Stronger TOGETHER

2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report Light the way. Worcester, Massachusetts | Rome, Italy FAST facts: 2013-2014 MISSION STATEMENT :: 1904 :: 1,925 :: $15,000 Year Assumption College Number of student volunteer Commitment to Assumption College, grounded in the Catholic intellectual was founded placements in organizations Worcester Economic tradition, strives to form graduates known for critical throughout Worcester County Development Fund intelligence, thoughtful citizenship and compassionate :: 2,068 service. We pursue these ambitious goals through a curriculum Number of Undergraduates :: $10,028,605 :: $41,865 grounded in the liberal arts and extending to the domain of Total purchasing expenditures Property taxes paid to professional studies. Enlivened by the Catholic affirmation :: 703 paid to vendors in Worcester the city of Worcester of the harmony of faith and reason, we aim, by the pursuit Number of Graduate Students County of the truth, to transform the minds and hearts of students. :: $21,315 Assumption favors diversity and ecumenically welcomes all :: 308 :: $8,990,095 Other fees paid to who share its goals. Number of Continuing Total purchasing expenditures the city of Worcester Education Students paid to vendors in the city of Worcester :: $9,289,215 CAMPUS COMMUNITY :: 42/48 Annual payroll for employees residing in SERVICE GROUPS Number of majors/minors :: $51,446,054 in the liberal arts and Amount spent on capital the city of Worcester Campus Ministry sciences, business and improvements in the last 10 Years Community Service Learning professional studies :: $20,060,210 Annual payroll for Student Government Association :: 1,153 :: $3.9 million employees residing in Reach Out Center Number of students from Amount of institutional aid Worcester County Worcester County to students from Worcester :: $25,000 For more information about this :: 456 :: $13 million Annual commitment to Community Benefits Report, please contact: Number of faculty/staff living Amount of institutional The Hanover Theatre for Daniel F. DiTullio in the city of Worcester and aid to students from the Performing Arts Executive Assistant for Government surrounding communities Worcester County and Community Relations :: 97% :: $259,632 Assumption College Undergraduates who receive Water and sewer taxes paid 500 Salisbury Street some form of financial aid to the city of Worcester Worcester, MA 01609 508.767.7478 :: 138,442 :: $12,069 www.assumption.edu Number of hours Police Department students contribute to coverage/costs paid community activity to the city of Worcester A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

To Fr. Emmanuel d’Alzon, the founder of the Assumptionist order, an education was not simply a path to personal gain – its fruits were to be shared with everyone. It was not enough to succeed on one’s own, it was imperative that one also help others succeed. Today, Assumption College is proud to continue this rich educational philosophy of Fr. d’Alzon. We believe that a well-lived life is one that sparks a light that illuminates the world and that service to others is a hallowed obligation we are privileged to undertake, a lesson we aspire to instill in our students. Assumption College has always enjoyed a special relationship with the city of Worcester. It is a truism that your community is more than “where” you are; it is a part of “who” you are. That is nowhere more true than here. The city forever leaves a mark on all those who work, study and teach at the College; we bond with our neighbors and become friends, share with them experiences and memories, and come to understand how unique and exceptional our city is. Every member of the Assumption family finds Worcester has become a part of them – no matter where they are from or where they live now. We are proud of that connection and are happy to give back to the community that is our home. As an institution, the College works hard to support our city and our partners in education, art, commerce and government by hosting community events, supporting worthy initiatives like The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts and doing our part to ensure that our community thrives. But it is the contributions of the College’s students of which we are most proud. Last year Assumption students contributed more than 138,442 hours of service to the Greater Worcester area as good neighbors, good citizens and good friends. Through our Reach Out Center, Campus Ministry SEND Program, the service learning curriculum, and dedicated student groups like Hounds Against Hunger, they strive to extend a helping hand out of solidarity and friendship. Their efforts are humbling and inspiring. Just as every person is unique, the faculty, students and staff of Assumption College contribute to Worcester in many different ways. Whether it be through the scholarly work of Professor Thomas White, whose Worcester Economic Indicators help us better understand the financial outlook of our city, or the volunteer efforts of our student tutors at the Nativity School of Worcester to mentor a new generation of “The city forever leaves a mark on all those scholars, we all find a path to give according to our abilities and talents. In the following pages, a handful who work, study and teach at the College; of examples are shared. we bond with our neighbors and become This September I joined the College’s student leaders with landscaping for the Worcester Housing Authority friends, share with them experiences and and helped prepare boxes of food for Feeding Children Everywhere alongside 573 of our first-year students as part of our orientation program. I was proud to share in this selfless effort and can think of no better memories, and come to understand how way to help new students understand what it means to be a member of the Worcester – and Assumption – unique and exceptional our city is.” community. That day we prepared more than 40,000 tons of food together – and rediscovered the joy of helping others. Francesco C. Cesareo, Ph.D. President The dream of the Venerable Emmanuel d’Alzon lives on. Assumption College Sincerely,

Francesco C. Cesareo, Ph.D.

President 2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report | 1 HELPING hands By Tyla Wade ’15

COMMUNITY SERVICE IS A POPULAR ACTIVITY among Assumption College students. It enhances students’ liberal arts education and creates an on-campus environment that inspires civic responsibility and community action. Students at Assumption helped out in the greater Worcester community throughout the 2013-14 academic year, volunteering their free time with more than 50 organizations including Matthew 25, Habitat for Humanity, and Community Harvest Project. This year Assumption College organized one of its largest ever service projects.

Assumption students love Worcester – so much so that Authority – and the people who live at the Lakeside more than 200 of them returned to the city before the Street complex – we want to instill in our students start of fall semester to help out at a Worcester Housing the Five Principles of Student Engagement that Authority (WHA) apartment complex on Lakeside the College lives by: ‘Community; Contemplation; Street that provides affordable housing for low-income Longing for God; Vocation; and Mission to Serve.’” residents. Wearing gray T-shirts emblazoned with These principles were introduced to first-year students “ASSUMPTION LOVES WORCESTER,” students, staff at the start of the fall 2014 semester. Over 573 first-year and Assumption College President Francesco Cesareo, students, orientation leaders and President Cesareo, Ph.D. worked alongside WHA staff to clean hallways, gathered on campus to prepare approximately 40,000 sweep walkways, and rake leaves. tons of food for the non-profit organization Feeding While in previous years Assumption’s various student Children Everywhere to be delivered to children in leader groups had participated in separate pre-semester need all over the world.” “I’m really glad we all participated in the projects, this was the first year that they all gathered “Projects like the ones for Worcester Housing Authority ‘Assumption Loves Worcester’ project. together for a single event, according to Conway and Feeding Children Everywhere embody how we, We are all members of the Worcester Campbell, Assumption’s dean of campus life. Their early as a campus community, help our city community,” arrival was part of their preparation for the fall semester, community, so giving back to the city and said Campbell. “The principles of service have long as they participated in training programs as well as the been a part of Assumption College’s tradition and will the Greater Worcester region feels great.” community service project at WHA. The idea to work be for years to come.” with WHA was introduced by Assumption’s Office of Meghan Dougherty Residential Life staff. WHA Executive Director Raymond Mariano said: Reach Out Center Student Leader “Worcester Housing Authority offers sincere thanks to the English and Education Major “Assumption College has had a long standing hard-working Assumption College students who helped Assumption College relationship with the Worcester community,” said us cleanup Lakeside Apartments. Their community spirit Campbell, “and by helping the Worcester Housing and compassion are greatly appreciated.”

2 | 2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report ASSUMPTION’S SERVICE GROUPS Send/Campus Ministry Service to its home city is an integral part of life at Assumption’s Office of Campus Ministry organizes Assumption. Students in the College’s service-related eight-day SEND Service Immersion trips assigned groups – the Reach Out Center (ROC), AC Allies, Peers to projects not only in Worcester, but also in many Advocating Wellness for Students (PAWS), Campus states along the east coast and in South America. Ministry and Community Service Learning courses – SEND trips encourage the Assumption community routinely participate in volunteer projects, such as this to put their “Faith in Action” through works of charity, year’s WHA clean-up, that benefit Worcester residents. allowing students to form bonds with one another The “Assumption Loves Worcester” T-shirt Campbell and strengthen their faith while helping others. designed attempts to capture that spirit with a message that unifies all those that participated. Student Government Association The members of Assumption’s Student Government “Assumption really does love Worcester,” he explained. Association (SGA) also took part in the “Assumption “Through the College’s Reach Out Center, the Office of Loves Worcester” project. The SGA is comprised Campus Ministry, and all of our student volunteers we of students representing all four academic years work hard to be a part of the community and help out and who advocate for the entire student body and whenever we can.” are committed to engaging and working with the Reach Out Center Worcester community. The ROC provides students with opportunities The SGA recently established the “Service Sundays” throughout the academic year to volunteer in the program, which consists of each of the SGA’s five Greater Worcester area in a variety of ways, including “executive groups” choosing one Sunday a semester mentoring children with the Big Brother Big Sisters to volunteer for a city organization and/or perform of Central Mass/Metrowest organization, visiting random acts of kindness in Greater Worcester. local veterans with the MA Veteran Inc., and “The ‘Assumption Loves Worcester’ program unified refurbishing abandoned houses with the WHA. all the student leaders under one cause and showed For senior Meghan Dougherty, an ROC student the Worcester community that Assumption students “Projects like the ones for Worcester leader and English and education double major care about the city and want to help the people who from Braintree, MA, service often means a great live, work and study here,” said Kathryn Cullerot ’15, Housing Authority and Feeding Children deal to the volunteers as well as the people a senior accounting major from Hampton, N.H., who Everywhere embody how we, as a campus they help. is an SGA senator. community, help our city community. The “I’m really glad we all participated in the Community Service Learning principles of service have long been a part ‘Assumption Loves Worcester’ project,” she said. Assumption’s focus on service also extends to of Assumption College’s tradition and will “We are all members of the Worcester community, the academic sphere with its Community Service so giving back to the city and the Greater Worcester be for years to come.” Learning (CSL) program, which combines classroom region feels great.” instruction and discussion with giving back to Greater Conway Campbell Worcester. A variety of service opportunities allows Dean of Campus Life students to volunteer with Worcester-based Habitat for Assumption College Humanity, African Community Education, Worcester Public Schools, and the Salvation Army.

2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report | 3 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY Assumption proactively seeks to engage with Whether students volunteer in the Reach Out Center, Campus Ministry, as a member of an intercollegiate the community and encourages members of the athletic team, or through a community service learning class, they offer their skills, talents and hearts to make community to come to the campus for events and a difference in the community. programs. Undergraduate and graduate students contribute to the vitality and well-being of the *Organizations in the Worcester community that have benefited from this work are: greater Worcester region through many internships, Abby’s House Forest Grove Middle School St. Peter Central Catholic School practicums and capstone projects. African Community Education Friendly House St. Peter’s Church Mentoring AIDS Project Worcester Friends of Newton Hill Sullivan Middle School *Here are just some of the local groups to which Autumn Woods Gates Lane School The Mustard Seed the College provides time, space and assistance: AVID Girls Inc. of Worcester TOPSoccer Big Brothers/Big Sisters at Habitat for Humanity Training Resources of AA Flagg Street School Build Projects America, Inc. ACE Network Conference Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Habitat for Humanity ReStore Union Hill Elementary Adopt-A-Student Program Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Interfaith Hospitality Network Urban Missionaries of Al-Anon Center and Wildlife Sanctuary John’s Street Baptist Church Our Lady of Hope Chapel of Divine Mercy in Worcester Campus Ministry SEND Trips: Soup Kitchen Veteran’s Inc. City of Worcester Elections Commission Tuscaloosa, Alabama Kids Klub at Great Brook Valley Wachusett Regional High School (Polling Location) Baltimore, Maryland Leicester Food Pantry WCUW 91.3FM Diocese of Worcester School Board Camden, New Jersey Lincoln Street Elementary Why Me & Sherry’s House Emmanuel Radio Washington, D.C. Literacy Program Women’s Oral History Project Flagg St. School Spree Day Immokalee, Florida Lutheran Social Services of Worcester Animal Rescue League New England Goddard Scholars Academy Georgetown, Delaware Worcester Housing Authority Matthew 25 Higher Education Consortium of Central Mass Duran, Ecuador Worcester Public Schools – Mercy Centre Holy Name High School Staten Island, New York Transition Program Nativity School of Worcester Massachusetts Citizens for Life Norristown, Pennsylvania Worcester Public Nelson Place – Book Buddies Schools/Story Train Massachusetts House of Representatives Pine Ridge, South Dakota Notre Dame du Lac Massachusetts Science Olympiad Trenton, New Jersey Our Lady of the Angels * This is a partial list. NECBAC Conference Canvas Peace Project Afterschool NEEIA Annual Luncheon Central Mass Special Education Pernet Family Services St. Bernadette’s School Collaborative Homework Club Steps to the Future Christ The King Parish Plumley Village Team Central Lacrosse Coats for Kids – Worcester Positive Directions (UMASS Health Public Schools Thomas S. Green Awards Center at South High School) Collegiate Success Institute United Way of Massachusetts Preservation Worcester Community Harvest Project Worcester Children’s Chorus Rainbow Child Development Davis Hill School Worcester Fire Department Rebuilding Together Worcester Dismas Farm Worcester Incubator Project Relay for Life Dismas House Worcester North High School – People’s Bank Salvation Army “Reality Check Training” Dynamy, Inc. SEARCH Program Worcester Public Schools Eisenberg Jewish Health Center Special Olympics Seven Hills Worcester Research Bureau Elm Park School Literacy Program St. Anne’s Human Services Flagg Street School St. Mary’s * This is a partial list.

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working TOGETHER

DUBBED A “DIGITAL TRAILBLAZER” by the (Worcester) Telegram & Gazette, Assumption Economics Professor Thomas White, Ph.D., has developed the “Worcester Economics Index” (WEI), which measures TEAMING up the performance of the Worcester-area economy based on local employment and unemployment data. Released quarterly, Professor White’s economic updates help Worcester residents and political leaders In March, U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern of Worcester understand how the city is faring. delivered a charge to a packed room of approximately 100 students, faculty and staff at Assumption College, challenging them to lobby their lawmakers to support Scholarly efforts like TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS local, state and federal anti-hunger and anti-poverty the WEI provide a policies and legislation. unique opportunity for Congressman McGovern’s presentation, organized Assumption to share its by Assumption’s “Hounds Help Hunger” group, was resources with the one of a number of efforts launched by Assumption Worcester community in students – to combat hunger in Worcester. Assumption new and innovative ways. students have worked shifts at St. John’s Food Pantry’s For White, his findings free breakfast line, solicited donations of food and reveal a lot more than toiletries, and “dorm-stormed” to collect bottles and numbers and equations, cans to exchange for money to support the food pantry they help us understand as well. Assumption Athletics’ Food Drive in November 2013 collected donations to purchase food baskets who we are. “We’re all Every semester Assumption’s Master of Business through Pernet Family Health Services. Thomas White, Ph.D. part of the economy,” Administration (MBA) students use the management Assumption College White notes, “and I think skills they’ve learned to assist businesses with Congressman McGovern, who has garnered national it’s important that we’re able to understand it and developing a comprehensive strategy that helps attention for his “End Hunger Now” campaign, praised the College’s efforts. where it’s going.” them plan their future. This spring the students “Assumption students have recognized the need to Professor White was encouraged in his research by extended their efforts overseas to Grand Cove, Haiti, address this national problem and have tirelessly worked Assumption’s provost, who saw the project as an ideal and worked with the “Be Like Brit” Foundation, named for the late Britney Gengal of Rutland, MA. to raise awareness of and provide for those in our city way to use the College’s resources in service of others. who too often go without basic nourishment,” he said. “Assumption is very involved in the local community,” “We are very appreciative of the Assumption College Said Kyle Gallivan ’15: “This endeavor is bigger than just notes White. “The Index is just one more way graduate students for their strategic plan for Be Like a class project. It’s about raising awareness of the real Assumption can contribute to the city of Worcester.” Brit,” said Len Gengel, co-founder of the Foundation. issues in the community and erasing the stigmas that “The foundation is dedicated to raising the next come with being hungry. No man, woman or child should generation of leaders in Haiti; their recommendations ever go without food, and it’s our mission to make sure will help us achieve this goal and we are grateful to they don’t.” them for their help.”

2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report | 5 WORKPLACE COLLABORATION Through internships, practica and work study programs, Assumption students partner with Worcester businesses in a mutually beneficial collaboration that helps both parties reach their full potential.

*Here are some of the organizations that benefit from these partnerships: African Community Education Ecology research Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission The Brickle Group Agilux Labs Eisenberg Assisted Living More Love Letters The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Alexander, Aronson, Finning, & Co. Enterprise Mt. Wachusett Community College The Donley Rehabilitation Center Alive Campus Entertainment Tonight Multicultural Awareness Center The KEY Program AllCom Credit Union Equine Journal New Britain Superior Court Probation Thom Early Intervention Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. Expose Yourself Public Relations New England Center for Children Travelers Insurance Company Alzheimer’s Association Faith House New England Center for Homeless Veterans Travers Printing American Cancer Society FamilyFun Magazine Office of Congressman John Tierney Turner Construction Company American Diabetes Association Farmington Valley Transitional Academy Peabody Properties Inc. UMass Medical School American Eagle Cycles Fitivity, Inc. Plansee USA UMass Memorial Hospital AMICA FitnessClick Social Private Wealth Management Group United Way of Central Massachusetts Bayard Press Fresenius Medical Care North America Psychotic Disorders Clinical UNUM Beaumont Nursing Home Fused Solutions and Research Program VCE Bemis Associates, Inc. General Dynamics Pulse Magazine Veterans, Inc. BL Companies Genesis Club Putnam Bank W.B. Mason BNY Mellon Girls Inc. Rainbow Child Development Centre Wachusett Early Childhood Center Bollus Lynch, LLP Global Companies RCAP Solutions West Hartford Community Television Boston Figurative Art Center Golden Pond Assisted Living Revelli & Luzzo, P.C. Why Me & Sherry’s House Boston Fitness Magazine Gold Star Chiropractic Rhode Island Department Winchester Electronics Brooks Pond Apartments GTECH of Environmental Management Worcester Art Museum Cartan Global Hannoush Rhode Island Department of Health Worcester Business Journal Catholic Digest Hartwell Learning Center Robert S. Brennen & Associates Worcester Center for Crafts CBS Radio Hector Reyes House Rue La La Worcester County District Center for Living and Working History Seminar SACSLAW LLC Attorney’s Office Salespod Inc. Central Mass Visitors Bureau Houghton Elementary School Worcester Family Partnership and Convention Center IDG Sassy Baby Products Worcester Historical Museum Centros Los Americas Instrumentation Laboratory Senior Research Seminar Worcester Juvenile Probation Court Citizens Bank/RBS Citizens Financial Group Insurance Marketing Agencies, Inc. Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group Worcester Magazine City of Worcester International Data Group Seven Hills Foundation Worcester Police Department Clarke Distribution Corporation Jamie Oil Sherwin-Williams Worcester Public Schools Clinical Pharmaceutical Group Jeremiah’s Inn Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services Worcester Sharks Community Healthlink Jewish Healthcare Center Sidekick Soccer Academy Worcester Superior Court Probation Department Cre8 Jewish Orphans of Rhode Island Six Flags New England Finance Department WRRB Crossfit Worcester JJM Insurance Agency Smith, Sullivan & Brown, P.C. Y.O.U., Inc. Demandware, Inc. JP Morgan Chase Sodexo YMCA Devereux Foundation Knightsville Internal Medicine South Bay Mental Health Zensar Diocese of Worcester Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Spectrum Health Dismas Farm Sports Talk Productions Massachusetts Department of * This is a partial list. Dudley District Court Children & Families Summit Academy Dunkin’ Brands Massachusetts General Court Target

6 | 2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report CULTURAL RESOURCE SHARING the stage Art brings us together and helps us understand who we really are. Theatre lets a community Offering cultural programming is an important part of the Assumption contribution: gather and share something beautiful, funny, moving or Theatre Performances: thought-provoking. For the The Hanover Theatre performance of Les Miserables past six years Assumption You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown College has been a proud HumanArts Series: supporter of Worcester’s Blue Herron Renaissance Choir Hanover Theatre for the Bach Consort of Worcester Performing Arts, an Dr. Bridget Buxton – The Lost Eagle institution dedicated to Suzanne Cartrenine – Harpsichord Series bring affordable, high-level Robert Frost and the Changing Landscape of New England by Dr. Owen Sholes shows and performances to John Dufrensne, “No Regrets Coyote” the Worcester community. Cochran-Wren Duo Every spring The Hanover hosts Assumption Theatre’s Jonathan Bezdegian – Harpsichord Series spring show. Through productions like The Fantasticks, Boston Cello Quartet Beth Alpert Nakhai, Rethinking Israelite Women: Les Misérables, Seussical and Oliver! the College delights What does Archaeology Teach Us? in sharing with, and bringing together, the Worcester Jim Guttmann’s Bessarabian Breakdown community through laughter, drama and song on The President’s Lecture Series: Hanover stage. Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. For Assumption Guest Theatre Director Richard Monroe, Janet E. Smith, Ph.D. class of 1985, who will bring Assumption’s 2015 John C. Cavadini, Ph.D. performance of Fiddler on the Roof to the venue, the John L. Allen Jr., D.S.Litt. Assumpton/Hanover partnership is a perfect fit. “Student Ambassador Miguel Humberto Díaz, Ph.D. Assumption College Performances: performers are given an exhilarating experience when Hosted Events: Assumption College Band working in a facility like The Hanover. There are many Assumption College Jazz Ensemble The World Music, Jeremy Cohen – African Drumming talented singers, actors and dancers on campus at Assumption College String Camerata Damon Lehrer – Art Lecture Assumption who will once again have this experience Assumption College Chorale DEGREE OF OVERLAP, Art show exhibit due to the College’s ongoing partnership with The Faculty Concerts Art in IT Exhibition Hanover Theatre.” Diane Meredith Belcher, Organist Lessons and Carols An evening with Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Assumption College is proud to support numerous In the spring of 2014 Assumption announced that it will DUNYA – Turkish Music Presentation cultural organizations and events including: recommit to supporting The Hanover, and public theatre The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts for another five years. “Assumption College’s support of d’Alzon Arts Series: Centro Las Americas – Film Festival the theatre, through giving us the opportunity to host its Exhibitions First Night Worcester Lynn Simmons annual spring musical as well as in so many other ways, Worcester Festival of Lights Libby Lipin means a lot to us,” notes Tony Siebels, The Hanover’s Student Art Show Executive Director. “We’re grateful to Assumption College * This is a partial list. Carrie Nixon and Tom Grady for its strong and consistent belief in the theatre since our Poetry grand opening in 2008, and we’re proud of the partnership.” David Thoreen Student Poerty Readings

20132011 – 20122014 Community Benefits Report | 7 COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION Assumption College works with Worcester Public Schools (WPS) and Catholic schools in the region to enhance educational opportunities in formal academic settings and after-school programs. The College also offers professional development workshops and tuition discounts for WPS, Worcester Diocese, and Nativity School teachers. In addition, Assumption is proud to support the Mayor’s Task Force on Latino Education.

*Some of the schools and programs we work with are: Abby Kelly Charter Fuller Middle School Rainbow Child Development Adopt-A-Student Gates Lane Elementary Roosevelt Elementary making FRIENDS African Community Education Goddard Academy School Improvement Council – Algonquin Regional High School Grafton High School Flagg St. School Nativity School of Worcester is an independent, Jesuit Alive Campus Hartwell Learning Center Shrewsbury High School middle school that provides a quality, all-scholarship Assabet Valley Tech Heard Street School South Grafton School – S. Grafton education to underserved boys of all faiths. Three nights Auburn High School Holy Cross Student Development South High School a week Assumption students volunteer there as tutors, Auburn Middle School Houghton Elementary School St. Peter-Marian High School helping Nativity School kids with their homework and AVID Hudson High School St. Peter Central Catholic School building strong one-on-one relationships. Assumption Bay Path Reg. Voc. High School Jewish Community Center Sullivan Middle School students also act as mentors and provide guidance for Bellingham Memorial LakeView School Summit Academy their young partners. Burncoat High School Leicester High School The Goddard School Burncoat Middle School Leicester Milddle School The Grow School “The Nativity School is an amazing school, filled with great Central Mass Preparatory School Lincoln Street Elementary The Hildreth School students, faculty and love,” shared Heather Ewell ’16, Central Mass Special Education Literacy Program Thorndyke Road School a junior at Assumption and service director for the Collaborative Lincoln Street School Training Resources of America Inc. program. “We are able to talk and communicate with Centro Las Americas Littleton High School Trottier Middle School them about the importance of doing well in school, Chandler Magnet Mayo School – Holden Union Hill Elementary how our life has been impacted by the decisions we Chocksett Middle School McGrath School Union Hill School City View School Melican Middle School University of Massachusetts have made, and to encourage them to take advantage Claremont Academy Millibury Jr./Sr. High School Medical School of all opportunities that come their way.” Collegiate Success Institute Mt. Wachusett Community College Upton Memorial School Assumption also offers distinguished Nativity School Columbus Park Prep Academy Murdock High School Wachusett Eary Childhood Center alumni who have recently graduated from college the Columbus Park School Nativity School of Worcester Wachusett Regional High School Wawecus Road School opportunity to pursue graduate degree programs at Davis Hill School – Holden Nelson Place – Book Buddies – Westborough High School Assumption free of tuition costs through a “Fellowship” Dawson School Holden Nelson Place Elementary Devereux Foundation New England Center for Children West Boylston Middle – High School program, helping them work toward their dreams Devereux School Norrback Ave School Worcester Arts Magnet School and aspirations. Doherty High School Northbridge High School Worcester Family Partnership “Nativity School of Worcester benefits greatly from the Eisenberg Jewish Health Center North Grafton School Worcester Polytechnic Institute care, compassion and commitment of the Assumption Elm Park Community School Oak Middle School Worcester Public Schools – Transition Program College community,” said Nativity School President Elm Park School Literacy Program Our Lady of the Angels Afterschool Fales Elementary Oxford Middle School Worcester Public Schools/Story Train Alex Zequeira. “Through student volunteers and the Worcester Technical High School Farmington Valley Transitional Academy Positive Directions (UMASS Health opportunity to access graduate programs for our – Flagg Street Elementary School Center at South High School) Y.O.U., Inc., Educational Academy Nativity teaching fellows, our partnership promotes Forest Avenue Elementary School Quinn Middle School – Hudson * This is a partial list. a faith that does justice.” Forest Grove Middle School Quinsigamond School

8 | 2013 – 2014 Community Benefits Report Stephen Kostrzewa Editor and Writer Marketing Content Developer Lorraine U. Martinelle Contributing Editor and Writer Director of Media Relations Tyla Wade ’15 Contributing Writer Michael Guilfoyle Executive Director of Communications

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