Senior Event Planning Projects

Fall 2008

Wayside Children and Family Services

The event was held on November 19th at Kitty O'Sheas bar located in Downtown Boston. Three live bands volunteered their time to play during the evening, and a giant raffle was held to help raise money. Overall almost 2500$ was raised to help Wayside. The organization plans on using the money to help build a new campus for the teen residents. There will be a plaque recognizing the class to commemorate the gift.

Course members: Charlene Burke, India Fuller, Jena Hernandez, Corrie Hunkler, Kate Janisch, Kerry Keleman, Chanelle Mars, Jennifer Matthes, Keiga Matsumoto, Julie Miller, Yaijaira Pagan, Sarah Puccio, Tanya Simon, and Whitney Sisto.

Spring 2008

Youth Outreach Fights Against Domestic Violence and Homelessness

This three part project included collecting personal care products and distributing them to a domestic violence shelter (Renewal House) and an outreach program for homeless youth. .

Part 1 - The group scheduled an event at a residence hall with pizza and a movie. Residents were asked to bring an item for admittance.

Part 2 - All the items were transported to Ellis Memorial, an after school program, where the children helped assemble the bags of products and then had cake and punch to celebrate their good work.

Part 3 - The bags were delivered to Renewal house and the youth program.

Adoption Bag Project

The concept was to provide twenty-five backpacks to families of newly adopted children through Suffolk County Juvenile Court. The backpacks were filled with resources lists of activities around the city, photo albums, cameras, gift cards and journals. This group set up a fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen and raised $215 for backpacks for the gifts. Backpacks were presented to parents on Adoption Day.

Fundraiser for Community Servings

This group raised $2395 to donate to Community Servings, a local, non-profit organization that delivers meals to individuals that are homebound with life threatening illnesses. The Baseball Tavern turned over its profits for the evening. This group secured many donations of gift certificates awarded to people who came out for the event.

Course members: Chelsea Ambrose, Julie Benjamin, Jennifer Blewett, Allison Burnside, Barbara Civill, Lisa Ferelli, Maria Graceffa, Shannon Jacobson, Deborah Li, Claire Menzie, Carissa Murray, Andrea Pahuta, Amanda Parker, Joshua Porter, Mary Pugliese, Christina Rossi, Peter Sauro, Rachel Sletzinger, Shaleyse Smallwood, Thinh Tran, and Choi Treadwell.

Fall 2007

This semester's students formed "NUnited: United Against Violence, United for Peace," an event promoting peace and alternatives to violence held at Bird Street Community Center.

Course members: Jennifer Bolte, Kevin Brown, Ashly Culver, Charlene Fraser, Kenna Jean-Baptiste, Emily Lau, Liz LeClerc, Amy Markarian, Jennifer Martin, Seana Quental, Jennifer Robinson, Emily Schlam, and Jesenia Tejada.

Spring 2007

This semester's students held a Senior Prom at Symphony Plaza (East and West) with a fund raiser at Jake Ivory's Piano Bar.

Course members: David Cadet, Sarah Coburn, Nicole Costa, Dee Colon, Jodi Davenport, Amy Fischer, Jesse Jolly, Jessica Roeder, Megan Krell, Nicole Nordeste, Laura Hamill, Manuel Solis, and Josh Turner.

Fall 2006

This semester's students raised money and donated it to Project Hope, an agency that works to make health care available to all people, especially children.

Course members: Jessica Thompson, Caroline Ryan, Megan Murphy, Shy Jamal, Dannelle Tucker, and Tessa Woodnick.

Spring 2006

This semester's students conducted a book drive. Book donations went to local children's hospitals and elementary schools.

Course members: Lydia Mikhail, Jaclyn Digesere, Leah Hyland, Kristin Moul, Nirmala Singh, Krystal Williams, Regan Denison, Dana Ginsburg, and David Kornblith.

Fall 2005

This semester's students held a Silent Witness and had a cell phone drive to raise awareness for Domestic Violence.

Course members: Lauren Brown, Heather Bulter, Mistie Conner, Christine Ditri, Renee Drobinski, Meghan Elliot, Liz Fahey, Erica Ferndandez, Amanda Johnston, Lana Klebnova, Katlyn Marple, Amanda Phillips, Jennifer Rosenthal and Mara Zalkim.

Spring 2005

This semester's students held a dodgeball tournament to raise money to help build a playground for a local school.

Course members: Katie Boye, Justine Carr, Amy Lawernce, Ashley Mann, Christine Marre, Christine Martin, Lauren Mills, Diana Nelson, Denise Noonan, and Peter Soto.

Fall 2004

This semester's students held an event for the residents of Symphony Plaza (East and West).

Course members: Claire Backenstow, Joy Baldini, Nicole Beatty, Annie Casarella, Kristy case, Jesslyn Delaney, Desire Deschaine, Lindsay Ferrante, Danielle Fourier, Ashley Gardner, Julie Hefez, Nora Kenny-Houser, Jennifer Kimball, Ain Leyba-Tripps, Ashley Manferdini, Nicole Martini, and Karen Pierce.