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IT’S NOT OK!

COMMUNITY IMPACT REPORT 2013

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Our MissionThe mission of Mothers for Justice and Equality is to end neighborhood violence. By empowering our members to be effective change-makers, we reclaim the identity of our communities and restore a sense of hope and purpose for our children.

Our Vision MJE believes that mothers are powerful change-makers in our communities. If given the right tools, mothers can become catalysts for change at home and advocates for change in their neighborhoods. Ultimately, MJE believes that change will occur as the internalized expectations of what is acceptable in our neighborhoods changes.

Our children deserve to grow up free from fear and have the support of the entire community. Mother to mother, family to family, block to block, we can change the story of our streets.

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Monalisa Smith

Dear Friends,As I look back to the very beginning of MJE, there were ten of us. Ten mothers who decided that enough was enough. The violence must stop. We believed that mothers could be powerful change-makers. If given the right tools, mothers could become catalysts for change at home and advocates for change in their neighborhoods. We believed that we could change the discourse around violence. We proclaimed that it is unacceptable for it to be considered OK that children be murdered in certain neighborhoods of the city. We pushed that message in every way we could and today we are hearing it echoed back to us through the words of elected leaders. We have changed the discourse around street violence.

In 2010, The Boston Foundation listened to our approach and gave us our first grant of $5,000 and offered us shared office space with another program. We put together a Board of Directors of knowledgeable women involved in our most vulnerable neighborhoods and we developed a three year strategic plan. Our plan involved developing education and engagement programs, growing our membership, and putting in place the infrastructure needed to support a growing non-profit. The plan called for $1.5 million dollars to be raised by the end of 2014. Our membership has expanded to a network of 800 people and we raised, by the end of 2013, just shy of $1 million. After moving into new office space, we immediately needed to expand into more space for our coffee hours and classes. We have five staff members and a host of strategic partnerships. This report describes the education programs for mothers and youth that we launched this year as part of the MJE Leadership Academy. It also highlights the work we have done to engage our members in building communication and accountability with elected and appointed officials.

As we begin 2014, we are energized in our efforts. We continue to reach out to community members to invite them to be part of the solution to the violence that we live with. We cannot continue to allow our children to be victimized and traumatized. All of us who care about children have a responsibility to engage in this effort.

In peace, Monalisa Smith President and CEO

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There were 42 murders in the City of Boston in 2013. That number is encouraging. It represents fewer murders than in either of the previous two years, and far fewer than in other cities. But if your 23-year-old daughter was killed, just one murder is too many. If you had to grab your children and huddle on the floor to avoid stray gunfire, the number is terrifying. If it was your neighborhood that was the scene of three young men dying from gunshot wounds, your sense of safety is shattered. In some neighborhoods of Boston, children are growing up with violence and death all around them.

According to a 2011 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled Violence, Social Disadvantage, and Health, “Adverse health effects among children and young adults include post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, aggressive behavior, sexual risk-taking, problems with eating and sleeping, and increased likelihood of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use. The effects can be particularly damaging for children who are exposed to violence on a chronic basis, especially when the violence involves people they know.” In addition, the report found that violence has a strong impact

on women and on future generations. Women who have witnessed violence or been victims of violence have high levels of anxiety and depression. Exposure to violence is also strongly linked to pre-term births and low birth weights (RWJF, 2011). Violence in the community is a public health crisis.

Mothers for Justice and Equality (MJE) refuses to accept violence in our communities as the status quo. We are committed to developing effective and replicable strategies that are grounded in the principals of restorative justice, an approach promoting the belief that healing through social connectivity and engagement will prevent street violence and lead to healthier, more vibrant communities. We are an organization that is resident-informed, resident-driven and led by women living in the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan—communities which have seen increasing rates of murder and violent crime. Our programs are designed to develop community leaders and fall into two interdependent categories: Education and Engagement.

“The mayor wants to continue to work closely with Mothers for Justice and Equality,” said Walsh spokeswoman Emilee Ellison. “Public safety was the topic of his very first meeting in office... He knows what a powerful role mothers will play... when it comes to solutions that will end violence in our neighborhoods.”(Boston Globe, February 2, 2014).

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3Mothers for Justice and EqualityMJE Junior Advocates were part of the Youth Job Coalition Rally that took place on February 20, 2014.

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MJE Leadership Academy

MJE is proud to have launched the MJE Leadership Academy in 2013. Education is a key component of leadership development. Educated citizens have the tools to claim their voices and speak out for their communities. Our education efforts take place under the umbrella of MJE’s Civic Leadership Academy—a training program utilizing MJE’s You Matter Leadership and Personal Development Curriculum, designed exclusively for MJE in 2013. This program is delivered along two tracks: one for mothers and one for youth. During 2013, 29 mothers and 15 youth were engaged in the MJE Leadership Academy.

The You Matter Program for mothers and other adults in the community, is offered as an 8-week program and helps participants acquire the skills and tools needed to engage the community in dialogue, inquiry, and action. Participants also gain the knowledge to educate others who are invested in helping communities eliminate violence, particularly street violence involving youth. Participants are guided on a journey of self-exploration, community

assessment, envisioning, and networking toward building stronger, safer communities. Classes are taught by two highly qualified college professors: William Rodriquez, JD, Assistant Professor of Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy at Wheelock College and Professor Lee Farrow, MA, Community Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Stonehill College (see page 6).

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King

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Our goal is to create leaders who can extend the breadth and depth of a movement that brings people out of alienation, silence, intimidation, fear, and apathy into courageous change making toward ending community violence. Participants identify their individual leadership roles as change-agents and examine their individual and collective Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Threats. This process enables participants to become more constructive and objective in their actions.

As a way to demonstrate their leadership development, adult participants are provided with opportunities to engage in the following kinds of advocacy and outreach:

• Work with the district attorney’s office to obtain positions for mothers to be advocates for victims of violence and mediators of cultural and environmental differences to ensure equal treatment and justice.

• Help mothers become members of the Boston School Committee and/or work as advocates for students and parents trying to navigate the school system.

• Work with the Governor’s and Mayor’s offices to identify leadership roles for MJE members on various committees and councils that impact the issues of neighborhood violence.

• Identify policy reform opportunities focused on restorative practices for court-involved youth, educational quality, and school options for Boston’s families.

Self-Efficiency: MJE empowers and trains participants to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective life goals. We provide the necessary coaching to help participants believe in their own ability to be productive and successful in life.

Self-Advocacy: MJE teaches participants how to effectively communicate and convey their own interests, desires, and needs, and how to make informed and intelligent decisions through a series of workshops taught by professionals, using modeling and networking.

Self-Awareness: MJE encourages participants to explore their strengths and challenges in life. We provide women with support to understand and utilize their inner strengths to improve their life styles, and as such contribute to the betterment of their homes and community.

Leadership: MJE trains and coaches participants to become leaders within their community by helping them develop the skills and knowledge to be proactive in their neighborhoods with the goal of creating peaceful change that will have a long lasting positive effect on all residents.

Civic Responsibility: MJE trains participants to be accountable and aware of their community, neighborhoods needs, and concerns, and helps them to develop the skills and tools to become effective change agents who work in a collaborative manner to solve identified problems.

Training sessions focus on five target areas:

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Lee Farrow, MA Community Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Stonehill CollegeManaging Director and Founder, Organizing for Survival / Do-Right Ministries

Lee is the first Community Scholar at Stonehill College. Appointed in 2011, she taught Leadership, Women and Community Organizing during spring 2012 semester. She is currently teaching Grassroots Community Organizing, with a focus on historical and modern day labor / social movements. Lee is also a Pastor’s Scholar in Boston University’s Graduate School of Theology. There she is concentrating on the linkages between community building/social justice work, and the principles/values of forgiveness/restorative justice/spirituality, as it relates to incarceration and community re-entry. Her study in this field supports a developing prison project, Do-Right Ministries, a social mission, which features long term prisoner’s mixed media art and its intersection with forgiveness, redemption, and lessons of renewal. Lee is also the Founder and Managing Director of Organizing for Survival, a non-profit organization, that supports organizational and leadership development activities, both in start-up organizations, and among community-led social justice /movement building groups.

Lee has held leadership positions in a variety of organizations, both in Massachusetts and New York. She recently completed a one year appointment at Boston Rising, an anti-poverty fund, in Boston, MA. Prior to that work, Lee completed a three-year assignment at My Sister’s Keeper, a Massachusetts-based, international focused project, which promotes leadership and peace building training / healing throughout Sudan among culturally diverse women. She worked both inside Sudan and in the US. During her time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lee co-designed and led the Boston Community Learning Project, and was the Mel King Community Fellow for two years (2006-2008). Before moving to Massachusetts in 2004, Lee led The Harlem Children’s Zone’s community organizing and resident engagement work for more that eleven years. She also led a tenant organizing and affordable housing cooperative movement for ten years at Urban Homesteading Assistance Board in NYC. Lee is a board member of The Edward L. Cooper Community Garden and Education Center in Roxbury, MA and The Center for Church and Prison in Boston. She holds a Master’s Degree from New Hampshire College.

William Rodriguez, JDAssistant Professor and Chair of Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Wheelock College, Boston, MA

William Rodriguez has worked in the criminal justice and legal systems for over 25 years. He has also served in a variety of leadership positions, including executive director of the Boston Campaign for Proficiency, La Alianza Hispana, the Crime and Justice Foundation, and at the Vera Institute of Justice. He is a passionate and zealous advocate of human and civil rights, social justice, and democratic equity for youth.

He is a recognized and influential leader in the Latino community in Massachusetts. Much of his work has taken place in both Boston and New York City. His current research interests are primarily in the effects of zero tolerance policies and school disciplinary procedures on the school-to-prison pipeline and the disproportionate representation of Latino youth in juvenile detention facilities. Other areas of interest include youth violence prevention and race, ethnic, and class dynamics in the dispensation of justice.

He is a pre-law advisor to students and co-advisor to the Latino student organization La Herencia Latina at Wheelock College. He also was a

research and writing contributor to the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Justice Report on Corrections (1990), Bridging the Public Safety Gap- Prisoner Re-entry report for the Crime and Justice Foundation (1998). Both reports led to a level of criminal justice systemic reform and new program development in Massachusetts.

He has been featured in several news stations this year speaking on behalf of Wheelock on community programming (WCVB 5, WBNN), gang violence and prevention (Cityline WCVB) and human trafficking (Univision).

Professor Rodriquez is a Member on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Proficiency Gap Sub-Committee on ELLs, a Board member for Diploma Plus and the School and Main Institute, an Advisory Member of the Governor’s Initiative for Safe and Successful Youth, and a founding and active member of the Multi-cultural Drop-out Prevention Collaborative.

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MJE Leadership Academy Professors

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During the spring and fall of 2013, MJE trained 29 women in our You Matter: Personal Development and Leadership Curriculum. Several from the spring session became mentors for the fall session participants; 100% joined MJE as members. In addition, five participants from the 2013 sessions will facilitate You Matter trainings in 2014 under the supervision of trained and certified facilitators. Two participants are facilitating the Caregivers Circle, and two participants developed business plans for businesses that they hope to launch in the coming year. 2013 You Matter participants were invited as panelists in a forum at Stonehill College to educate others about issues related to violence prevention within Boston communities. What’s more, prior to the You Matter: Personal Development and Leadership Curriculum, 90% of the mothers reported feeling afraid and silenced in their communities. After the training, 100% of the mothers reported feeling confident about their ability to make a difference in their communities and felt increased self-esteem. All participants concluded that the trainings were effective in their lives.

Edna Smallwood and Linda Blanton are graduates of MJE’s Leadership Academy. Both women have been active in the community for over 20 years, either through work with human service providers or through church outreach. Edna is a Cambridge College student who needed an internship. After shopping around for a place to be of service, she happened to attend an NAACP meeting the same night that MJE was doing a presentation on gun violence in the community. She was struck by the amount of trauma suffered in our neighborhoods and the lack of resources to address the need for help. After talking to our Lead Organizer, Sara Flint, and interviewing with Monalisa Smith, Edna had found the right match for her internship.

Linda Blanton knew about MJE but was hesitant to get involved at first. “What if it was another organization that wasn’t really going to help the community?” But Linda kept hearing about MJE and came to a meeting where she heard the mothers tell

their stories. She was so struck by their courage, their honesty, their intelligence, their loving spirit, “and the strength in their tears” that she began volunteering.

Both Edna and Linda had good skills to bring to advocacy work, but both of them felt the need to expand their knowledge and to take their skills to the next level. They enrolled in the You Matter: Personal Development and Leadership Curriculum. During the course, both women found strategies to put their skills to work. They learned that they should get to know their community: introduce themselves to the police and the fire department, get to know their local grocer, reach out to their neighbors, identify their neighborhood’s strengths and challenges, and seek out resources available in their communities. They learned about what leadership is: they learned how to identify issues in their community and gather neighbors together to brainstorm about addressing the issues and plan their actions accordingly. Both women felt strongly that the training taught them that there is strength in unity—that bringing likeminded people together with a unified agenda is powerful.

Edna and Linda are now training others to advocate for themselves and to be effective change-makers. They are facilitators of the MJE Caregivers Circle. The Caregivers Circle appealed to both women as a way to pass on what they had learned to others. The Caregivers Circle has the flexibility to address a number of issues troubling the community. Edna and Linda plan workshops ranging from school advocacy to healthy nutrition.

Edna and Linda have both found work that they are passion about. As Edna said, “MJE’s work is making a difference. It has done outstanding work. It’s a powerful movement in terms of advocacy.” Linda awakes each morning with a sense of urgency to get to the office, “There’s someone who will need my help today.”

From Education To Engagement

Edna Smallwood (left) and Linda Blanton (right)

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Junior Advocates Program Our Junior Advocates Program for inner city youth grades 8-12 is modeled after that offered to mothers and was launched in July 2013. In addition to the 7-week summer training program, the Junior Advocates Program includes a year-round after-school component. Participants earn stipends for working alongside MJE staff to carry out community outreach and engagement programming.

The Junior Advocates Program focuses on the following learning objectives: (1) civic leadership (i.e., identifying community concerns and engaging elected officials), (2) personal development (i.e., writing, verbal communication, and self-esteem building skills and strategies), (3) financial literacy through workshops with local volunteers from the banking and financial services industry, (4) effective tactics for successful community outreach, and (5) advocacy skills. Through the Junior Advocates Program, youth are given the opportunity to meet with elected officials to express the needs, concerns, and problems that are unique to their age group and their communities.

During the summer of 2013, Junior Advocates also participated in professional development workshops twice a week for seven weeks at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; volunteered at Rosie’s Place serving lunch to homeless women, and met with reporters from the Boston Globe to discuss issues of violence within Boston neighborhoods. In the fall of 2013, Junior Advocates participated in a forum at Wheelock College centered on the “School to Prison Pipeline” and in the CollegeWorks Youth Summit. Two of MJE’s Junior Advocates transitioned from the fall program into part-time jobs; and Junior Advocates participated in organizing MJE’s first Toy Drive collecting over 100 toys for shelters in Boston.

Youth play a pivotal role in healthy community development. Youth leaders, parents, and researchers have recognized youth as assets in shaping communities and find youth civic engagement to produce positive outcomes for both young people and the community. Understanding youth as community assets is a new perspective and its benefits are not widely recognized by the general public. By engaging youth in positive interactions with their peers and a caring adult via MJE’s innovative program, young people are able to build the basic skills to develop leadership abilities and keep their neighborhoods healthy and safe.

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Cedric Correia, 17, thought he’d spend his summer working an ordinary job. That was until he learned about an opening in the Junior Advocacy program, a new youth advocacy program created by Boston nonprofit Mothers for Justice and Equality. When he applied he thought of the position as backup in case he didn’t find a job, but after spending some time with Mothers for Justice and Equality, Correia came to like the program and decided to see it through. The summer program was the next step for Mothers for Justice and Equality in their mission to combat neighborhood violence in the city. After spending nearly seven weeks learning the ins and outs of working a job, networking with local organizations and politicians, and planning events, the 15 youth celebrated their transition from everyday youth to young community advocates, on Aug. 22. During an event at Franklin Field, the youth participated in outdoor activities and shared vision boards they created over the course of the summer that described their past, present, and hopes for the future. Each individual’s past was shown on the left side of the board, the present was shown in the center, and the future on the right. Some of the youth discussed hurdles they overcame in the past, such as the death of a family member, and their plans for success in the future,

which included attending college. A drawing of a red staircase stretched throughout Diamond Correia’s board, with the lowest steps drawn in the past and the highest one in the future. Correia titled the drawing “Steps to Success.” A stick figure can be seen reaching toward a step in the present section and then attempting to climb the last step before the drawing continues into the future section. One of the images posted in the past was a photo of Diamond Correia’s cousin, who died at a young age. In the section on her present, Correia showed pictures of her and her friends and family and shared a quote she read that she liked: “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” The stick figure looks as if it’s running on the final step shown in the section depicting her future. Correia told observers that her ultimate future goal is to become a criminal investigator. During the seven weeks, the group organized two park rallies to combat violence. In the first rally, the youth marched from Mattapan Library to Almont Park, and during the second, the youth paraded from the Mattapan Police Station to Norfolk Park. The program also taught financial literacy, which required students to keep track of how they spent the stipend they earned during the seven weeks. Luisa Dossantos, a parent of two youths in

the program, 15-year-old Luis and 14-year-old Leonardo Dossantos, said she appreciated the money management portion of the program. “They’ve learned a lot in the program and I think it’s also a sense of them [learning] responsibility,” Dossantos said. “They’re getting older so them understanding the reality of life of having to work [makes me happy].” The junior advocates also had the opportunity to meet with many local politicians and mayoral candidates, including candidate John Barros and City Councillors Ayanna Pressley and Felix Arroyo. The highlight of the program for Cedric Correia was the networking, he said. “We got the chance to meet so many people and I got a lot of contact information from a lot of people,” he said. The violence in the city hits close to home for Correia. He says he has lost a lot of family members to violence and has seen some of his friends get arrested after landing in trouble. After seeing how the violence impacted him and his family, Correia says it’s good to have a program like the Junior Advocate program. “I think the worst part about it is a lot of people my age, if you ask them if they know someone who’s been a victim of homicide, they could easily say yes, or they know someone who knows someone,” Correia said. “The thing about that is I honestly think it’s sad that so many people can say, ‘I know someone who has been shot to death.’”

Leshawn Cornelius told attendees that the ladders on his vision board are symbols of him climbing toward his future. (L to R) Cedric Correia and Leshawn Cornelius. (Photos courtesy of Mothers for Justice and Equality)

Youth celebrated the completion of Mothers for Justice and Equality’s new Junior Advocacy Program with food and games at Franklin Park on Aug. 22.

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EngagementEngagement activities challenge the normalization of violence, create community, build bridges among stakeholders, and provide members with the information necessary to act as catalysts for change at home and in their community. They include:

• MJE Monthly Empowerment Meetings that engage community leaders to educate and empower our members through motivational speeches, informative presentations, and educational workshops. Presenters have included Larry Ellison, Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers; Lew Finfer, Director of Massachusetts Community Action Network; Sandra Stanislaus, MJE member; Olusegun Idowu, Boston University Student; Minister Tyra Anderson, Mount Olive Kingdom Builders Worship Center; Sarah Flint, MJE Lead Organizer.

• MJE Town Hall Meetings where members have the opportunity to question and hold accountable elected officials and those seeking office. Candidates included Felix Arroyo, Ayanna Presley, Charles Clemons, Gareth Saunders, and Michelle Wu.

• Educational Forums which have focused on Mass Incarceration and Trauma in the Community.

• Monthly Coffee Hours where MJE members meet in small groups with civic and community leaders to strategize about ways to further engage community members in our efforts to end violence. Guests have included Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Sheriff Steve Thompson, City Councilor John Connelly, City Councilor Charles Yancy, City Councilor Tito Jackson, City Councilor Mike Ross, State Representative Carlos Henriquez, and Mayor-elect Marty Walsh.

• During the summer months, MJE conducts Playground Rallies at Boston playgrounds where the threat of violence is high. These rallies spread awareness that violence against our children is unacceptable and that MJE is educating and engaging mothers and other concerned community members in civic leadership to stop the violence.

• Our Caregivers Circle is an advisory group of the City of Boston Public Health Commission’s (BPHC) Defending Childhood Initiative (DCI). The role of MJE is to recruit circle members who participate in trainings and discussions sponsored by the BPHC addressing the issues faced by families, to coordinate the Caregivers Circle, and to appoint a representative of the circle to advise the DCI.

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” - Martin Luther King

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Mother’s for Justice and Equality in the NewsThe Boston Globe• Warren, Mothers of gun violence victims to attend State of the

Union – February 2013• Incarceration not the only answer to urban youth violence.

Letter to Editor, February 2013• Crime declines in Boston in beginning of 2013 – March 2013• Building diversity at the BPD – December 2013

The Boston Herald• Boston murder victims mom invited to state of the

union – February 2013• Letter to Editor – May 2013

Bay State Banner• Letter to Editor – February 2013• Coverage of Saluting Mother’s of Courage Mother’s

Day Luncheon• Our Children Matter – July 2013• Junior Advocates Graduate Mothers for Justice and Equality

Summer Program – August 2013

WBUR• Boston mother of 13-year-old shooting victim

to attend state of the union – February 2013

Boston Neighborhood Network News• July 2013

Dorchester Reporter• Our Children Matter – July 2013

Praise Radio• Our Children Matter – July 2013

Strategic PartnershipsMJE has developed several strategic partnerships with area businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies to which we can refer individuals in need of these services:

Advocacy WorkNAACPSuffolk DA OfficeBoston Public SchoolsBoston Public Health CommissionCity CouncilState HouseMayor’s OfficeRoxbury Presbyterian Church

Neighborhood Safety and Housing ResourcesDNDProject RightBoston Police DepartmentBoston Housing AuthorityStreetSafe BostonMadison Park CDCCodman Square CDCDNSI

Social Services and Mental Health ResourcesLouis D. Brown Peace InstituteCity Mission SocietyBoston Public Health CommissionUpham’s Corner Community HealthSpanElizabeth Stone HouseRosie’s PlaceDimock Street Health CenterWhittier Street Health CenterMartha Elliot Health CenterRoxbury Family Resource Center

Youth ServicesRoxbury Children’s ServicesTeen EmpowermentJames Jimmy Flint Scholarship FundMBTARoxbury Boys and Girls ClubDorchester Boys and Girls ClubMelvin Mission

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Board of DirectorsOfficersChair Mia Alvarado, LICSW

President Monalisa Smith

Treasurer Randall Davis

Secretary Eileen Paterson

DirectorsEmmanuel Tikili

Minister Priscilla Flint

Merva Chambers

Mary C. Chin

Janet Connors

Genie Curry

David Dolbashian

Sarah A. Flint

Maicharia Weir Lytle

Kim Odom

Pamela Ogletree

Eve Mimi Turchinetz, Esquire

Reverend Arlene O. Hall

Corporate and Foundation DonorsState Street FoundationCommunity Development CorporationThe Rhode Island FoundationBoston Public Health CommissionUnited Way of Rhode IslandEastern BankRichard and Susan Smith FoundationBank of New YorkWomanade BostonCity of Boston BNY MellonFidelity FoundationBlue Hills Foundation

Citizen’s BankThe Boston FoundationBlue Cross Blue Shield of MassachusettsBoston Private BankMassachusetts Assoc. of Community HealthCodman Square Development CorporationThe Susan A. and Daniel P. Babson FoundationGardiner Howland FoundationCommonwealth of MassachusettsHarvard UniversityAnna B. Stearns Charitable TrustMiller Foundation

Join usWe rely on the generosity of our donors to continue our work. With your help we can realize our vision of a world in which it is never normal or acceptable for children to be murdered. If you wish to learn more about MJE, become a member, or support our work, please visit our website or call us at 617-516-8086.

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