The Most Complete Website for Boston Volunteering Opportunities
Comm Comm members will scour Boston's and Cambridge's area for volunteering opportunities. The research will pool all the sources available to us in MIT's Public Service Department booklet and list them on our main web page. We will find extra volunteering opportunities through an extended search through the world wide web.
The Nerd-Helpers of the Boston Community: creating the future's nerds
Ideally, we will be able to carry this program in conjunction with Harvard University, BC and BU's community service committees. This way we will be supporting interaction between the students of these schools as well as benefiting the younger students of the Boston community. The program ambitions to create a net of tutors that can spread to local elementary, middle and high schools to help create the future's nerds--or in less brutal MIT terms--to increase the number of aspirants to competitive colleges and improve the quality of the community's education.
Adopt-a-Grandpa
The program is designed to set up compromised MIT students with local nursing home patients. The students would do just what the title of the program reads: Adopt a Grandpa. They would be expected to visit them regularly (twice a week), and remember them in their birthdays and in the holidays. We'll inquire the administration to see if the students involved with this project can get Hass credit.
The Pennies Campaign
The committee will set up a campaign to collect all the unwanted pennies of the world, raise money and donate it to the research efforts to find the cure for cancer and AIDS.
Extra! Extra! Tech Fair at the local mall!
This program envisions a Tech Fair. MIT's engineers should not let those great
gadgets thrashed in the lab just because they are too expensive to commercialize.
Display them to your community and raise funds for your research!! This
project would involve different phases. Scheduling with a local mall.
Scavenging for the coolest MIT gadgets, collecting and organizing
Sounds easy, but I know in reality it is a very ambitious project. It's goal
is to support our community's scientists!!
Last updated April 28, 1998
by Bradley Ito, bito@mit.edu