Summer is here and Ethos is excited to announce that our spring yard work program has wrapped up with record breaking numbers! Over 175 volunteers served 590 volunteer hours to help 22 seniors beautify their yards from Boston’s…
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On Monday, June 1, 2015, Meg Licht, Ethos’ Volunteer Services Program Manager, highlighted Ethos’ programs at the 2015 Massachusetts Conference on Service & Volunteer, hosted by the Massachusetts Service Alliance. Meg presented on the topic of creatively matching volunteer…
Linda has a history of falling in her home. “A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns about Falling” is helping her to stay strong, safe, and confident. Like Linda, one out of three older adults fall each year, and falls are…
Chuck Furgason is a valued volunteer in our AgeWell West Roxbury In-Home Computer Training Program, teaching weekly computer lessons to seniors in their homes! “I do this because it makes me feel good,” Chuck explains. He is never bored…
On Thursday, April 9th, Ethos hosted the screening of “The Age of Love” a documentary about a first-of-its-kind speed dating event for seniors 70 to 90 years old. Over 50 eager friends gathered at the Hyde Park Branch Library with…
Honoring volunteers and previewing upcoming events for seniors, including a big fundraiser, were the focus of a recent Ethos AgeWell West Roxbury advisory committee meeting at Deutsches Altenheim on Centre Street. About 20 people attended. Ann Glora, the healthy aging…
Building Impact makes giving back convenient by bringing volunteer events and donation drives to participants in office and apartment buildings to help them become more civically engaged. The organization has helped Ethos expand its volunteer base by organizing groups…
West Roxbury seniors were visited by Chef Vanessa LaBranche, from Project Bread, and treated to a healthy food demonstration at the Cheriton Heights Apartments on Wednesday morning, March 25th. On the menu was Spinach Salad with apples and raisins, dressed…
Ethos’ Pierre Simon is something like a superman to many of his clients. The 53-year-old native Haitian drives through the streets of Jamaica Plain five days a week stopping at one house after another dropping off dinners, including turkey, tofu…
The back-to-back-to-back winter storms have left behind record snow, making life difficult for just about everyone and turning even basic daily activities — like getting to work — into gargantuan tasks. It kind of makes you want to just stay…
