"The work conducted by the CBS Gives Back's team was greatly appreciated and has been instrumental in helping the YWCA Boston consider significant changes to its women's empowerment and anti-racism programs in order to produce even better evidence-based outcomes for the city."
--- Sylvia G. Ferrel-Jones, President & CEO, YWCA Boston
Click here to read -- How We Started in 2008, and Program Expansion in 2010 (2008 and 2010)
Here are our previous projects and postings:
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) (Fall 2013)
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) (Fall 2012)
ICA-Group (Fall 2011)
Thomson Island (Fall 2010)
The Asperger's Association of New England (Fall 2009)
Kwong Kow Chinese School (Spring 2009)
YWCA of Boston (Fall 2008)
Here are our previous projects and postings:
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) (Fall 2013)
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) (Fall 2012)
ICA-Group (Fall 2011)
Thomson Island (Fall 2010)
The Asperger's Association of New England (Fall 2009)
Kwong Kow Chinese School (Spring 2009)
YWCA of Boston (Fall 2008)
CBS Boston Gives Back in the News on CBS Website
Columbia Business School wrote a nice piece on the Gives Back initiative. Here's a link!
Big Thank You to Volunteers from the ARCK consulting project (Dec 2013)
Dear CBS Club of Boston Members,
We would like to thank and recognize the following 4 alumni volunteers for participating in our SEVENTH pro bono consulting project with ARCK (www.arckboston.org). Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) is a Boston-based 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization started by parents, educators, artists, and community members who are advocates for quality education and equal access in arts education. Founded recently in 2012 by Executive Director Sara Mraish Demeter (wife of CBS alum Panos Demeter, Class of 1994), ARCK partners with Gardner Pilot Academy and wants to expand the program to reach a greater number of under-served Boston Public School students. This is the first time we have gathered our considerable alumni resources to work with a “start-up” non profit.
Together, our 4 alumni volunteers listed below spent approximately 400 consulting hours on this project from September to December 2013:
Suzanne Cherenson ‘84
Brian Fennell ‘11
Christine Petersen ‘89
Tamara Zaichkowsky ‘12
The Gives Back volunteer team provided ARCK’s leadership with an assessment of their business model and recommendations for their strategic direction. The team also provided recommendations on how to grow and scale, how to develop their foundation and endowment strategy, and how to prioritize the various initiatives underway.
The quality of each of our projects is dependent on the quality of the applications we receive each year, as well as the volunteers, so please remember as alumni to volunteer and send us causes near and dear to your heart, and we will do what we can to provide pro-bono consulting project services from fellow alumni volunteers. So thank you to fellow CBS alumni Panos Demeter for bringing his wife Sara’s non-profit organization to our attention. They were chosen based on a competitive process with other non-profits recommended to us by our fellow CBS alumni, and we thank you all for participating in this process and encourage you to keep doing so.
This is now our third consulting pro-bono project in a row that was not led by any CBS Gives Back to Boston Advisory Board member, and we are very pleased with the quality and experience this new volunteer team brought to the project. Thank you very much to Suzanne Cherenson and Christine Petersen for being co-leaders on this project and managing the project superbly. And thank you as always to the CBS Gives Back Advisory Board for ensuring the client and volunteers were well initiated into our CBS Gives Back to Boston culture and process, and for continuing to streamline and improve this initiative. We did a few things differently in this project based on feedback from previous volunteers, and we are currently undergoing an internal review of how we wish to enhance and streamline our project and volunteer selection even further in the future. Finally, thank you to the CBS alumni club board led by Ben Grossman and Swagata Chakrabarti for their continued and unwavering support of our program.
CBS Gives Back to Boston currently remains the only CBS alumni club in the world, including New York, to have a pro-bono consulting initiative. It is a work in progress, and the CBS Advisory Board has very much enjoyed working with each other and our volunteers and clients in keeping this initiative alive and well. Currently, CBS Gives Back to Boston’s alumni volunteers have provided over 3,800 hours of pro-bono consulting services to 7 non-profits since our founding in 2008, and this excludes the many hours spent by the CBS Gives Back Advisory Board in preparing and choosing the best available project and volunteer team each year. Please stay tuned as we will soon be reaching out for new clients and new alumni volunteers. If you have any questions or suggestions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach us.
Please click here to read the Thank You letter from ARCK.
Best Regards,
CBS Gives Back to Boston Advisory Board
We would like to thank and recognize the following 4 alumni volunteers for participating in our SEVENTH pro bono consulting project with ARCK (www.arckboston.org). Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) is a Boston-based 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization started by parents, educators, artists, and community members who are advocates for quality education and equal access in arts education. Founded recently in 2012 by Executive Director Sara Mraish Demeter (wife of CBS alum Panos Demeter, Class of 1994), ARCK partners with Gardner Pilot Academy and wants to expand the program to reach a greater number of under-served Boston Public School students. This is the first time we have gathered our considerable alumni resources to work with a “start-up” non profit.
Together, our 4 alumni volunteers listed below spent approximately 400 consulting hours on this project from September to December 2013:
Suzanne Cherenson ‘84
Brian Fennell ‘11
Christine Petersen ‘89
Tamara Zaichkowsky ‘12
The Gives Back volunteer team provided ARCK’s leadership with an assessment of their business model and recommendations for their strategic direction. The team also provided recommendations on how to grow and scale, how to develop their foundation and endowment strategy, and how to prioritize the various initiatives underway.
The quality of each of our projects is dependent on the quality of the applications we receive each year, as well as the volunteers, so please remember as alumni to volunteer and send us causes near and dear to your heart, and we will do what we can to provide pro-bono consulting project services from fellow alumni volunteers. So thank you to fellow CBS alumni Panos Demeter for bringing his wife Sara’s non-profit organization to our attention. They were chosen based on a competitive process with other non-profits recommended to us by our fellow CBS alumni, and we thank you all for participating in this process and encourage you to keep doing so.
This is now our third consulting pro-bono project in a row that was not led by any CBS Gives Back to Boston Advisory Board member, and we are very pleased with the quality and experience this new volunteer team brought to the project. Thank you very much to Suzanne Cherenson and Christine Petersen for being co-leaders on this project and managing the project superbly. And thank you as always to the CBS Gives Back Advisory Board for ensuring the client and volunteers were well initiated into our CBS Gives Back to Boston culture and process, and for continuing to streamline and improve this initiative. We did a few things differently in this project based on feedback from previous volunteers, and we are currently undergoing an internal review of how we wish to enhance and streamline our project and volunteer selection even further in the future. Finally, thank you to the CBS alumni club board led by Ben Grossman and Swagata Chakrabarti for their continued and unwavering support of our program.
CBS Gives Back to Boston currently remains the only CBS alumni club in the world, including New York, to have a pro-bono consulting initiative. It is a work in progress, and the CBS Advisory Board has very much enjoyed working with each other and our volunteers and clients in keeping this initiative alive and well. Currently, CBS Gives Back to Boston’s alumni volunteers have provided over 3,800 hours of pro-bono consulting services to 7 non-profits since our founding in 2008, and this excludes the many hours spent by the CBS Gives Back Advisory Board in preparing and choosing the best available project and volunteer team each year. Please stay tuned as we will soon be reaching out for new clients and new alumni volunteers. If you have any questions or suggestions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach us.
Please click here to read the Thank You letter from ARCK.
Best Regards,
CBS Gives Back to Boston Advisory Board
