"Boys and Girls For Others" is a series of workshops held at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester with the Keystone Club, a teen leadership program. The project's goal is to empower youth to take on leadership roles in their community and plan a hypothetical service project for their community. The workshops are mirrored after those conducted for JLP but are tailored to fit the needs of the Keystone Club. These workshops build on key tenets of leadership through interactive team building activities and reflection journaling. The series culminates in a project proposal created by the teens and presented to a panel of judges during the final workshop at Boston College, where the students will also have an opportunity to engage in a College Q&A session.

BC Tackles Bullying is a campaign aimed at raising awareness of bullying issues on campus with the intent to unify the student body.  The campaign will take place over a three-day period, April 24th to April 26th, and will involve the distribution of lime green quarter sheets and “BC Tackles Bullying” lime green rubber bracelets across campus.  With the distribution of each of these bracelets, we will be asking the recipient to sign his or her name on one of six banners.  Each signature will represent a pledge to help stop bullying and to help raise awareness on this very serious issue.  Further, we will be going door-to-door through freshmen dorms distributing quarter sheets with bullying statistics and information, inspirational quotes, and resources for those who are struggling with bullying.  The final component of our project involves releasing a four to five minute video on the BC Tackles Bullying Facebook page depicting BC students pledging to help end bullying as well as encouraging other students to stop bullying. 

Jenks Random Acts of Kindness is a student-oriented viral campaign of kindness striving to motivate the Boston College Student Community to show random acts of kindness both on our campus and beyond.  There are often high levels of stress and a sense of isolation amongst students on campus. Our campaign strives to break those barriers by encouraging student to student interaction with a joyful and kind attitude. We have provided and continue to provide random acts of kindness to forgotten or under-appreciated student populations and provided an opportunity for students to send acts of kindness to their friends. We will be reaching out to the greater Boston community and performing an act of kindness by providing a donation of school supplies to the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester.

We are organizing a fundraiser to support the many teachers at the Campus School who rely on their personal funds to get basic supplies such as markers, pencils, paper, etc. We also hope to raise awareness of what the Campus School is and the tremendous influence it is among the student population. To do this, we are selling neon colored shoelaces attached with a tag that includes artwork of a Campus School student, the Campus School mission statement, and one of the Campus School Philosophies. The bright colored laces will not only directly show support for the Campus School, but they will also lead to questions about why everyone is wearing the shoelaces which will further spread information about the School. We will also distribute pamphlets with more information about the Campus School to the student body. We are then donating 100% of the proceeds to the Campus School.

BC Tackles Poverty is a unique service project made up of three major deliverables that represent a combined initiative of BC students and Newton residents who care about doing their part to help tackle poverty in the Greater Boston area.  First, a community clothing and food drive in the City of Newton canvasses homes throughout the neighborhood surrounding BC and asks for donations of gently used clothes and non-perishable food items, which are then given to St. Francis House.  Second, a heavily marketed on-campus clothing drive targeting residence halls from all class year areas encourages students to do a “Spring Cleaning” of their closets, with proceeds also benefitting this same men’s homeless shelter in need of donations.  Finally, we are hosting a dinner and evening at Rosie’s Place, a shelter for impoverished women and victims of domestic violence in Boston, where ten students from Jenks and beyond will prepare and serve dinner to 50+ women on a Sunday evening.  BC Tackles Poverty is a truly special initiative that represents great communities coming together to serve a population in constant need of our support.