Volunteer Opportunities

The mission of the network is to connect and unify Boston’s diverse park and community stakeholders. We aim to build our capacity, share resources and information, raise public awareness, and strengthen the collective impact of our network members to influence public park policy and increase support for the range of urban parks and open spaces.

The Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition draws on the wonderful ethnic and cultural diversity of the Mattapan community to promote a healthy living environment, with a focus on access to healthy foods and the promotion of physical fitness for all ages.

The goal of The ReSPECT Registry is to support the community in learning about clinical research and finding opportunities to participate in research studies.

Boston University invites you to join The ReSPECT Registry!

The ReSPECT Registry is a way for people to find out about research studies at Boston University/Boston Medical Center (BU/BMC) that are looking for research volunteers. The registry assists people in finding those studies that might be of interest to them to participate in.

Research volunteers are very important to the many medical discoveries that continue to make our lives better. These discoveries continue to teach us how to better treat diseases, and could not have happened without research volunteers.

Some examples of clinical research discoveries are:

• Vaccines
• New treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease
• Better ways to exercise
• MRIs, CT Scans, X-ray machines, and diagnostic tests
• Improved medical procedures
• Improved ways to diagnose conditions or diseases

For more info on clinical trials, you may visit http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/info/understand.
 

The project challenge is two-folded: 1) Graduate and professional students are not trained to work across disciplines, or to collaborate with multi-disciplinary colleagues in meaningful field work experiences, and: 2) Social service delivery in low-income communities is fragmented, superficial (e.g. does not address root causes, but only symptoms), and ultimately most inefficient and ineffective for those who need to most take advantage of these services.

The IMPACT Project is a cadre of pre-professionals from the schools of medicine, law, public health, education, social work and others coming together as a team for two goals:

1. Provide in-depth case-management assistance to Dorchester families

2. Examine the root causes of challenges that become obstacles for low-income families.

96 billion pounds of food are wasted each year. Fair Foods Inc is an evolution in the fight against hunger and poverty. Since 1988, we have transported daily truckloads of usable surplus goods from industry to low-income communities in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. We recycle massive amounts of grocery-quality fresh food and high-grade building materials and bring them directly to the people who need it most. We rely on a commonsense ethic, a core staff of food distributors, and over 200 networked volunteers to get the job done, seven days a week. We focus on being cost-effective, resourceful, and thorough. Our business is to bring tangible change into the lives of thousands of families.

For the low cost of two dollars at the sites listed above Fair Foods will provide you with a very generous amount (about 15 lbs) of vegetables, fruits and possibly more. Food items provided vary each week.