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Innovative Youth Service Awards, 2007 and 2004
In 2007, The City School was recognized a second time in four years for our work by the Boston Centers for Youth & Families with the Innovative Youth Service Award. And in 2004, The City School was selected from over 75 programs to receive the Innovative Teen Program Award from the Boston After-School for All Partnership and The Boston Foundation. Two City School grads, Alexandria Chiu and Tashiba Grey, nominated us as a place where teens can take on real leadership. They were honored in 2004.

I've gone through so many stages at the City School, and I think only The City School really allows all this room for a youth to be all these types of people. I had the opportunity to be a youth who is guided, a youth who guides, a youth taking action, and a youth doing the behind the scenes work. It's a lot of work, but it's also all worth it in the end. The City School allowed me to feel more comfortable than I ever have in such a diverse community. And one way or another me and [City School grad] Tashiba were able to put what we truly felt about The City School into our proposal and show the incredible learning environment The City School has created for both of us and so many others.
-- Alex Chiu, City School grad, 2004

Welcome, Ruby and Seth!
Please take the time to welcome Ruby Reyes and Seth Kirshenbaum as The City School's new Co-Executive Directors! They will be serving as the stewards of the organization starting in the fall of 2009.

City School Youth for Dafur
City School youth rallied in Washington, DC in April 2006 on a trip to show support and stop the genocide in Darfur.


Youth at D.C. Darfur rally, 2006

Beatriz Rivera awarded Teen Positive Image Award, 2005

In October 2005, Beatriz Rivera was one of six Boston youth chosen for the 2005 Teen Positive Image Awards at the Mayor's Youth Summit in October . The awards were presented to young people who are making a positive difference in their communities. At that time, Beatriz was a junior at the Boston Arts Academy, and very active at The City School and Spontaneous Celebrations. Said Seth Kirshenbaum, Beatriz' mentor at The City School, "Beatriz is without question the strongest youth leader I've come cross in my eight years of youth work in New York City and Boston. She is a powerful role model whose insight, strength and humor is respected and followed by all." In 2008, Beatriz attends Pine Manor College with a focus on course work in social justice, and is the co-Director of the Summer Leadership Program at The City School.

Boston Herald, 2004
Keshav Persad, a graduate of the 2004 Summer Leadership Program, was quoted in the Boston Herald bout his experience in the summer program: "The changes I feel are subtle, but they're in my everyday life and thinking."
Article (pdf)

Opening The Door Dinners, Past
2004 photos here.

Catalogue for Philanthropy
In 2003, The City School was selected from over 200 organizations as a Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy Charity. The Catalogue, conceived and supported by the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation with help from other foundations and corporations, profiled 69 of Massachusetts' outstanding cultural, environmental and human service agencies.
Press Release

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2013 Posse Congrats!
The City School congratulates Niccole Kemani Williams '10 as a new Posse Scholar as she enters Centre College in September 2013.

Royal Nunes andBeatriz Rivera become youngest winners ever!

Congratulations to Royal Nunes '05 and Beatriz Rivera '04 on becoming the youngest ever recipients of The Philanthropic Initiative's Boston Neighborhood Fellows award. The award gives leaders a no strings attached$30,000 grant to support their continued work in the community.

Click Here for Royal's Press Release

Click Here for Beatriz Rivera's Press Release

 

The City School on Uphams Corner News

http://www.uphamscornernews.com/city-school-testimonials.html

http://www.uphamscornernews.com/city-school-programs.html

 

Urban Teenagers Make A Stand Against The Growing Violence in Boston

The 6th Annual Youth Summit is taking place April 9th in Uphams Corner. Past workshops included:

1) Effects on a Community by Media Coverage, facilitated by Hannah Gale and Demetrius Armstrong, both City School graduates of 2008's Summer Leadership Program.
2) The Justice System facilitated by Stanley Dominique, Program Coordinator at The City School, and Tatiana Toussaint, Bird Street Community Center youth leader.
3) Gun Control by Nancy Robinson from Citizens for Safety.
4) Why Teen Jobs are Important to the Community by Brittany Morgan and Ambrojah Williams, members of Dorchester Bay Youth Force.
5) Healthy Relationships, facilitated by Josh Roe, City School grad.

For more info please see our GOTCHA Collaborative website www.gotchayouthjobs.org

Congratulations, Royal Nunes!
Recipient of the 2008 Special Recognition Award for Activism, Massachusetts Victims Rights Awards

On Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at the State House, Royal Nunes, 17, was presented with the Special Recognition Award for Activism at the 2008 Massachusetts Victims Rights Awards for the Mass Office of Victims Assistance (MOVA). This award supports a survivor of crime who has transformed the negative experience of his/her victimization into positive change and healing by promoting the rights of victims of crime. MOVA strives to provide innovative victim advocacy through outreach and education, policy and program development, direct service, legislative advocacy and grants management. Five days later, The Boston Herald featured Royal on page 2 in a May 5, 2008 article entitled, "Standing Up Against Violence."

At The City School, Royal Nunes is the youth coordinator of the Youth Outreach Weekends, where he facilitates workshops and develops interactive curriculum on homelessness and povety. Royal is a resident of Dorchester and recently participated in his third year of organizing and fundraising to help lead a delegation of youth in rebuilding work in New Orleans. Royal's accomplishments include serving as a Mellon CityACCESS Teen Ambassador, at The City School, participating facilitating workshops in all of the City School’s programs including the Prison Empowerment Project, and contributing hundreds of hours of community service to nonprofit organizations throughout Greater Boston. A senior at City on Hill Charter School, Royal has made incredible strides in his community through his work at The City School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, an organization whose mission is to develop and strengthen the power of youth to work toward building a just society. Royal embodies this mission and has been an invaluable contributor to his community as demonstrated in the Special Recognition Award for Activism.

New Orleans, 2008

Eight City School teens and three staff returned from an April spring-break-week of hard work in New Orleans, making this The City School's third year of service work for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Organized by City School grad Shane Bass, who is now our Youth Staff Coordinator (and at age 18, the youngest staff member we've ever had!) the teens and adults did long hours of debris cleaning, tree planting, house gutting and even snake finding!
Hosted in New Orleans by Operation Nehemiah, the young people experienced first-hand the continuing devastation wrought by the hurricane and met with some of the city's most impacted residents. For a third year, youth filmed their experiences and will edit that into the film made from the previous two trips, with hopes to screen the video throughout Boston. Read one of the adult chaperone's accounts here. Visit again soon for film screening dates and more.

PeaceFest 2007
Youth and adults from The City School and surrounding organizations and neighborhoods joined together on January 26, 2007 for the first annual PeaceFest, an evening to honor youth who have died due to citywide violence, and a time to celebrate the young people who are here actively working for peace.  A delicious buffet, great music, a candle vigil, poetry, capoiera and entertainment by Optimus, Cable, Akrobatik, Section 8, Flow Boy, and others brought joy and life to the evening. Thank you to all who were a part of this event. We look forward to PeaceFest 2008!

Knowledge Café
In 2006 and 2007, The City School organized two terrific Knowledge Cafés that brought people of all ages and backgrounds together to build community, learn from one another, bridge differences, and discover new ways to act on our social justice values and beliefs. Themes included, "Why don't we visit one another's communities?", and "Do our school systems reflect our educational values?" City School youth and adult leaders co-facilitated the cafe discussions, and local restaurants including Caesarias, Chef Lee's Soul Food, Flour, Merengue Restaurant, Seven-50 Grille, and Yanet's Restaurant provided the food. Thank you! And thanks to all who participated in these terrific bridge-building conversations. Visit later this year for information on our next Knowledge Cafe happening in fall 2008.

BNY Mellon CityACCESS
Teen Ambassadors, 2007-08

Congratulations to six City School teens -- Allain Cherenfant, Jeremy Gomes, Neptopha Jean, Royal Nunes, Alexander Oates and Tram Vu -- who applied for and won Teen Ambassador positions in 2007-08! The City School is very grateful to have received a three-year partnership award from BNY Mellon, offering job and life skill opportunities to youth selected as BNY Mellon CityACCESS Teen Ambassadors.

 

Channel 5's Chronicle features The City School
Keeping Kids On Track: The City School
Thursday, December 26, 2004

"Just another typical teenage day. Shahrin Ahsan and Allison Gilman lobbied legislators at the Statehouse. Jheanell West went to prison. Emma Doniger and Dorose Desilus visited homeless shelters.

Meet some Boston area students who are turning their after school hours into meaningful time thanks to a program called The City School."

As I stand up here, I urge all of you to stand up now and take action. Because social justice should be as instinctive and as compulsory as breathing. You, what will do when you walk out this room, out this building, out into the world? Will you stand up for others who cannot stand because we stand above them? -- Allentza Michel, Summer Leadership Program 2000, student staff 2002, Board member 2003-2007