Events and Opportunities
UPCOMING EVENTS
Career Exploration: Mapping Your Future
Navigating today's job market
Not sure what comes next? Join career coach Sara Reese for a series of interactive workshops to help identify your interests, strengths, and values. Explore careers that align with your goals. Learn about high demand industries in Greater Boston, local education and training options, and practical tools to help you plan your next career move.
This class is part of the series Navigating Today's Job Market. You are welcome to join one or all sessions.
Details:
Workshop 1: LinkedIn Profile + Building a Professional Network.
November 10th, Central Square Branch, 6:15-7:45 p.m.
Workshop 2: Career Exploration: Mapping Your Future.
November 14th, O'Neill Branch, 2-3:30 p.m.
Workshop 3: Power Your Future: Careers in the Building Trades + Green Energy.
November 17th, Main Library, Community Room, 6-7:30 p.m.
Workshop 4: Creative Careers: Art, Design, Music + More.
December 1st, Main Library, The Hive, 6-7:30 p.m.
What Does It Mean to Be a Man?
Exploring purpose and responsibility.
Join an interactive conversation about manhood, identity, and community. Together, we'll talk about the messages we've received about being men, how those expectations affect our lives and relationships, and what we want to carry forward.
This is a chance to listen, share, and think about how our choices, responsibilities, and care for ourselves and others shape the men we become. We'll also discuss what we've learned about expressing emotions, what makes it difficult, and how being more open can strengthen our relationships.
Lumas Helaire of Lumas Solutions will be joined by Kujiwellness, who will close the dialogue with a conversation about how emotional awareness and expression matter, along with practical ways to recognize, understand, and communicate what we're feeling.
A dialogue for us to share, be affirmed, and reflect. Build brotherhood. No lecture, just men in a circle, talking honestly about being men.
Details
Date: Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
Time: 1:30–3:30 PM
Location: MBK Cambridge, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Hosted by: Kujichagulia Wellness Center and Lumas Solutions
Questions: info@kujiwellness.com or lumas@lumassolutions.com
PAST EVENTS
Community Builders Meetup
Conversations with Making Good Minigrant Winners
Come connect with fellow community members who are thinking outside the box to make good for Cambridge. Enjoy time for conversations, connections, learning, and hear from residents about their own journeys turning good ideas into positive action. Food and drinks will be served.
Date: October 1, 2026
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Location: MBK Cambridge, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA
Community Self-Defense Lab Series
Cambridge HEART and Impact Boston are proud to present a free Community Self-Defense Lab series, offered at no cost to the community. Meg Stone and her team of instructors will guide participants through sessions designed to build community, self-confidence, awareness, and connection.
Classes are taught by a team of two instructors — one teaches self-defense skills, while the other, wearing a full suit of protective body armor, takes on the role of an aggressor so participants can safely practice what they learn. IMPACT's approach is trauma-informed and social-justice-oriented, challenging "victim-blame" narratives while teaching practical safety skills, including grounding techniques, verbal de-escalation, and physical self-defense.
Dates: Third Thursday of every month, July through October
July 16 | August 20 | September 17 | October 15
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Location: East Cambridge, MA (6 min walk from Lechmere Station)
Registration is required and space is limited to 12 participants per session.
Questions: info@cambridge-heart.org
THRIVE! Equity Audit for Cambridge Public Schools
For decades, Cambridge has grappled with the challenge of resolving deep-seated achievement and opportunity gaps that impact generations of Cambridge young people and the community around them. In 2023, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) and Cambridge Community Foundation (CCF) partnered with THRIVE!, a social enterprise that uses technology to promote equity in government spending, to understand gaps that arise and help CPS in assessing how to best support all students in reaching their potential.
The report was released at a February 9, 2026 event hosted by CCF, CPS, and My Brother's Keeper Cambridge (MBK). A panel of education experts and civic leaders, moderated by MBK Co-President Tony Clark, gathered to discuss the complexity of the issue and confront an uncomfortable truth: the responsibility belongs to all of us.
