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Community Service Day 2011
Community Partnerships
While Loomis Sayles continues to support qualified organizations
financially, we also recognize the importance of rolling up our sleeves and
taking a hands-on approach to lend a helping hand.
Loomis Sayles is pleased to partner with the following charities:
Health Smartz
Saint Patrick School
Project Hope
Boston Medical Center
Summer Search
Boston Ballet
Taking Steps
Community Service Day with City Year
Health Smartz
To
address the growing epidemic of childhood obesity, Loomis Sayles banded
together with Boston
Ballet, Boston Medical Center and Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston to create Health
Smartz, a groundbreaking alliance dedicated to raising awareness of the
critical health and nutritional issues affecting Boston’s children. Health
Smartz' first advocacy and fundraising event, Hold The Fries!, raised
nearly $150,000
for health and nutrition initiatives.
View
Channel Five Video
Saint Patrick
School
Loomis Sayles has been teaming with Saint Patrick School since 2004 through
the Inner-City Scholarship Fund's 'Adopt-a-School' program. In addition to a
$25,000 donation of computers and equipment to the school's computer lab, we
have initiated a number of recurring programs, including a book club, weekly
tutoring and classroom assistance by firm volunteers, school supply drives,
and an annual field trip to the Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl. Loomis Sayles also
partnered with Suffolk Construction to install an Astroturf field at the
school, and worked alongside Channel 5's local 'extreme makeover' team to paint
and restore the school interior.
We hosted a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of
Saint Patrick's Peace Park at the Roxbury school in 2006. Peter Lynch,
president of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, and Mayor Thomas Menino attended
the ceremony. As part of its ongoing partnership with Saint Patrick's, Loomis
Sayles donated the playground.
View Event
Video
Project Hope
Loomis Sayles has a strong partnership with Project Hope, a multi-service
agency located in Roxbury that offers access to education, jobs, housing and
emergency services to low-income women with children. As part of the
collaborative Community Partners in Health Professions program, Loomis
Sayles employees conduct job training support for women who are new to or
rejoining the work force, and host semiannual clothing drives for professional
attire.
Learn more about Project Hope.
Boston Medical
Center
Loomis Sayles has supported Boston Medical Center, Boston's largest provider of
healthcare - accessible to all - for over a decade. Loomis Sayles contributes
to Boston Medical Center's Nutrition & Fitness for Life program, an innovative
clinical and community-centered approach to the treatment and prevention of
obesity. We also contribute to Boston Medical Center's Birth Sisters program,
which provides community-based social support to women with an increased risk
for pregnancy complications based on physical and social factors.
Learn more about Boston Medical Center.
Summer Search
Summer Search is a leadership development program that provides year-round
mentoring, summer experiences, college advising and a lasting support network
to low-income high school students. Loomis Sayles participates in Summer
Search's annual internship program.
Learn more about Summer Search.
Boston Ballet Taking
Steps
For the fifth year, Loomis Sayles is proud to be the lead sponsor of Boston
Ballet's Taking Steps program for inner-city girls aged 11-14. Boston
Ballet Taking Steps offers after-school instruction in dance, drama, music
and visual arts. Participants gain greater physical awareness, learn methods to
communicate with self-confidence and presence, and discover that a healthy body
and healthy mind go hand in hand. We also underwrite Boston Ballet's two-week
summer camp dedicated to training young women from disadvantaged communities in
dance and artistic expression. Loomis Sayles was also the featured sponsor at
2007's annual Boston Ballet Gala.
Watch
Video to learn more about Taking Steps and how Loomis Sayles has
helped build this educational and life-changing organization.
Community Service Day with City
Year
Every year, Loomis Sayles teams with City Year to complete a community service
project at a local school, park, playground or
other site in need of renovation. This year, over 40 employees shuttled to
Saint Patrick School in Roxbury, MA to complete a variety of beautification
projects, including weeding and nurturing the garden, painting the corridors
and gymnasium, painting murals and spreading new mulch on the
playground.
Learn more about our 2010 event.
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