Posts by Found in Translation

In 2021, Found in Translation was awarded a grant through the Tufts Medical Center COVID Relief and Recovery Initiative. As a grantee and an organization with strong connections to our community, we were recently invited to partner with Tufts Medical Center as they conduct their triennial Community Health Needs Assessment.  On February 3rd, 10 alumnae…

How can donors help during the next phase of the COVID pandemic? Around the world, communities are grappling with COVID-19’s harm. The pandemic continues to expose and increase inequities in health, economic welfare, and education. Sponsored by Fidelity Charitable, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s 2022 High Impact Giving Guide gives guidance to fund a…

As Found in Translation enters 2022, we embark on our second decade with a bold vision to not only provide economic mobility and language access to more marginalized people, but to preserve interpreting as a sustainable, living wage career for decades to come.  We need your help. Please consider giving a stretch gift to launch…

Along with our partners at CCCS and UMass CHAN Medical School, Found in Translation held our second Interpreter Job Fair on November 18th, which also happened to be our first job fair to take place entirely online! Hosted on the Found in Translation website, this free event was open to interpreters in Boston…and around the…

Dear Friends, Found in Translation is excited to announce that the application for the 2022 Spring and Fall cycles of our Language Access Fellowship program, which provides medical interpreter training and job placement to low-income bilingual women, is now open! About our Language Access Fellowship Program Our program is completely free, and offers common-sense supports…

Thank you for joining us for 10 Years in Translation! On September 23rd, in the company of our community of graduates, donors, partners and supporters, we looked back on a decade of impact and forward to a future in the decade ahead. In addition to sharing stories of mission and impact, the hour-long virtual event…

Since 2011, Found in Translation has provided low-income bilingual women with the opportunity to achieve economic security through careers as medical interpreters, thereby reducing racial, ethnic and linguistic disparities in healthcare in the Boston area. Over the years, our programming has continually evolved to meet the diverse needs of our alumnae and our greater community.…

Join us at lunchtime on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 noon – 12:30 p.m. ET via Zoom to celebrate Found in Translation, which has been honored with the Essential Agents of Change Award from MA Essentials for Childhood for our work in building the protective factor of Parental Resilience.  Part presentation, part question & answer discussion,…

1. Currently, our staff is 100% women and a majority speak two or more languages, including Farsi, Haitian Creole, Nepali, Spanish and Chăvash.  2. While our office is now in the Fields Corner neighborhood of Dorchester, Found in Translation was based out of Central Square, Cambridge until 2017. 3. Remote and simultaneous interpreting are standard…

On June 23rd, Found in Translation was honored to win the Excellence in Innovation Award from the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network. This award recognizes a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts that has utilized new models or strategies to solve long standing problems or to adapt to a changing environment. This year, Found in Translation was chosen out…