Northeast Arc – Bill Brett

Northeast Arc holds Arc Tank 3.0 to empower local entrepreneurs

November 23rd, 2019 Comments Closed

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…

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Northeast Arc raises $600,000 through annual fashion show gala

April 26th, 2019 Comments Closed

BOSTON — 500 guests attended the Northeast Arc’s annual “Evening of Changing Lives” fashion show and dinner, which was held on April 25, 2019 at the Seaport Hotel. The dinner raised $600,000 to support Northeast Arc’s programs that help people with disabilities become full participants in the community; choosing for themselves how to live, learn, work, socialize and play. Among those in attendance were Massachusetts’ first lady Lauren Baker; Legal Sea Foods skipper Roger Berkowitz…

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JFK Foundation and Northeast Arc hold 2nd annual “Arc Tank”

December 1st, 2018 Comments Closed

DORCHESTER — On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 the Northeast Arc and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation hosted the second annual “The Arc Tank presentations” at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. It was in November 2017 that the two groups hosted the inaugural Arc Tank. Through to a donation from Steven P. Rosenthal to create The Changing Lives Fund, Northeast Arc awarded a total of $200,000 as a result of the competition, for…

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Northeast Arc holds “An Evening of Changing Lives”

May 17th, 2018 Comments Closed

SOUTH BOSTON — 400 people attended the Northeast Arc’s annual “An Evening of Changing Lives” dinner and fashion show. The event was held at the Seaport Hotel and honored the New England Council’s Larry Zabar with the “Changing Lives Award.” All photos by Bill Brett

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The Arc Tank: Changing Lives through Innovation event held

November 30th, 2017 Comments Closed

DORCHESTER — The Northeast Arc and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation hosted the inaugural “The Arc Tank” at which $200,000 was awarded to support projects and ideas that help those with disabilities. The event, a local take on the successful TV show “Shark Tank,” was organized to “support innovation in action, hearing ideas that will help positively disrupt disability services to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism and their families,”…

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