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…
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…
Catching up with family and friends this time of year, work always comes up. Everyone usually knows that I work in nonprofit – but might not know what my organization does. There are so many incredible nonprofits, but SCI is just so unique. I love telling the story of SCI Read more…
Fifteen years ago, the first team of SCI AmeriCorps members made their mark. Since then, the program has continued to grow and adapt. You can join us in celebrating the hundreds of members that have chosen to serve with a gift to SCI today! I’m Philip Gordon, Deputy Director at Read more…
If you look back over SCI’s 20 years, you can see how one effort can have powerful ripple effects over time. Back in 2016, responding to a wave of police murders of Black men across the country, SCI organized a WoburnUnites vigil, partnering with St. John’s Baptist Church and Mayor Read more…
In celebration of our 20th year, SCI hosted an open house at the James L. McKeown Boys and Girls Club. Our event was well attended by over 50 individuals who we had the opportunity to get to know more about. They also had the opportunity to learn more about what Read more…
As SCI celebrates 20 years of strengthening communities, we are thinking about what it means to make your community strong. And with that, the importance of providing opportunities to developing community leaders. We had the opportunity to talk with one of the youth leaders that SCI has worked with this Read more…
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…
Three years ago at the beginning of 2019, I realized that I didn’t want to be a bartender for the rest of my life and wanted to put myself on a new career path. After learning about an opportunity to serve at the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club Read more…
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…