How do we work?

Technology & Innovation

Working with local communities

By leveraging technology, innovation, and volunteers’ abilities we increase our capabilities to assist our constituents.

By nurturing relationships with likeminded organizations and individuals, we're able to broaden our reach far beyond what we could do alone.

Partnerships

To make a lasting impact, we actively engage and include the communities we are seeking to help. We are continually learning and growing in how we can be an impactful partner.

Resources

We cultivate donors and sponsorships of our programs to allow us to bridge the gaps that other organizations are not filling.

Our team

Rich Bielecki - Founder & Executive Director

Rich is one of Mary's four siblings. He grew up in the Neponset section of Dorchester. He is a graduate of Boston College High School and Northeastern University. He brings a diverse background to the executive director position. He worked at the Gillette Company for 25 years in Customer Service, IT Project Management and Business Services. He has consulted numerous businesses and ran successful State Senate and Mayoral campaigns. In the non-profit industry, he has worked with Braintree Youth Basketball, The Taproot Foundation, Mass Promise Fellowship, The Marge Crispin Center, and the Joshua Kaye Foundation. Rich believes in giving people a helping hand and the tools for a better future. Through collaboration and partnerships, he hopes to create programs that result in a better future for the individuals, families, and communities MBF serves.

Melissa Kaye, Rich Bielecki, Terry Owens, Jim Burke

Theresa Bielecki Owens - Board of Directors, President

Born and raised in a Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Terry is one of Mary’s four siblings. A graduate of St. Ann School, Mount St. Joseph Academy, Boston State College and the University of UMass Lowell, she was well prepared for a career of service. As a Massachusetts Probation Officer she was able to help protect the community, research and develop resources for probationers and be a mentor. Her experience as a lifelong volunteer spans ground roots organizing, teaching, and inspiring through action. Among the organizations she has served are Dorchester Recycling, St. Ann Parish Council, Changing Lives Through Literature, Taunton Community Crisis Intervention Team, Redberry Credit Union Board of Directors and Canton Cultural Council. Terry believes an outstretched hand can change a life. She will use the skills she has acquired to help grow MBF, inspire hope and compassion building a better future for all of us.

Melissa Kaye - Board of Directors, Secretary

Melissa has a background in fundraising, event planning, volunteer organizing, and business ownership. She was a founding board member for Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation’s MassSTAR program and remains involved as an advisor. Her full-time focus is on up-lifting and supporting the community as President and Executive Director of Joshua Kaye Foundation. Having worked with Rich Bielecki on several projects over the last few years, Melissa is pleased to help further the mission of MBF as Secretary of the Board.

Jim Burke - Board of Directors, Treasurer

Jim Burke is a native of Dorchester/Neponset with a lifelong affiliation with the entire Bielecki family. He is a graduate of Boston College High School and Northeastern University. Jim has spent 42 years in state government, especially in service to areas of Boston and the South Shore. He currently serves as the Chief-of-Staff to the Clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk. Jim has been a resident of Weymouth since 1997.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

– Aesop