Birthday Wishes CakeWalk
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| Dates: | Sun from 5/20/12 - 5/20/12 |
| Hours: | 8:30am - 11:00am |
| Ages: | Kids, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Special Events |
In 2002, Birthday Wishes threw its first party for a five-year-old boy living in a Boston shelter and in total, worked with two local shelters to throw parties for 15 children during its first year.
Last year, more than 11,000 children – living in 167 shelters and transitional living facilities throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Long Island, N.Y. – experienced the joy of a Birthday Wishes party.
Birthday Wishes was founded in November 2002 by Lisa Vasiloff, Karen Yahara, and Carol Zwanger — three friends and colleagues who wanted to help homeless children build self-esteem.
Having volunteered in several homeless shelters, it occurred to the trio —as they attended one of their own children’s birthday parties - that at the shelters, children’s birthdays often came and went uncelebrated.
In 2009 Birthday Wishes began a corporate partnership with toymaker Hasbro, and in 2011 become the official charitable partner of iParty.
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300 Gardner Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132 map
Millennium Park 300 Gardner Street West Roxbury, MA 02132
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