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826 Boston (Alumni)
826 Boston is dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this understanding in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school... >> More |
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Artists for Humanity (Alumni)
Artists For Humanity's mission is to bridge economic, racial, and social divisions by providing underserved youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in the arts. Walk in the door and this is what you'll find; a group of adolescent girls taking inventory of their newly designed handbags that are ready for market; a cluster of young people around a computer completing a project for a client; two young painters working on a... >> More |
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Boston Debate League
Created in 2005, the BDL has grown from a small, volunteer-driven organization to a prominent education initiative embraced by senior BPS leadership, including the Superintendent and the Boston School Committee. Since SVP and the Boston Public Schools partnered with the BDL in 2009, the league has experienced a tremendous amount of organizational and programmatic growth. It has grown from a staff of one operating on $150,000 to a full-time... >> More |
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Bottom Line (Alumni)
Bottom Line was founded in 1997 to improve our community by helping disadvantaged youth get into college, graduate from college, and go far in life. Since then, we have helped thousands of students improve their lives and build stronger communities as role models, leaders, parents, and friends. In slightly more than a decade, Bottom Line has grown into the premier college counseling agency in Boston and Worcester, designed specifically to... >> More |
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Compass Working Capital
Founded in 2005, Compass Working Capital is a Boston-based nonprofit organization that provides incentive-based savings and financial coaching programs that enable low-income families to access opportunities, build assets, and achieve their financial aspirations. More broadly, Compass seeks to catalyze and expand asset building opportunities for low-income families by sharing innovative, replicable ideas that help place families on the pathway... >> More |
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Edwards Middle School (Alumni)
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Machine Science (Alumni)
Machine Science supports intensive, year-long engineering programs in urban public schools and community centers. In addition to providing these programs with project kits and on-line resources, we offer training workshops and in-class assistance for educators and after-school program leaders. We also help our supported sites identify and recruit university students and others to serve as mentors for participating students. >> More |
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MathPower
MathPower, originally named Boston Algebra in Middle School (AIMS) Project, was founded in 1989. Inspired by the work of civil rights activist Robert Moses, MathPower aims to create more effective ways to teach mathematics to urban children. The increasing importance of math literacy combined with the widening achievement gap between more privileged school children and urban school children in Boston have created the need for MathPower. The... >> More |
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More Than Words (Alumni)
More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise that empowers youth who are in the foster care system, court-involved, homeless, or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business! Youth work together to manage an online and retail used bookstore, café and community space, developing critical job skills and gaining invaluable leadership experience as they transition to adulthood. In a supportive,... >> More |
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Project for School Innovation (Alumni)
The Project for School Innovation was founded in 2000 as a teacher-to-teacher network to share effective practice and overcome isolation to cultivate innovation in education. A nonprofit initiative of the Neighborhood House Charter School, PSI provides professional development and consulting services to teachers, administrators, and staff. Relying on principles of adult education and organizational change management, we bring these educators... >> More |
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Project Place (Alumni)
Since 1967 we have been a resource and a place of support for individuals on the streets, serving over 800 individuals a year. Founded to provide a safe haven for runaway and drug addicted teens, today we create jobs, supply housing, offer skill training and provide long-term wraparound support services to help adults overcome their homeless circumstances and to live independently with dignity. Over the decades, Project Place has provided... >> More |
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Raising a Reader
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading and greater achievement in school is reading aloud to children. Raising A Reader, MA works with low-income and immigrant families in which reading aloud is least likely to occur because, among other reasons, parents may have low literacy and/or English language skills, they may lack information about the critical importance of early... >> More |
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The Food Project (Alumni)
Our mission is to grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. We produce healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs and provide youth leadership opportunities. Most importantly, we strive to inspire and support others to create change in their own communities. Since 1991, The Food Project has built a national model of engaging young people... >> More |
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