Holiday Networking Sip & Shop

November 28, 2023 5:30pm–8:30pm Mercedes-Benz of Springfield 295 Burnett Rd, Chicopee, MA 01020 Join us for a festive evening of networking, sipping, and shopping at the Mercedes-Benz of Springfield! Get into the holiday spirit as you connect with fellow professionals, sip on delicious drinks, and shop for unique gifts…for yourself or others. 🙂 This in-person […]

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Welcome to our new Resident Directors

Please join us in welcoming Temistocles Ferreira and Nancita Alejandro, the Resident Directors of the Amherst ABC House! Together Tem and Nancita have 45 years of combined experience working with youth of color and economically disadvantaged young men. Temistocles has worked as the Residential Director (RD) for the Upward Bound Summer Program at UMass Dartmouth. […]

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Quynh’s Funky Flower Fundraiser

With so much time at home during lockdown/COVID, Quyhn and her father learned how to create flowers using an assortment of paper headed to the recycling center. She used the proceeds from the hundreds of flowers they’d made to support causes dear to her heart–Amherst A Better Chance and the Amherst Survival Center. Here she […]

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Joys…and Sorrows

Amherst ABC alumnus Kleaver Cruz ’07 has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?” Amherst A Better Chance alum Keith Hill ’81 died unexpectedly this summer.

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