Massachusetts Promise Fellows work to deliver one or more of the 5 Promises to youth and their communities:
1.) Caring Adult
2.) Safe Place
3.) Healthy Start
4.) Marketable Skills
5.) Opportunities to Serve.
From recruiting volunteers for an after school program to teaching young people about nutrition and health, Fellow projects are diverse in size and scope. All Fellow projects possess an element of project ownership and allow the Fellow to take on a leadership role. While the delivery of the 5 Promises varies by individual Fellow, the strong network created by the Fellowship provides access to a wealth of resources beyond their host site.
Our 40 host sites and Fellow projects change each year and are determined by a competitive grant review process.
“The Fellowship is to date one of the most significant experiences in my life. I’ve made connections that will last a lifetime and I know that I made a difference in the work that I am doing.”
—Janeen Smith, Massachusetts Promise Fellow, Classes XIII & IX
If you are interested in applying to be a 2013-2014 Massachusetts Promise Fellow, please click here.
MPF Class XIV Host Site Locations:
Click on the organizations below to jump to the individual Fellowship projects.
3rd EyE Youth Empowerment
uAspire-Lawrence
uAspire-Springfield
Alternatives for Community & Environment
America SCORES New England
Boston Public Health Commission
Boys & Girls Club of Boston- Jordan Club
Boys & Girls Club of Boston- Yawkey Club
Cambridge Family & Children's Service
City of Brockton Mayor's Office
City of New Bedford Parks, Recreation & Beaches
CD Recreation
Computer Clubhouse, Museum of Science
Crossroads for Kids
Girls Incorporated of Lynn
Girls' LEAP
Health Resources in Action
Hyde Square Task Force
MathPower- South Boston
MathPower- Yawkey
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (MassCOSH)
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Community Health Improvement
More Than Words
Northeastern University Marine Science Center
North Shore Community Action/Salem CyberSpace
North Shore Community Development Corporation
Plymouth County District Attorney's Office
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School
Railroad Street Youth Project
Regional Environmental Council, Inc
Science Club for Girls
Sociedad Latina
Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center
Stoughton Youth Commission
The DREAM Program, Inc
The Food Project
Tutoring Plus
Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID)
Youth on Board
3rd EyE Youth Empowerment
Youth Leadership Fellow: Frankie Barros
Position Overview: 3rd Eye Youth Empowerment a small non-profit, community-based organization whose mission is to engage and empower young leaders to positively transform their community through skill-based mentoring, organizing and the arts. Founded in 1998 by three youth who wanted to create positive change in their community, 3rd EyE is a unique organization that utilizes Hip Hop Culture to attract and maintain the involvement of youth, ages 14-25, who are often disconnected and disenfranchised. The Youth Leadership Fellow will enhance 3rd EyE Open, a Hip Hop Cultural Festival that engages youth in a year-long process of planning and skill-building. The Fellow will lead planning and implement activities using a youth development model that engages and empowers young people in project-based learning, community building and leadership development.
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uAspire Lawrence
Community & High School Engagement Fellow: Erika Del Rosario
Postition Overview: uAspire is committed to its mission of ensuring that every young person has the financial information and resources necessary to find an affordable path to-and through-a postsecondary education. Founded in Boston in 1985, uAspire has grown to become the city’s leading provider of financial aid advising and its largest scholarship provider. In 2011, uAspire expanded to Lawrence and the Community Engagement Fellow will support the expansion and growth of programming in this new city. The Fellow will develop and execute an advising and outreach plan with a select group of 4 community partners to offer after-school financial aid services as well as provide one-on-one advising to a cohort of students within the Lawrence High School complex one day a week.
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uAspire Springfield
Community Engagement Fellow: Jamal Brown
Position Overview: Student debt is nearly $1 trillion in the United States, more than all credit card debt combined. College affordability has become a crisis for many young people, yet a college degree is necessary to secure a career. uAspire is committed to its mission of ensuring that every young person has the financial information and resources necessary to find an affordable path to-and-through a postsecondary education. Founded in Boston in 1985, uAspire has worked with over 50,000 youth to secure more than $150 million dollars in financial aid and has awarded more than $5 million in need-based scholarships.
In 2009, uAspire expanded outside of Boston for the first time when it was selected to operate the newly-created Springfield Promise Program, a financial aid advising and scholarship program for the city’s youth. The Community Engagement Fellow will develop and execute an advising and outreach plan with a select group of community partners, serving students in the 7th-12th grades. The Fellow will also provide one-on-one financial aid advising at SABIS International Charter High School.
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Alternatives for Community & Environment
Leadership Development Fellow: Tyree Ware
Position Overview: Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE) builds the power of communities of color and low income communities in Massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice. For the last fifteen years, ACE has led the fight for environmental justice in Greater Boston. The Leadership Development Fellow will support our youth development program, the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP) which nurtures youth leadership and development through an environmental justice curriculum, youth organizing program, and youth-led campaigns for environmental justice in Roxbury, Dorchester and across the City of Boston. Specifically, the Fellow will expand the number of teens who have access to REEP’s leadership development opportunities by developing and implementing a plan to recruit, train, and support new volunteer members.
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America SCORES New England
Alumni Fellow: Catherine Noel
Position Overview: America SCORES New England’s mission is to inspire Boston youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world. Our innovative after-school SCORES Program uniquely combines soccer activities, language arts workshops, and service-learning projects into a single after-school program to address three areas of critical need in the lives of Boston’s low-income urban youth-health, literacy, and community building. The SCORES Alumni Leadership Academy (ALA) provides former SCORES poet-athletes who are currently enrolled in the Boston Public High Schools with opportunities for physical activity through soccer, leadership development through service-learning, and college and career preparation through employment opportunities and access to existing community partnerships. The Alumni Fellow will be responsible for building an inclusive community that utilizes the SCORES alumni’s passion for soccer and their shared experience of the SCORES Program to provide resources for college preparation and personal development.
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Boston Public Health Commission
Engaging Men & Boys Fellow: Yves Singletary
Position Overview: The Boston Public Health Commission provides a variety of services to protect, promote and preserve the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable. The Commission operates more than 30 different programs that are dedicated to the core priorities of expanding preventation strategies, increasing access to health care, and reducing and eliminating racial disparities in the measures of good health. The Engaging Men and Boys in Preventing Dating Violence Program (EMB) is housed at the Boston Public Health Commission and is designed to engage young men to help prevent teen dating violence. The Fellow will develop projects that will benefit a city-wide media and community campaign and will develop and implement a 5-part reconstructing gender norms training series for a group of peer leaders. The Fellow in partnership with our high school peer leaders will also help implement gender specific groups for young men or young women throughout the City of Boston.
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Boys & Girls Club of Boston- Jordan Club
Youth Evaluation Fellow: Caitlin Quinn
Position Overview: The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) is to help young people, especially those who need us most, build strong character and realize their full potential as responsible citizens and leaders. We do this by providing a safe haven filled with hope and opportunity, ongoing relationships with caring adults, and life-enhancing programs. The Youth Evaluation Fellow at BGCB will serve at the Jordan Club in Chelsea and will launch a teen-led evaluation program rooted in the practices of youth-development. The Fellow will implement the teen-led evaluation program by building the infrastructure needed to support teens as they evaluate Club resources and present their recommendations to BGCB leadership.
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Boys & Girls Club of Boston- Yawkey Club
College Readiness Fellow: Lauren Peckler
Position Overview: The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) is to help young people, especially those who need us most, build strong character and realize their full potential as responsible citizens and leaders. We do this by providing a safe haven filled with hope and opportunity, ongoing relationships with caring adults, and life-enhancing programs. The College Readiness Fellow at BGCB will serve at the Yawkey Club of Roxbury and will work to improve and expand BGCB’s existing college preparation programs. The Fellow will provide direct services to help members make informed decisions about school that will help create pathways to college.
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Cambridge Family & Children's Service
Mentoring Fellow: Yelena Tsilker
Position Overview: Cambridge Family and Children’s Service’s (CFCS) mission is to identify and implement ways to strengthen family and individual self-sufficiency and to promote conditions that provide children and adolescents with stable homes and community environments. CFCS manages the following programs: Waiting Child Adoption Program, Intensive Foster Care, Developmental Disabilities Program, Family Support and Stabilization, Mentoring and Residential Services. The Mentoring Fellow at CFCS will work to increase the capacity of CFCS’ Mentoring program by working on two priorities. First, the Fellow will take the lead in designing program materials, connecting to mental health advisors and agencies and implementing the Heads Up initiative, a mentoring program targeting children and youth that live with a parent or sibling who has a mental illness or a mental health need. The Fellow’s second priority will be to work to establish outcomes for the Heads Up initiative.
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CD Recreation
Youth Leadership Fellow: Ellen Gillander
Position Overview: The Greater Fall River Re-Creation Committee, Inc. (CD Rec) provides year-round recreational, educational, and cultural programs for Fall River residents with a particular emphasis on socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. The agency’s goal is to provide a variety of programs ranging from participatory sports and creative classes to educational presentations and theatrical/musical performances for those who would otherwise be unable to afford or participate in these programs. The Youth Development Fellow at CD Rec will work with the Promise Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT) and will lead Fall River’s Youth Master Plan Youth Leadership Council to finalize the Youth Master Plan development process, including public meetings, committee meetings, and surveys to generate ideas that will create a shared vision for the future of Fall River’s youth over the next 20 years.
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City of Brockton Mayor's Office
Youth Development Fellow: Catherine Walper
Position Overview: The Mayor's Office of Brockton works collaboratively with other local agencies to provide resources for youth. It is responsible for a variety of services to the citizens that include, but are not limited to, public safety, public works, and recreation. The Fellow serving with the Brockton Mayor's Office will work on a number of local youth development initiatives related to Brockton’s Promise, a partnership between the Mayor’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office in an effort to provide five essential promises to the young people in Brockton, including access to a caring adult, a healthy start, safe places to work and grow, an effective education, and an opportunity to help others. Projects will include recruiting and developing new local youth leaders, collaborating to write the America’s Promise 100 Best Communities for Young People proposal, convening the annual Mayor’s Youth Summit, and supporting the development of a youth leadership council in the B.B. Russell Alternative High School.
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City of New Bedford, Parks & Recreation
Let's Move Beyond the Bell Fellow: Meagan Fuller
Position Overview: The City of New Bedford Parks, Recreation and Beaches office is dedicated to planning, implementing, and supervising recreational, educational and cultural activities designed to enhance and improve the quality of life for all city residents. In February 2012 Parks, Recreation and Beaches opened a brand new community center named the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center which focuses on out-of-school time programming for city youth and hosts other recreation activities for city residents. The Andrea McCoy Recreation Center will host the Fellow who will facilitate Let’s Move Beyond the Bell, an out-of-school time curriculum to increase educational attainment and increase awareness about exercise and nutrition amongst a cohort of at-risk youth. The Fellow project will consist of two programs designed to increase educational attainment for youth and provide them with the opportunity to provide healthy lifestyle choices, including Let’s Move Beyond the Bell and the development of a Youth Advisory Council.
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Computer Clubhouse, Museum of Science
Clubhouse-to-College/Career Fellow: Ellen Daoust
Position Overview: The Computer Clubhouse is a creative after-school learning environment where youth from under-served and low-income communities work with adult mentors to develop projects related to their own interests, build skills, and gain confidence in themselves through the use of technology. The Flagship Computer Clubhouse, located at the Museum of Science, serves youth from Boston’s many neighborhoods, and has much to offer them to inspire their creativity, including the latest professional software and hardware. The Clubhouse-to-College/Career Fellow will be responsible for overseeing the development of new teen internship opportunities that are production-based and rooted in creative self-expression and STEM projects. He or she will lead a small group of Clubhouse members in the production of three major multimedia projects for Adobe Youth Voices. The Fellow will also explore social media and blogging by creating and guiding a monthly post on the topic of “Youth in Technology” on the Flagship’s blog. He or she will also support efforts to educate young people on college and career paths by helping to expose Clubhouse members to events, activities, college tours and fun, thematic social outings. Finally, the Fellow will reach out to Clubhouse alumni both locally and around the world, engaging them as role models and developing “Where Are They Now” stories of success in anticipation of the Clubhouse’s 20-year anniversary in 2013.
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Crossroads for Kids
Youth Leadership Fellow: Renata Caines
Position Overview: Crossroads for Kids’ mission is to inspire at-risk youth to develop their innate potential to be the next generation of diverse young leaders in Greater Boston, breaking the cycle of poverty and underachievement and yielding systemic change in the communities where they live. Though a unique combination of immersive summer camp and year-round mentoring and enrichment programs, Crossroads provides youth ages 7-18 years old with comprehensive support, resources and opportunities that guide them toward responsible citizenship, academic success, higher education, and meaningful careers. The Fellow will focus on supporting 7th grade students as they complete their applications for C5, a five-year leadership experience for teens in Crossroads programs. The Fellow will also identify alumni at area colleges to act as mentors for incoming Crossroads alumni freshman. The Fellow will focus on engaging parents in both the high school and college application process and will connect with all Crossroads alumni to provide support through the college journey.
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Girls Incorporated of Lynn
College Mentoring Fellow: Sahar Momand
Position Overview: The mission of Girls Inc. of Lynn is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold by meeting the needs of girls in the community, developing girls’ capacity to overcome the effects of discrimination and be self-sufficient, responsible members of the community, and by serving as a vigorous advocate for all girls. Girls Inc. of Lynn has been operating since 1942, serving girls ages 6-18 emphasizing six core themes: self-reliance & life skills; careers & life planning; leadership & community action; health & sexuality; culture & heritage; sports & adventure. The College Mentoring Fellow will increase college access programming and mentors specifically focusing on working with high school juniors and seniors.
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Girls' LEAP
Teen Mentor Fellow: Christina Ingemi
Position Overview: The Teen Mentor Fellow will serve with Girls’ LEAP (Lifetime Empowerment and Awareness Program) which is focused on promoting the safety and well-being of girls, women and their families in underserved communities through education programs. Girls’ LEAP provides programs that integrate physical self-defense skills with discussions, role plays and activities to help girls learn skills to respond to a range of threatening situations safely including: bullying, harrassment or even assault. The Fellow’s role will consist of three aspects: 1.) Learning the Girls’ LEAP Self-Defense Curriculum, 2.) Teaching Girls’ LEAP programs, 3.) Developing the Brockton Teen Mentor Program.
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Health Resources in Action
Peer Leadership Network Fellow: Constance Morrison
Position Overview: Health Resources in Action’s (HRiA) mission is to help people live healthier lives and create healthy communities through prevention, health promotion, policy development and research. HRiA is particularly focused on youth and improving the health of youth by building the capacity of community-based organizations, youth workers, educators, public health professionals, and youth themselves. HRiA’s work with youth is conducted through its Training and Capacity Building (TCB) Department which provides trainings, technical assistance, program development and other services to individuals, institutions, organizations and communities to support the health and overall well-being of young people. The BEST Initiative which provides training and professional development for youth workers in the youth development approach is also located in the TCB department.
The Fellow at HRiA will manage the only statewide Peer Leadership Network (PLN), a network of 100+ peer leaders in the state, who work on various public health topics to help build healthy communities. With the support from the Fellow, the PLN will be managed by a Youth Leadership Board (YLB), made up of 6-10 high school aged young people, who will be recruited and supervised by the Fellow. The YLB will host 4-5 events across the state for youth to share best practices, learn what each other is doing and be trained to conduct community asset mapping in their own community. The Fellow and YLB will expand the first ever Youth Statewide Directory of peer leadership programs to include additional programs and transform it into an online-interactive map with information on MA peer leadership programs. This comprehensive directory will be showcased at the culminating Statewide Peer Leadership Conference in June 2013, to be planned and led by the YLB with Fellow support.
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Hyde Square Task Force
Paths to College & Careers Fellow: Sara Costa
Position Overview: At Hyde Square Task Force, our mission is to develop the skills of youth and their families so that they are empowered to enhance their own lives and build a strong and vibrant urban community. We accomplish this by engaging young people in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and across Boston using a unique Youth Community Development model: using community focused-activities to build skills like critical thinking and communication, while providing mentoring and support which prepares teens to succeed in college and future careers. The Fellow will spearhead our organization’s efforts to ensure that all youth participants have access to effective education by incorporating several new and innovative strategies into our existing Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP). This will entail conducting individual academic assessments for each of our PCCP participants, and working with teens to develop individualized action plans for success. The Fellow will also plan and implement our brand new Peer Learning Communities, in which students with high academic records host monthly discussions on effective study strategies, skill development, and habits for college and career success.
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Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (MassCOSH)
Teens Lead at Work Fellow: Missy Hector
Position Overview: MassCOSH is a nonprofit, membership coalition that organizes and advocates for safe jobs and healthy communities. Based in Dorchester, MassCOSH focuses on immigrants and people of color in the lowest paid and the most unsafe/unhealthy jobs, and engages them in efforts to improve workplace conditions and civic participation to have a voice in policies that govern these conditions. Through a four-tiered approach combining popular education, participatory action research, community organizing, and policy advocacy, MassCOSH engages its constituents directly in the process of identifying and developing strategies to promote improvements in their workplaces and communities. The Fellow at MassCOSH will work specifically on the Teens Lead @ Work program, a youth led education and organizing program in which peer leaders identify environmental hazards and unsafe conditions at work, in school, or in their community and then develop and implement solutions to these issues. The Fellow will focus on three main initiatives: develop a new college preparatory program, including creating activities and facilitating partnerships with other programs conducting college prep assistance; use lessons learned from our previous Fellows to coordinate a communications and membership plan to engage youth in the health and safety movement; coordinate a three-day youth conference which is focused on workplace violence prevention, young worker safety and health and the Child Labor Law.
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Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Community Health Improvement
Science Fair Mentoring Fellow: Ellen Reavey
Position Overview: The mission of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI) is to collaborate with community and hospital partners to build and sustain healthier communities and to enhance the hospital’s responsiveness to patients and community members from diverse backgrounds. Over the past 14 years, the CCHI has worked with community partners in Chelsea, Revere, Charlestown, and Boston to assess needs and create more than 35 programs that prevent and reduce substance abuse and violence, increase access to care for vulnerable populations, eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care and provide opportunities for Boston youth. The Science Fair Mentoring Fellow will work with the Timilty Middle School and possibly another middle school partner to provide 60+ students with a MGH volunteer mentor who will engage them on their science fair project. The Fellow will also work with the leadership at the Timilty School on preparing and securing MGH volunteer judges for the school-wide fair. Lastly, the Fellow will work with 15-20 of the Timilty mentees to prepare them for summer internships at MGH.
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MathPower- South Boston
School-to-Site Connector Fellow: Stephanie Loneck
Position Overview: MathPOWER is dedicated to taking a comprehensive approach to developing both proficiency in advanced mathematics and personal resiliency as vehicles to bring about transformational change in the lives of urban youth. We envision a world in which all students achieve competency in advanced mathematics which serves as a gateway to lifelong learning and a productive career. The Fellow will oversee and expand the current afterschool tutoring programming at Math*STARS/South Boston Boys & Girls Club and will build a partnership with a nearby elementary school in South Boston. The Fellow will observe a cohort of students once a week in order to create a Personal Learning Plan (PLP) for each student.
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MathPower- Yawkey
Youth Advisory Board Fellow: Teri Hatch
Position Overview: MathPOWER is dedicated to taking a comprehensive approach to developing both proficiency in advanced mathematics and personal resiliency as vehicles to bring about transformational change in the lives of urban youth. We envision a world in which all students achieve competency in advanced mathematics which serves as a gateway to lifelong learning and a productive career. The Fellow will oversee and expand current afterschool programming at Math*STARS/Yawkey Boys & Girls Club. The Fellow will lead the day-to-day academic and enrichment activities at the afterschool program, and in addition, will develop and lead the Math*STARS Youth Advisory Board (YAB) at the site. The Fellow will recruit current and former Math*STARS/Yawkey members to create a youth-led leadership group that will engage youth in resiliency and development workshops, and implement changes or additions to the afterschool to ensure it remains a youth-focused program.
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More Than Words
Marketing & Business Development Fellow: Jamie McCoy
Position Overview: More Than Words (MTW) empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless, or out of school, to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW began as an online bookselling training program in 2004, becoming a vibrant storefront on Waltham’s Moody Street by 2005. This fall, More Than Words reached an exciting inflection point with the opening of its 2nd site in the South End of Boston. The Boston Warehouse Bookstore is dedicated to growing the Online and Business Development departments of MTW. In addition to their business job overseeing the store, online and café operations at MTW, youth have a second equally important job called the “YOU” job, which is very deliberate personal transition planning and case management to support youth to move on to meaningful jobs and college. All youth participate in weekly workshops and individual action meetings and attend shadow days and tours at other businesses. The Fellow at MTW will engage a cohort of youth to develop and implement a marketing and business plan for MTW to include; building community partnerships for volunteer events and book-drives, planning and executing events, using social media as a marketing tool, updating the MTW website and producing a monthly e-newsletter.
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North Shore Community Action, Salem CyberSpace
Academic Enrichment Fellow: Heather Maes
Position Overview: Salem CyberSpace is an 8 year old program of North Shore Community Action Programs (NSCAP) with a mission to expand educational and career opportunities for low-income youth thereby providing the foundation for achievement and self sufficiency. Utilizing current technology and innovative curricula, we successfully meet our goals for English Literacy, Computer Literacy, workplace and college success. NSCAP is the anti-poverty nonprofit serving Peabody, Salem, Beverly, Danvers and surrounding communities with a mission to help low-income people become economically self sufficient. The Fellow at Salem CyberSpace will focus on identifying and developing an after school academic enrichment program to engage youth in grades 7-10 in learning. These programs will be hands-on activities that expose youth to ideas and develop skills to prepare them for college and careers. Activities will be specifically focused on careers to allow students to link the education and skills needed to achieve the career of their choice. This linkage will help the students find the relevance in their education, thereby enhancing their engagement in learning.
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North Shore Community Development Corporation
Students Take Action for Neighborhood Development Fellow: Christina Conti
Position Overview: The mission of North Shore Community Development Corporation (CDC) is to provide quality affordable housing and foster economic empowerment and community development in the North Shore. As the largest community development organization in the region, we have developed and preserved 297 units of affordable housing for families most in need, with over 60% of our apartments serving extremely low-income families. Our Students Take Action for Neighborhood Development (STAND) program is a job opportunity for at-risk, low-income youth in the North Shore region of Massachusetts that focuses on neighborhood revitalization and leadership development. STAND offers youth an opportunity to collaborate with their local city officials to revitalize their neighborhood by identifying and making structural and beautification improvements to their community. The Fellow will oversee the STAND program, fulfilling both planning needs and execution of the program.
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Northeastern University Marine Science Center
Beach Sister Program Fellow: Genea Foster
Position Overview: Since 1967, Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center (MSC) has generated outstanding teaching and research in the marine sciences. The MSC’s Outreach Program reaches over 5,000 people per year through various programs and events, and has traditionally focused on serving teachers and students in eastern Massachusetts. The MSC and Girls Inc. of Lynn have developed the Beach Sister program in order to address the needs of youth in the City of Lynn by pairing the resources of an informal science education center with a community-based organization. The Beach Sister program will help pave the way for school-aged girls living in an environmental justice community to develop scientific inquiry and citizenship skills, and to learn about studies and careers in marine science. The Fellow will be responsible for expanding the Peer Leader program for teens, developing a more substantial middle school curriculum, providing training and capacity-building opportunities for Girls Inc. staff, and carrying out a formal strategic planning and evaluation effort.
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Plymouth County District Attorney's Office
Community Service-Learning Fellow: Christina Limon
Position Overview: In an effort to protect our children, the Plymouth County District Attorney continues to expand the traditional role of his office to include extensive outreach, intervention and prevention programs in collaboration with our local schools and service providers through the Brockton’s Promise Coalition, the lead champion for Brockton young people in the city. This partnership between the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office and the Mayor’s Office focuses on providing youth with the Five Promises. The Fellow serving at the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office will design and lead a community based service-learning after school program for 40 students in grades 5 through 8. The Fellow will pair students with Stonehill College student mentors to “champion” community gardens throughout the city of Brockton.
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Prospect Hill Academy Charter School
Academic Pursuits of Excellence Fellow; Rei Champion
Position Overview: The mission of Prospect Hill Academy Charter School (PHA) is to prepare each student for success in college, to inspire a lifelong love of learning, and to foster responsible citizenship. Founded in 1996, PHA is a K-12 charter school located on three campuses in Somerville and Cambridge and serves 1,200 students from diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. As a college preparatory school, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School nearly doubles its students’ prospect of attending college. 95% of PHA graduates matriculate to four-year colleges, the majority being the first in their family to do so. The Fellow will focus on working on the Academic Pursuits of Excellence (APEX) program which focuses on out-of-school time academic support and enrichment. The Fellow will expand the program to serve 7th and 8th graders and support the program as a whole.
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Railroad Street Youth Project
Job Readiness Fellow: Will Syldor
Position Overview: Founded in 1999 Railroad Street Youth Project’s (RSYP) mission is to empower young people by supporting the creation of youth-generated activities that promote self-worth, responsibility, and intergenerational respect and communication. RSYP exists to fill in the gaps in services and programming for local young people where they exist and is a catalyst and advocate for opportunities that integrate young people in the community. The Fellow at RSYP will develop and run a new program designed to help young people at risk with obtaining work in the local area. The Fellow will build relationships with local businesses as well as provide youth with job related training.
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Regional Environmental Council, Inc
Youth Professional Development Fellow: Dontae McKeiver
Position Overview: The mission of the Regional Environmental Council, Inc. (REC) is to build healthy, sustainable, and just communities in Worcester, MA, the state’s second largest city. Since 1971, we’ve accomplished this mission by working with residents of the city’s lowest-income neighborhoods to address the environmental justice issues they face. These issues include a lack of opportunities for youth employment/development, high prevalence of youth violence, high rates of food insecurity/hunger/obesity, a lack of green spaces, and high exposures to indoor and outdoor air pollution and toxins, among others. The Fellow will support YouthGROW (Youth Growing and Raising Organics in Worcester), a year-round summer and after-school youth leadership development and employment program for at-risk teens built around urban agriculture. The Fellow will create a formal professional development component for YouthGROW and will research, assess and compile resources to build professional skills for the youth participants.
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Science Club for Girls
High School Programs Fellow: Meghna Marjadi
Position Overview: Science Club for Girls (SCFG) increases the self-confidence and literacy in science, technology, engineering and mathematics of girls from underrepresented groups through free programs that focus on hands-on activities, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. The Career Exploration, Leadership and Life Skills (CELLS) initiative uses a “whole girl” identity development approach to develop positive youth assets in middle and high school girls through a variety of programs. The High School Programs Fellow is primarily responsible for executing programs for high school girls in the greater Boston area. The Fellow will expand and strengthen the high school programs within the CELLS framework. The Fellow will help achieve the strategic goals of SCFG by increasing the number of Peer Mentors; increasing internship and job shadow opportunities, and expanding one Challenge Team to Boston.
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Sociedad Latina
Acceleration Academy Fellow: Karessa L. Irvin
Position Overview: Since 1968, Sociedad Latina has worked in partnership with Latino youth and families to end destructive cycles of poverty, health inequities, and lack of opportunity in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Through our services, we pioneer new and innovative solutions to the most pressing issues facing Latino youth today, supporting positive youth development from age 8-21, creating a community that supports young people, and training youth to advocate for themselves and their community. Sociedad Latina’s comprehensive, intensive programming builds skills in four areas, identified by our constituents as the most in need of support: Education, Workforce Development, Civic Engagement, and Arts and Culture. The Acceleration Academy is a new program focused on supporting the middle school and high school transition for Sociedad youth. The Fellow will lead programming with Acceleration Academy for 30 freshmen to ease their transition from middle school to high school and will provide a pipeline into the employment programs catered to older youth.
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Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center
First Serve Fellow: Sabeta Jarba
Position Overview: The mission of Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center (STEC) is to build leaders on the court, in the classroom and in the greater community by providing academic, wellness and social development programs alongside recreational and competitive tennis instruction for youth and adults. STEC is committed to improving life opportunities for youth in Boston’s Blue Hill Corridor while welcoming a diverse community from the Greater Boston area. The First Serve Fellow will lead the delivery of First Serve, a research based, tennis oriented social/emotional curriculum to 90 youth enrolled in academic and enrichment programs at Sportsmen’s.
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Stoughton Youth Commission
Leadership & Civic Engagement Fellow: Patric Anjos
Position Overview: The Stoughton Youth Commission (SYC) is a town-funded human services agency with a mission to provide easily accessible, high-quality mental health services and community outreach to youth and their families who live in Stoughton, without regard to income, insurance status, culture or social circumstances. Our purpose is to strengthen youth and families, and establish crucial relationships within the community that foster respect for all. The Fellow at SYC will cultivate youth leaders by engaging Stoughton High School students in an out-of-school Leadership and Civic Engagement Institute. The goals of the project are twofold; 1) to provide Stoughton youth with the opportunity to develop leadership skills to enhance their social and emotional growth and 2) to develop a cohort of youth with strong civic skills to serve as public health leaders in the community.
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The DREAM Program, Inc
Program Empowerment Fellow: Zahra Oldhin
Position Overview: The DREAM (Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure and Mentoring) Program, Inc. is a unique organization that partners college students with children living in affordable housing neighborhoods in Vermont and the Greater Boston Area. We achieve our mission of empowering children and neighborhoods by blending best practices from mentoring and community development models. Mentors and their mentees take part in weekly trips to college campuses and adventures throughout the region and across the country.
DREAM’s Local Programs (groups of college students mentoring children from an affordable housing community) are the heart of the organization. The primary responsibility of a Program Empowerment Fellow is to ensure that mentors have the necessary resources, training, and support to run an amazing mentoring program and empower children to DREAM big. A Program Empowerment Fellow spreads contagious energy, models empowerment, and assists with action planning in a number of venues such as mentor meetings, weekly programming on college campuses or in the communities, and adventure trips around the Northeast.
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The Food Project
Community Engagement & Service-Learning Program Fellow: Christian Appel
Position Overview: The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. This community produces healthy food, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities. Youth from Lynn and the surrounding area work closely with one another as they explore issues of food justice, gain an understanding of sustainable agriculture, and develop personally as young adults. Teens start with our six-week Summer Youth Program, and in their second year, youth can work in our Internship Program, where they apply their skills and knowledge to become leaders, improving food access in underserved communities and educating people of all ages. The Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CESL) Program Fellow will work with a consistent group of youth interns to create, implement, and evaluate a three-tiered, multilingual workshop program to engage both the North Shore and Boston communities in positive food system change. The Fellow will work with interns to develop an internal youth development curriculum on food justice in order to prepare the youth who will eventually deliver the CESL program.
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Tutoring Plus
Middle School Tutoring Fellow: Kevin Wetmore
Position Overview: Tutoring Plus aims to support and encourage the academic, personal, and social growth of youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the help of volunteers and community partners by providing free academic tutoring and enrichment programs for Cambridge students grades 4-12. Tutoring Plus operates three Middle School Centers in public schools to provide targeted tutoring to students in grades 4 through 8. Students attend centers once or twice a week where they participate in theme-based activities with a small group of peers and are matched with a volunteer for one-to-one tutoring sessions. The Fellow will support tutoring programs for approximately 40 youth and 40 volunteers. The Fellow will also develop and manage two enrichment programs that will provide science and math workshops for approximately 20 students.
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Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID)
Community Youth Council Fellow: Catalina Tang
Position Overview:The Vietnamese-American Intiative for Development, Inc. (Viet-AID) is the first CDC founded and operated by Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US. Our mission is to build a strong Vietnamese American community in Greater Boston and a vibrant Fields Corner neighborhood. Viet-AID operates a youth program that serves more than 75 students in grades 1-8 on a daily basis in after school and summer programming. The Fellow will work to build a community leadership council hosted by Viet-AID with youth from the Vietnamese and/or Fields Corner community. The Fellow will build upon the foundation of a small pilot project that was run during 2011-2012.
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Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID)
Middle School Transition Fellow: Tim O'Brien
Position Overview: The Vietnamese-American Intiative for Development, Inc. (Viet-AID) is the first CDC founded and operated by Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US. Our mission is to build a strong Vietnamese American community in Greater Boston and a vibrant Fields Corner neighborhood. Viet-AID operates a youth program that serves more than 75 students in grades 1-8 on a daily basis in after school and summer programming. The Fellow will work with 5th and 6th graders involved in Viet-AID’s out of school time programming and their families to support them as they make the transition from elementary to middle school. This will encompass three main areas: support for social and emotional growth in the out-of-school time program; academic support in the out-of-school time program; and support for families in the school choice process.
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Youth On Board
Student Engagement Fellow: Stephanie LaJoie
Position Overview: Youth on Board’s (YOB) overarching goal is to create schools in which youth are empowered to advocate on their own behalf and youth engagement is interwoven into the structure of schools, thus encouraging a cultural shift that creates respectful and mutually supportive learning communities. YOB works closely with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in ensuring that high school students are integrally involved in the decisions that affect them the most. The Fellow will work closely with a key Boston Public School (BPS) student engagement group, the Boston Student Advisory Committee (BSAC) to advance student engagement and promote student voice at the district and the local level. The Fellow will work closely with BSAC to assess the academic needs of students, track students’ progress in school and link the academic tracking tool with the Boston Public School’s database. The Fellow will also compile all the trainings and document the college readiness piece by developing a timeline to track student progress in each grade level.
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