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Goodbye, Miriam!
Thank you, Miriam, for eight years of leadership, compassion,
presence and prioritizing youth voice and youth leadership in our work,
mission and vision at The City School. We miss you! And we wish you
the best. Read Miriam's goodbye letter.
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
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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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 Cafe
 In
2006 and 2007, The City School organized two terrific Knowledge
Cafes 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.
BYN Mellon CityACCESS
is a program devised to positively influence
Boston's young people. Designed in direct response to the City
of Boston's commitment to youth development, the program provides
enriching out-of-school opportunities through a special partnership
between community-based organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable
Giving Program. BNY Mellon sponsors 36 inner-city young people
at Teen Ambassadors at several nonprofits around Boston, helping
them discover their potential through unique work apprenticeships.
In addition, selected high school seniors who demonstrate a
commitment to their work and future can receive a $5,000 scholarship
toward higher education.
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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
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