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Community Builders Fellowships 2007 |
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Jessica Mercier, K.A.R.E
Kids Area Resource Exchange- A resource for children involved with a social service agency and the families that care for them. To establish a resource exchange designed to supply a variety of items (clothing and other essential items) to children that are placed into foster care or in another situation that warrants the intervention of a social service agency.
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Rachel Chery, Wild Red Productions
To create cable access television program, Le’Burg Teen Talk Show produced by teens and viewed by teens to aide in the positive development of youth through targeted discussions on serious topics and entertaining performances. Rachel intends to educate teens on empowering opportunities and careers.
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Community Builders Fellowships 2006 |
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Warmer Winters, Judy Gentry
Judy Gentry Leominster of Warmer Winters has recruited 40 volunteers to knit and crochet blankets, hats, scarves and mittens for various nonprofit agencies in the region. She is planning to collaborate with the Multi Service Center so she can write grants to expand her program. In exchange for use of their office and expertise Gentry will knit lap blankets for the Multi Service Center’s Generations Linked program. She also teaches knitting at the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center and Battered Women’s Resources so clients can learn to create their own income by selling their goods at craft fairs. |
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Seniors Repair Project, Kevin MacLean
Kevin MacLean of Fitchburg works with the Senior Center in Ashburnham to fix any at home projects for seniors that do not require a building permit. Kevin has put in wheelchair ramps, fixed doors and patched leaks. He gathers all of the materials needed through donations and has coordinated a group of small business tradesmen to volunteer as the handymen. MacLean received a $2400 Fellowship for his program, which has been replicated in Gardner and another state by his brother. |
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Winchendon Community Spirit, Christopher Casavant
Chris Casavant of Winchendon received $2300 to address the lack of opportunities for youth and connectedness among neighbors in his town. He along with several other fathers decided to start their own Pop-Warner football team as a tool to address the problem. Kids have to choose between Gardner and Oakmont if they wanted to play football, which fostered a division in the community. Casavant anticipates the new league will encourage youth and parents to volunteer. Community Builders Fellowships 2005
With the generous support of Bemis Associates, Inc., Fitchburg Savings Bank, Sterilite, and Norwood Fine Cabinetry, Community Builders put out a call in the summer of 2005 for new and innovative ideas to increase volunteerism or community involvement and action |
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| 2005 Community Builders Fellowship Awards |
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With the generous support of Bemis Associates, Inc. and Unitil, Community Builders awarded three new Fellowships in 2006 for new and innovative ideas to increase volunteerism or community involvement and action.
The Steering Committee reviewed 26 fellowship applications,and awarded 10 Fellowships totaling $23,420 in October 2005. The activities of the 2005 Community Builders fellows are anticipated to engage 829 new volunteers in a one-year period. |
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Alternatives, Inc. Sandra Haagsma, $2,500
To create a social network among people with disabilities and connect them to their allies and friends in the community with the intention of changing perceptions and building relationships. |
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ARC Community Service/Alliance for Resource Management, Terry Kennedy, $2,000
To give community members the opportunity to combine their creativity and passion with small challenge awards to create positive social change. |
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Center for Technical Education at Leominster High School, George Luoto, $2,500
To foster a professional volunteer mentorship between local trades men and non-traditional students that will strengthen the life and education goals of students at the Center for Technical Education and create future collaboration and networking opportunities among trades men in North Central Massachusetts. |
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Chester Mossman Teen Center, Nicole Alton, $2,500
To support the community vision of youth in Lunenburg, through the training and recruitment of local teens committed to staffing and running a “teen café” at the Chester Mossman Teen Center. |
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GIVE (Getting Involved in Volunteer Efforts), Andrea Grimes, $2,050
To provide opportunity and recognition to the GIVE student club members of Leominster High School that provide community service work. |
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Kids Connect, Christine House, $3,600
To create volunteer connections for residents to become involved in the Shirley elementary school, and provide support for every elementary school child to be involved in community service good deeds that will nurture positive perceptions of the Shirley school system and foster relationships with the town. |
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Loaves and Fishes, Kathy Stanski, $2,490
To spread awareness and access to the workplace volunteer initiative of Bemis Associates to other businesses in the Devens area to build sustained corporate volunteerism. |
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Right Steps, PastorPhil Cebula, $1,462
To expand a volunteer run, faith-based network of at-risk adults in the Cleghorn neighborhood that provides addiction support within the network. |
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Simple Gifts, Jennifer Jones, $1,040
To bring opportunities for community service work to low-income children in the 21st Century Scholars after school program. |
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Wellness Policy Committee, Sandra Valeri. $3,200
To create active and sustained community-wide parent involvement in the Leominster school system’s efforts to fight obesity. |
