4Boston is BC's largest weekly service organization. Volunteers serve four hours each week of the academic year with community partners in the social service, healthcare, or education sectors and engage in one hour of group reflection centered on community, social justice, and spirituality.

What We Do

Build community with our partners and among our small groups of volunteers, through both engagement and reflection.

Consider the policies and structures that create unjust conditions for our neighbors, while seeking to understand our responsibility in resisting and transforming injustices we encounter in our world.

Grow as spiritual beings, attentive to the ways that God moves through our work and reflection.

Important Dates

4Boston Application Deadline
Friday, September 13th at 11:59 p.m. EST
4Boston Orientation
Sunday, September 22nd from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
Location: Various
 4Boston Retreat & Teach-In
Sunday, February 16th, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
Location: Lyons Dining Hall
Sending 4th 
 Sunday, April 27th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. EST
Location: TBD

4Boston provides students with a significant extended urban encounter, enriched by regular opportunities for reflection and analysis in keeping with the Jesuit tradition of contemplation-in-action.
4Boston also strives to provide reliable, consistent support to Boston-area agencies that work with and on behalf of the city's poor and marginalized.

This work inevitably raises universal questions of life's meaning and purpose. While we rely on the Judeo-Christian tradition to address these and other issues, people of all faiths and those of no specific religious affiliation are welcome to participate in 4Boston.

It is our firm belief that action without reflection risks despair, and reflection without action risks irrelevance, and it is our explicit hope that 4Boston students will grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually through regular service to others and disciplined reflection on that service.

Three pillars guide the work of 4Boston​: Community, Spirituality, and Social Justice. We aim to create a sense of community with our partners and among our small groups of volunteers, both in service and reflection. We are committed to not only meeting immediate needs through our engagement in the community, but considering the policies and structures that create unjust conditions and learning about our roles in resisting and transforming the injustices we encounter in our world. I​n and through all of this, we seek to grow as spiritual beings, attentive to the ways that God moves through our work and reflection, calling and empowering us to be women and men for and with others, in all times and places.

4Boston’s application for new and returning volunteers is now open! 

All questions should be directed to the Program Director, Joe Citera and the 4B Graduate Assistant, Markie Darryl V. San Juan

Students are placed on a first come first serve basis according to mutual availability.

Apply for 4Boston 

Please review the 4Boston Volunteer Guidelines prior to submitting your application.

Applications will be accepted through Friday, Sept. 13 at 11:59 p.m.  Due to the volume of applicants, late applications will not be accepted. 

Leader Applications will be made available in the Spring semester.

Thank you for considering a donation to 4Boston. Your tax-deductible donation is a valuable investment in a learning experience that many Boston College students will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

To Donate Online:
Visit the Online Giving Form
Enter your information; for the field "I wish to make my gift to:” select 4Boston. [If you are sponsoring a certain student, please select "In honor of a BC student," and include their name and year.]
Click "Submit Gift"

To Mail a Check:
4Boston
Boston College, Office of Campus Ministry
McElroy Commons 233
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

If your corporation matches donations, please enclose the appropriate forms.
4Boston, under the umbrella of the Trustees of Boston College, is a non-profit 501(c)3 with a federal tax exemption number of 04-2103545.
 

Program Director
Joseph Citera
McElroy 122

Graduate Assistant
Markie Darryl V. San Juan

Executive Board
Carmela Musso
Cassidy Owens
Lily Wang Luo
Zach Schroeder
Gianna Gallagher

Office Hours: 2024-2025
TBD

Our office hours are held in Carney 373. Feel free to walk-in or make an appointment

For general inquiries, email: 4bostonvolunteers@bc.edu

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