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We are excited to announce that this month’s Jeans Day is put on by first-time time host, Matt, from our Client Experience Coordinator team. He decided to go with a charity that is close to his heart. His sister runs a charity called Haunts for Hope that donates to the Boston Children’s Hospital. She founded this charity in honor of her daughter who was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease. Please read the bio below that Matt’s sister wrote for the charity and about the disease.

Last year, my 10 year old daughter

Once again this holiday season our Jeans Day program is sponsoring The Holiday Hope Project. Previously having sponsoring Christmas Wishes until they closed their doors, we searched for similar organizations that provided gifts, food, and supplies to under-privileged families that would have otherwise been in need during one of the most joyous times of the year.

In 2016 we found The Holiday Hope Project Child & Family Services, Inc. of New Bedford that allows us to “adopt a family” for the holidays.  Child & Family Services Inc. is a 501c3 organization

This week, members of our team attended HubWeek 2019 Fall Festival. HubWeek was founded in 2014 by the Boston Globe, Harvard University, Massachusetts General, and MIT on the “simple belief in the power of the people of Boston to build a better future.”

In their 5 years, HubWeek has played host to speakers ranging from Senator John Kerry, entrepreneur and social activist Scott Harrison, to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

This year’s theme is “The Pursuit: of change, of inspiration, of connection, and of the unknown” through disrupting an industry. So

September’s Jeans Day will be the “New England Walk4Hearing” hosted by our Client Service Manager Colleen Rosa. Her niece, Tia, was diagnosed at birth with moderate bilateral sensorineural hearing loss which is caused by damage to the inner ear or problems with the nerves from the ear to the brain (ASHA, 2019). This requires her to use of hearing aids, American Sign Language (ASL) and lip reading. Tia, who is now 10 years old, is mainstreamed in the public school system with the support from The Program for the Deaf

This month’s Jeans Day is advocated by Brenna Gimler. Hear why this organization is near and dear to her:

For this August’s Jeans Day I have decided to give to the Comfort Zone Camp, a camp for children who have lost a parent, sibling, or other primary caregiver. The reason this organization has my full attention and commitment for this Jeans Day, other than its mission to help grieving kids, is simply because of my friend Steve Roy.

Steve is one of the most amazing people I have had the privilege of

Imagine feeling that a diagnosis of autism for your child was a death sentence, or in some cases, worse than one. Unfortunately, this is the case in Ghana and many countries around the world due to lack of education and awareness about the condition. The local understanding in these cases is that people with autism were in fact “taken by bad spirits” spreading fear and misinformation in many of these communities. (Pinney, n.d.)

“Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social