By Molly Grab, 826 Boston Community Engagement Specialist, AmeriCorps The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost everything about the way we live: how we work and study, how we connect with others, and of course, how we volunteer. Most nonprofits — other than life-sustaining organizations like food banks — now have…

By Shannon Slocum, K-8 Publishing and Programs Specialist, AmeriCorps VISTA For fifty students from the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, the academic year started with an introduction to a year-long project. …

Here at 826 Boston, we’re re-examining how to better serve and support our team and our community, and how to deepen our anti-racism work. In that spirit, 826 Boston will now honor Juneteenth as an official organizational holiday. …

Written by Richard Wheelock, Writers’ Room Coordinator at Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA) On the night of May 13, I sat at my computer and watched people enter the Zoom call for Sing Out Strong: DeColonized Voices. As the participant list grew for this collaborative virtual opera performance, I started…

By Jessica Drench, 826 Boston Executive Director “How in the world does writing help you with science? …

Five years ago, Idil was driving through Roxbury when she saw a sign for free after-school tutoring. Her son had just started first grade, and she wanted to make sure he was getting academic support. “Kids are like a tree,” she says, sitting in 826 Boston’s writing center as she…

On any given Tuesday or Thursday morning during the school year, you can find Tim House at 826 Boston. He’s wearing a lab coat emblazoned with the logo of the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, the whimsical entry point that students and visitors encounter when they make the trip to…

In a classroom at the E.M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers, 50 high school seniors are putting pen to paper, with the help of 826 Boston, to create change with their stories — and we should all listen up. 826 Boston, a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization, works with…

And Other Lessons We Learned From 4th Graders — Emma Sunog, 826 Boston K-8 Writers’ Room Associate (Commonwealth Corps), reflects on our recent Inclusion Storytelling Project with the support of Cartoon Network. Fourth-grade students published a book of personal narratives on bullying, kindness, and inclusion. In September 2017, the 826 Boston Writers’ Room at the Boston Teachers Union School…