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Jumpstart
Kick off your weekend with cocktails and a silent auction to launch Jumpstart’s Read for the Record. Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is a national campaign designed to build awareness around America’s crisis in early childhood education and Jumpstart’s role in solving the crisis by breaking the world record for the greatest number of children reading the same book on the same day. Join Boston’s young professionals on Thursday, June 5 at Ristorante Fiore (located at 250 Hanover Street) from 6-9 pm. The event, sponsored by Bank of New York Mellon, includes appetizers and a chance to sip specialty sangria, proceeds of which will be donated to Jumpstart. Silent auction items include tickets to a 2008-2009 Bruins home game with a Zamboni ride, a signed basketball from the Boston Celtics, gift certificates to Zipcar, and Box seats to a Red Sox home game. Potential guest appearance from a member of the Boston Bruins. A donation of $15 is suggested. RSVP to Lauren Fawls at Lauren.fawls@jstart.org or visit www.jstart.org/kickoff. To make a donation, visit www.readfortherecord.org/goto/boston.
Jumpstart is a national nonprofit organization that works toward the day when every young child in America enters school prepared to succeed. For more information on Jumpstart’s Read for the Record visit www.readfortherecord.org. For more information on Jumpstart, visit www.jstart.org.
On the Medical Frontlines- Richard Knox
Please join Richard Knox, Health and Science Correspondent for National Public Radio, in conversation with four aid workers from Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
MSF-USA Executive Director Nicolas de Torrente, water-and-sanitation expert and staff recruiter Kathryn Dedieu, nurse Sally Najera, and physician Hansel Otero, will share their experiences of teaming up with local and international staff to deliver emergency medical aid in places as diverse as Afghanistan, China, Macedonia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan.
7pm
Boston Public Library- Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street (Copley Square)
Boston
The program is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. For more information, please visit http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org or call (800) 601-1466.
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