Y/BPS is a collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Boston, Boston Public Schools and Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Now active in the neighborhoods of Roxbury, West Roxbury, Roslindale, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Allston and Brighton, the goals of Y/BPS are to:
- Encourage families to consider the Boston Public Schools as an option for their child's education.
- Help parents become more informed consumers of Boston's school choice system.
- Help schools improve their ability to communicate what they offer to families.
The YMCA of Greater Boston believes that supporting public education is important to carrying out its mission of ensuring that families and communities remain strong. The YMCA's involvement in this project stems from its experience that many families are unaware of the educational opportunities available for their children in the Boston Public Schools, and parents are asking for better access to accurate and candid information about the schools. Y/BPS is overseen by a team representing three Y's of the YMCA of Greater Boston, the Boston Public Schools, and the office of Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Click here to get more information about Y/BPS or to speak with a project manager in your neighborhood.
The YMCA of Greater Boston is proud to be a founding co-signer of the Commonwealth Compact. As a community citizen, service provider, and employer, the YMCA of Greater Boston is collectively committed to recruitment, hiring, management and governance practices that:
- Retain and promote people of color and women.
- Encourage our organization to reflect, and connect with, the diversity of the communities and members we serve.
- Increase the representation of people of color and women throughout our organization, especially in management, senior management and board governance positions.
Our organization flourishes when we attract and retain people from a multitude of backgrounds. By harnessing their skills, aptitudes, experience and approaches to problem-solving, our workplaces, communities and the Commonwealth will be richer, our marketplaces will be broader, and out ability to attract employees, clients and businesses - locally, nationally and globally - will be more effective.
We therefore embrace the goals of Commonwealth Compact and pledge to measure our progress toward them over time, using the Commonwealth Compact benchmarks.
