Charity Event

Lace up along the South Boston waterfront for a timed 5K run or 2-mile walk supporting migraine and headache research and awareness. The morning includes speakers, a sponsor festival area, finisher medals, and plenty of purple flair by the harbor. Walkers join free, and a low-key ‘Relax’ option welcomes those who prefer to cheer.

Six outdoor stages scatter across Lowell’s cobblestoned mill district, pouring out global folk music from Cajun fiddle to Cape Verdean morna while the scent of food cooked by local nonprofit groups drifts through the crowds. One of the nation’s largest free folk festivals, it turns ethnic food booths into fundraisers for community organizations across the…

Each July, downtown Lowell’s cobblestoned mill district turns into one of the country’s great free parties — the longest-running free folk festival in the United States — with traditional music pouring off stages scattered across the historic blocks. The food is its own reason to make the trip: every food vendor at the festival is…

Each July, downtown Lowell’s cobblestoned mill district turns into one of the country’s great free parties — the longest-running free folk festival in the United States — with traditional music pouring off stages scattered across the historic blocks. The food is its own reason to make the trip: every food vendor at the festival is…

When Tim McGraw plays Fenway Park, the Red Sox Foundation opens up the Sam Deck — the famous roof deck above right field — for a fundraiser party with one of the best vantage points in the ballpark. Tickets cover food and beverages while the stadium-country show plays out below and the city skyline glows…

The North End saves its biggest weekend for the end of August, when Saint Anthony’s Feast — founded in 1919 by immigrants from Montefalcione, Italy — takes over Endicott, Thacher, and the surrounding streets under a canopy of lights. It’s the largest Italian religious festival in New England, the one National Geographic crowned the Feast…

The North End saves its biggest weekend for the end of August, when Saint Anthony’s Feast — founded in 1919 by immigrants from Montefalcione, Italy — takes over Endicott, Thacher, and the surrounding streets under a canopy of lights. It’s the largest Italian religious festival in New England, the one National Geographic crowned the Feast…

The Pan-Mass Challenge is Massachusetts’ great summer pilgrimage: on the first weekend of August, thousands of cyclists roll out at dawn and ride across the state, with routes ranging from shorter one-day options to a two-day, two-hundred-plus-mile trek that ends at the tip of Cape Cod. Start lines and water stops take over dozens of…

Once a summer, the Red Sox Foundation turns Fenway Park over to kids and families for an afternoon that flips the usual ballpark rules: after watching the Sox play, guests walk out onto the outfield grass itself for a barbecue on the field. There are mascots working the crowd, World Series trophies to pose with,…

The Falmouth Road Race has been a Cape Cod rite of August for more than fifty years: seven miles from Woods Hole, past the lighthouse, along the open Atlantic to a roaring finish at Falmouth Heights. Entries through the open lottery are famously hard to get, which is where the charity program comes in —…