Beverly Nonprofits and Charities

2023 Top rated

Build Health International Inc

30 Reviews

Beverly, MA

jfieldermd

Build Health International has been a lifesaver for African Mission Healthcare, our hospital partners, and the patients we serve. In multiple countries and challenging circumstances, AMH has relied on BHI for planning and installing oxygen plants, upgrading electrical systems, installing solar power, designing a maternity unit, and conducting master planning. In every case, the BHI team members have been consummate professionals. They are highly competent, hardworking, and flexible. The team always goes above and beyond the call of duty. It has been an incredible pleasure to work with BHI, and we do not know what we would do without them. -- Jon Fielder, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, African Mission Healthcare

Stop Handgun Violence Foundation Inc

1 Reviews

Beverly, MA

Alizcia G.

MARCH AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE JUNE 25 th , 2022 Statement: My name is Alizcia Gurule’ and I am the creator of Johnny’s Angles LLC, we are a small business who is independently funded. We created a March Against Gun Violence Protest held every year in Antioch, California in Honor of my son Jonathon Parker. However, the march that was created to honor my son has expanded in that we now march for over 40 families from all over the world. This year is our 3 rd Annual March Against Gun Violence. I am writing to humbly and respectfully request your presence but First, I believe such a request mustn’t go without presenting the history of the event and our mission. Furthermore, what “YOUR” presence would signify and mean to the community, youth, and families fighting to end gun violence. In addition to creating the Annual event, we also conduct balloon releases on holidays, provide thanksgiving baskets, adopt a family for Christmas, and this year we will provide a $500-1000 scholarship to a graduate attending a trade school, college, or university. All our gestures and commitment to our community are dedicated to honoring my son and victims of gun violence. History: Jonathon D’ wayne Parker made national news January 31 st , 2020, not because he was 6’4 225lbs and an amazing athlete, protector of his community, and provider for those less fortunate. My son’s headline would read 16-year-old shot multiple times leaving his high school basketball game, fighting for his life. 15 hours later the news headline would read, 16-year-old Jonathon Parker, succumbs to the injuries, a the community is destroyed. Jonathon Parker was 16 years young when he decided to attend his first ever high school event. Upon completion of the event, Jonathon called his brother to pick him up. The brothers spoke of grabbing fast food and then heading home. I spoke to Jonathon moments before he would be subjected to the horrific violence from members of a rival school attending the rival game. As Jonathon was departing from horseplaying with his coach and brother, a fight broke out and shots were fired. My son was shot four times, his brother watching the tragic event unfold. When I arrived at the scene my surviving son was screaming and crying and my Jonathon was laying on the ground, his chest was heaving up and down, I later found out that it was his body undergoing cardiac arrest. I held my son's head in my lap and stroked his hair, I knew my son wasn’t going to make it, he was dying in my arms. I drove behind the ambulance as it drove 40 miles an hour to the hospital, upon arrival my son was rushed into emergency surgery. He fought as long as his human body allowed, he underwent 3 full body blood transfusions, 2 surgeries, 1 open heart resuscitation, he was brought back to life 3 times. I prayed to God, I prayed to my son, but nothing was going to bring my son back. Our Mission: The death of my son infuriated me, and the inclination to fight back expanded and inflamed my soul, I became pugnacious. It was my newly found duty to ensure that EVERY CHILD returns home from a school events and gun violence ends. I created an online petition Share petition · AUSD: Justice for Jonathon Parker Ensure/Increase/Reform School Campus security · Change.org . This petition assisted in the creation of a 970K grant awarded to the Antioch Unified School District to increase school security. It was later rejected by the very school that failed to protect the students, staff, and parents that attended the event that night. This broke my heart, I decided to hold the Antioch Unified School District accountable for their negligence and am currently awaiting reprimand of the school via the lawsuit. My fight did not stop with the lawsuit against AUSD. The pain brewed and manifested my decision to create a march against gun-violence to bring awareness to my son’s story. The first year was a very large gathering of over 300 attendees protesting gun violence and requesting to increase school security My the desire was to bring attention to the loss of my son Jonathon and the school’s unwillingness to provide adequate security during school and school events. The second year, we amplified the event and decided to create a Facebook group called In Honor of Our Loved Ones to bring awareness to the event. In the group, I met families of victims of gun violence and built an alliance to end gun violence with over 40 families. Our team created individual posters, shirts, and flyers, for each victim of gun violence and took to the streets to march and protest. The idea behind networking was to bring awareness all over the world to the losses of our loved one’s murdered by gun violence. I wanted to show and prove a statistical decrease in gun violence (NATIONWIDE) on the day of the event. One day could realistically save thousands of lives. Your Presence and Importance: Last year, I linked with late artist Lil Snupe’s mother and she spoke of attending but reluctantly didn’t attend due to time constraints. A family member linked with the managers of the amazing rap artist Mozzy (Jonathon’s favorite artist) and Mozzy created a shot out video message to my son and our family. amazed at Mozzy and Lil Snupe’s mother’s humbleness and love for our son and his story. Their thoughtful and meaningful contributions aroused our desire to invite individuals that our youth respect. This year we would be honored if you would consider attending our event to save lives. This year our ideas and overwhelming desires are to humbly request the presence of activists, artists who have experienced this form of loss, individuals whose social status surpasses others and the youth respect, and those who have a passion to end gun violence. We respectfully desire your presence and humbly request that you attend and if desired speak to the youth, speak to the families attending, be the activist you are, the influencer that the youth revere. If you do not wish to speak, your presence also speaks volumes to the youth. If you attend it sets the tone that you care and you seek change, it provides a desire for your followers to join, your fans to attend, and the snowball effect begins in a positive manner. With your presence we can educate more families, march for more families, march for your loved ones (if desired), bring awareness to the never-ending & increasing deaths caused by gun violence, gain followers, attendees, youth who want to end gun violence, and touch the lives of those who might even be headed down the wrong path. Our future, our youth, our loved ones stolen from us by gun violence is the reason “WE MARCH AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE”. Please join us June 25 th (Invitation & Flyer Attached) it cost nothing other than a trip to Antioch, California. As stated previously we have a 20- million-dollar lawsuit against AUSD, one day this event will be funded by money that comes from pain, from the death of my son and the event will flourish because of my son. I am committed to increasing awareness of the event and increasing attendees every year to decrease deaths caused by gun violence. Eventually, Johnny’s Angels LLC will statistically view a decrease in gun violence, and it starts with me, you, the community, the youth. I thank you for your time and consideration. I hope and pray that you will consider attending this event to save lives and to change lives. If you can not attend may we humbly ask that you post the flyer for others to gain awareness of our march. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and pray that you will pledge to end gun violence with us, even if it’s just for one day. Thank you, Alizcia Gurule’ (925) 339-5034 (CEO/Founder of March Against Gun Violence)

2014 Top rated

River House Inc

14 Reviews

Beverly, MA

Volunteer.Cambridge

I've been trying to volunteer with River House the Beverly Men's Shelter. Should I apply with Brie? Thanks for the update.

2016 Top rated

Beverly Bootstraps

18 Reviews

Beverly, MA

Writer

I have been a Board member for at least the past 8 years. I am even more impressed today with the growth and work that the organization continues to do for the community. The staff all do a great job!

The School for Field Studies, Inc.

1 Reviews

Beverly, MA

fireflysky

I was a Student Affairs Manager for the Center in Baja, Mexico 2010-2011 and saw firsthand the work that the students, faculty and staff accomplished. Not only was the company strategic plan and mission based on community integration, but the students were also able to participate in research projects dedicated to environmental preservation that will help them later in the world of conservation and investigation.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc.

1 Reviews

Beverly, MA

Producer

Theater fell to a medley of misfortune Debt, fire, dissension dogged North Shore By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | June 21, 2009 When Barry Ivan took charge of North Shore Music Theatre, he thought he knew what to expect. For 12 years, he had been a steady guest director at the 54-year-old Beverly institution, marshaling dozens of dancers and scores of singers in eye-popping musicals like “West Side Story’’ and “Les Miserables.’’ Just before taking the top spot in 2008, he had directed the biggest-grossing show in the 1,750-seat venue’s history, “High School Musical.’’ All that turned out to be the easy part. Less than a year after Ivan became artistic director and executive producer, the theater postponed its 2009 season, leaving thousands of loyal subscribers in the lurch. Last week, North Shore announced it was $10 million in debt and would close for good. The loss leaves a vacuum for suburbanites who don’t want to fight the traffic, or pay three-digit ticket prices, to see glossy productions at Boston venues. North Shore delivered fresh young performers, topnotch sets and costumes, and every now and then, a former star getting back into the song-and-dance biz. At its peak, the theater drew more than 27,500 subscribers and some 300,000 people a year, making it the largest regional theater in New England. The closing has led to finger-pointing and recriminations, with those loyal to former theater head Jon Kimbell accusing Ivan of poor management and blasting his decision to abandon the organization’s proven holiday-season winner, “A Christmas Carol.’’ But a closer look at the theater’s financial health in its tumultuous final years, which included a devastating 2005 fire and a staff revolt under Ivan, reveals that myriad factors played into the collapse. “I don’t think you can blame this on one show,’’ said Catherine Peterson, executive director of ArtsBoston, which works with area theaters to bring patrons discount tickets. “The surprise, in some ways, is not that the North Shore Music Theatre is no longer with us. It’s a surprise they managed to keep going for so long considering the consequences of the fire.’’ It was after 11 p.m. on a summer night in 2005 that the electrical fire started. Lights and sound gear melted; the stage and orchestra pit turned into a soggy, charred mess. The run of “Cinderella’’ was cancelled. The year looked lost. But Kimbell, whose 25 years in charge saw dramatic rises in attendance and subscriptions, decided he couldn’t just cancel the season. “Had I closed the place down it would have been impossible to renovate the theater and keep the staff employed,’’ he said in an interview last week from his home in New Hampshire. “I had to keep producing.’’ He accepted an offer to put a pair of North Shore productions into the Shubert Theatre in Boston. He also decided to make improvements to the theater’s in-the-round regular home. Insurance covered some of the work, but the upgrades ran an additional $1.5 million, Kimbell estimated. The theater then lost $1.5 million more as a result of shows that had to be canceled, according to board chairman David Fellows, a venture capitalist. Some theaters could survive that. But North Shore never had an endowment to protect it during down times. When it struggled, it borrowed money. Looking back, Michael P. Price, the longtime executive director of Goodspeed Musicals, a Connecticut theater with a mission similar to North Shore’s, said the Boston shows were too costly and should never have been held. “If we had a fire, I wouldn’t move to the Shubert New Haven, which is only 30 miles away,’’ he said. “I’d move into the local high school, as off-putting as that sounds. I’d stay close to home.’’ Still, Kimbell’s era would be marked by great growth. Since arriving in 1983, he said, he had boosted the organization’s budget from $1.3 million to more than $14.5 million, its subscriber base from 7,000 to 27,500. Not only did he schedule the popular annual “Christmas Carol,’’ he wrote the adaptation. “Jon knew what the public wanted,’’ said Burgess Clark, the theater’s former director of education. Not that Kimbell stayed around much after Ivan took over. In December 2007, Kimbell directed “Christmas Carol’’ and then headed home. Though he had been installed as artistic director laureate, Kimbell attended only three events at the theater in 2008. “I was very proud of what we accomplished there, but you know what? You move on,’’ said Kimbell. Ivan, whom Kimbell termed a friend after working with him for 12 years, knew the theater had financial problems when he took the job, he said. But it wasn’t until he had started that he recognized their extent. The information, however, was readily available in the theater’s public filings. North Shore, which had deficits in 2005 ($492,184), 2006 ($107,856), and 2007 ($621,240), had an accumulated liability of about $4.6 million in mortgages and other notes. Kimbell said the debt was not his fault. His $252,473-a-year job called for him to oversee virtually everything on stage, but not the business side of the organization. “I haven’t been responsible for the finances of North Shore Music Theatre since something like 1990,’’ he said. Fellows, the board chairman, doesn’t necessarily blame Kimbell or his successor Ivan. “No, but more to the point, I don’t hold Barry responsible for that,’’ he said. Despite its existing debt, theater leaders decided that borrowing more was their only solution. The slumping real estate market foiled that idea. A bank appraiser pegged the 22-acre theater property at $4.9 million. Already owing $5 million, the theater couldn’t borrow from a bank. Fellows’s wife, April, did loan the theater $400,000, using as collateral a house the theater had for actors staying in town. Meanwhile, Ivan had a staff revolt on his hands. By the summer, six of the 10 managers working at the theater upon his arrival had left. “When you come in and you’re trying to fix something and trying to ask about accountability, people often don’t like that,’’ Ivan said. But Matt Kidd, an associate producer at the theater from 2004 to 2008, also questioned Ivan’s commitment to the North Shore. He found it galling that the theater put up Ivan in a hotel for several months in 2007 when he was working part-time in Beverly. Ivan, who maintained a home in Connecticut, later picked up the hotel tab when came on full time in February 2008. “He didn’t really want a thing to do with the community,’’ said Kidd, who eventually quit. Clark, the education director, also criticized Ivan, contending that he had never run a theater before. But Fellows said Clark’s department was in disarray, with four of its seven workers having complained to the human resources department about their jobs. “I left because I could see it was coming to an end quickly,’’ said Clark, now the executive artistic director at the Boston Children’s Theatre. “It would be a professional embarrassment if I stayed.’’ What turned out to be North Shore’s final season did have some good news. The theater’s production of “Show Boat’’ ended up winning an award from local theater critics as best musical. But it is unclear how well the other shows did; Fellows and Ivan said they could not provide documentation. But as fall rolled around, Ivan got excited. The show to save the theater was coming: “Disney High School Musical 2.’’ If the first “High School Musical’’ was an unprecedented 2007 smash for North Shore, the sequel raised what turned out to be false expectations. In the end, the theater sold 17,000 tickets, compared with 52,000 for the first edition, earning about $700,000, far short of the $2 million expected. In other words, it earned what “Christmas Carol’’ would have - not the windfall the theater needed. When trustees sat down on Dec. 19, the day after opening night, they realized they had a budget buster on their hands, according to Fellows. The theater went into survival mode. There were 57 layoffs, and the theater stopped taking subscriptions for the 2009 season, though $2.5 million in renewals had come in, much of it money that patrons are not likely to get back. North Shore kept on just three staffers, plus Ivan, his salary reduced from about $240,000 to $96,000. In the middle of a devastating economic downturn that shook many nonprofits, the theater tried to raise $4 million to put on another season. Then it lowered its goal to $2 million. Late last week, a few days after the board announced it had given up, Fellows headed to the theater with a checkbook. He met with the three remaining staffers and wrote out checks for the electric and phone bills. Looking back, did he regret anything about the way the theater operated over the last year? “No,’’ Fellows said. “With the economy being what it was, this was unwinnable. I can’t think of anything - knowing what I know now, going back over it - that we would have done differently.’’ Geoff Edgers can be reached at gedgers@globe.com.