OUR PARTNERSHIPS
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

​- Michael Jordan

 CITY YEAR

Founded in 1988, City Year is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to helping students and schools succeed. City Year AmeriCorps members serve in schools all day, every day, preparing students with the social, emotional and academic skills and mindsets to succeed in school and in life.
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BOSTON SCORES

Boston Scores partners with the Boston Public School teachers, our “Coach-Mentors”, to provide urban youth in grades K-12 with after-school soccer & enrichment programs. Students typically participate 5 days per week, including 2 days of girls and boys soccer practices, 2 days of enrichment classes (poetry or civic leadership) and a soccer game day in which teams are transported to play other BPS schools. When students enter high school, our enrichment programs add in college and job readiness workshops.

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CHILDRENS SERVICES OF ROXBURY


​At Children’s Services of Roxbury, nothing is more important than delivering our trusted and culturally - relevant innovative programs and services to underserved children and families across Massachusetts. Our programs, developed for and by people of color, are focused on five critical areas. Through these areas, and the programs they deliver, we are demonstrating our belief that a child’s peace of mind is paramount to strengthening families across Massachusetts.

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ONE BEAD​

In our program, students identify an issue in their community, connect with a local non-profit that is addressing this issue to learn more, and write/deliver a pitch advocating for change on behalf of that non-profit.  For nearly a decade, One Bead has provided high-impact entrepreneurial programming to students across Boston—programming that makes students feel exceptional because it is exceptional. Entrepreneurship, like leadership, implies power. Entrepreneurial programming provides students with access to that language of power by amplifying their beliefs, opinions, and ideas. Exceptional programming takes one step further, giving students the resources to transform their ideas into action.
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OPEN DOOR ARTS

We believe our shared cultural community is strengthened when it represents, includes, and engages all people.   
We work annually with more than 3,000 students, teaching artists, educators and leaders of cultural organizations through innovative and inclusive programming, training, events, and exhibits designed to improve access, expand participation, challenge the status quo, and share practices to ensure equitable representation by people with disabilities in the arts. ​

BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS

Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) harnesses the power of music to connect our city's diverse communities, cultivate empathy, and inspire social inquiry. 
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Boston Children’s Chorus’s vibrant, jubilant, and powerful performances have established them as leading young artists in the city of Boston and beyond. Internationally recognized for their innovative programming, passionate artistry, and ability to connect to audiences, Boston Children’s Chorus showcases the talent and passion of the diverse young people of our city.

PLAYWORKS

Playworks is a national nonprofit that supports learning and physical health by providing safe and inclusive play to low-income students in urban schools. Playworks works with schools to design curriculum and activities that offer play opportunities during recess, lunch and after school programs.


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DOC WAYNE

Doc Wayne is an award-winning non-profit that has pioneered the leading approach of sport-based therapy and catalyzed a mental health movement. We provide training, tools, and services that address emotional, behavioral, traumatic, racial, gender, and cultural-based barriers by providing equitable access to better mental health for all. Our clinician-led curricula puts sport into practice, strengthening social-emotional skills in young learners to build healthier, more resilient global communities.

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HIGHER GROUND

We are a community-based, backbone organization that leverages resources to maximize the impact of community programs and services in Boston. We support the collective capacity-building of collaborative organizations and work with others to address and solve problems in our community.  We focus on what we call a "trilogy of disparity" in Roxbury, Dorchester, and the surrounding neighborhoods. Learn more about Higher Ground's focus areas of education, health, and housing below. 

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CITY SPROUTS
The CitySprouts mission is to cultivate curiosity and wonder with hands-on science learning through urban gardens. 
For more than twenty years, CitySprouts has partnered closely with public elementary schools in Cambridge and Boston to provide opportunities for children to learn by exploring the natural world as part of their school journey. CitySprouts is committed to greater equity in science education and children’s access to nature no matter where they live. 

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LITERATIONS

For over 20 years, we have made a difference in young lives throughout Greater Boston by matching older adult volunteer literacy coaches with young students. From the start, our mission has always been to help Kindergarten-3rd grade students become literacy proficient.

Literations focuses focus on three key literacy components that promote reading achievement toward grade-level goals. By strengthening these fundamental skills, students gain a strong literacy framework that is foundational to their success in the classroom and beyond:
  • Fluency
  • Comprehension
  • Vocabulary

...Together We Will!