Tenacity's summer tennis and reading program serves roughly 4,500 Boston youth annually between the ages of seven and fifteen. With a full-time staff of 40, each summer Tenacity hires 200 additional people to deliver the summer program at 30 neighborhood-based sites. During the school year, the after-school excellence program serves 210 middle-school students ("at-risk" kids), who come from seven partner schools.
Along with these two seminal youth programs, Tenacity now has a complementary offering that picks up where their after-school and summer programs leave off. This program, the alumni program, serves alums as they move through their high school years, providing academic and cultural opportunities. Founder Ned Eames says that continuing with the kids through high school helps ensure that they'll graduate, and more often than not continue on to college.
Tenacity also serves as a host site for Americorps [a government-sponsored community service program], which is staffed by 12 fulltime Americorps members who are performing a year of service full time. And along with the paid full-time staff for all these operations, Tenacity hires many part-time employees and sees hundreds of volunteers come through their doors every year.
