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BOSTONIANS FOR YOUTH

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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

Rodman for Kids
State Street
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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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