$600,000 raised at Wonder Ball for Children’s Museum
SOUTH BOSTON — 400 guests attended the Boston Children’s Museum’s Wonder Ball on November 23, 2019, which raised more than $600,000. All photos by Bill Brett
Bill Brett
Boston Photographer
Northeast Arc holds Arc Tank 3.0 to empower local entrepreneurs
DORCHESTER — Northeast Arc announced the winners of the third year of The Arc Tank competition, The Arc Tank 3.0, which was created to positively disrupt conventional methods of providing services to persons with disabilities. The winners were selected by a panel of judges who heard their pitches at an event held Nov. 19 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, a partner in the initiative. Chosen from nearly 100 submissions, the winning proposals received…
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester raise more than $450,000 at gala
COPLEY SQUARE — More than 300 guests attended the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston’s annual gala, which this year had a Disco theme. The event, held on November 16 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel, raised more than $450,000 to support the clubs’ programs. The 32nd annual “Grand Drawing” gala got a boost when Boston Mayor Marty Walsh stepped up to serve as the celebrity auctioneer. The night’s emcee was WBZ morning anchor Kate…
Renée Graham honored at Girls’ LEAP gala
BOSTON — 250 guests attended Girls’ LEAP’s Empowerment Gala which honored The Boston Globe’s Renée Graham “for raising her voice and deepening our conversation about race and racism, domestic violence, and LGBTQ issues.” The gala, held on November 13, 2019 at the State Room atop 60 State Street in downtown Boston, is held to support Girls’ LEAP’s mission of interrupting the cycle of violence by empowering girls and young women to value and champion their…
Charley’s Fund marks 15th anniversary with event at The Inn at Hastings Park
LEXINGTON — The Inn at Hastings Park in Lexington hosted an event to support and celebrate Charley’s Fund, a Duchenne muscular dystrophy nonprofit with the mission of accelerating drug therapies and care for boys living with DMD. A little over a year ago, Charley’s Fund opened the Duchenne Program at UMass Medical School in Worcester, which already sees more patients with DMD than any other clinic in the world. This month Charley’s Fund marks its…