annualreportFY03
annualreportFY03
annualreportFY03
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10 The City School<br />
Special Programs, Initiatives and Outreach<br />
This year we developed an exciting series of programs and initiatives<br />
for schools and organizations in the Boston area. We bolstered our<br />
community outreach and organizing initiatives through collaborations<br />
with other non profit organizations in the Uphams Corner neighborhood.<br />
We also began a strategic planning process focusing first on our<br />
new community role and on the role of action in our learning work.<br />
Highlights include:<br />
1. Speak Out for Jobs: In March of 2003, over 100 young people from<br />
the Uphams Corner area came to The City School to speak out and<br />
rally against the potential budget cuts that would affect youth<br />
employment opportunities in the Boston area. Teen led and organized,<br />
three TCS graduates worked hard to organize and coordinate<br />
this successful event.<br />
2. Social justice/leadership workshops: We hosted and coordinated a<br />
three day overnight retreat for 35 young people, taught workshops at<br />
several schools and hosted 4 interns to do senior projects at TCS.<br />
3. Annual Meeting and Celebration in June of 2003: Our Graduates’<br />
Council planned and organized a gathering of 50 TCS stakeholders<br />
to celebrate our accomplishments and our first year as a 501c3<br />
organization. We recognized and honored the work of local nonprofit<br />
organizations in the Uphams Corner area.<br />
4. Outreach and Recruitment: We committed more resources to reach<br />
out to our new community, developing new, strategic relationships.<br />
We continued to successfully recruit a racially, ethnically and economically<br />
diverse group of young people into our learning community<br />
while prioritizing youth of color (60%) and local youth.
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