Have a great idea to improve your favorite community space? Need some cash to help make it happen? Come to a free workshop on the nuts and bolts of community crowdfunding!
The Mayor's Office of Resilience and Racial Equity, Love Your Block, and the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics are partnering with ioby.org to provide residents and community-based organizations with a crowdfunding platform and one-on-one fundraising coaching to help bring ideas to life. Come join us for a workshop where you'll have the opportunity to incubate your idea and get it ready for the world.
We’ll cover:A light dinner will be provided! Please let us know if you have dietary restrictions and/or childcare needs. RSVP now:
With Community Made, the City of Boston is partnering with ioby.org to support residents in creating their own community projects. ioby is a nonprofit crowdfunding platform that can provide community advocates with one-to-one coaching on project scoping and fundraising, access to their online crowdfunding platform, and, if applicable, fiscal sponsorship using ioby's 501(c)3 nonprofit designation.
This pilot is a partnership between the Mayor's Office of Resilience and Racial Equity, Love Your Block, the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, and ioby.org. All submissions must abide by legal and community standards and are subject to review by ioby before posting. This work is funded by a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies and is informed by the strategic plans Resilient Boston: A Connected and Equitable City and Imagine Boston: 2030.
Speaker: The Rev. Stephen T. Ayres
The Vicar of the Old North Church has two occupations, as spiritual leader of a North End congregation and as director of one of the most famous historical sites in the nation. Have you ever thought about the occupational hazards involved in leading two distinct, but intertwined institutions? The Rev. Stephen Ayres is both the vicar of the Old North Church and the Executive Director of the Old North Foundation. Vicar Ayres has led thousands of worship services, preached over one thousand sermons, married nearly a hundred couples, baptized over a hundred babies, and presided over dozens of funerals. At the same time, Vicar Ayres has helped transform the Old North Church from a brief stop on the Freedom Trail into a respected and professional historic site that teaches history and civic values to hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
Questions to be addressed in the lecture include: What is a vicar and what does that occupation entail? How do the values inherent in a spiritual calling impact the practice of managing a historic site? And, given the American tradition of separation of church and state, how can one person occupy a sacred and secular calling at the same time without going crazy or at least driving his spouse crazy?
Afterwards, please join us for an outdoor reception in the Washington Courtyard while hearing about Old North’s upcoming projects.
