Boston Vegetarian Society

Boston Vegetarian Society
Founded 1986 (1986)
Type Educational Charity
04-3082813[1][2]
Registration no. 043082813[3]
Focus Veganism, Vegetarianism
Location
  • P.O. Box 38-1071 Cambridge, MA 02238
Area served
 Eastern Massachusetts
Method Popular Education
Members
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Subsidiaries None
Revenue
 As of September 2012 $52,434[1][2][4]
Endowment As of September 2012 $127,324[1][4]
Employees
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Volunteers
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Website www.bostonveg.org
Affiliate member of
North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS),
Vegetarian Union of North America (VUNA), and
International Vegetarian Union (IVU)

The Boston Vegetarian Society (BVS) began in 1986. In 1998,[3] it was incorporated in Massachusetts as an educational non-profit. In July 1998,[1][2] it was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS.

The BVS provides info on events and related organizations,[5] hosts the annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF), holds cooking classes, and promotes vegetarianism through mass transit advertising, outreach at fairs and festivals, and monthly free educational seminars which since their beginning have attracted some of the best-informed and most popular leaders and voices in the vegetarian and vegan movement.[4] BVS "seeks to make a better world for people, animals, and the earth through advancing a healthful vegetarian diet and a compassionate ethic." BVS provides education, encouragement, and community support for vegetarians and for anyone wishing to learn more about a healthy, environmentally friendly, and humane way of life.[6] According to several member's reports and earlier versions of the BVS website:[7]

Boston Vegetarian Society and its programs are run by an all-volunteer Board. Members do not have voting rights.

Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF)

Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Roxbury

Since 1996, the Boston Vegetarian Society has annually hosted the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF) in October or November.[8][9][10][11][12]

It was first held on May 5, 1996,[13][14] at the Howard W. Johnson Athletics Center at MIT[15][16] because MIT graduate students affiliated with the MIT Vegetarian Support Group (VSG) (as of 2010 renamed MIT Vegetarian Group) provided a substantial proportion of the initial organizing effort. In addition, in October of that year, they held a World Vegetarian Day celebration outdoors on the Boston Common.

The second BVFF, in October 1997, was held at Bunker Hill Community College. This combined as one combined event their indoor vegetarian food festival and the sense of the World Vegetarian Day event, since the combined event would be perpetually held around October or November.

Since 1998,[17][18] it has been held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in the Roxbury Crossing section of Boston, across the street from Roxbury Community College and the Mosque for the Praising of Allah of the Islamic Society of Boston.

Well-known vegan and vegetarian speakers at Boston Vegetarian Society events

Others

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "NCCS Organization Profile - Boston Vegetarian Society". Nccsweb.urban.org. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  2. 1 2 3 "Nonprofit Organization Lookup". Melissadata.com. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  3. 1 2 "Summary for: BOSTON VEGETARIAN SOCIETY, INC.". Corp.sec.state.ma.us. William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1988-10-20. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  4. 1 2 3 "990-EZ Short Form Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax for Boston Vegetarian Society" (PDF). Internal Revenue Service, Dept. of the Treasury. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  5. ↑ "RESTAURANT REVIEW: A Vegetarian's Guide to the MIT Area - A Rundown of MIT Eateries, Local Grocery Stores, and Restaurants". Tech.mit.edu. 2001-09-26. Retrieved 2012-07-23. The Boston Vegetarian Society is a prime example of this. Their web site, found at <http://www.bostonveg.org/index.html>, is a great place to find out what vegetarian-related events are going on in Boston (for example, the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival will be held on October 13th this year). The site also hosts a long list of links to other vegetarian/vegan-related web sites.
  6. ↑ "Boston Vegetarian Society - Mission Statement". VegGuide.Org. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  7. ↑ "Boston Vegetarian Society". Bostonveg.org. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  8. ↑ "THE ESSENTIAL VEGETARIAN: Cheese: The vegetarian's friend in Europe - The Tech". Tech.mit.edu. 1999-09-10. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  9. ↑ "FOOD REVIEW: The Essential Vegetarian - The Tech". Tech.mit.edu. 2000-10-03. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  10. ↑ "Boston Vegetarian Food Festival at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center - The Boston Globe". Boston.com. 2010-10-30. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  11. ↑ "BOSTON VEGETARIAN FOOD FEST: Don’t drink the Kombucha". DigBoston. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  12. ↑ Weiss, Rachel (2011-10-27). "Vegetarian Food Festival in Roxbury growing in popularity". Articles.boston.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  13. ↑ "About Dr. Attwood" (c. 1996) notes that (the late) Dr. Charles Attwood had spoken at the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival 'recently' - it was 1996 - the first year of BVFF.
  14. ↑ VRG-NEWS: The Vegetarian Resource Group Newsletter, John L. Cunningham ( Editor), Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2003
  15. ↑ The Growing World of Veg Festivals. VegNews, Brooke Still, August 17, 2010
  16. ↑ 1997 BVFF (2nd BVFF) Program of Speakers, hosted on MIT website
  17. ↑ MIT-hosted archival page for 2000 BVFF says that 1999 BVFF was held at RLTAC nd that the 2000 BVFF is the 4th BVFF
  18. ↑ 1998 BVFF - 2nd BVFF - List of Sponsors, such a long list that it could not be held in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT, though it could have been held in Bunker Hill Community College (1997), where the 1998 BVFF - 2nd BVFF - was spread out over four or five of its buildings - on a Saturday
  19. ↑ HSPH Faculty profile for Dean David Hunter

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