826 Boston Inc.

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“826 boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades k-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. 826 boston is part of a network of nine 826 chapters across the country co-founded by author dave eggers and educator ninive calegari. Since 2007, 826 boston has worked with more than 29,000 students and hundreds of teachers, and has published dozens of high-quality, professionally designed collections of student writing. 826 boston's programs, offered free of charge, are rooted in the understanding that great leaps in learning can occur with individualized attention, and that writing skills are fundamental to future success. These programs include publishing projects, after-school tutoring, writing workshops, field trips, writers' rooms in boston public schools, and college essay support.”

“826 boston opened the doors to its roxbury tutoring center in 2007 in a ribbon-cutting with then mayor thomas menino. Programs such as after-school tutoring, field trips, creative writing workshops, and publishing programs in schools have been a part of the organization since its inception. In our first strategic plan, spanning 2011-2016, the focus was on the growth of all programs within the roxbury community. In our second strategic plan, spanning 2016-2021, we took stock of all our programs and identified the writers' room as the vector for scaling the impact of the organization across the city. In our most recent strategic plan (2021-2025), the organization is leveraging what was learned during the pandemic, and offering hybrid digital/in-person programming to increase access for more students, teachers, and schools in boston, including through a new school-based partnership model. The writers' room is modeled after the university writing center, and is intended to serve students in school, where they do the majority of their writing, but where large class sizes and lack of teacher support preclude individualized feedback. 826 boston fuels writers' rooms with trained volunteer tutors, which drastically reduces the student-to-teacher ratio, and with a culture of creativity, which includes after-school clubs, open mic events, publishing opportunities, and more. 826 boston initiated the writers' room program in 2013, beginning at the john d. O'bryant school of mathematics and science in roxbury (grades 7-12). We are so grateful for the support from the cradle to career initiative at that critical juncture for the organization. In 2016, our second strategic plan set out to open at least five additional writers' rooms in five years, which we accomplished ahead of schedule. With this expansion, we grew the number of students served across the organization from 3,000 in 2016 to 4,278 in 2020. It was a paradigm shift for our program delivery, and the 826 boston writers' room program now serves as a model for other 826 chapters across the country. In our next phase of growth, we committed to exploring methods to scale and deepen our programming in new ways including in the digital space. We reached out to more than 150 stakeholdersincluding students, alum, families, teachers, volunteers, donors, and community partnersto gather critical feedback through focus groups, interviews, and surveys. The insights of our community became the foundation for our new plan. Our fy22-fy25 strategic plan builds on the 826 boston programs with some of the greatest demand and impact. The school-based partnership model: -provides support both in person and digitally -bundles some of 826 boston's most sought after programs, including college essay workshops, teacher-led publishing projects, and stem literacy initiatives -invests in long-term relationships with students and teachers without the dedicated full-time dedicated classroom required for a writers' room in the 2021-2022 school year, we will work with two high schools before we scale the program to additional schools. Each school community will benefit from more than 1,000 hours of high-quality writing support for students.our goal is to serve 600 students through the program by the end of fy23.”