Past UBuild Service Days

Our UBuild Service Partners have taken on a variety of projects, from landscaping to interior design. Projects have benefited health centers, homeless shelters, low-income residents, and other agencies that lack the funding to pay for these services.

Neighborhood Housewarming 2008
Date: December 12, 2008
UBuild Partners: Bank of America, John Hancock Financial, City of Boston, New England Regional Council of Carpenters, Wal-Mart
Summary: Neighborhood Housewarming 2008 was YouthBuild Boston's eighth annual effort to weatherize the homes of elderly and disabled, low-income Boston residents.
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Franklin Park
Date: September 10, 2008
UBuild Partners: New Boston Fund
Summary: New Boston Fund worked together with YouthBuild Boston's Project Advantage in Franklin Park to help trim back overgrown areas and restore a seating area.
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David A. Ellis School Playground, Roxbury
Date: August 26, 2008
UBuild Partners: Bank of America
Summary: Volunteers from Bank of America joined YouthBuild Boston's Project Advantage students to clean up this playground, outside Roxbury's David A. Ellis School.
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North American Indian Center of Boston Head Start
Date: July 17, 2008
UBuild Partners: Bank of America
Summary: Volunteers from Bank of America joined YouthBuild Boston's Project Advantage students to clean up this playground at the North American Indian Center of Boston's (NAICOB) Head Start program.
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Cooper Community Center, Roxbury
Date: July 11, 2008
UBuild Partners: Bank of America
Summary: With design support from The Designery, YouthBuild Boston's afterschool architecture workshop, volunteers created a fun new fence design for the Cooper Community Center's playground. The weave functions as a decoration as well as a privacy barrier for children on the playground.
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Rosa Parks Day Care Center, Roxbury
Date: June 27, 2008
UBuild Partners: Bank of America
Summary: Volunteers from Bank of America joined YouthBuild Boston's Project Advantage students to clean up this playground at Roxbury's Rosa Parks Day Care Center.
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Neighborhood Housewarming 2007
Date: December 7, 2007
UBuild Partners: Bank of America, National Grid, City of Boston, John Hancock Financial Services, New England Regional Council of Carptenters
Summary: More than 170 volunteers installed 16 new windows in two homes, and insulated more than 600 drafty windows in 78 homes of elderly and disabled, low-income Bostonians.
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Play Area at Children's Services of Roxbury
Date: May 15 & June 18, 2007
UBuild Partners: Bank of America, CBRE, NELSON, StructureTone
Summary: In a true collaborative effort, Bank of America, CB Richard Ellis, NELSON Strategies, and StructureTone joined forces to create a new, grassy play area for the daycare center at Children's Services of Roxbury. These volunteers braved soggy, rainy conditions to complete a portion of the project, and returned later to finish the job.
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Neighborhood Housewarming 2006
Date: December 1, 2006
UBuild Partners: Bank of America, CB Richard Ellis, City of Boston, Rebuilding Together Boston
Summary: More than 150 volunteers teamed up to help weatherize more than 700 windows in 51 Boston homes and replace 13 windows for one Boston resident, all at no cost to the recipients.
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Interior improvements at the Boston Rescue Mission
Date: October 14, 2006
UBuild Partner: Boston Private Bank & Trust Co. (BPB)
Summary: The Boston Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and one of BPB's preferred charities, was in need of some improvements in their living quarters. YBB helped BPB install cabinets, new lighting, and decorative painted accents to brighten up the place.
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Landscaping, etc. at the Codman Square Health Center
Date: April 27, 2006
UBuild Partner: Blue Cross /Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Summary: YBB worked with BlueCross/BlueShield of Mass. to benefit one of BCBS' preferred charities. Together, volunteers and YBB trainees made various improvements to the grounds of the Codman Square Health Center.
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