ejercicios y movimiento 

Izizwe Dance Studio:  Clase de baile diariamente

Usted simplemente baja la aplicación desde su computadora o teléfono (Apple/Android) y le envías un correo electrónico a Izizwe Dance Studio atención a [email protected].  Cuando ellos te envien la invitacion al grupo de Zoom, usted acepta y comienza a bailar.  Por favor compartan y sigan moviéndose.

Clases de salsa y bachata gratis

YMCA lanza 60 clases gratis cibernética

Planet Fitness ofrece streaming de ejercicios en Vivo

Visite su página de Facebook para las sesiones y horarios.  Membresía no es requerido

Biblioteca

Libby, by Overdrive

Léeme un cuento en la granja Nevins de MSPCA

Pequeño Sonidos Educacion de Música en Vivo

Arte diario por Fabiola Martínez

Carino con Sesame Street

Esta página provee contenido y recursos que pueden usar con sus familias para ofrecer actividades divertidas de aprendizaje.  Los niños/as aprenden mejor a través de jugos, aun en momentos como al comer y las rutinas matutinas y de noche. Esperemos que este contenido y recursos le ayuda a usted y su familiar respirar, reir y jugar juntos! Aprende mas en sesamestreet.org/caring

Servicios de Iglesia y Podcast

Parroquia Santa Maria

La parroquia Santa Maria de Asunción está streaming en vivo en Lawrence. Misas diarias y los domingos.

Visite la página Youtube para sus servicios.

Saint Patrick’s Podcast

Fitness & Movement

Izizwe Dance Studio: Daily Dance classes

You simply download the app from your computer or phone (Apple | Android) and send Izizwe Dance Studio your email address at [email protected]. Once they email you an invite to the Zoom group, you accept and the dancing shall begin! Please share and keep moving!

Visit their Facebook page for more information.

Free Online Salsa + Bachata for Kids

YMCA launches 60 free online classes

Planet Fitness has Live streaming workouts

Visit their Facebook page for upcoming times and sessions. No membership required.

Online Library and Learning Resources

Libby, by Overdrive

All you need is your library card and to download the app to your computer or device! Learn more here

Storytime at MSPCA Nevins Farm

Tiny Tunes! Live Music Education

Art Daily by Fabiola Martinez

Suggested materials for the two weeks:

• Pencils HB, H, 4H
• Paper or flat canvas
• acrylic paint (red, blue, yellow, white, brown….) any colours you already have!.
• We can use crayons and pencil crayons as well!.
• our fingers and q-tips!

Sesame Street Caring

This site provides content and resources you can use with your family to offer comfort and spark playful learning activities. Children thrive with structure in their lives and they learn best through play, even in everyday moments like mealtimes and morning and evening routines. We hope the content and resources help you and your family breathe, laugh, and play together! Learn more at Sesamestreet.org/caring

Church services & Podcast

Saint Mary’s Parish

St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Lawrence is live-streaming! 
Daily + Sunday Masses (English and Spanish)
Visit their YouTube page for services.

Saint Patrick’s podcast online

Click here for a downloadable PDF on how Bellesini transitioned to online learning in Spring 2020.

After finishing the 2019-20 school year in remote learning, Bellesini students returned to our campus in July for our annual four-week summer program, which operated in a hybrid model with students alternating between days in school and days learning and engaging in activities remotely at home. After the success of the hybrid summer program, Bellesini opened for its nineteenth school year on Tuesday, September 8th, with our 120 students beginning this year in a hybrid learning model. Grades 5-6 and grades 7-8 alternate between two days each week in school and two days learning remotely at home. The fifth day is a “switch day” with an additional day of in-school learning rotating between the two grade groups.

Students take all their academic classes each day, Monday through Friday, until 3:00 p.m., followed by a mix of in-person and remote after-school enrichment programs. Bellesini also expanded its Evening Study Program from three to four nights a week, offering additional online tutoring and technical support through Zoom classrooms. By using what it learned during quarantine this spring, Bellesini has improved its use of technology and virtual classrooms, and is continuing to work with its faculty and staff to ensure that it is meeting the needs of its students, whether they are at home or on campus. Bellesini has been going strong in its hybrid model since September, with no days out of school.  

In order to continue to provide excellent programs to our students during this challenging time, Bellesini has purchased additional supplies and resources to protect the health of our students and comply with COVID-19 safety regulations. These resources include individual kits for after-school activities, a Chromebook for each student, and new classroom libraries where they can access books for independent reading.               

New after-school programs have been developed in response to our hybrid learning model this year, and current programs have been modified to operate in adherence with COVID-19 protocols. Students still attend after-school programs every weekday. Some activities include Dance, Volleyball, Pickleball, Academic Bowl, Debate Club, Chess Club, Documentary Club, Regional/State Science Fairs, Computer Animation & Programming, Coding, Anime, Basketball Film Program, Drama, Multimedia & Video Making, Engineering Club, Fitness Program, Yoga, Zumba, and Community Service project for Mary Immaculate Nursing Center and Cor Unum Meal Center in Lawrence.  Now more than ever, it is imperative that we continue to provide quality after-school programming five days a week as well as evening study tutoring. The pandemic has exacerbated the already numerous risks our students face in an inner-city environment and intensified the need to provide a supportive environment in the afternoons.    

100% of the 8th grade students in our Class of 2021 have been accepted to private high schools on scholarship thanks to the diligent efforts of our students, faculty, and high school placement staff. In addition, our Alumni Support team is continuing to provide services, encouragement, and resources to our alumni in high school and college to ensure that they stay on track to reach their educational and personal goals while navigating these challenging times. Our team has been working with our seniors in high school to assist them with college applications, essay writing, interview prep, SAT/ACT prep classes and testing, and financial aid and scholarships.  

As COVID shutdowns prevent Lawrence students from accessing many of their normal support systems, Bellesini continues to build bridges out of poverty and to success for our students. Currently, our administrative team is working with our faculty on a plan to have all of our students return to school full-time, five days a week, with the hope that we will be able to implement it later this spring.

Meal Pick Ups

Bag Lunch Pick ups for Students

Monday – Friday 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m

Lawrence YMCA: Grab & Go Dinners

“To-Go” Dinners for kids of all ages

Cor Unum Meal Center

Food Insecurity

Senior Shopping Hours

Food Pantries

Health and Screenings

Lawrence General Opens Exterior Coronavirus Test Tent

Internet Access for Low-Income

Comcast Increases Access Speeds of Internet Essentials’ Low-Income Internet Service during COVID-19.

Utilities and Fuel

National Grid suspends collections-related activities

Columbia Gas to Suspend Shutoffs for Non-Payment

Fuel Assistance Check Pick-up

Rent/Mortgage

Mayor’s Eviction Moratorium Unanimously Passes – Rent/Mortgage Moratorium Resolution

Mayor Daniel Rivera announces today, the unanimous enactment of an emergency resolution calling for a sixty (60) day moratorium on rent and mortgage payments for Lawrence residents who experience an interruption of pay due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) and resulting school or business closures. Learn More

Building Bridges to a Brighter Future Capital Expansion Campaign

Bellesini is now a co-institutional school since we admitted our first class of girls in 2015. We have grown to serve 60 girls in grades 5-8, doubling our enrollment as well as our impact on the City of Lawrence.

We have made much progress expanding the building and adding learning spaces, and continue to press forward to meet our goals. With the help of those who have donated to our Building Bridges to a Brighter Future Capital Campaign, those funds go directly to support the financial needs necessary to accommodate this growth.

We encourage you to partner with us as we enter the home stretch with the last phase of this campaign!

Bellesini Academy awarded $300,000

Lawrence nonprofit receives Cummings Foundation grant

LAWRENCE, MA (5/10/2019) – Blessed Stephen Bellesini, O.S.A. Academy is one of the local nonprofits sharing in Cummings Foundation’s $25 million grant program in 2019. The Lawrence-based organization has been awarded a $300,000 Sustaining Grant, to be disbursed over 10 years. Julie DiFilippo, Bellesini’s Head of School, represented the nonprofit at a May 2 awards night at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn.

Founded in 2002, Bellesini Academy is an independent, Catholic middle school dedicated to providing quality scholarship education to young men and women from limited financial means living in Lawrence. The mission of the school is to provide an academically challenging and highly structured environment that develops the potential for each student to succeed in competitive secondary schools and colleges.

The Academy is named in honor of Stephen Bellesini, a 19th century Augustinian friar who dedicated many years to the education of young boys from disadvantaged families in Italy.  His school was known as la scola por gnent, or “The School for Nothing,” because it was tuition free.

“We are tremendously grateful to the Cummings Foundation for its ten-year sustaining grant to support Bellesini’s Alumni Support Program,” said Julie DiFilippo.  “Since 2007, our Alumni Support Program has provided a wide range of support services to our alumni as they progress through high school and on to college. The program is a critical component of our students’ long-term success.  100% of our alumni have graduated from high school, and 97% have gone on to college, trade school, or to serve in the military. With the opening of our Girls’ School in 2015, doubling our student body, we have expanded the program and our staff to serve the needs of all of our alumni,” said DiFilippo.  “This sustaining grant will provide critical support the program as we serve a growing number of alumni in the coming years.”

The Sustaining Grants initiative builds on Cummings Foundation’s $100K for 100 program. First offered in 2012, $100K for 100 annually awards $10 million through multi-year grants of $100,000 each to 100 nonprofits that are based in and primarily serve Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk counties. Grant recipients that received their final grant disbursements in 2018 were automatically considered for $15 million in Sustaining Grants.

“We introduced Sustaining Grants to help alleviate the constant burden of fundraising so nonprofit professionals can spend more of their limited time and resources on actually providing services,” said Christina Berthelsen, grants manager at Cummings Foundation.

Cummings Foundation has awarded nearly $250 million to date in Greater Boston alone. Funds are generated through commercial properties that are owned by, and operated for the sole benefit of, Cummings Foundation. All of its buildings are managed pro bono by Woburn commercial real estate firm Cummings Properties.

Sustaining Grants winners were selected primarily by a 33-member volunteer committee, which included former state legislators, CEOs of local companies, and a retired justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, among many others. Committee members met with each nonprofit twice to learn how the $100K for 100 funds helped to advance its mission, and how it might put a 10-year grant to use.

View the complete list of the 50 Sustaining Grants winners at www.CummingsFoundation.org. An additional 100 winners will be announced in June through the $100K for 100 program.

Bellesini Academy serves 60 boys in grades 5 through 8 and 45 girls in grades 6 through 8. In addition, the Academy provides graduate support services to 150+ alumni who attend area private high schools and colleges.  Bellesini admits students of all faiths who reside in Lawrence and qualify for the Federal Free & Reduced Lunch Program. 

About Cummings Foundation

Woburn-based Cummings Foundation, Inc. was established in 1986 by Joyce and Bill Cummings and has grown to be one of the three largest private foundations in New England. The Foundation directly operates its own charitable subsidiaries, including New Horizons retirement communities in Marlborough and Woburn. Its largest single commitment to date has been to Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Additional information is available at www.CummingsFoundation.org.