused on income neighborhoods in Boston. BNB different meaning for those students adaptive sighted guide techniques used promotes bicycle technology as a who are committed to helping the less when working with individuals who concrete alternative to war and fortunate. have intellectual disabilities and vision environmental destruction. Its loss. The video was distributed to social programs involve young people and The student participants organized the service agencies, family members, and adults in leadership development and entire trip, from partnering with caretakers to educate them on effective environmental stewardship, while various nonprofits to planning guiding techniques within various recycling thousands of bicycles. fundraisers to cover travel expenses. environments. This ASB trip was the first to be The Mystic Unseen documented by film students in The Mystic River Watershed Association Emerson’s Visual and Media Arts seeks to protect and restore the Mystic Department. The film premiered at the River, its tributaries, and watershed Bright Family Screening Room in lands for present and future Fall 2011. generations. The Mystic River Watershed covers 76 square miles or roughly 1 percent of the land area of Massachusetts. The organization celebrates the value, importance, and beauty of these natural resources.

8 Boston, MA Students volunteered at after-school programs at the South Boston Boys and Girls Club and 826 Boston, assisting students with homework, playing games, and engaging children in a variety of mentoring activities. Other student-planned events that week included guest speakers and a movie screening.

New York, NY Students and chaperones worked with Youth Service Opportunities Project in soup kitchens and assisted in teaching elementary school students about environmental practices through Green Apple Core.

Niceville, FL Partnering with Community Collaboration International, students worked on an on-going sustainability project: helping to restore shorelines from damage that resulted from the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Emerson College Athletics

Emerson coaches and student-athletes are committed to assisting Boston neighborhoods by participating in a variety of community initiatives. Each student selects a nonprofit organization of his or her choice and works on a specific program. Within the past two years, athletes volunteered or participated in the Walk for Hunger, YMCA Healthy Kids Day in Chinatown, Cradles to Crayons, Boston Common Clean-up, Little House Preschool in Dorchester, and conducted clinics for the Charlestown Youth Lacrosse League.

9 Service Learning

Citizenship and Civic Engagement

Housed in the Center for Innovation in This philosophy course allows students Teaching and Learning (CITL), Emerson’s to serve with local agencies that Office of Service Learning and support immigrants through the Community Action (SLCA) focuses on naturalization process and helps them the design, execution, and assessment engage in civic, political, and social of discipline–specific academic service action. These students served at the learning projects. Together with following organizations: ¿Oíste?; The nonprofits and faculty members from Somali Development Center; Asian all eight of our academic units American Civic Association; The Haitian (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Coalition of Somerville; The Irish American Philosophy and Communication Studies, Journalism, International Immigration Center; Civic Engagement Marketing Communication, Performing Chinese Progressive Association; and Arts, Visual and Media Arts, Writing, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Students volunteer with nonprofit Literature and Publishing [including the Refugee Advocacy Coalition. organizations that work with youth or First-Year Writing Program], and Liberal with immigrants and refugees and Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies), the Writing for Research study those organizations and College partners to advance scholarship experiences in relation to readings for and creative work that brings This course involves students who class. innovation, depth, and diversity to worked with Mayor Thomas M. these disciplines. Menino’s ONEin3, a program serving Other service learning courses include: the one-third of Boston’s population Conflict and Negotiation; Language Community service in conjunction with that is between the ages of 20 and 34, Acquisition; Local Action/Global coursework is an essential part of to make public service announcements Change; Moving Out/Moving In; Emerson College’s mission, and one intended to connect Boston’s young Principles of Public Relations; What’s that many of those who study on adults with resources related to Cooking; Women, Media, and campus incorporate into their everyday professional networking and civic Globalization; Writing for Marketing; lives. The College offers a wide range engagement. Community Involvement; and of academic programs that encourage Playwriting for and with Youth. students to channel their skills, talents, Interpersonal Communication Skills Together, students in these courses and classroom learning into meaningful served the following nonprofits: engagement in community building. Students partner with local nonprofits These programs comprise what is serving elderly populations to focus on ABCD known as “service learning.” intergenerational communication. The Acorn Preschool students served at: Ethos; Rogerson Alternatives for Community and SLCA also oversees several high–level Communities; Hale House; Ellis Environment co-curricular leadership programs for Memorial; Boston Living Center; and Bikes Not Bombs students. Emerson boasts a robust Jewish Vocational Services. Boston Cares Jumpstart program that focuses on Boston Chinatown Neighborhood early childhood literacy as well as a Documentary for Social Action Center Student Leaders in Service program Boston Living Center that offers educational grants to This course involves students creating Cacique Afterschool Program at Villa students who contribute 300 hours of documentaries for various nonprofits Victoria service to community organizations. in the Boston area. Students Cambridge Family and Children’s Additionally, SLCA oversees the collaborated with Bikes Not Bombs, Service College’s Alternative Spring The Home for Little Wanderers, Boston Cambridge Forum Break program, through which Living Center, and the Mystic River Cradles to Crayons students spend their spring break Watershed Association. Dorchester Place performing community service locally Elizabeth Peabody House and nationally. Ellen Jackson Community Center

10 Federation for Children with Special Needs The Home for Little Wanderers Jumpstart Little House On the Rise Peace First Red Oak Afterschool Program Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute The Esplanade Association The Hurley School The Mystic River Watershed Association Transition House

More than 22 classes had either a service–learning or community–based project component involving more than 400 students, which resulted in more than 8,000 hours of community service.

Emerson College was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the 2010–2011 academic year, an annual recognition program that celebrates exemplary commitment to service and volunteering from institutions of higher education. The program is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, which pay tribute to the work of students, faculty, staff, and alumni who support local communities through service.

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Kappa Gamma Chi

The Kappa Gamma Chi student organization has been very active in the community through both community outreach and fundraising to help local nonprofit organizations.

Casa Myrna Vazquez Every year during the spring semester, Take Back the Night (TBN) is one of Kappa Gamma Chi’s biggest events. American Red Cross a farm and lead volunteer sessions that TBN involves a week-long series of Every semester, Kappa Gamma Chi help to build a sustainable food events to raise awareness about a partners with the Red Cross to hold a community. In addition to his various particular cause. Last year’s beneficiary blood drive, which is marketed campus- leadership roles and volunteer activities, was Casa Myrna Vazquez, a nonprofit wide and held in the Multipurpose Matthew has recently been selected for located in the South End. This agency is Room at the Max Mutchnick Campus the City Year program starting in July New England’s leading provider of Center. 2012. shelter and comprehensive services to victims and survivors of domestic Outstanding Students Isabel Thottam ’13 violence. The amount of funds raised Isabel has been involved with the by Kappa Gamma Chi covered funding Matthew Durham ’12 Alternative Spring Break organization for day-to-day operations such as access Matthew is a student leader of the for the past three years and has led two to court-based bilingual support, client President’s Committee on Sustainability trips to Pensacola, Florida, and Taos, housing for two weeks, and an and serves on the Alternative Spring New Mexico. Isabel is a two-year awareness-building campaign on 40 Break leadership team. He is also recipient of a Student Leaders in Service buses, in addition to 24-hour staffing treasurer for Emerson Peace and Social AmeriCorps scholarship, which provides for one of its SafeLink hotlines for two Justice, and is a recipient of a Student educational grants to students who weeks. Leaders in Service AmeriCorps contribute 300 hours of service to scholarship. As a Writing, Literature community organizations. Isabel’s American Cancer Society and Publishing major, Matthew’s community outreach includes assisting at On October 2, 2011, Kappa Gamma Chi, volunteer activities include serving as Samaritans, Inc., a nonprofit whose along with more than 40,000 walkers, an after-school tutor for 826 Boston. mission is to reduce the incidence of participated in the Making Strides The nonprofit, located in Roxbury, suicide and educate the public about Against Breast Cancer Walk in Boston. Massachusetts, is dedicated to suicide prevention. Isabel also volunteers On the day before the walk, a group of supporting students ages 6 to 18 with in the kitchen at Saint Francis House, volunteers helped prepare snack bags their writing skills. Matthew also preparing food for clients. In addition to for the participants. Kappa Gamma Chi volunteers with the Food Project, an her volunteer activities, Isabel serves as a raised more than $3,000 for cancer urban farm located in Dorchester, resident assistant and also ran the 2012 research and improved its fundraising Massachusetts. The Food Project Boston Marathon to help raise funds for goal from the previous year. provides teenagers from the Dudley Samaritans, Inc. Square area an opportunity to work on

12 Community Partners

Emerson College partners with a variety Federation for Children with Special The Somali Development Center of local, regional, and national nonprofit Needs Transition House organizations, including: Friends of the Public Garden Urban Land Institute Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Wang YMCA of Chinatown 826 Boston Center ABCD Greater Boston Food Bank Office of Government and Acorn Preschool Hale House Community Relations Alternatives for the Community and the Historic Boston, Inc. Environment The Home for Little Wanderers Emerson College’s Office of Government American Cancer Society Jewish Vocational Services and Community Relations acts as a liaison American Red Cross Josiah Quincy Elementary School between the College and the Boston Asian American Civic Association Jumpstart community. Working closely with the Asian Community Development Kwong Kow Chinese School College’s surrounding neighborhoods, city Corporation Lawyer’s Clearinghouse agencies, and other area institutions, the Bikes Not Bombs Light Boston, Inc. office is committed to partnering with Boston Cares Little House Preschool neighborhood associations to improve Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Metropolitan Area Planning Council the safety and quality of life for all Boston Dragon Boat Festival Midtown Park Plaza Neighborhood residents and visitors who frequent the Boston Living Center Association Midtown Cultural District. Individuals or Boston Preservation Alliance On the Rise groups who would like to work with Boston Parks and Recreation Department Park Plaza Civic Advisory Committee Emerson students, faculty, or staff are Boston Public Schools Peace First guided along the most effective route by Boys & Girls Club Project Destiny this office. Cacique Afterschool Program Red Oak Afterschool Program Cambridge Family and Children’s Service Rogerson Communities Peggy Ings Cambridge Forum Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Associate Vice President Casa Myrna Vazquez Institute 617-824-8299 Chinatown Adventure Camp The Carroll Center for the Blind Chinatown Safety Committee The Ellie Fund Mary Higgins Chinese Progressive Association The Esplanade Association Associate Director Commission on Affairs of the Elderly The Haitian Coalition of Somerville 617-824-8984 Commission for the Blind The Hurley School Cradles to Crayons The Irish International Immigration Center Office of Government Elizabeth Peabody House The Massachusetts Immigrant and and Community Relations Ellen Jackson Community Center Refugee Advocacy Coalition Emerson College Ellis Memorial The Mystic River Watershed Association 120 Boylston Street Emergency Shelter Commission The Pajama Program Boston, MA 02116-4264 Ethos

13 Office of Government Printed on recycled paper, process and Community Relations chlorine free, produced with renewable 120 Boylston Street energy generated Boston, MA 02116-4264 on site, and independently certified as an environmentally responsible choice.