Boston Partners in Education

Boston Partners in Education enhances the academic achievement and nurtures the personal growth of Boston's public school students by providing them with focused, individualized, in-school volunteer support. With the commitment and involvement of the entire community, all students in Boston will develop the skills, self-confidence and motivation to recognize and achieve their full potential. Please consider volunteering with us today.

Conscious Consuming

Conscious Consuming is an all-volunteer nonprofit that seeks to increase awareness of the impact of buying decisions on our health, happiness, and environment. Through education and discussion we encourage people to live in line with their values by better prioritizing time, money, and material things. Our basis in voluntary simplicity and leaving a lighter environmental footprint expands in many directions; we promote fair trade, buying locally and second-hand, sustainable food systems, reducing consumption, turning off the TV, and alternative gifting. For more info please visit us at www.consciousconsuming.org.

Idealist.org

Idealist.org connects organizations, individuals, resources, and ideas so that anyone anywhere can imagine and act toward building a better world. With over 65,000 organizations from 190 countries posting volunteer, job, internship, and event opportunities for its 50,000 daily visitors and 500,000 members, Idealist also provides extensive resources for job seekers, volunteers, and HR and volunteer management professionals.

Planet Aid

Planet Aid, a nonprofit organization, raises funds through textile recycling. Second-hand clothes, shoes, other textiles, books, small toys and laptops are sold for reuse to raise money for charities that do:

• Emergency relief - serving victims of hunger, war, natural disasters and other catastrophes.
• Relocating people or rebuilding areas hit by disaster.
• Development projects- schools, clinics, mini-banking, and small-scale industry among others.

Planet Aid helps the environment too. In 2006, 72 million pounds of clothes were rescued from the landfill and CO² emissions were reduced the equivalent of keeping 16,000 cars off the roads for a year!

Neighbors for Neighbors

In two short years NFN, Jamaica Plain has created 65 Social Clubs, Community Projects, and Partner Project engaging 1,000 residents and over 3,000 residents have attended our Neighborhood Socials and Community Organizing Events. In 2005 and 2006 NFN has been named “Best of JP” for Neighborhood Organization. Simultaneously, as we celebrated our 2nd anniversary, our successful model is now being replicated across the city of Boston.

The Jason Foundation

Youth suicide claims the lives of approximately 100 young people per week in the United States. The Jason Foundation's mission is to provide information, tools, and resources to students, educators, youth workers, and parents that will enable early detection of at-risk behavior and guide them to helpful local resources.