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Sunday – June 12, 2022 – We had a party!!

We celebrate 40 years of social justice, community building and action, by the Members of Community Works

 

Invitation

Sunday, JUNE 12, 4 – 6 PM

outdoors under a tent at
The Audubon Boston Nature Center
500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan, MA 02126

We celebrated together, to look back and to look forward as we envision a new era of Social Justice.
Share Music, Food and Good Friends.

Music and Food at 4pm
Program at 5pm

Featured Speakers include:

Nashira Baril
Director of the Neighborhood Birth Center

Rev. Vernon K. Walker
Senior Program Manager, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW)

Music by The Unexpected
Food by Fresh Food Generation

Free, please RSVP to help with food planning

Because your safety is our highest priority, and COVID-19 guidelines continue to change, we will monitor the situation and provide any updates.


 

Meet our Event Speakers – For Event This Sunday – June 12

Nashira Baril (Neighborhood Birth Center)

Nashira Baril (she/her) leads the effort to open Boston’s first community birth center. She is a public health practitioner who has given birth at home with midwives twice and believes everyone in Greater Boston should have access to safe, empowering care in pregnancy and childbirth. Neighborhood Birth Center will create a sanctuary-like space for midwifery care that is covered by insurance and with a focus on safety. She lives in Mattapan with her family.

 

Rev. Vernon K. Walker is the Senior Program Manager at CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather). He is an alumnus of Penn State, and earned a master’s degree at Boston University. He is also a current Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston Center for Collaborative Leadership and involved with numerous programs addressing social justice and climate action. This fall, Rev. Walker will begin part-time graduate study towards a Master’s Degree in Public Policy at Tufts University’s Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, where he is an incoming 2022 Neighborhood Fellow.

 

 


 

Notice to our Supporters

Community Works has closed our doors as of July 31, 2021.

Thank you very much for your support over the years.

Community Works has a proud and long history.  Founded in 1982, for nearly 40 years Community Works has raised the visibility of Massachusetts organizations committed to social, economic, environmental, and racial justice.  Over its history Community Works has distributed donor contributions to dozens of ground-breaking organizations throughout the Commonwealth. We are proud to say that many of the fledgling organizations we supported in our early days are now successful and have improved the quality of life for thousands of people.

The nature of payroll-deduction fundraising has changed to the degree that the business model of operating a federated fundraising collaboration is no longer viable.

Please continue supporting our members through your direct gifts.

Here is a link to our final member list.


Community Works is Massachusetts’ only social justice network participating as a federation in workplace fundraising campaigns.

Founded in 1982, CW has operated for nearly 40 years


We are a network of 12 active social justice organizations.


We Invest in Your Community

Since 1982, Community Works worked to provide funding for change through payroll deduction campaigns in Greater Boston and across Massachusetts.

“Community and democracy must work hand in hand, otherwise we have neither.”

Kip Tiernan


CW Members in Action

A snapshot of the work of Community Works’ member organizations.




The Community Works incorporation has been dissolved, and no longer holds a tax exempt 501 (c)(3) status.

(Community Works has closed business as of July 31, 2021, as of which time we are no longer accepting donations)