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TRA has received a $15,000 Challenge Grant from the Amelia Peabody Foundation which will be awarded to TRA to purchase new computers for our statewide youth programs including Young Parents, YouthBuild and ACHIEVE! providing we can raise $25,000 by March 1, 2016. To date, we have raised $17,250! Only $7,750 to go!
A total of $40,000 will enable us to purchase 80 new computers to annually serve 350 low-income youth at our eight training sites throughout Massachusetts including Brockton, Fitchburg, Holyoke, New Bedford, Quincy, Salem, Springfield and Worcester. New computers will greatly increase our capacity to provide up-to-date educational and skills training programming to our young people. Each computer costs $500. PLEASE HELP US WITH A DONATION TO PURCHASE ONE OR MORE COMPUTERS AND HELP US REACH OUR CHALLENGE GRANT GOAL OF $25,000! If you would prefer that your gift be directed to a particular TRA training site, we will ensure that your request is honored. The young people we serve range in age from 14 to 24. Most come from families who are receiving some form of public assistance/ welfare and have experienced generational poverty. Many are court-involved and come from homes where English is not the primary language. We serve 73% female and 27% male. 51% are Hispanic, 32% Caucasian, 15% African American, and 2% Other. All of the youth we serve are at-risk with multiple barriers to employment. 100% are low-income and unemployed or underemployed. 99% are high school dropouts. 74% are pregnant or parenting. 22% are homeless. Enrolling into one of TRA’s youth programs is often their last opportunity to get off the streets and transform their lives. At TRA, students are able to: TRA CHANGES YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES! But don’t take our word for it…take a look at the TRA Youth Program Success Stories PDF and hear in their own words the impact TRA is making on disconnected youth throughout Massachusetts. These stories are representative of the thousands of low-income young people that have benefited from second chance opportunities provided by TRA over the past 40 years. And when you give a young person a second chance…the communities in which we all live and work reap the benefits as well, one success story at a time. On behalf of Kiesha, Terrell, Rosy, Dillon, Lexi, Pedro (pictured above) and hundreds of disconnected youth throughout Massachusetts, we thank you for your support! |
THE FOLLOWING SUPPORTERS HAVE HELPED US RAISE $17,250 TO DATE!
Amelia Peabody Foundation THANK YOU! |
