STAT BOX
My Life My Choice. College Bound Dorchester. TeachPlus :: T3 Initiative. RAW Art Works. Lovin’ Spoonfuls. Museum of Science Engineering is Elementary. BUILD. Science Club for Girls.
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ART THAT IGNITES
RAW Art Works. Ignites creativity and confidence.
RAW Art Works is an art therapy space and gallery for kids in Lynn, a largely working class immigrant community. RAW uses art to ignite creativity and inspire confidence. And keep kids in school. Recognized especially for its innovative film school, its teens produced films that screened at 11 film festivals around the U.S. and won two national awards.
http://www.rawartworks.org/
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
TeachPlus :: T3 Initiative. Effective teaching.
Teach Plus :: T3 Initiative puts teams of high performing teachers into the most desperately failing public schools in Boston. A provocative approach that challenges settled thinking, the T3 Initiative goes into “turnaround” schools with the aim of raising teaching effectiveness, and student test scores. And the T3 Initiative is not just about any one school — it is about finding a solution toward widespread educational reform with teachers taking the lead.
www.http://www.teachplus.org/page/t3-8.html
EDUCATION THAT TRANSFORMS INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES
College Bound Dorchester. Transforming Dorchester through education.
College Bound Dorchester is using education to transform Dorchester. College Bound Dorchester works to ensure that all students view success in college not just as a possibility in their lives but as a baseline expectation. A groundbreaking and effective college track for high risk kids, its theory of addressing “the disruptors” and getting them on track and into college is disrupting the systemic cycle of poverty in this community.
www.http://www.fdnh.org/
BUILD Boston. Entrepreneurialism is the hook. Education is the end.
BUILD Boston teaches entrepreneurial skills to high-risk high school kids as a way to get them on a college track. Highly successful in Silicon Valley where they launched, BUILD is doing its first large pilot roll-out in Boston with aims to scale nationally.
http://www.build.org/boston
PROMOTING STEM SKILLS IN UNDERPRIVILEGED COMMUNITIES
Science Club for Girls. Curiosity. Problem-solving.
Science Club for Girls , led by scientist Connie Chow, Ph. D., a recipient of the 2012 Mass High Tech Women to Watch Award, Science Club produces breakthrough programming in science, technology, math and engineering skills for low-income girls in the Boston area.
http://scienceclubforgirls.org/
BMOS’s Engineering Adventures. After-school science programs for every kid.
Boston Museum of Science’s Engineering Adventures Program is an extension of its Engineering is Elementary curriculum work for primary school children. Engineering Adventures, an out-of-school engineering curriculum for use by the Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts, Girls and Boys’ Clubs and many, many other kids’ after school programs further expands the BMOS push to ensure that underrepresented populations gain science and technological literacy – and learn the skills to ask questions, imagine, plan and create solutions to real-world problems.
http://www.mos.org/
SEX TRAFFICKING
My Life My Choice. Because girls should not be bought and sold.
My Life My Choice combats the sex trafficking of girls in Massachusetts. Yes, it’s here. And just knowing it’s here scorches your very soul. Yes, we can do something about it. My Life My Choice works to help girls who are slaves to pimps. To identify and prevent girls vulnerable to it before they get into it. To train the rest of us when and where to spot it.
www.fightingexploitation.org
FOOD RESCUE
Lovin’ Spoonfuls. Give them some lovin’. We are.
Lovin’ Spoonfuls is on the forefront of a national movement to address perishable food waste. Food waste is an issue that raises environmental, fiscal and hunger issues. Ashley Stanley has created a simple and elegant solution of moving mountains of good perishable food from top restaurants and grocers around Boston to the homeless and needy.
http://www.lovinspoonfulsinc.org/
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