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Author Catherine Francis - wrote The Day I Died

KARIN CASSEL MITTERANDO

Executive Director

Caritas Communities

David Olds, Volunteer and Donor Relations, Good Sports, Inc.

Bio:

David Olds is a new Boston resident that joined Good Sports, Inc. in June 2022 as a Volunteer and Donor Relations Associate. David graduated from the University of South Carolina in May 2022, where he was a student athlete on the Division I Track and Field team. Previously, David had experience working with financial empowerment and opportunity creation through the Columbia Urban League Young Professionals, the 2020 Census, the City of Columbia, and the Minority and Small Business Affairs team at the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

Topic:  Equitable Access in Youth Sports and Good Sports, Inc.

Good Sports Inc. is a non-profit with the mission of driving sports equity and opportunity for children in underserved communities. There is a large equipment and access gap in sports, where lower income communities have less meaningful opportunity to play all sports and experience the great benefits that come with being involved in physical activity. We accomplish this through the donation of brand-new sports equipment to high-need community organizations, sports programs, and schools. Equipment partners, like Nike and Under Armour, provide us with all of the sports equipment we store in our warehouse, and we identify or encourage community partners across the country to apply for equipment donations. Since 2003, we have donated 88 million dollars in sports equipment to help get 9 million kids in underserved communities across the country in the game.

Melissa Kaye, President & Executive Director, Joshua Kaye Foundation.

Melissa has a background in fundraising, event planning, youth leadership, volunteer organizing, and business ownership. She and her family founded Joshua Kaye Foundation after the loss of 8 year old Joshua in 2014. 

Joshua Kaye Foundation enables thoughtful, community-based projects while empowering youth to make positive change in their community. 

Founded in memory of Joshua Kaye, JKF works to eliminate hunger, spread literacy, and provide educational and enrichment opportunities for children in need, through various projects throughout the year. Providing opportunities for youth to serve and positively impact the community is a major focus.

 

joshuakayefoundation.org

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The Hundred Club of Massachusetts. If you have not heard of us, we are a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization that gives benefits to the families of fallen police and firefighters throughout Massachusetts. We offer scholarships, cover counseling fees, have family events throughout the year, and much more. You can learn more about our mission at www.100clubmass.org. Our Club chairman, Joseph Abely, will speak to your members about our club mission and community response to our frontline heroes. 

Joseph F. Abely

Board Chairman

·       Boston College BA; Wharton School MBA

·       Currently Executive Consultant with Club Benchmarking

·       Former Chairman & CEO LoJack Corporation

·       Former President the Carroll Center for the Blind

·       Former Partner Deloitte & Touche

·       Chairman of the Board-the Hundred Club of Massachusetts

·       Member of the Board and Executive Committee National Braille Press

·       Member of the Board and Executive Committee of The New England Senior Golf Association

·       Governor’s appointee to the Statutory Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind

·       Past member of a variety of profit and non-profit Boards.

·       Former owner of Fore River Motors in Quincy, MA

Timothy Massawe, the past President Rotary Club of Hai-Kilimanjaro Tanzania. He also served as an Assistant Governor in District 9214. He will share with us information about Rotary in Tanzania and the work that they do and also to learn about our club. 

We’d love to Talk about the centers fundraising efforts and capital fund needs for the future and how we can involve the Rotary Club. 

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Matthew Martin, The Outreach Program

Ending Hunger. Enriching Lives

Topic:  Ending Hunger in New England

In 2009, my wife, our 3 and 5-year-old children, and I were living in Northern Minnesota near my in-laws. I was a Lutheran pastor and Heidi was an elementary school teacher. A colleague of mine I had met in passing at a conference gave us a trip to Virginia after discovering how much school debt we were still in 13 years into our marriage (her husband was a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and they were too busy to go, but everything was already paid for). A few days into our first vacation in 5 years, Heidi woke up and said, “We need to move to New England.”

So I called the bishop and told her about the dream. She placed me at a church in Quincy. Heidi couldn’t find a teaching job, so she started to write. She is now an author, among other things (HeidiMartinHealing.com). The proceeds from her children’s book, novel, and other work feed more hungry New Englanders.

During the first 18 months of my call, our synod went through a process called Doing What Matters and then challenged us to “go where love leads and serve where love calls”. At the time (June 2011), 1 in 4 American kids were going to bed hungry (1 in 3 in Maine!), while 1 in 7 people on the planet were. I had done world hunger work for 17 years.

Now I’ve been the meal packaging guy for 12 years. We have partnered with 87 different kinds of groups throughout the region, feeding those who hunger in their neighborhoods. Lutherans, the United Way, Businesses, Schools, Non-profits, Rotarians, United Methodists, Food Banks, Congregationalists, and Episcopalians have each fed over a million. Catholics will be the next group to hit that threshold.

Before the pandemic, we had hit a 20-year low for food insecurity: 1 in 7 American kids were going to bed hungry (1 in 5 in Maine!), while 1 in 9 people on the planet were. We have fed over 40 million so far, a record 4 million in 2020. 48% of our meals are packaged for Greater Boston pantries (meals end up in the same area where the funding comes from). By comparison, 12% are for Worcester County and Western MA and 40% are for the other 5 New England states.

At the start of the pandemic, food-insecurity went up 146% in America, 150% in New England, 163% in Massachusetts, and between 168-182% in half of the counties in the commonwealth…to a level higher than when we started ending local hunger. All 7 of those counties were in Greater Boston.

Things have been improving.

2011: 2 million hungry New Englanders

2019: 1.4 million

2020: 2.1 million

2021: 1.7 million

Now: 1.45 million

Website: EndHungerNE.org

Jen Jones is a REALTOR®, author, speaker, and an entrepreneur.  She has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has successfully scaled businesses by building deep, meaningful relationships with her clients that inspire repeat business and referrals. She lives by the motto go deep not wide.  She recently wrote Intropreneur: Strategies for Building a Business as an Introvert Entrepreneur.

Jen guides her clients through the four-step process to harness their introvert/authentic self, have more energy awareness so they can align their business and life with meaningful connections, elevate relationships, which produce more referral and repeat business with the right people.

As the mom of three kids, she gets how important it is to balance family and a fulfilling business that doesn’t drain your battery and burnout. When she’s not showing houses, helping clients or volunteering, you’ll find her enjoying her alone time, yoga, honing her intuition skills, meditating, and journaling.

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BIO - ABOUT FRED PARIS, FOUNDER / OWNER Plymouth Solar Energy

A lifelong environmentalist and recognized solar energy expert, Fred launched the Wind Sun Institute as a renewable energy training program that uses Plymouth Solar Energy as a corporate laboratory for solar technology and marketing strategies.

He earned a BA in Business Management at C. W. Post and State University of New York – Farmingdale, and his MBA at the University of Phoenix Boston.

Articulate with a quick sense of humor, Fred has taught solar energy across the U. S. including adjunct sessions at Babson College and Northeastern University, served as a technical consultant and trainer for industry manufacturers, and wrote the curriculum for solar energy certification used at Massasoit Community College.