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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tech Citizenship
Local techs lending a hand
By Mass High Tech staff
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Software maker Jenzabar’s donation fights homelessness through Heading Home
Jenzabar Inc., the Boston-based provider of software and services for higher education, has donated $2,500 to the Cambridge-based charity organization Heading Home. In lieu of the company’s holiday party, Jenzabar’s donation will help Heading Home in their effort to end homelessness in Greater Boston.
Founded in 1974, Heading Home says the organization recognized years ago that the answer to homelessness was not to provide temporary solutions, but to create programs that offered individuals the opportunity for permanent change. Their programs focus on an individual’s needs and strengths to help them work towards new goals.
Jenzabar’s donation will provide “starter kits” for two Heading Home families that include the household items necessary to start a new home, such as linens, kitchenware and furniture. Since homelessness affects all ages and all family members, the donation will also go toward gifts for the children that Heading Home serves. These special youth gifts include educational toys and school supplies.
Archbishop Williams hosts STEM career breakfast
Alumni from Archbishop Williams High School, a Catholic co-educational college preparatory high school in Braintree, donated their time to help the school host its annual science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) Career Breakfast for more than 100 students.
The students, mostly seniors, were selected to attend the career breakfast based on their choice to take on the academic challenge of additional science and math classes that exceed the school requirements. At the breakfast, each student was paired up with a professional in one of the science- or math-based fields and had the opportunity to interact and learn more about the profession.
About 30 professionals, many alumni of Archbishop Williams High School, volunteered their time for the event. Professionals in the health care, technology, architectural and finance industries were among those participating in the event.
The breakfast is a response to the projection of a large number of opportunities in the STEM fields over the next 10 years.
Collaborative Consulting builds web giving tool for The Home for Little Wanderers
Boston-based Collaborative Consulting has created a new functionality for The Home for Little Wanderers Gift Drive online “wish list” database that was expected to allow donors to fulfill more than 3,600 wishes.
The site’s new functionalities also allow donors to easily choose between “Adopt a Family” and “Children’s Wishlists” links and provide an option to narrow searches by a child or family member’s age, gender, and type of gift request.
Collaborative Consulting donated staff time and services to The Home, the nation’s oldest child and family services agency. The Home’s new web functionality can be seen at www.giftdrive-thehome.org.
According to Scott Inman, senior corporate relations manager for The Home, the new portal allowed The Home to increase the number of people it helps during the holidays. In 2008 The Home helped more than 100 families and nearly 500 family members through the Adopt a Family program, Inman said. The Home’s annual Big Wishes for Little Wanderers Gift Drive is one of the oldest toy drives in the Boston area.
Sepaton sponsors Needham students in FIRST LEGO League
Sepaton Inc. of Marlborough has become sponsor of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) LEGO League grades 4 and 5 team at Needham’s Hillside School. The team will compete against other local school teams in designing a computer program to navigate a LEGO robot through an obstacle course in 90 seconds.
FIRST was founded in 1989 by New Hampshire inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology.
Sepaton produces enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions. The company’s products enable data-intensive enterprises to back up, dedupe, replicate and restore petabytes of data at wire speed.
Staples Foundation for Learning gives $156K to 53 nonprofits
Staples Foundation for Learning, the private foundation created by Framingham-based Staples Inc., has donated $156,400 to 53 nonprofit organizations throughout Massachusetts, part of Staples’ commitment to supporting organizations that help local youth realize their full potential.
Boston-area organizations receiving grants from $5,000 to $25,000 include: Bay Cove Human Services — $5,000 to its Career Development Program; Boys and Girls Clubs of MetroWest — $25,000 to Technology For All; InnerCity Entrepreneurs— $25,000 to StreetWise MBA; John F. Kennedy Library Foundation — $10,000 to the Federal Budget Simulation; and Operation A.B.L.E. of Greater Boston, Boston — $5,000 to Operation Service.
Since 2002, the Staples Foundation for Learning has contributed more than $17 million to national and local charities.
Each of the following 48 home organizations received a $1,800 donation based on home office nominations:
• Advanced Math & Science Charter School
• Angle Tree District Boy Scouts
• Ashland Education Foundation, Inc.
• Ayer Education Foundation
• Billy Dalwin Preschool of Temple Emunah
• Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
• Boston Trinity Academy
• Boy Scouts Troop 80 of Dracut
• Cardinal Cushing School
• Century Chinese Language School
• Computer Clubhouse
• Criterion Heritage Early Intervention Program
• Duxbury Education Foundation
• Framingham History Center
• Generation Excel
• Growing Places Garden Project, Inc.
• Home for Little Wanderers
• Jay Kistler Foundation - A Better Life, Inc.
• John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation
• Junior League of Boston
• Laurie C. Tinsley Memorial Scholarship
• Medfield After School Program
• MetroWest YMCA
• One Home for Many Hopes
• Our Sisters School
• PAL of Central Massachusetts
• Pathways for Children
• Protestant Guild for Human Services
• Quinsigamond Community College
• St. Bernadette School
• Talented And Gifted Latino Program
• Taunton Early Intervention Program
• The Drama-Play Connection
• The FARM Institute
• The Mather Elementary School
• The Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center
• The New England Center for Children
• The Posse Foundation
• The Somerville Mathematics Fund
• Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
• Westborough Area Jewish Community Center
• Westborough Education Foundation
• Wilmington Educational Foundation
• Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association
• Woods Memorial Library
• Year Up
• Young Audiences of Massachusetts
• Young Entrepreneurs Alliance
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