Through Emmanuel’s partnership with ABCD Parker Hill/Fenway, local youth gain meaningful summer work experience through ABCD’s SummerWorks program.
Emmanuel College supports the ABCD Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Service Center in its SummerWorks Program. The program provides low-income local youth, ages 14-21, with meaningful summer jobs, education, and counseling and leadership training. Each year, Emmanuel sponsors the placement of several youth at participating worksites, creating a strong partnership between young residents of the neighborhood and the surrounding institutions.
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. (ABCD), the largest anti-poverty agency in New England, offers basic services and innovative programs to provide residents with opportunities that can empower them to become self-reliant and make better decisions for themselves, their families and their communities.
The ABCD Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Service Center (PHF) is ABCD's neighborhood base serving the Mission Hill, Fenway and Lower Roxbury communities. This center serves more than 2,600 clients a year through services and programs such as civics and ESOL classes, financial literacy and job readiness workshops for adults and teens, a senior center, food pantry, immigration and citizenship advocacy and more.
In May 2019, Emmanuel College was selected as one of 100 Boston-area nonprofits to receive a $100,000 grant through Cummings Foundation's "$100K for 100" program. The grant will help support service initiatives through Emmanuel's Cardinal Seán O'Malley Center for Mission & Ministry.
Since graduating from Emmanuel College in 2016, Atka Bol has not only flourished in her commitment to service, she has let it take her across the world.
Although half a world away in Pakistan, Justin Prairie '05 is never far from Emmanuel and Boston. A foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department, Justin currently works on political and military affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
When Meghan Larkin '19 was a first-year student at Emmanuel, she paid close attention to her resident assistants (RAs) and became inspired by the effort they put into creating a positive living environment.
When Rachael was applying to college, she hadn't quite figured out what she wanted to study. There were several routes she could take on the path to her future, but deciding on one seemed impossible. It was then that she realized she needed to attend a school that could support all of her interests.
Emmanuel is a place where students broaden their sense of what’s possible and prepare for inspiring careers in an ever-changing world. Be here.
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