BOSTONIANS FOR YOUTH

about BFY 2023
We are still here. Despite the challenges we have faced as a city and nation over the last few years, we have hope. We still believe in healing as the way forward. TBC continues to support young people of color and the adults who serve them as they navigate the rippling effects of COVID, ongoing white supremacy culture, and more. Even as we collectively heal from pre-existing, generational trauma, the harmful effects of systematic racism persist in our communities. This underscores the importance of our collective vision of an equitable Boston, and mission of healing.
Such an ambitious vision and mission will not come to fruition by happenstance, nor in silos. Our individual efforts are amplified when we lean into each other. That is why we are calling you into our Beloved Community, our theme for this year’s
Bostonians for Youth: Healing for an Equitable Boston. We invite you to take action and join us as we recognize our city’s young people, celebrate their accomplishments, and progress toward a healed and equitable Boston, together.
gala details
DATE:
June 8, 2023
TIME:
6:00PM
IN-PERSON GALA:
Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 St. James Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
COVID-19 safety
Our guest, volunteer, and staff safety is of utmost importance to us. In conjunction with the hotel, we will have appropriate protocol in place with the goal of keeping our guests as safe as possible during the gala. To learn more about the extensive measures the Fairmont Copley Plaza is taking to safeguard, protect and care for guests, please visit ALLSafeandWell.com.
Honoring Imari Paris Jeffries
The Leader of Change Award recognizes an individual who is making powerful impact in helping to create a more just and equitable Boston through critical and sustainable change. We are thrilled to announce Imari Paris Jeffries, Executive Director of Embrace Boston, as this year’s Leader of Change honoree!
As Embrace Boston’s President and CEO since June 2020, Imari is leading a citywide racial equity transformation through The Embrace memorial recently unveiled on Boston Common, the future Embrace Center for Economic Justice in Roxbury, and policy and community organizing efforts throughout the city. An army veteran serving from 1991-1996, Imari’s influential career has spanned public, national, and nonprofit management, community activism, education reform, and social justice sectors.
Locally, Imari has served in executive roles for Parenting Journey, the Italian Home for Children, Jumpstart, Boston Rising, and Friends of the Children-Boston. Imari has supplemented his work with volunteer service on a variety of non-profit boards, including Jumpstart, the African American Federation of Greater Boston, Save the Harbor, Save the Bay, the Elizabeth Peabody House, the Massachusetts Mentoring Partnership, the Edward Brooke Charter School, The Providers Council, and Third Sector New England. He currently serves as a Trustee of the UMass System, Mass Humanities, Mass Budget, Policy Center, and the Governor’s Black Advisory Commission.
Imari was recently named one of Boston’s most Influential Bostonians by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journals Power 50. He is a three-time graduate of UMass Boston and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. through UMass Boston’s Higher Education Program.
Join us in-person this year for an evening of inspiration, activation, and community!
Questions? Contact Daisy Guzman: dguzman@trinityconnects.org
Thank You to Our Sponsors
* denotes Trinity Boston Connects, Board of Director
Presenting Sponsors
$25,000
Anonymous
Aldrich Family Charitable Foundation*
Judy and Bill Steul
Leading Sponsors
$10,000
Anonymous
Louise Burnham Packard and Murray Metcalfe
Allison and David* Donelan
Rodman for Kids
Jeanne and Dan* Ross
The Trinity Changemakers
Stephanie and David Lawrence
Shari Loessberg and Christopher Smart*
State Street Corporation
Pam Warren and Peter Lawrence
Resiliency Sponsors
$5,000
Shanuah Beamon* and Michael Chinn
Stephen Hendrickson and David McCord
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Judith and Mark King
Laura McTaggart and Tom Nolan
Martha and Michael Parker
Elizabeth* and Robert Smith
Jeanne and Don Stanton
Pam and Peter Voss
Empowerment Sponsors
$3,000
Shelby Cabral Smither*
Martha Childs
Susan Halby
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Jill* and Read Norton
Trinity Church in the City of Boston
Megan and David Zug
Mentoring Sponsors
$1,000
Ronald Akie and David Mooney
Phyllis Brooks
The Charlotte Foundation
Connie Coburn and James Houghton
Cummings Foundation
Marty and Bob Cowden
Kathryn and David Dahl
Sula and Jack Fiszman
Lisa Frost and Paul Zintl
Margaret and Dozier Gardner
Charles L. George*
Global Partners, LP
Audrey and Richard Henderson
Vincent James
Debbie Johnson*
Ruth Morris and Peter Kelly
Elizabeth and Keith Morgan
Chuks Okoli
Sheila and John Peterson
Lynn and Peter Smiledge
Jennifer Truong
Adrian Walker*
Institutional Sponsors


Host Committee

Maura Healey, Honorary Chair
Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Eric Arcese, Co-Chair
Dell Technologies
Debbie Johnson, Co-Chair
IDRx, Inc.
Hilina Ajakaiye
Meet Boston
The Reverend Morgan S. & Missy Allen
Trinity Church in the City of Boston
Reverend Willie Bodrick, II
Twelfth Baptist Church
Councilor Kenzie Bok
City of Boston
Darcy Brownell
Next Level Social Impact (former)
Margret Cooke
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Damon Cox
MassChallenge
Michael Curry
Mass League of Community Health Centers
David and Allison Donelan
Skillstorm
Stephen Hendrickson & David McCord
Dr. Xenia Johnson
Cambridge Health Alliance,
Harvard Medical School,
& Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Judith & Mark King
Back Bay Life Science Advisors
Celia Mercer
Boston College Center for Corporate
Citizenship
Louise Burnham Packard & Murray Metcalfe
Mike Parker
Flagship Energy Partners
Dr. M. Lee Pelton
The Boston Foundation
Ed Powell
Justice Resource Institute
Christopher Smart & Shari Loessberg
Barings Investment Institute
MIT Sloan
Chris Smith
Boston After School & Beyond
Jeanne & Don Stanton
Morgan Stanley
Judy & Bill Steul
Adrian Walker
Boston Globe
Pam Warren & Peter Lawrence
Summit Montessori School
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals
Megan & David Zug
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