The second concert in the 2010 Horn Pond Summer Concert Series took place on Friday, July 9^th and was a huge success.  The concert featured the Bagboys, a bluegrass band, and drew a crowd of 250.  The concert was coordinated by Social Capital Inc. along with the North Suburban YMCA, WREN (Woburn Residents’ Environmental Network), Woburn Arts & Culture and sponsored by Sean P. Coakley of Atlantic Power Cleaning Corp.  read more »

Social Capital Inc, April 7, 2010 - Susan Musinsky's Acceptance Speech – Idealist Award  read more »

SCI AmeriCorps Members working at Dotwell in Dorchester have recently been caring for the victims of the disaster in Haiti.  The SCI AmeriCorps Members serving in Dorchester and their supervisors are pictured to the left.  The members, along with many other Dorchester community leaders planned a series of clinics to help victims who are now in the Boston area.  Our AmeriCorps members took responsibility for creating a resource guide and related handouts for the event from scratch, which involved calling organizations like the Haitian Multi-Service Center, Catholic Charities, Association of Haitian Women in Boston (AFAB), Haitian Adult Day Health, ABCD, and others.  Laura Santel helped with the school resource handout by gathering information about East Zone and North Zone of the BPS system.  read more »

Jennifer Ward, pictured on the left, an SCI AmeriCorps Member serving in Milford has been in the news lately for her work with the Milford Youth Council. Jennifer has helped create  two interesting events lately: a fashion show entitled "Get Dressed up, Not Messed Up, and a Milford Youth version of the Olympics.

You can check out the news coverage of the olympics event here.

Another local paper captured some pictures of the talent show here.

SCI Youth Councils show their commitment, even when times are tough!  Pictured to the left SCI AmeriCorps Youth Leadership Coordinator, Jennifer Ward from the SCI Milford Youth Council and Jim Sanchioni, Director of Milford Youth Center, delivered nearly 300 pairs of children's pajamas to BJ's Wholesale Club, General Manager, Joe Reardon.  BJ's, in collaboration with the Boston Bruins, has been collecting children's new and unused pajamas to give to nonprofit organization, Cradles to Crayons.  SCI Youth Council collections have been extremely successful in helping meet the basic needs of struggling community members; such as SCI Woburn Youth Council’s Jeans for Teens initiative, SCI Lynn’s canned food collection in conjunction with Compare Supermarket, and the Winter Coat Drive in Dorchester.  read more »

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, SCI celebrated with a variety of activities, both here in Woburn, and in the other communities that we serve.   Our youth councils especially got into the spirit, with Woburn, Milford, and Dorchester putting on special events.

The Woburn Youth Council put on variety of service activities at the Boys & Girls Club of Woburn in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day included writing letters to troops, care packages for children in hospitals, a craft for local seniors, among other things.  read more »

Happy Holidays from SCI!  We are participating in several exciting events this holiday season.

On December 6th, we put on our 2009 Holiday House Tour, and it was a terrific success.  We had a great turnout overall. We had 141 tour-goers, and raised important funds critical to our organization’s mission. People touring the homes were able to connect with each other and the home owners, which follows SCI’s mission of connecting citizens to strengthen communities. Participants got to catch up with existing friends and neighbors, as well as, meet some new ones, while touring homes and getting ideas for creative holiday decorating.  read more »

Just as the leaves are beginning to change…

SCI youth leaders are beginning to make change…  read more »