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Supporting
community-based activism Boston
& Denver Bowlers This year's Martín-Baró Fund bowlathon took place in both
the Boston area and in Denver, Colorado. Our Boston bowlers and their
supporters gathered on
The Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund's annual spring Bowlathon is designed both to raise money to support our grantmaking, and to give all of us the opportunity to meet some of our many local supporters. We've broken our all-time fundraising records in each of the past four years: 2005's Bowlathon raised more than $20,000, 2006's topped $23,000. In 2007 we raised more than $30,000 to support our grassroots human rights and mental health projects throughout the world. In 2008 we expect to beat that record by the time all the checks are counted! PLAN TO JOIN
US at Lanes & Games next spring, and let's see if we can break our
record once again! For information about organizing a team, finding
sponsors, or any other aspect of Bowlathon 2009, email Ramsay
Liem, our bowlathon coordinator. If you'd like to bowl but don't
have a team, you can also contact Ramsay, and he'll find a team that
needs a bowler.
© 2008, Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health & Human Rights
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Sunday, April 6th, at Lanes and Games in Somerville, MA while teams
organized by Kristen Kraus, an alumna of Weston Jesuit School of Theology,
and her husband Jon, got together in Denver for the first Western bowlathon
on Sunday, April 27th. Contributions raised by the Eastern and Western
teams and their supporters will exceed last year's total of $30,000!
2008
was a year of firsts: Walberto Tejeda, a member of one of our grantee
organizations, Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in El Salvador, had his
first experience on the lanes. Bowlers and Fund supporters learned more
about the CBC and its multiple community-based educational and mental
health programs 
at
several Boston events: a potluck dinner, graciously hosted in Cynthia
Kennedy's home, and through presentations by Walberto at Boston College
and other local NGOs. We thank Walberto and the CBC for extending our
partnership to include a wonderful week together.
