Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB)
CMCB is a longtime partner of EdVestors as a BPS Arts Expansion grantee providing quality music instruction in long term residencies in Boston Public Schools and serving a worksite for the Bloomberg Arts Internship Program. Given CMCB’s strong commitment to Creative Youth Development, and the organization’s capacity to provide meaningful arts and culture workforce experience for young people, CMCB will work in collaboration with the EdVestors’ BAI staff to provide direct service to BAI interns.

826 Boston Writing Tutoring
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. BAI interns receive writing support through 1-to-1 tutoring to write a personal statement or a college essay draft.

College Advising Corps (CAC) Workshops
College Advising Corps works to increase the number of first-generation college going, low-income and/or underrepresented students who apply, enter, and complete college. BAI interns experience college and career exploration through CAC led tours and events. Interns obtain knowledge about college and career options and receive 1-to-1 advising from CAC staff to support in their postsecondary decision making.

Muadi Dibinga Personal and Professional Coaching
Muadi Dibinga is a Boston-based arts leader and certified executive coach. BAI interns receive personal and professional coaching using her ‘Set up for your Step up’ coaching series. Interns develop workplace readiness skills through personal reflection, goal setting, and engaging exercises. Topics include developing a positive vision for the future, having a success mindset, understanding the importance of networking, and cultivating a personal brand.

Arts and Culture Exploration
BAI interns are exposed to local arts and culture through performances, exhibitions, and hands-on art making activities. BAI staff curate these experiences to increase interns’ knowledge of the local arts and culture landscape and expose them to arts and culture careers. Past experiences include public art tours like visiting the Embrace Monument and Boston’s Latin Quarter, songwriting and improv workshops at Zumix, studio tours and artmaking at Humphrey Street Studios, visits to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Huntington Theatre, and watching performances from  Company One Theatre .