Research & Community Support

An international organization serving athletes with disabilities, we relaunched the Boston branch of Achilles and have grown it into the second largest branch in the world. Each week, we welcome members of a local community of 200 guides and athletes to our office.

We built SpEdPAC a new website to assist parents and advocates in navigating the school district for students with disabilities.

A social services organization in Boston supporting homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth, we support Bridge Over Troubled Waters and helped them provide new program space at Emerson College to house 20 young people in need of a safe and welcoming environment.

We provided support and guidance to help Cape Abilities grow their farm business and further their mission of providing residential, therapeutic, social, and employment support to people with disabilities while expanding their ability to provide fresh fruit, vegetables, and other staples to Cape Cod families and visitors.

We worked with EdNavigator to embed navigators into the health care system for the first time, pairing patients at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and Boston Medical Center with trained advisors able to help them choose schools, explore special education and multilingual learning opportunities, and address academic concerns.

We supported the launch and growth of Fresh Truck's grocery delivery service, rethinking the grocery store model to bring healthy food directly to those who need it most. We also supported the development of Fresh Connect, a platform that enables healthcare providers to prescribe food as medicine.

We supported HGSE's “Making Caring Common” initiative and launched the “Caring Community Project” in Boston Public Schools, an effort to help students identify supportive adults in their lives and to foster new and productive student-adult connections.

We supported Heading Home's efforts to expand social-emotional and literacy growth opportunities for 3-4 year-olds.

We conducted a pilot of Inner Explorer's audio-guided mindfulness platform with K2-8th grade students in eight Boston Public Schools. Over 80 percent of participating educators reported social-emotional improvement in their students after using this platform.

An organization focused on addressing systemic racism and mass incarceration through a constructive fitness training community, we supported InnerCity Weightlifting with the opening of a new Cambridge studio and provided strategic guidance to help them grow their team.

We support an ongoing tracking poll of the Boston Public School community three times each year, collecting valuable data on opinions about the district’s initiatives, responses to pressing issues, and communication with parents and guardians.

We are working with Roz Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group, on the development of a new platform to provide mental health resources and a communal forum for youth in foster care.

We collaborated with the Salesian Club in East Boston on construction of a new, modern kitchen space that now serves fresh, healthy, locally-sourced dinners to 120 kids every day.

We partnered with the Teacher Collaborative to develop the “Passion to Teach” program, supporting educators in developing their personal passions into classroom learning experiences.

Our team worked with UMass Boston to develop a new Early College model to enable Boston Public School students to receive up to 30 college credits prior to graduation.