The Guild Works

The Guild Works We also design and host workshops, retreats, exhibitions and weekly programming.

Founded in 2011, The Guild is a direct action network owned and led by inter-generational residents of color in and around the greater Boston area who believe in wholeness, beauty, and prosperity for ourselves and our descendants. The Guild leads cross-sector partnerships with thought leading private and non profit entities and public institutions to build community capacity to transform challenge

s into opportunities. Engage in local public programs at the following sites:

260 Washington [260 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02121]
How to get here -
Bus: 23
Train: Four Corner Stop on the Indigo/Fairmount Commuter Rail
Street Parking

Bowdoin-Geneva Community Hub [191 Bowdoin St. Dorchester, MA 02122]
How to get here -
Bus: 15 and 17
Train: Fields Corner Stop on the Red Line
Street Parking

Cooke-Pierce Communal Garden [23 Coleman St. Dorchester, MA 02125]
How to get here -
Bus: 15 and 17
Train: Fields Corner Stop on the Red Line
Street Parking

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33 DEGREE YOGA with Mike is BACK!!! Today at 6pm! 🎊🎊🎊 Since the pandemic, classes were suspended but we are now offerin...
03/31/2022

33 DEGREE YOGA with Mike is BACK!!! Today at 6pm! 🎊🎊🎊
Since the pandemic, classes were suspended but we are now offering a select number of classes to community! Donations are welcome, and no one will be turned away. We hope to see you there!

! This week we want to spotlight Mese! Another Guild Community Love and Gratitude Awards recipient. 🥳🥳🥳 It is a speci...
03/29/2022

! This week we want to spotlight Mese! Another Guild Community Love and Gratitude Awards recipient. 🥳🥳🥳

It is a special gift when someone can truly see people with a compassionate heart and understand when others may not have the words to ask for help. Mese is one of those people! She is genuine, authentic, and incredibly reliable! Instead of asking “how can I help?”, she sees where the need is and without hesitation chooses to step up and just lend a helping hand. She not only saw our need and dove into volunteering; she showed up religiously!! Even as a full-time working mom, Mese carved out time to volunteer over 200+ hours in less than a year to support The Guild’s Community, Love, Wellness, and Connection Relief Pantry! 🥰🥰🥰 She has been an invaluable part of our team receiving families and distributing critical care supplies. The work of holding space for and checking-in over 150 families per pantry, with a loving spirit and generous heart, multiple times a week, takes emotional and mental stamina! 💪🙏You’ve helped thousands of families and continue to show up with your beautiful spirit! 💞 Mese we are immensely blessed to have you as a part of our Guild family! We love you DEARLY and We THANK YOU from the bottom of our heart! 🖤🖤🖤

03/26/2022

The Guild Sanctuary is entering this Spring 2022 with a new look! 🤩🤩🤩 Check out the before and after video of our entrance. Thank you to the many hands that helped upgrade our Sanctuary with a fresh coat of paint! 💙💙💙

From the beginning, everything the Guild has done and continues to do is LED by community! ❤️❤️❤️ to 2012 Our CEO and ...
03/24/2022

From the beginning, everything the Guild has done and continues to do is LED by community! ❤️❤️❤️ to 2012 Our CEO and Founder, Jhana Senxian helping the kids in the neighborhood map out what they wanted to see at the Bowdoin Geneva Community Hub!

continues! This week we spotlight another Guild Community Love and Gratitude Awards recipient: Today we want to spotli...
03/24/2022

continues! This week we spotlight another Guild Community Love and Gratitude Awards recipient:

Today we want to spotlight YVONNE P! 🥳😍🥰

Cheerful, full of energy, loving, and compassionate. Yvonne radiates love and joy from every cell in her body. Even at the height of the pandemic with fears around embracing others, Yvonne created the “elbow bump and toe taps” as a means of adding connection and playfulness into our daily routine. Every week for over two years, Yvonne religiously delivered to our elders and quarantined families experiencing severe food insecurity. She delivered thousands of care packages to the most vulnerable members of our community with a beautiful smile; her smile beams from behind her mask. "Above and beyond" are the words to describe Yvonne’s work at The Guild. It didn’t matter if it was packing bags of essential supplies, delivering care packages across the city of Boston, registering pantry families, or packing up areas of the building for renovations, Yvonne was there! Any void she could fill, she did it without hesitation and with a generous heart. Thank you for the gift of your presence! We LOVE and ADORE you!

Happy Saturday! The Pierce-Cook Community Garden has been stewarded by The Guild and our intergenerational neighbors sin...
03/19/2022

Happy Saturday! The Pierce-Cook Community Garden has been stewarded by The Guild and our intergenerational neighbors since 2012. This was a blighted, abandoned site that our community transformed into a beautiful community asset filled with beautiful herbs and fresh vegetables. Photo of one of our neighborhood elders tending to the garden. 🌲🌷🌺🌲

Today we spotlight another aspect of our Sanctuary Development Project Visionbook: African fractals!
03/18/2022

Today we spotlight another aspect of our Sanctuary Development Project Visionbook: African fractals!

to the transformation of 191 Bowdoin St into the Bowdoin-Geneva Community Hub! Where intergenerational neighbors and f...
03/17/2022

to the transformation of 191 Bowdoin St into the Bowdoin-Geneva Community Hub! Where intergenerational neighbors and friends came together to convert this main street eye sore into an outdoor oasis ⛱🌲🌞 back in 2012. For 8 years, we provided healing, wellness, and cultural programming to residents. With this location now under development, we are planning for our next outdoor sanctuary.

🌟Drop a comment for what programming you’d like to see in our next outdoor location! Stay tuned for more! 😎

This past Saturday, The Guild had the opportunity to host the 2022 Ward 14 Democratic Caucus meeting. It was great to co...
03/16/2022

This past Saturday, The Guild had the opportunity to host the 2022 Ward 14 Democratic Caucus meeting. It was great to connect with state and city representatives, and speak about the important work happening at The Guild, Kim Driscoll, Maura Healey, Michelle Wu, and others! We’re looking forward to working with our representatives to better serve our neighbors and community!

Hosting the Ward 14 Democratic Caucus was a great opportunity for our state and city representatives to see and hear abo...
03/16/2022

Hosting the Ward 14 Democratic Caucus was a great opportunity for our state and city representatives to see and hear about the work of The Guild. Looking forward to building with our elected officials!

“Thousands of hands hold this work” Our is like no other, continuously showing up with a generous heart, kind spirit...
03/15/2022

“Thousands of hands hold this work” Our is like no other, continuously showing up with a generous heart, kind spirit, and unwavering commitment to supporting our community. We’re so excited this year to launch our first Community Love and Gratitude Awards!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 For the next several Tuesdays, we will be lifting up and shouting out our 9 Inaugural recipients! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Today we want to spotlight TERRY P.! Comment "❤️" to show Terry some love!

Originally from South Carolina, Terry moved to Boston as a child and now lives in Dorchester. He is a beautifully committed volunteer, providing a helping hand with everything we do from cleaning and maintaining the Pierce-Cooke Communal Garden to distributing bags of food to our neighbors during pantry, and everything in between! He is one of the sweetest and most kind spirited people and his presence brightens our day!🥰🥰🥰 We love you and greatly appreciate you, Terry!

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260 Washington Street
Boston, MA
02121

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Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 7pm

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The Guild is a community-driven, development network dedicated to equity, prosperity creation, health and beauty. Our work is about economic development and systems change through healing, culture and asset creation.

The Guild leads cross-sector partnerships with thought leading private and non profit entities and public institutions to build community capacity to transform challenges into opportunities. We also design and host workshops, retreats, exhibitions and weekly programming.

Engage in local public programs at the following sites:

260 Washington [260 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02121]