Academics and Tutoring, Financial Assistance

Contact the MSC if you are living on the street, in emergency shelters or at risk of losing your housing and need help.

Our aging information and service center makes referrals to elder services and disability services, either through those individuals directly or through a caretaker.

We bring robotics, coding, engineering, and design into your child's summer and future! We also have an afterschool studio with open enrollment or monthly memberships available.

We offer access to affordable rental and homeownership units for low, moderate, and middle-income households.

This is a free-of-cost STEM summer day program aimed at students with low income and/or low exposure to STEM.

We offer STEAM, inquiry-based, and interdisciplinary learning programs that connect youth across cultures through real-world challenges, hands-on exploration, innovation, and mentorship.

We provide high quality summer programs that blend tennis and writing activities for youth ages 7 to 14 years-old.

A fun summer program for 7th and 8th graders to learn about ecology, genetics, chemistry, bioengineering, and more.

Cambridge Camping's CCAccess scholarship program makes unforgettable camp accessible to all, offering day and overnight options.

Join us for a fun, math-focused summer! Kids entering grades 3-9 will play math games, learn to do art and music with a math focus, and become better solvers of non-standard, hard math problems.

The guide is organized around six key themes: affordable housing, emergency housing, housing rights, legal and mediation services, safe & healthy homes, and financial assistance.

The program follows an Illustrative Math Curriculum with a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to math, enabling students to learn mathematics meaningfully.

We offer 30 hours of tutoring that covers strategies and techniques for efficient, effective studying; time and self-management skills; improving concentration and memory; organization; and test prep.

We are offering virtual tutoring in all subject levels (K thru 12), including ACT/SAT test prep and foreign languages.

We specialize in 1-on-1 virtual and in-home SAT/ACT tutoring.

Just A Start partners with the Boston Tax Help Coalition and the IRS to offer Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) services free of charge.

YouthBuild Just A Start is a full-time, comprehensive youth workforce development program for ages 16-24 in the Boston Metro North region.

We work with individuals and families who need help with their housing.

We provide a list of all upcoming opportunities for children ages 0-11; regular activities include story times, arts, musical, and dance events and more in our Children's Room.

Safehome: Up to 1 month stay in a confidential location for an individual or family.
Transitional Housing: Up to two years of rental assistance for up to 16 survivors and their families.

TriTogether is a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing free tutoring to children, teens, and young adults in foster care.

We extend access to technology like Chromebook laptops and mobile WiFi hotspots by allowing patrons to check out devices.

We are a student-run civil legal aid organization committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area.

We offer various clubs and after-school sports students and families.

Known as universal preschool, we provide free preschool to Cambridge 4 year-olds and some 3 year-olds beginning in September.

The CLC offers five levels of English conversation, grammar, reading, and writing classes for Cambridge residents. There are daytime and evening classes. We do not offer online-only classes.

Students in grades 7-8 are introduced to the concept of AI through self-driving cars. They will learn about AI's benefits and flaws, as we explore the intersection of technology, ethics, & innovation.