FOCRLS Spring Raffle Tickets Now on Sale HERE

Raffle proceeds benefit Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students, grads, and faculty through
College Scholarships, Student Travel Fellowships, Faculty Innovation Grants, Faculty Distinction Awards, and Unsung Heroes.
Your contribution supports student success and might win you a prize!

Purchase raffle tickets online HERE>> or in person on
Sunday, May 5 at the MayFair in Harvard Square — visit the FOCRLS table, courtesy of the Harvard Square Business Association.


Dozens of raffle prizes generously donated by these local businesses:

Artist & Craftsman Supply

Atlantis Sports Club

B Cummings Hair Salon

Bonny’s Garden Center

Boston Burger Company

Broadway Marketplace

Cambridge Auto Center

Cambridge Common Restaurant

Cambridge Naturals

Cambridge Family YMCA

Club Passim

Courthouse Seafood

Curio Spice Co.

Dave’s Fresh Pasta

Flatbread Company

Formaggio Kitchen

Harvard Book Store

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Healthworks Cambridge

Henry Bear’s Park

Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Inman Square Hardware

Irving House at Harvard

The Mad Monkfish

Made by Me

Marathon Sports

McKinnon’s Meat Market

MEM Tea

Mike’s Food & Spirits

Nomad

Nüssli118°

Orleans Restaurant

Paper Source

Passage to India

Porter Square Books

The Porter Square Hotel & Colette Bistro

Somerville Theatre

Spindler Confections

Seven Stars

Veggie Galaxy

When Pigs Fly

Whole Heart Provisions

The Williams Agency / Boston JerkFest

The WRITE Coach

and more….

If you run a business in the Cambridge area and would like to donate a gift card/certificate as a raffle prize, please mail your donation to:

Friends of CRLS Raffle
P.O. Box 391541
Cambridge MA 02139

Your business’s name will be listed on our website,
in email blasts to ~6,000 contacts, and in our annual report. Thank you!
If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected] or 857-235-9290.

Thank You to Our Spring 2019 Bash Event Sponsors, Donors, Guests, Committee Members, Volunteers, Presenters, and Performers!

Our 2019 Spring Bash on February 28 celebrated another year of supporting student success and, even more importantly, raised funds to assist members of the CRLS Class of 2019 with college scholarships, grads with multi-year college scholarships, students with travel fellowships for upcoming CRLS trips to Japan and Greece & Italy, and CRLS faculty with grants for creative ways to enrich learning for students in grades 9-12.

Photos by Zora Neale Walton . Scroll down to see more photos below!

Extra Big Thanks to Our 2019 Spring Bash Event Sponsors:


Falcon Level: $10,000

Google

Benefactor Level: $2,500

DivcoWest / Cambridge Crossing

Jill Lepore

Elaine Schear
Co-Founder, Friends of CRLS

Trinity Property Management, Inc.

Champion Level: $1,000

Alexandria Real Estate Equities

Anonymous (2)

BioMed Realty

Boston Properties

Harvard University

East Cambridge Savings Bank

Irving House

Maria & Greg Jobin-Leeds

Leggat McCall Properties

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Parsnip Restaurant

Supporter Level: $500

Tom & Nancy Akbari

Aptima

Broadway Marketplace

Cambridge Savings Bank

Gerald & Kate Chertavian

East Cambridge Business Association

Foundry Consortium

Galluccio & Watson, LLP

Tracy & Bertil Jean-Chronberg

Lesley Art + Design

Jamie Ann Sabino & Richard B. Klibaner

Daniel Serfaty & Irene Mizrahi

3MJ Realty / Ten Essex, Central Square

Friends of CRLS 2019 Spring Bash
February 28 at Google, Kendall Square

Photos by Zora Neale Walton

Tweet from Mass. State Rep. Marjorie Decker
Photos courtesy of Rep. Decker’s office

Meet a Few of Our Many Highly Deserving Awardees

Jessica, CRLS Class of 2018 recipient of the Friends of CRLS First Scholars Award Sponsored by Cambridge Trust, now enrolled at UMass Lowell, told us: “From my college education in the near future, I hope to create a project or movement that will promote awareness and benefit those in need within our society. I want to use my developing graphic design skills to create statistics and images and post them on a social media platform. I also want to use my skills to advocate for justice and fight against issues in our society so that youth may grow in a positive and safe environment.”
Yigermal, the CRLS Class of 2018 recipient of the “100 by 100” Cambridge Business Community STEAM Award for Engineering, now enrolled at UMass Dartmouth, told us: “As a kid when I was growing up in Ethiopia, I become very interested in engineering. When I was small, I watched an engineering crew build roads in my isolated village. Because of the new roads, the village transformed into a thriving community as new stores and businesses opened up. My two years in Engineering at CRLS increased my desire to learn more and study an electrical engineering in college.”
Smarika, CRLS Class of 2018 recipient of the Rose & Victor Rifkin Family Scholarship, now enrolled at the College of the Holy Cross, told us: “I could not imagine not being in school, reading, analyzing, and discussing different narratives, so I decided to dedicate my learning toward becoming a history professor. Teaching history would not only allow me to explore my passion, but it would also fulfill my dream of helping others. Having been born and raised for my first five years in Nepal, I hope to one day teach abroad and give the same opportunity to another deserving child.”

Donate to ​the FOCRLS General Fund Donate to our Scholarship General Fund

Donate to 100 by 100 Cambridge Business Community Scholarships

Student Travel Fellows
Lorra, Isaiah, Summia, and Reggie
in Ecuador, on a 2018 trip that included
the Galapagos Islands

Rakeyah (holding FOCRLS sign),
CRLS Class of 2018 recipient of the
“100 by 100” Cambridge
Business Community STEAM Award
for Science, now studying at
UMass Amherst: “I want to become
a biotechnologist to have
experiences where I can not only satisfy
my great passion for science but also help
people be healthier and to find
breakthrough cures that will save lives.”

Lamisa, CRLS Class of 2018 recipient of the
First Scholars Award and the
Dr. David A. Link Scholarship for the
Health Professions, now studying at
Simmons University:
“I am now studying Neuroscience,
Computer Science, and Public Health
in hopes to find which one (or two!)
I enjoy best. I’m thankful for receiving these
scholarships and I am the happiest
I could be at Simmons.

Thomas, Class of 2018 awardee of the
Juliette Kayyem & David Barron Scholarship
for Children of First Responders — now
studying marine biology at the 
University of Rhode Island —
and his family, including his dad, who,
before retiring, served as a
Cambridge police officer for 30 years

Xolotl, Class of 2018 awardee of the
CRLS Core Values Scholarship and the
Colonel & Mrs. Henry Bayard McCoy Memorial
Scholarship, whose “aspirations are to become
a professor who can write, teach, and research
about Latinx masculinity and gender, and the
unseen impact it has on people’s
everyday lives,” is now studying at
Stanford University.

Spring Bash 2019 Tickets Now on Sale!
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Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Hosted and Catered by Google, Kendall Square Delicious Smorgasbord Flowing Beverages Emcee:  Juliette Kayyem Student Performers Live Auction Plus: Online Auction leading up to event until 3/1/19... READ MORE

Become a 2019 FOCRLS Spring Bash Sponsor!
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Thanks to the generosity and community spirit of 2018 Spring Bash event sponsors, FOCRLS had a record year in awards:  39 College Scholarships to graduating seniors, 11 Student Travel Fellowships for Ecuador/Galapagos and... READ MORE