TENACITY Overview

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Tenacity is a Boston-based youth development program that teaches tennis, literacy and life skills to Boston kids. In the summer months, you’ll find Tenacity fitness and reading programs on public tennis courts across the city of Boston, serving over 4,000 kids. Throughout the school year, Tenacity partners with a number of Boston Public Middle Schools […]

Promoting Disease Management for Dental Caries

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Early Childhood Caries (ECC), or tooth decay in very young children is a chronic, infectious dental disease. And yet, Early Childhood Caries is almost completely preventable. In 2008, the DentaQuest Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, and St. Joseph’s Health Services of RI teamed up to launch the Early Childhood Caries (ECC) Collaborative to develop new treatment […]

TENACITY: 2016 Gala Roll-in “College Prep”

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Tenacity’s year round program with Boston’s Public Schools, started as a middle school program.  But it soon became clear that once kids moved on, Tenacity could continue to provide a “Pathway of Support” through high school and into college.  During this past year’s fundraising Gala, we provided donors with a sense of the entireTenacity Pathway […]