Days and Hours of Operation & Holidays
Volunteer and Internship opportunities in Social, Civic, and Legal Services
You Can Help us with our Daily Work: Fighting Social and Economic Injustice and Supporting Hard-Working Immigrants, Who are Really Americans-in-Waiting.
Volunteers can perform many important daily tasks at the Center:
Every day we receive visits and calls about how people in our community are being marginalized economically, abused verbally and even physically by their bosses, and by many our social institutions that prey on vulnerable people.
Volunteer opportunities are organized based on the time you can commit to us.
If you can commit to volunteer for at least 6 hours per week, for a period of at least 3 months, or one academic semester, these are possibilities:
- Assist with organization of workshops
- Assist with outreach programs
- Provide callers with basic information
- Discuss with callers/visitors what resources might be available to help resolve their problems
- Tutor ESOL students who are taking Basic English classes
- Maintaining and updating the Center’s website, Facebook, and Twitter accounts
- Call employers about wage theft complaint cases
- Return calls to workers
- Be part of program committees
- Represent BWC in meetings, rallies, lobby days, marches, and other community events.
If you are a JD student you can intern with our immigration or labor attorneys and support us with the following tasks:
- Conduct client intakes
- Issue spot and conduct appropriate legal research
- File appropriate complaints with the Attorney General’s office or the Department of Labor
- Draft demand letters, complaints, contracts, settlement agreement
- If 3:03 certified, they can represent clients in small claims and district court
- Draft and respond to discovery documents
- Participate in mediation and alternative dispute resolution with clients
- Give community legal education presentations to the local community
If you only have only a few hours per week (2 or 3) and can’t commit to a fixed schedule for at least three months, you can still help with many tasks and activities. Tasks that volunteers can be assigned include, but are not limited to:
- To greet and help workers with intake
- Answer the telephone and take notes about who called and why
- Relate the message to the appropriate staff person when necessary
- Create and properly label files for new workers’ rights cases, and discrimination cases
- Data entry, creating client files, drafting emails, and documents
- Prepare bulk mailings
- Help maintain the center clean
- Accompanied by BWC staff, attend meetings, rallies, lobby days, marches and other community events.
- Helping to interpret conversations or translate documents (when necessary)
- Help clients make phone calls to banks, schools, businesses, etc.
- Transfer intake forms from log book to computer
How do you sign up?
All volunteers begin the process by being interviewed for suitability by Center staff.
Complete an identification/application form [If you are applying on-line, send this form to
ntracy@braziliancenter.org].
Read and sign the confidentiality statement.
Receive orientation and training from BWC staff.
You are also welcome to visit us! We are open Monday through Friday 10am-4pm
Address: 14 Harvard Ave 2nd Floor Allston, MA 02134 – 617-783-8001
Hours and Days of Operation
The Brazilian Worker Center is open Monday- Friday from 10am to 4pm.
We recognize the following Holidays:
New years Day
Martin Luther King Day
International Worker's Day
Memorial Day week (closed to the public)
Fourth of July week (closed to the public)
Labor Day week (closed to the public)
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving (will be closed the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Christmas (from December 23 to January 2nd)
SNOW POLICY
The Brazilian Worker Center will follow the City of Boston Public Schools when determining how and when to open during inclement weather. As such, if Boston Public Schools are closed so is the Center. If the schools are running on a delay then the Center will run on the same delay.
14 Harvard Avenue, 2nd Floor, Allston, MA 02134
General Questions: 617 783 8001 ext 101 - Fax 617 562 1404
Email: info@braziliancenter.org website: www.braziliancenter.org
staff and Volunteer Emails
14 Harvard Avenue, 2nd Floor, Allston, MA 02134
General Questions: 617 783 8001 ext 101 - Fax 617 562 1404
Email: info@braziliancenter.org - website: www.braziliancenter.org
Lenita R. Reason
& Workers' Rights Council Coordinator:
Lenita@braziliancenter.org- 617 850 5346 or 617 783 8001 Ext 102
Natalicia Tracy or Lenita Reason
Wage Theft and Small claims Court
wr@braziliancenter.org- 617 783 8001 ext 104
ESOL@braziliancenter.org - 617 783 8001 ext 101
Heloisa Almas and Johanna Amador
Domestic Worker Campaign Organizer / Community Organizer
1067 Park Avenue Bridegeport, 06604 Connecticut
ctdwbor@braziliancenter.org- Phone: 203-612-4367
Lara da Costa and Nelli Jara
Community Organizer/Community Services
1067 Park Avenue Bridegeport, 06604 Connecticut
Lara@braziliancenter.org- Phone: 203-612-4367
Rosario Swaidain
Deputy Director, Hyannis MA
capecod@braziliancenter.org - Phone: 774-470-2667
Fax: 774-470-2713
Jennifer Moore
BookKeeper,
Accounting@braziliancenter.org
General Information: info@braziliancenter.org
Note: The Brazilian Worker Center is located in the United of America
and we can NOT help you to migrate to Brazil. If you need information about
how to migrate to Brazil Please visit their webiste at www.consulatebrasil.gov
Allston, MA U.S. 02134
Email: Info@braziliancenter.org
Mobile: 617-8505346
Fax: 617-562-1404