Together in Service Day strengthens MIT-Cambridge ties
With its inaugural Together in Service Day — which included volunteer-based events around the campus, region, and world — MIT managed on Tuesday to rally its entire community around a good cause, while strengthening ties with its host city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Throughout the day, more than 500 MIT faculty, student, staff, and alumni volunteered for 32 shifts at 27 nonprofits across Cambridge and Boston, through the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center’s CityDays program. More than 200 additional alumni volunteered at 22 nonprofits in 11 other states and four countries. And, on campus, teams of MIT affiliates and others joined in a civic-engagement hackathon to invent innovative solutions to major infrastructure issues facing Cambridge. In light of the day’s success, during a closing reception held at the Samberg Conference Center, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz announced three new Institute initiatives that aim, he said, “to further strengthen the ties...