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Elevate Youth empowers youth from underserved neighborhoods by cultivating long term mentoring relationships through engagement in transformative outdoor experiences.

06/08/2026

It's World Ocean Day!

While we're out exploring the tide pools and salt marshes in Boston Harbor, youth catch a ton of green crabs. This invasive species has a bigger impact than their small size - they are top competitors for Dungeness crabs and other crustaceans, and destroy eel grass, which is important for fish to lay eggs.

Recently, fisheries have been considering them as possible culinary delights! Though they have a small amount of meat, their flavor packs a punch.

Read more about their impact - and innovative ways of offsetting the environmental challenges - through the "Green crabs..." article published yesterday.

Of course our youth are super curious, but we don't try eating them for lunch! 😅😆

06/05/2026

The faces of Elevate Youth!
One of our favorite things about spending time outdoors together is that there’s room for every side of our personalities to shine. Silliness, happiness, joy, curiosity, and yes, even the occasional look of disgust.
What side of your personality shows up when you spend time outside?

05/28/2026

This year, we completed our first year working with the 7th and 8th graders — with many more to come!

A total of 66 scholars participated in both in-school sessions and outdoor trips, ranging from rock climbing and fishing to skiing and ice skating. Whether it was identifying the types of fish they caught or learning how to ski for the very first time, every experience helped build confidence, knowledge, and lasting memories.

We look forward to working with them again next year! If your organization would like to partner with us or volunteer, visit our website to learn more about how you can get involved and help create more opportunities for our youth.

05/22/2026

Beautiful way to start the weekend with young anglers from at Lake Cochituate! ☀️🎏 From baiting hooks to finding the top hot spots to safely removing fish from their lines, their teamwork was outstanding.

We lost count after 30 catches overall, and spotted swans, a heron, toads and a rainbow trout. We're looking forward to incorporating more creative aspects, too - there's something for everyone with fishing!

Lake Cochituate State Park kicks off the summer season this week offering beaching, boating, and picnic areas just west of Boston. Sending vibes! 🎣

05/21/2026

"The work that Elevate Youth does is beyond recreation...It stimulates their multiple intelligences, allows them to discover potential new hobbies, engage in experiential learning, integrate learning across disciplines, and learn about potential new career paths that are not doctor, lawyer, nurse, or teacher, which are the typical careers that kids who grow up in low income households onlv know about. Our adult learners at deserve to have their children exposed to more. This is the social capital that we help them build across generations. Our aspiration is that their kids will surpass them on every measure. (BTW, Kristen's favorite shark is the goblin shark." -

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(Kristen, EY's Programming Powerhouse in slide 2).

05/18/2026

Wilson *always* has a smile waiting for us and his friends - we'll fish with him and the Edison school crew today, and can't wait to see what they catch.

Be sure to touch some grass this week!

05/14/2026

It's electric! 👀 🎶🎣

Youth are always so creative with their reflections, especially with fishing. We love the opportunities to include art - whether it's cooking outdoors or tying flies for fly fishing.

What are some of your fav outdoor art projects to spark your creativity?

05/08/2026

The JOY of catching your first fish!! 🎣 Samari said mountain biking has been her favorite trip so far, but now... She cannot wait to fish again!

For the second year in a row, volunteers from joined Kenny 6th graders at the Brookline Reservoir. Young anglers remembered stories and connections from last May.

Pretty cool when you can *hear* the memories in the making!

05/04/2026

It’s that time! It’s The Boston Bonanza tournament kick off! Sign up, catch some fish, win BIG prizes, and help give more kids their own experience catching fish through Elevate Youth!

For more information and registration, visit the link in the bio.

01/27/2026

Fresh POW!! Kids are even more stoked to hit the slopes in the next couples of weeks.

Trailblazers - our monthly donors - help more than 50 kids stay ready to carve all season long with gear, new and old friends, certified instructors and endless connections to an experience that is likely new for them.

❄️👉 Become a Trailblazer 👈❄️

Jump into emPOWering youth all year long, today! We are so grateful for the long-term support that keeps youth engaged in the outdoors for years to come.

Address

89 South Street, Suite 203
Boston, MA
02111

Telephone

8579958050

Website

https://www.elevateyouth.org/passthetorch

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