Rosie's Place is a sanctuary for poor and homeless women, where many of our Middle and Upper School students have served dinner over the years. While in person volunteering is still on hold, there are several ways to help: join in Census Phone Banking to make sure everyone gets counted in the 2020 Census! The City of Boston is hosting daily phone banks to reach out and encourage households in some of the lowest response neighborhoods to be counted. Sign up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8MweuEz3Y4t2mI08MoG9w93DmwguOKChMjxWi0FXPalKhlQ/viewform.

Or contribute to the Rosie's Place virtual food drive https://yougivegoods.com/drive-rpseptember, help provide masks http://www.rosiesplace.org/masks or care packages http://www.rosiesplace.org/carepackages

BCT's mission is to provide free, quality and accessible online tutoring to all elementary and middle school students regardless of their economic and immigration status, race, sex, etc. in the Greater Boston area. See their website for more information and to sign up as a volunteer.

Conrad Brown ('22) who volunteered with BCT this summer: "Tutoring for BCT has been a rewarding way to help younger students who are concerned about keeping up with their schoolwork during Covid. I especially enjoy seeing the kids’ enthusiasm as they work through a problem or master a new concept. I would encourage everyone to join who feels comfortable working with middle and elementary school students and wants to help children work through the challenges of remote learning." Feel free to email conrad_brown22@milton.edu if you would like more information.

This summer make phone calls to elderly neighbors in the town of Milton. They would love some more human contact as covid restrictions will not lift at Milton Residences for the Elderly for some time. You can spend just a few minutes per week or as much time as you like. Please signup on this short form

You can help Boston Public School children develop (or catch up on) their reading skills as they prepare for the new school year.

Volunteers can create videos of read aloud books or art/craft activities and these will be shared as extra practice and fun resources for the children. Here are instructions for creating and uploading your video. If you have any questions, email community_engagement@milton.edu

Find a local blood drive or Red Cross donation center and sign up for an appointment: www.redcross.org/give-blood.html The need is urgent. Students age 16 can donate with parent permission form. Be sure to check eligibility requirements with regard to height, weight, travel, etc.

In the past, a number of Milton students have volunteered with The Collateral Repair Project, an NGO in Jordan that works with urban refugees. One of their programs allows fluent English speakers (like yourselves!) from around the world to skype refugees and practice their conversation skills. Please email jana_amin21@milton.edu if you are interested in this opportunity.

Not only are skype sessions super flexible, but it is also not a huge time commitment and is extremely rewarding!

IFSI (Immigrant Family Services International https://www.ifsi-usa.org/about) is looking for volunteers available after school or on Saturdays to provide one on one academic support as well as musical instrument lessons. Tutors would commit to 1 hour long zoom sessions on a regular basis (1-3 days/week). If you are interested in signing up for IFSI, please email Community_Engagement@milton.edu.

Remember Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign? june2020.org organized a virtual event the Poor People's Mass Assembly and Moral March on Washington which was broadcast Sat, 6/20 at 10:00am and 6:00pm and Sun, 6/21 at 6:00pm EST. It was be a "multiracial moral fusion coalition of poor and low-income people sharing their struggles, committing to build power, and presenting a comprehensive policy agenda and budget designed to heal the wounds of the nation and build power of the poor by registering people for a movement that votes. The focus of the event is to demand that the nation address systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism." Learn more about their ongoing work at their website.

See this MA video made by CEPP board member Celia Hoffman
(based on CDC pattern).

To be part of a larger collaborative effort in the Boston area, see the Boston Area Mask Initiative which was recently featured in and NPR news story.

See the Boston Area Mask Initiative facebook page for FAQs and information about drop off locations.

Rosie’s Place also needs masks- 2 more designs and details here for Rosie's Place.

Winter Valley and Unquity House

(These sites are both part of our weekly partner sites.)

They are happy to deliver letters/notes to elders for whom these days of self-isolating can get very lonely; CLICK HERE for the google signup form and for further details and suggested content.

Hebrew Senior Life

(One of our weekly partner sites)

See details here for sending Letters to Elders at this site.

see this RESOURCE LIST for opportunities from Boston to around the Globe.

https://www.bhchp.org/covid-19-response-fund- People experiencing homelessness are extraordinarily vulnerable to viruses such as this COVID-19. Read here how Boston Health Care for the Homeless is partnering with shelters, hospitals, the City and State and how you can help.

Buy a crocheted mask and a second mask will be given to hospital workers while proceeds go to COVID support for families at Edmund Burke Charter School in East Boston. See details here: Mask fundraiser

Chinese Progressive Association, one of Asian Society’s partners, has created an emergency fund for Boston Chinatown's unemployed workers and residents in need: https://cpaboston.org/en/COVID19Fund

(Asian Society donated part of the proceeds from their sweatpants sale in February to this fund.)

One of our partners Community Servings in Jamaica Plain provides meals for people living with critical/chronic illness and is now also partnering through the Boston Resiliency Fund to provide meals for Boys and Girls Clubs. With 200 new referrals per day, while they once delivered 8,000 meals daily, they’re now approaching 12,000 meals daily.

See the news report on WBZ Boston (CBS local). To donate: https://www.servings.org.

Epiphany is an independent school for children of economically disadvantaged families in Boston where CEPP volunteers normally serve dinner every Monday.

For News updates and Donations see https://www.epiphanyschool.com/

The coronavirus poses an even bigger health threat to our community’s most vulnerable populations — low-income individuals and senior citizens. The Greater Boston Food Bank is considered an essential service provider and is in need of monetary donations: https://www.gbfb.org/covid-19-update/ -

There are also limited volunteer shifts: How to SIGNUP for warehouse volunteer shift

Milton Food Pantry at this time is accepting only $ donations by check.

Please send via U.S. postal mail to:

The Milton Community Food Pantry, c/o Parkway Methodist Church, 158 Blue Hills Parkway, Milton, MA 02186

Boston-based organization that was founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health is working in Haiti, Navajo Nation and 9 other countries;
PIH is the organization to which we donate annual Hunger Event funds.

As covid spreads rapidly on the Navajo Nation (our partner for the annual June service trip), your $ donations help PIH provide supplies to families in quarantine, and protective gear to health workers.

Ten mental health tips from PIH for Coronavirus Social Distancing.

Every day in Massachusetts, hundreds of thousands of people do not have enough to eat. Food insecurity has increased 300%. Watch these short videos to meet residents from rural, urban, and coastal communities to learn about the diverse challenges they face to access and afford food.

Your donation to the Milton Academy Team in the virtual Walk for Hunger provides food for Massachusetts residents and families who are hungry today, while working to break the cycle of hunger through advocacy and systems change. Read Project Bread's piece regarding the connections between hunger and racism.