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The Social Action Committee of the LHS
Student-Faculty Senate maintains a list of pre-approved
community service opportunities. Currently, our list is
being updated and revised. As more opportunities are updated
and verified, they will be added here.
General
Links
These are websites to help you find other
community service opportunities – they are not guaranteed to
be approved (when in doubt, submit a pre-approval form), but they
can at least point you in the right direction
Runs/Walks/Dances/Rides
You can earn hours by participating in or volunteering for
these events
Shake It For Shelter (June)
Lexington
http://www.shakeitforshelter.org/
PanMass Challenge (Aug.)
www.pmc.org
Walk For Hunger (May)
http://www.projectbread.org/Walk/walk.html
Great Strides (Cystic Fibrosis) (May)
www.cff.org/great_strides.org
Walk for MS (May)
www.msnewengland.org
AIDS Walk (June)
www.aidswalkboston.org
Avon Walk for Breast Cancer (May)
www.avonwalk.org
Jimmy Fund (various events throughout the year)
http://www.jimmyfund.org/
American Cancer Society (various events throughout the year)
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/par/content/PAR_1_Relay_For_Life.asp
Genesis Battlegreen Run (Nov.)
http://www.genesis-cos.com/gentoday_com_bg.htm
The Children’s Room 3 Mile Walk/Run (Nov.)
http://www.childrensroom.org/events.htm
Samaritans 5K Run/Walk (fall)
http://www.samaritansofboston.org/5k.html
National Alliance for Autism Research (fall)
www.autismwalk.org
Children
and Family Services
Birthday Wishes
Waltham
www.birthdaywishes.org
Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Ave. Boson
617-355-7885
www.childrenshospital.org/help/volunteer.html
The Children’s Room
1210 Mass. Ave. Arlington
http://www.childrensroom.org/
Federation for Children with Special Needs
www.fcsn.org/
Franciscan Children’s Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
30 Warren St. Brighton
617-254-3800 x1510
(summer opportunities only)
Franklin Perkins School
Lancaster
Markens Benoit (978) 368-6499
Horizons for Homeless Children
http://www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org/Volunteer.asp
Jackson Mann Community Center
5 Cambridge St. Allston
Louise Sawers (617) 635-5153
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
1340 Center St. Suite 202 Newton Center
http://www.jfcsboston.org/about/volunteering.cfm
Kids In Need
Margie Chew (781) 863-1216
Madison Park Community Center
Roxbury Crossing
(617) 635-5209
Make A Wish Foundation
http://mass.wish.org/volunteer.html
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children
http://www.mspcc.org/
The New England Home for Little Wanderers
http://www.thehome.org/site/content/get_involved/volunteer.asp
Various After School Programs in the Greater Boston Area
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~afterschool/resources/afterschool_programs.php
South Middlesex Legal Services
Janice Camp (781)861-1374
Framingham
http://www.smlegal.org/help.html
Elizabeth Stone House
Jamaica Plain
http://www.elizabethstonehouse.org/
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts
http://www.ulem.org/help/volunteer.cfm
Urban Neighborhood Healthy Families
35 Bird St. Dorchester
(617) 287-1150 x110
Services
for the Hungry/Homeless
Rosie’s Place
Chris Weithold (617) 442-9322
Lexington Food Pantry
Carolyn Worthman (781) 861-5060
Shattuck Shelter
170 Morton St. Jamaica Plain
www.shattuckshelter.org
Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
66 Winthrop St. Cambridge
www.hshsc.org
On The Rise
341 Broadway Cambridge
Gillian Grossman (617) 497-7968 x37
Project Soup
59 Cross St., Grace Baptist Church
Somerville
Mary Todd or Sandy Harris (617) 776-7687
Log School
222 Bowdoin St., Dorchester
Leann Smith (617) 474-1231
Boston University Community Service Center
Student Food Rescue, 775 Comm. Ave. 4th fl.
Boston
Sumit Mittal or Elizabeth Foley (617)
353-4710
Boston Food Pantry
American Red Cross of Mass. Bay, 285 Columbus
Ave. 2nd fl. Boston
Maureen Schnellmann (617) 375-0700 x230
Casper Emergency Service
240 Albany St. Cambridge
Joel Glennwixson (617) 661-0600
Somerville Homeless Coalition
1 Davis Sq.
Mark Allston-Follensdee (617) 623-6111
Long Island Shelter
Tobin Building, Long Island, Boston Harbor
Joyce Fullerton (617) 534-2526 x326
Project Hope
45 Magnolia St. Dorchester
Heather Sullivan (617)
442-1880 x21
Family House Shelter
252 Columbia Rd. Dorchester
Cynthia Brown (617) 541-2731
Horizons for Homeless Children
90 Cushing Ave. Dorchester
Karin Turner (617) 287-1900
www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org
Casa Nueva Vida
Jamaica Plain
Carmel Aronson (617) 524-6332
Hildebrand Family Self Help Center
614 Mass. Ave. 3rd fl. Cambridge
Lee Ann Friguiletti (617) 491-5752 x20
Boston Family Shelter
656 Mass. Ave. Boston
Amanda McClusky (617) 267-8081
Renewal House
Roxbury Crossing
Ada Guadalupe (617) 566-6881
Finex House, Inc.
Jamaica Plain
Nell Bass (617) 436-2002
finexhouse@yahoo.com
Transition House
649 Mass. Ave. Cambridge
Linda McMaster (617) 354-2676 x22
Respond Inc.
Somerville
Michelle Fine (617) 625-5996
Medford Family Life Education Center
Kay Yarrow (781) 391-9116
Harbor Lights Center
Boston
Ed Domint (617) 536-7469
Children’s Services of Roxbury
Celesta Shropshire (617) 445-6655 x224
New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans
17 Court St. Boston
Chrissie MacArthur (617) 371-1709
Education Services
Big Sister Association
www.bigsister.org/volunteer.html
Big Brothers of Mass.
Bay
1-888-412-BIGS
www.bbmb.org/cgi-bin/volunteer/vol.pl
Boston Museum of Science
Science Park Boston
www.mos.org/doc/1205
Boston
Public Library
Copley Square
and neighborhood branches
www.bpl.org
Boston University Upward Bound
www.bu.edu/ub/#
Boys/Girls Club of Boston
www.bgcb.org/
Boston Children’s Museum
Congress St. Boston
www.bostonkids.org/
City Year
www.city-year.org/sites/boston/
Drumlin Farm
South Great Rd. Lincoln
www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Drumlin_Farm/index.php
Educators for Social Responsibility
23 Garden St. Cambridge
www.esrnational.org/home.htm
Franklin Park and Stone Zoos
Franklin Park Boston, Stoneham
www.zoonewengland.com/
Gardner
Museum
2 Palace Rd. Boston
www.gardnermuseum.com/
Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation (HOPE)
165 Brookside Ave.
extension Jamaica Plain
Craig
Farr (617) 524-8888
JFK Library
Columbia
Point Boston
www.jfklibrary.net/
Museum
of Afro-American
History
Brookline
www.afroammuseum.org/
Museum
of Fine Arts
Huntington Ave. Boston
www.mfa.org/
Museum of Our National Heritage
33 Marrett Rd. Lexington
www.monh.org/
New England Aquarium
Boston
Jenna
Sigman (617) 973-6563
www.neaq.org/index.flash4.html
Patriot’s Trail Girl Scout Council
265 Beaver St. Waltham
(781)
893-6113
The Society for Arts and Crafts
175 Newbury St. Boston
(617)
266-1810 (Matt)
www.societyofcrafts.org/
USS Constitution Museum
Boston Naval
Shipyard
(617)
426-1812
www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
356 Boylston St. Boston
(617)
536-5651
www.weiu.org/
Women in Community Service
125 Kingston St. Boston
1-800-666-WICS
Women’s Service Club
464 Mass. Ave. Boston
(617)
262-3935
www.bostonabcd.org/people/wsc.htm
Action for Boston
Community Development (ABCD)
178 Tremont St. Boston
(617)
357-6000
www.bostonabcd.org
Community Boating, Inc.
Boston
www.community-boating.org
Korean Society of New England
Young Cho (781) 395-6968
Massachusetts State House
Mary Rinehart (617) 727-3676
YMCA/YWCA
Any
neighborhood branch
www.ymca.net/index.jsp
www.ywca.org/siteapps/custom/ywca/local.aspx?c=btIRK9OXG&b=36961
Conservation and Environmental Groups
The Boston
Harbor
Association
374 Congress St. Boston
617-482-1722
Virginia
Speitel
www.tbha.org
Citizens for Lexington
Conservation
781-861-7968
Bart DeWolf
Environmental Lobby of Massachusetts
3 Joy St.
Boson (projects are around Mass.)
617-742-2553
www.environmentalleague.org/jobs/jobs.html#volunteer
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
Habitat
Nature Center
10 Juniper Rd. Belmont
www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Habitat/volunteer.php?sanctuary_code=2
The Heifer Project
www.heifer.org
Massachusetts
Audubon Society
http://www.massaudubon.org/Jobs/jobs_index.php?type=Volunteer
Friends of Lincoln Park
Nell
Walker 781-862-6943
nellwalker@earthlink.com
Buddy Dog Humane Society
Boston Post Rd.
(Rt. 20) Sudbury
Donna
DeWallace 978-443-6990
www.buddydoghs.com/html/help.html#volunteer
Planting Day at LHS
Usually
held in the spring
Pat
Moyer
pmoyer@world.std.com
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
www.savetheharbor.org/00000093c10707601/00000093c1070ad10/index.html
Walden Woods Project
www.walden.org
Waltham Fields Community Farm
www.communityfarms.org
Minuteman National Historic Park
Chris Davis (978) 318-7831
Programs/Projects
Within LHS/LPS
LABB
Activities
performed throughout and off campus
Paula
Rizzo (math building)
Campus Clean Up/Planting Day
(see
above)
PTO/PTA Benefits and Fairs
Teddy Bear Picnic
LEF Educated Tastes
YES (Youth Exploring Science)
Community Service trips to Latin America
(hours are accepted for work only, not travel, sleep, sight
seeing)
Office/Departmental Work (contact the department head, dean,
guidance counselor, secretary in the area you’d like to
work)
Skills and Thrills
Summer
program for Lexington
students
Lexplorations
Lexington
Community Ed
Main
Office, LHS, Robin Tartaglia
LHS Library
Speak
with librarian staff
Elementary school extended day programs
LHS Peer Tutoring
forms available in the library
Programs/Projects
Around Lexington
Cary Library
Mass. Ave.
www.carylibrary.org/
Lexington
Youth Commission
781-861-1131
Nancy
Barter
Town of Lexington
Contact
the department you’d like to volunteer with
http://ci.lexington.ma.us/
Lexington Social Services Dept.
Becky Rushford (781) 2742
Parenting Resources Associates
(781) 862-4446
Lexington Sinfonietta
www.lexingtonsinfonietta.org
Lexington Farmers’ Market
(seasonal)
Lori DeLiso LDSS1@rcn.com
LexFest
Jean Hibino (781) 674-0086
Lexington Fife and Drum Corps
Tracy Fischer gtfischer@rcn.com
Lexington Recreation Dept.
Sheila Butts (781) 862-0500 x262
Joyful Noise Coffeehouse
First Baptist Church
1580 Mass. Ave.
Hayden Recreation Center
24 Lincoln St.
Liz Festa (781) 862-8480
Lexington Arts and Crafts Society
(781) 862-5613
Lexington Players
Polly Marion (781) 861-1961
Health Services
American Cancer Society
654 Beacon St., Boston 617-556-7400
www.ma.cancer.org
Beth Israel Hospital
330 Brookline Ave., Boston 617-667-3026
www.bidmc.harvard.edu
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital
75 Francis St., Boston 617-732-5998
Hospice of the Good Shepherd
2042 Beacon St., Newton 617-969-6130
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
243 Charles St., Boston 617-573-3163
Massachusetts General Hospital
32 Fruit St., Boston 617-726-8540
Melrose Hospital
585 Lebanon St.,Melrose 781-979-3091
Minuteman Home Care
24 Third Ave., Burlington 781-272-7177
(Liz Nania)Contact person
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
Woburn 781-933-8666
Somerville Hospital
230 Highland Ave., Somerville 617-666-4400
Winchester Hospital
41 Highland Ave., Winchester 781-756-2626
Winchester Nursing Home
223 Swanton St., Winchester 781-729-9595
Beverly Steedle
Cambridge Cares About AIDS
678 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
617-661-2508
(Matt Borus)
www.ccaa.org
Charles River Association for Retarded Citizens
59 Militia Dr., Needham
781- 972- 1008
(Doreen Cummings)
www.CRARC.org
Franciscan Children’s Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
30 Warren St., Brighton
617-254-3800
(Mary Lou Fries or Debbie Chan)
www.fchrc.org/
Greater Waltham Association for Retarded Citizens
56 Chestnut St., Waltham
781-899-2206
(Lauren Hubacheck)
Massachusetts Association for the Deaf (requires signing)
220 Main St., Malden
781-388-9114
Names Project Boston, The International AIDS Memorial Quilt
Boston City Hall
617-262-NAME
The Smariteens Suicide Prevention
654 Beacon St., Boston
617-536-2460
(Amy Malone)
www.samaritansofboston.org
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
125 Nashua St., Boston
781-573-2400
www.spauldingrehab.org
American Stroke Association
Angela Fleming (781) 316-1682
East Village Rehab
Dana Spinney (781) 861-8630
Extra Hands for ALS
Kati Cawley (617) 331-3014
kati@extrahands.org
The Fernald School
Waltham
Laura Short (781) 894-6893
Minuteman ARC
Concord
www.minutemanarc.org
North Shore ARC
Group home in Burlington
www.nsarc.org
Edith Rogers Memorial Veterans’ Hospital
200 Springs Rd. Bedford
Joseph Dooley (781) 687-2422
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
www.stjude.org
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Susan Morgan (617) 243-6048
Mt. Auburn Hospital
Cambridge
Jan Anderson (617) 499-5016
Cambridge Health Alliance/Somerville Hospital
Ann Dow (617) 591-4414
Lexington Senior Center
Lauren MacNeil (781) 861-0194
