The director of the Women's Lunch Place not only makes sure more than 150 homeless women a day are fed and taken care of, but just oversaw a major renovation that brought dignity and respect to the day shelter.
The words 'I have enough' will always ring strongly in the ears of Sharon Reilly, executive director of the Women's Lunch Place. She was visiting Stella, a regular at the day shelter, who had been placed in a rehab facility after living on the streets for 25 years. When asked if she needed anything, 'I have enough' was Stella's response. It was a wakeup call for Reilly, who had recently lost her husband to cancer. "It was life transforming for me," Reilly said. "She was satisfied with the little she had, because it's about relationships ... Walking to the train station, I reflected on everything that's happened in my life, and everything I have in my life. And I started to let go." When her husband died in 2008 she considered moving back …
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His brother's death sparked the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, but he wanted to do his own thing for cancer research.
When Back Bay resident Frederick Warburg was nine when his older brother Max died from Leukemia. But his memory lived on in the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, a sixth-grade reading program in all of Boston’s public schools that teaches children about Max, and encourages them to be courageous in their own lives. “This was something I helped out with my whole life,” Warburg said. “But it was my parent’s initiative.” He wanted to do his own thing to make sure other kids have a fighting chance at beating cancer. And that thing has become running the Boston Marathon and raising thousands of dollars for cancer research through the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge team. Max received support through the Jimmy Fund, and was treated at Children’s …
Her organization Tailored for Education, launched in December, has already committed aid to more than 11,000 children in developing countries.
For Back Bay resident Megan Kelly, who wore them from kindergarten through high school, school uniforms are a simple enough concept. But one day when a friend casually asked her if she knew that children in Tanzania were required to wear uniforms to go to school, she was caught off guard. “I had worn uniforms for a very long time and had absolutely no idea what a need it was in developing countries,” Kelly said. “After that, I started doing a bunch of research and learned that it’s mandatory in a ton of different developing countries – Haiti, most of the African countries, Cambodia.” Almost a year removed from that realization, Kelly is now one of the co-founders of Tailored for Education, a local non-profit that strives to increase school…
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He and his business partner opened a shared creative space that's affordable and ideal for established professionals working from home.
Working from home; it sounds like a dream job. Except when it isn’t. “I worked out of a small office in my house,” said Nima Yadollahpour, who started his own architecture practice, ONY architecture, about six years ago. “And I went stir crazy.” Meanwhile, his childhood friend Charlie Weisman was running a New York-based arts organization, traveling a lot and working out of various coffee shops. Take a giant step forward, and that’s how Oficio, a boutique shared workspace that opened Sept. 15 at 30 Newbury Street, was born. “We hope to offer something for Boston’s many freelancers and entrepreneurs, who find existing spaces too techie, coffeehouses too chaotic, and home too isolating,” Yadollahpour said. A home away from home The 2,300 …
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Margaret Pokorny initiated the Garden Club of Back Bay's holiday wreath fundraiser, and is a driving force behind preserving and caring for Boston's trees.
Every now and then, Margaret Pokorny still finds gold glitter and pine needles on her basement floor. They're left over from the start of the Garden Club of the Back Bay's annual wreath-making fundraiser - an activity that began 17 years ago with 25 wreaths and a handful of crafty ladies in Pokorny's home. "We moved out of my basement when we couldn't fit anymore," Pokorny said. "My husband said 'It's me or the wreaths,'" she joked. Now, that operation has exploded to include at least 100 Garden Club members who create and deliver more than 400 holiday wreaths in five days. From Sunday - Thursday during the first week of December, they hole up for hours in the First Lutheran Church of Boston, stapling ribbons into bows, pinning …
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12:04 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Margaret Pokorny is one of the treasures of the Back Bay. Thank you for recognizing this part of her great work. more ›
Diana Martinez
9:21 am on Sunday, March 10, 2013
Hi Ms Sharon Reilly Can I contact you by phone? Please let me know and thank you for your support, Have a bless day.Sincerely Diana M. from Florida. more ›