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One form of outreach is the national Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK), which features thousands of third through fifth graders in addition to the various college students they help ...
A group of Boston University faculty with an interest in Africa, including George Lewis (geography), Zeb Reyna (psychology), William Newman (political science), Lyn Watson (anthropology), Al Zalinger (sociology), and Adelaide Cromwell (Sociology), began to meet in 1951 and approached the dean of the Graduate School about creating a program in African studies. [1]
Youth on Board (YOB) was a nonprofit youth empowerment program based in the Boston, Massachusetts area for more than 20 years. It was a youth-led, adult supported program that worked in more than 5 countries, 27 states, and over 100 schools. It was a project of YouthBuild USA.
Five years later, in 2011, another new program, the Saudi Research Science Institute, or SRSI, was founded, and held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. In the first year of SRSI (2011), twenty-five scientifically talented students were selected and attended a six-week session modeled on RSI.
The oSTEM Global STEM Service Award is given to present and past oSTEM members who show strong dedication to inclusion, diversity, and equality for LGBTQ+ and other marginalized individuals in STEM fields. [17] Awardees are: Dr. Eric Patridge (2013) Dr. Elena Long (2014) Emily Li (2015) Marjorie Willner (2016) Elise Wantling (2017) Aaron F ...
The Boston Youth Fund (BYF) is a program run by the City of Boston, at the behest of Mayor Thomas Menino, that offers employment during the summer and after school to youth workers from the City of Boston that are between the ages of 15-17. The BYF works with non-profit Community Based Organizations (CBO) to offer teens a unique job experience ...
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) is a non-profit based in Boston, Massachusetts that offers outdoor and enrichment programming outside of school to at-risk youth. [1] Its primary program is to teach city youth to ski or snowboard using volunteer instructors. [2]
In 2023, the Foundation and its donors made $175,374,000 in grants to nonprofits in Greater Boston and across the U.S. [2] From 2001 to 2021 the Foundation focused its giving on housing and community development, education and workforce development, arts and culture, civic engagement, community safety, health and human services, the nonprofit ...