Arts and Culture, Leadership and Mentoring

CYC is a group of 14-18 year-old youth who work on projects related to the Family Policy Council's goals and topics that address the opportunity gaps in Cambridge.

We help basketball players with skill development via time and gym space to practice, technology to record their progress, and coach-mentors to advise them.

Enrolling now for Summer 2025! Nurture your child’s confidence, creativity, and musicianship, and let their imagination soar.

Our summer programs provide a creative, hands-on learning experience like no other. Get ready for a summer brimming with thrilling explorations and discoveries alongside us!

We offer a FREE summer program for students entering 8th grade whose families are Cambridge Housing Authority residents. Students receive a stipend.

An Actors' Shakespeare Project and Central Square Theater Youth Co-Production
July 1- July 28 (Four Week Program / No Session July 4)

We are a Jewish learning community for teens (8th-12th graders).

Our program helps students will hone skills in acting, singing, and dancing through fun theatre games and activities, culminating in a performance showcase.

Thousands of years ago, ancient people across the Mediterranean were connected to faraway places and cultures through trade. Learn more in this exhibition at Harvard's Museum of the Ancient Near East.

In our two-week summer program, youth work with our theater artists and science experts from Lemelson-MIT to adapt a story for the stage and design a new invention inspired by the tale.

In this exhibition, join photographer Wendel White on a tour across the original thirteen American colonies as he captures objects held in collections, unpacking the "forensic evidence of Black life.”

We are a leadership program where upper-middle and high school girls serve as co-teachers and mentors in K-8th grade science clubs.

Our sewing studio and stitch lounge hosts a sewing opportunities during the school year and summer for kids ages 9 - 14.

Our paid fellowship for youth blurs the line between theater, science, and social justice as you and your peers explore science plays, investigate key questions, and design a public-facing event.

Are you interested in exploring gender as a social construct and what that means for your identity? Join Gender Expansive Youth (GEY)!

We offer high quality, humanistic ballet education and training for all ages.

We are a youth workforce development program for out-of-school youth ages 16 - 24 from Boston Metro North communities. Students work towards their HiSET while developing workforce readiness skills.

Our teen council and teen interns work with MIT Museum to plan and lead STEAM programs and events, connect with MIT researchers, and the MIT Museum.

We provide an engaging and empowering dance classes for all ages.

We provide inspiring mentoring and out-of-school time experiences to empower immigrant youth and support their academic, career, and personal success.

We provide regular exhibits, workshops, live events, guest presenters, and more for children, youth, and adults.

We help all youth gain leadership, teamwork & outdoor skills through weekl meetings and weekend or summer outdoor adventures like hiking, backpacking, camping, sailing, rafting and more!

We offer weekly arts education classes for youth (5th-7th grade) that include dancing, acting, and other movement-based arts.

We transforms the lives of children, adults with disabilities and their families through the power of one-to-one mentoring relationships.

We support students and 1:1 volunteer tutors/mentors with homework, academics, social-emotional learning and community advocacy.

We run classes in Soca dance and choreography for people of all ages and levels.

Our youth and teen summer classes include in-person and virtual dance classes for ages 4 and up!