At a sunny and joyful celebration of Cambridge’s nonprofits yesterday in Starlight Square, we announced five winners of our fifth annual Imagined in Cambridge! Social Innovation Award.
This year’s awardees are bringing grassroots solutions to big social problems in Cambridge—bridging divides and strengthening social cohesion, building pipelines and relationships for young people, and tackling climate climate at a hyperlocal level.
And the winners are…
- The Access to Community and Friendship Social Group. Offering a safe and accessible space for young adults with various (dis)abilities to have fun and grow community.
- Free Raised Garden Beds at CRLS. Students working toward a more sustainable city, starting by repurposing lumber from a campus renovation project to construct and donate garden beds for community use.
- Girls Envisioning More (G.E.M.). Providing mentorship and programming to young women aged 14 to 22, so they feel empowered to take on the world.
- Joint Family. Bridging the widening digital and generational divides. Through workshops that raise awareness about artificial intelligence, Joint Family seeks to strengthen intergenerational collaboration, civic deliberation, and trust within the community.
- Scholars Before Athletes. Run by a CRLS graduate to give young people academic tools, connections, and career exposure alongside athletics.
Congratulations to these five inspiring groups!
