Volunteer Appreciation Event
April 14, 2010-To coincide with National Volunteer Appreciation Week hopeFound gathered over 100 of its volunteers to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things. This year hopeFound engaged over 550 volunteers who provided more than 3,000 combined hours of service. During the celebration, five hopeFound heroes were recognized for their outstanding volunteer work.
2010 hopeFound Heroes
Bruce Bordett: Bruce is a resident of Newton. He has more than 30 years of experience in video and film production. Bruce has produced and edited two video projects for hopeFound. The videos are invaluable marketing pieces that embrace and promote hopeFound’s work to end homelessness.
Peter Cross: Peter is a photographer from Braintree. He has been photographing people, products and locations for 20 years in the greater Boston area. Peter began capturing images for hopeFound in 2007. He has taken on many projects for hopeFound including marketing and event photography. Most recently, he has created a series of iconic images that have become an integral part of the hopeFound brand.
Lisa Price: Lisa is a resident of Jamaica Plain and an active volunteer in the Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center for Women. Lisa has been volunteering with hopeFound for over 2 years. She runs a bi-weekly mediation group with the women that helps them relax and de-stress. Lisa is also an avid runner and will be participating in the 2010 Boston Marathon to raise funds for the Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center.
Pierce School, Ginny Carroll: Ginny began volunteering at hopeFound over twenty years ago as a member of the Saint Ignatius Parish. Fifteen years ago, she organized a holiday toiletry drive with her students and colleagues at the Pierce School. The project became an annual event and in 2009 the Pierce School donated over 175 bags of toiletries.
ACS, Inc., Nancy Kiely Fermano: Driven by the leadership of Nancy Kiely Fermano and Carol Stec, the employees of ACS took on two significant volunteer projects in 2009. Not only did they serve asummer dinner to clients in our shelter, but they organized a much need holiday drive that delivered countless pairs of new socks to the shelter and holiday cards and stamps to the women in the Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center.
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Executive Director Mary Nee and Hero Bruce Bordett
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Hero Peter Cross and Board President Stephen Skinner
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Mary Nee, Hero Lisa Price, and Stephen Skinner
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Hero Ginny Carroll and Mary Nee
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ACS, Inc. Heroes Kevin Skinner, Maria Georges,
Carol Stec, and Nancy Kiely Fermano
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Classical music volunteers Julie Leven and Rebecca Strauss
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Photography by Peter Cross
2009 hopeFound Heroes
The Beam Family | Lawyers Clearinghouse | BlackRock | Jasmine Marino | Boston Cares | Dan Nichol | Michael Connelly | Carolyn Orfanella | Michael Ferullo | Public Consulting Group | Fidelity After 5 | Saucony | Aaron Finegold | |
The hopeFound Hero Award was established in 2008.
hopeFound is grateful to more than 500 volunteers providing support to its clients each year.
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