VEAP
VEAP Updates: January 2023
The SCI Vaccine Equity & Access Program (VEAP) is continuing to work to increase awareness and acceptance of the COVID vaccine and promote equitable access to vaccination locations in our target communities. We are pleased to see an increase in vaccine uptake in the VEAP communities. For instance, the vaccine Read more…
Community Connections
2023 SCI Youth Grant Pitch Contest
The SCI Youth Grant Pitch Contest is a program initiative that was piloted in 2021 and was designed to engage community focused youth-led groups in a process of developing projects that respond to community needs. After an incredibly successful pilot program, it is expanding in 2023 by more than doubling Read more…
20th Anniversary
MLK Day 2023
As we get ready for a big MLK weekend, including the unveiling of the new Embrace memorial on Boston Common, we wanted to share some of our past MLK activities. SCI and our AmeriCorps members have been involved in a wide range of MLK programming over our 20 years. This Read more…
20th Anniversary
Connections and Leaders
Building social capital is perhaps even more important today than when we started SCI 20 years ago. Your gift today can help us continue this important work in 2023 and beyond. I had a chance to chat with SCI’s founding board chair, Dain Perry, in our latest Coffee Conversation. Dain Read more…
20th Anniversary
Bowling Together!
With the influential role the book Bowling Alone played in SCI’s founding story, it is a bit surprising that it took us 20 years to organize an SCI bowling outing! File this under better late than never! Following a recent SCI AmeriCorps training day, hosted at Microsoft’s Burlington offices, the Read more…
VEAP
Part time job helping your community available!
Social Capital Inc.’s (SCI) Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP) is looking to hire four part-time Leaders, one from each of the following communities: Malden Everett Lynn Woburn Responsibilities: Leaders will be responsible for reaching people within their communities to talk about the importance of vaccination against COVID-19 and the Read more…
20th Anniversary
SCI Turns 20!
Twenty years ago today, on June 20th, 2002, SCI’s story officially began with the incorporation of our organization. Two years earlier, on a flight to San Francisco, I finished reading a book that fueled an idea – Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone. Having recently moved back to Woburn, the town where Read more…