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12th Annual Board Connection

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Date and Time: 
04/26/2011 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Over the past 11 years, United Way's Board Connection has brought together countless professionals seeking meaningful community leadership opportunities with executive directors and board members of nonprofit organizations looking to strengthen their volunteer leadership boards and communities. Register Online today!
Location: Seaport Hotel   1 Seaport Lane   Boston, MA 02210  read more »

2010 Community Care Day

In groups: Content Managers
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Date and Time: 
09/15/2010 - 9:00am - 6:00pm

HELP TODAY.
STRENGTHEN TOMORROW.

Community CARE Day

Join the movement. Be part of an exciting event that matches a team of volunteers from your company with United Way partner agencies working to advance the common good in our region.

Choose from a variety of volunteer opportunities that share United Way’s vision of helping people in urgent need today while creating a brighter, stronger future for everyone.  read more »

Boston Children's Museum Receives National Leadership Grant for Museums Award From IMLS

Grant will be used to create permanent Countdown to Kindergarten Exhibit
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09/22/2008

Boston Children’s Museum is pleased to announce that it has received a National Leadership Grant for Museums award from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant will be used to create the Countdown to Kindergarten Exhibit, a dynamic, innovative public space where parents and educators can see quality early childhood education in action and work together to prepare children for school.  read more »

Children


Our Goal: Children are nurtured and enter school ready to learn  read more »

Day of Action

June 22, 2008

LIVE UNITED began as a simple T-shirt—something individuals could wear to show they are part of a collective of people working to advance the common good. Since then, it has become the beginnings of a much larger movement, a mentality that we are all people, connected, interdependent, united. and that when we reach out a hand to one, we have the power to influence the condition of all.  read more »

Mayor Menino

How Boston Mayor Tom Menino Lives United

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Tom Menino

Boston Mayor | United Way Partner | Champion for Children I Live United by working to ensure Boston’s children have all they need reach their fullest potential. I’ve partnered with United Way to launch Thrive in Five, a new public-private partnership aimed at preventing the achievement gap by promoting school readiness and ensuring the healthy development of Boston’s children.

How Bruin Dennis Wideman Lives United

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I LIVE UNITED by regularly visiting and reading to hospitalized children and encouraging others to volunteer in their communities.

How to Build and Support Family Centered Practices in After School

Focus on Families

Open houses, PTA meetings and classroom volunteer opportunities are tried and true ways that schools involve parents in their children's learning. Research shows this participation helps students succeed. But the latest research in child development is also suggesting that learning is enhanced when families are similarly involved in their children's after-school experiences  read more »

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