Boston Vegetarian Society
| Founded | 1986 |
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| Type | Educational Charity |
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| Registration no. | 043082813 |
| Focus | Veganism, Vegetarianism |
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Area served
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Eastern Massachusetts |
| Method | Popular Education |
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Members
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[Figure needed] |
| Subsidiaries | None |
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Revenue
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As of September 2012[update] $52,434 |
| Endowment | As of September 2012[update] $127,324 |
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Employees
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[Figure needed] |
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Volunteers
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[Figure needed] |
| Website | www |
| Affiliate member of North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS), Vegetarian Union of North America (VUNA), and International Vegetarian Union (IVU) |
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The Boston Vegetarian Society (BVS) began in 1986. In 1998, it was incorporated in Massachusetts as an educational non-profit. In July 1998, it was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS.
The BVS provides info on events and related organizations, 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. 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. According to several member's reports and earlier versions of the BVS website:
Boston Vegetarian Society and its programs are run by an all-volunteer Board. Members do not have voting rights.
Since 1996, the Boston Vegetarian Society has annually hosted the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF) in October or November.
It was first held on May 5, 1996, at the Howard W. Johnson Athletics Center at MIT because MIT graduate students affiliated with the MIT Vegetarian Support Group (VSG) (as of 2010[update] 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.
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