Daughter served last summer on trail maintenance

AmeriCorps alum here, great programs!

If you’re an AmeriCorps alum, let us know what you did

It feels great to see so many AmeriCorps alum! Thank you for your continued commitment to service!

The Gleaners have also been holding amazing yoga classes online!

I’m Amy A BASG co organizer and independent sustainability consultant here in Cambridge. One of my favorite recent volunteer activities was helping to GOTV and boot a certain president last year! I also loved volunteering with two of the organizations on board tonight: bagging gleaned apples a few years ago for Boston Area Gleaners, and mentoring startups through Clean Tech Open!

Currently applying to the Cleantech open right now! :) woohoo

@williamlandry, woohoo! I am a CTO mentor, great organization!

Thank you for your service!

Shoutout to Talley Cain and Katie West who are representing our Boston-based Northeast Region of Cleantech Open tonight! https://www.cleantechopen.org/

Courtney Hadden, Corporate Sustainability, at Akamai Technologies, Inc.

I volunteered as a board member for Littleton Community Farm when it was first launched 7 years ago. Before that I was a board member for the Boston Minstrel Company, which leads sing-along workshops in Boston-Cambridge homeless shelters.

Awesome, William! And thank you for your work Amy! Thanks Ken!

I love to have a volunteer showing up to attract more volunteers!

I toured Cradles to Crayons a few yeas ago for a project I was working on. Amazing organization (of course everyone here is). Really upbeat vibe at their facility and doing such important work!

We are amazed at how much we have accomplished during these challenging times! Small, intimate groups removed thousands of plastic water bottles out of our river! We have run 3 public meetings via Zoom!

Friends of the Malden has been so impactful this year, definitely impressed with your work!

Thank you, Amy!

AmeriCorps features opportunities nationwide. Chances are there is an opportunity within 50 miles of your desired location.

More than a service opportunity, it is also a chance to build skills and to your resume while earning financial support during this AmeriCorps service commitment. You can choose the end of service education award. Hundreds of schools match our education award, or you could use it to pay on qualified student loans.

I want to recognize Tilly Pick, Amy Perlmutter and Eric Grunebaum too - our co-organizers. Since February, Katie Aldrich has been helping us think through events and set up that smart Meetup account for us. Thanks to all of them too!

AmeriCorps Room Number 1

Cradles to Crayons is also located in Philadelphia and Chicago!

Bravo to Extinction Rebellion!

Power to the people

Food Link just opened its new facility! Yeah!!

And the new FoodLink location is right on the bike path!

Food waste is such a huge problem! Great to see an organization dedicated to addressing part of that issue!

I want to recognize @Holly Fowler for doing such a great job keeping the energy and interest in sustainability and BASG in this virtual world!

Foodlink is a fantastic organization pre-COVID and especially now in pandemic!! So many awards for the amazing operation they run. I worked with the Founder in our prior lives.

+1 amy

Thank you Rose for your work!

I was connected to JF&CS as a participant in a New Moms Group and then volunteered before working for the agency

Thank you @Amy!

I learned AmeriCorps by happenstance. I served twice in Tennessee with VISTA projects. My Non-Competitive benefit from serving in VISTA led me to my federal job in DC.

Friends of the Malden River will be doing a Youth Project: Voice of the River with Groundwork Somerville

Ej = Environmental justice

Thanks Steven and Steven! Food Link has exploded in growth in the past year as the rates of food insecurity have skyrocketed. We've been able to meet this need because of our dedicated volunteers and many new ones who have eagerly stepped up to help

Guerilla Gardening!

that is so awesome

#moretreesplease

^^^^^

@Camberville Do you have the need for native plant horticulturists and ecological landscapers?

Need translations in Spanish our Hatian Creole? Waltham Partnership for Youth has trained student translators who do a great job at very reasonable prices.

Love your stories, Holly! ; )

If you live in Boston, you can ask the city to plant a tree in your neighborhood and can even pick out a type of tree!

wow

@Kara that is so cool! Thanks for sharing

I am interested in volunteering for not one but three initiatives! hope we can jump between breakout rooms :-)

The litter along I-93 always makes me so sad!

^ Same!

I love volunteering for JF&CS - awesome org!

If you are interested in the different JF&CS opportunities and cant visit room 13 contact Ava - aharder@jfcsboston.org. Great projects for kids with cards creating! And much more

Seeing cigarette butts in snow banks makes me sad. I still recall when I read a study in graduate school that cigarette butts are a major element in marine litter. Smoking not only pollutes our lungs but also trashes the oceans.

Thank you, Carol! We are so grateful! JF&CS accepts volunteers of ANY age!!!

Organizations are welcome to drop websites and any contact information in the chat.

Folks will have the chance to visit more than one room.

Elder Climate Action MA Chapter - ecamass.org

Elders Climate Action - Massachusetts Chapter web sitehttps://www.eldersclimateaction.org/mass-chapter/To be added to our email list for our once a month newsletter / Action Alerts and other announcementscontact MaiyimBaron@gmail.comTo view our events on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/ecamasschapter/events/

Making a connection here, former Mothers Out Front Cambridge person is now ED for Groundwork Southcoast.

Community Servings https://www.servings.org/

Food Link

Teachers, the JF&CS Caring Card project is a wonderful project for your students. Come to room #13 to learn more

Boston Area Gleaners:bostonareagleaners.orgContact outreach@bostonareagleaners.org with any questions

I don’t believe it!

XR BOSTON --- If you'd like to get plugged into planning direct actions, creating regenerative resources to deal with climate grief, or to make art to bring awareness to the climate emergency check out our website:xrmass.org/welcomeOr email me at: alex@foragedlandscape.com

Food Link: foodlinkma.org. Contact rfreudberg@foodlinkma.org

no, not you

Join Keep Massachusetts Beautiful in Room 14 or learn more at https://keepmassbeautiful.org/ . Thank you!

super

You can check out this award winning waterfront park: MaldenRiverWorks.org. For volunteer opportunities email friendsofthemaldenriver@gmail.com Learn about the Malden River at maldenriver.wordpress.com Thank you

I love that all of these people do all of these different things all over the place!

+1

Also, I am involved with the Boston Area Volunteer Managers Group. Reach out to me if you would like to get involved or learn more. aharder@jfcsboston.org

MyRWA is AMAZING!

Absolutely!!

I have enjoyed volunteering with the Mystic a

we need to have a party with everyone :)

Love Mystic’s citizen science volunteer opps

I want to attend ALL the rooms :(

Thanks all! So happy to partner with so many of you. If you don't make it to my room you can reach me at Erica.wood@mysticriver.org

Thanks for tonight guys! I have to dip out for a photoshoot. I'll be following up with the non-profits about creating short videos to tell your stories. See you soon! Holly, please share the recording if you can. Thanks!

I’m having trouble finding the pop up

no pop up

Can you move me to Room 3 please Holly?

I'd like to go to room 8 please

sue Edwards room 02

Same. I’d like Room 11 please Holly

room 3 please

Can you move me to Room 9 pl

Room 11 please

Breakout room for Elders Climate Group.

Hilary Matthewd Room 14

Could you move me to room 3, I think I closed the window by accident

Room 2

Could i hop into room 3?

I can’t find the way to get in either.

I’d like to go to 15 please

Room 2 please! Thank you Holly, I'm not seeing anything on more

steven dray would like to go to #2

Can you move me to room 3 please? thank you

Connor Koellner to Room 3 please, thank you!

Room 7 please

blame zoom

no biggie

Probably Zoom pushed an update and we didn’t all get it installed. I use Zoom *daily* and can’t get into the breakout room either.

Lucy Low —> 3 :D

room 15 please

^______^

Shruti Parikh - Room 9 Pl

I’d like to go to KMB

Connor Koellner to Room 3 please, thank you!

11 please

Room 3 please

3

can you put me on 5 please

room 2 please

14 please

Ken Hayes to # 3

The popup went away before I could click it

#wackamole

Could I get re-assigned to room 16?