Name Tag Experience

Last month the GreenLight Fund, a Boston-based nonprofit organization, hosted a large fundraiser and party for our sixth portfolio organization, Single Stop USA. The event was an enormous success, raising over $425,000 for Single Stop’s community college initiative, which will be starting in Bunker Hill Community College next spring.

We were thrilled to have sleek wooden badge holders to keep our 550 name tags sorted and organized for our guests. Registration is the first thing our attendees see, and it’s important to ensure that everything stays clean and and tags are easy to find. Thank you Name Tag, Inc.!

The event took place in the Park Plaza Castle and started out with a cocktail hour. Guests mixed and mingled to the sounds of the Hot Tamale Brass Band, a local Boston favorite, while sipping on signature cocktails and tasting unique hors d’oeuvres.

Eventually the curtains opened to reveal the transformed dinner space. Guests dined on beef bourguignon as representatives from GreenLight and Single Stop spoke about the game-changing work being done across the nation for low-income community college students. At the end of the program, raffles were drawn and three lucky winners brought home gifts from our major sponsors: Rue La La, Rounder Records and Long’s Jewelers.

Dessert took place in the next room and guests danced the night away to hits performed by the Flipside. Attendees also let loose in our bling photo booth and recording booth.

Overall, the event was a great success — guests had fun and funds were raised for some of those people in our community who need it most!

To see more pictures from the event, check out the event website or our facebook page!

The GreenLight Fund identifies innovative, high-performing nonprofits in cities across the country and supports their successful expansion into the local community when these nonprofits show the results needed to have a significant impact on priority local issues.

The GreenLight Fund supports organizations that address issues affecting primarily low-income urban children and families in key areas such as education, youth development, workforce development, and health.

Our aspiration is that GreenLight’s results in Boston will stimulate initiatives in other cities to use the GreenLight approach to identify and replicate proven models for social change. We envision a network of like-minded organizations learning and working together to propagate exceptional nonprofit solutions that achieve meaningful and measurable results in communities around the country.

With the help of a Selection Advisory Council, The GreenLight Fund “greenlights” powerful programs that can help solve critical local issues, speeding their entry into the local community and giving them a strong start in the local community. Once an organization is selected and launched, The GreenLight Fund provides critical support during the first four-six years of a program’s life in the local community. In addition, GreenLight is an on-the-ground partner invested in the early and long-term success of the organization. GreenLight provides the following:

• Early-stage funding. Total contributions are typically in the $600,000-$800,000 range over four years.
• Assistance recruiting exceptional staff and board talent to lead the local organization.
• Start-up planning to ensure that the program is adapted to meet the local community’s unique circumstances.
• Community outreach to key political, funding, corporate, and nonprofit organizations in the city.
• Early-stage operational and management support.

So far, The GreenLight Fund has brought 6 new organizations to Boston: The Family Independence Initiative, Friends of the Children-Boston, Peer Health Exchange, Raising A Reader Massachuestts, Single Stop USA, and Youth Villages’ Transitional Living Program.

The GreenLight Fund is hosting An Emerald Evening this December in Boston to benefit our newest portfolio organization, Single Stop USA. For more information about the event, click here.