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Charlestown Students to Benefit from NY Life Grant to BUILD

The New York Life Foundation has today announced that a portion of a two year, $450,000 grant will support Boston area schools through BUILD, a nonprofit organization that combats the high school dropout crisis with a hands-on entrepreneurship training and college preparation program.  In addition to supporting students at Charlestown High School in Charlestown, MA, the grant will be distributed to numerous partner schools throughout the Boston, MA area, including Another Course to College in Brighton, MA as well as Jeremiah Burke High School and Community Academy of Science and Health in Dorchester, MA, and schools in the Washington, D.C. and northern California area.  The grant will be implemented to support the transition of BUILD’s Youth Business and Academic Incubator from the out-of-school facility into its partner schools and will enhance the ninth grade curriculum with more academic programming.

“We are pleased to partner with BUILD because it transforms the lives of students who are not on track academically and had never considered college as an option,” said Maria Collins, senior program officer, New York Life Foundation.  “We are happy to help BUILD strengthen its program and replicate its improved model at other sites.”
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