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Hope-in-Action Campaign |
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| Leadership Team presents the project to parishioners in our Music Room. |
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Pilot Project of the Diocese of Massachusetts
- Hope in Action is a campaign for economic justice, which the Diocese's Relational Evangelism Pilot Project is running at seven sites across the City of Boston. To learn more about the campaign at the other sites, please visit the Relational Evangelism Project's Hope in Action page.
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Partnership with Boston Public Quartet.
- After months of careful listening, meeting, learning, and strategizing, Emmanuel's Young Adult Leadership Team decided to work with the Boston Public Quartet, founded by Emmanuel violinist and leadership team member Betsy Hinkle. Boston Public Quartet provides chamber-music focused, free string lessons to pupils at the Chittick Elementary School in Mattapan. Led by our Relational Evangelist Emilia Allen, the Team has reached out to the parish from the pulpit, in E-mmanuel News, at small group and young adult events, at informational luncheons, and through one-to-one conversations. Their goal is to get commitments of 1% of time (30 minutes per week, 2 hours per month or 30 hours per year) or annual income to support the fabulous work of the Boston Public Quartet. To learn more, please contact Emilia Allen at emilia@diomassintern.org.
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| Betsy Hinkle of Boston Public Quartet & Kenny Roraback of our Leadership Team |
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About the Program at the Chittick School |
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Boston Public Quartet Mission
- Based on the conviction that success in music leads to success in school and beyond, the Boston Public Quartet has established a performance residency to provide ongoing music education to pupils at the Chittick School. Its mission is to model and teach self-expression, communication, leadership and community building through the transformative power of chamber music. Inspired by the success of Providence's Community Music Works, Betsy Hinkle has recruited fellow chamber musicians to provide weekly instrumental lessons for student quartets.
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Chittick Community
- Betsy Hinkle has worked from the beginning of the program with Principal Michelle Burnett-Herndon and the school's theater-arts teacher. Like many elementary schools in the Boston system, the Chittick has no formal music program and no library. Most of its children come from struggling families and qualify for free meals.
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BPQ Program
- In its third year at the Chittick, the Quartet's program enrolls two dozen first- and fifth-graders, who were selected at random, not for musical aptitude. It has a 90% retention rate and waiting list of 150 students. Johnson String Instrument of Newton has loaned instruments. As the fifth graders, who have now benefited from three years of instruction, move on to middle school, Betsy hopes to add a dozen first graders every year. She estimates that annual program costs including instrument insurance come to about $750 per child.
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| Our Relational Evangelist Emilia Allen & Thea Lobo of the Chorus of Emmanuel Music |
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Contribute your time & treasure! |
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What can you do?
- Give 1% of your income or time or both. That would mean $6 per week if you make $30K per year or $100 per month if you make $120K. Or you could volunteer 2 hours per week, or some combination that works for you.
Please contact Emilia@diomassintern.org to join the campaign.
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Skills Needed
- Administration: filing, mailing, data management & other clerical work
Development: fund-raising, grant writing, marketing, planning
Musical talent: singers, practice helpers, performers
Organization: snack management, scheduling, event coordination
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Materials & Treasure Needed
- Color laser printer, music stands, musical instruments, funds to pay teachers' stipends, funds for instrument insurance
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