The Future of YES
Support our capital campaign to build a new state-of-the-art headquarters to inspire more youth through outdoor experiences and leadership opportunities!
We have outgrown our current space and need your help!
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YES’s current site on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston’s South End impedes our effectiveness in serving young people due to:
- Overcrowding
- Insufficient equipment storage space
- Unsafe pick-up/drop-off location for youth on busy Mass Ave.
- Not located in any of YES’s target neighborhoods: Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, or Jamaica Plain
The completion of our new home will allow YES to:
- Serve over 500 more Boston youth in the first three years
- Serve over 700 more Boston youth in the first five years
- Serve more youth in YES’s primary neighborhoods of service: Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Jamaica Plain
- Expand and enhance activity-based programming for Boston’s young people
- Grow leadership, college preparation, and career curriculum for Boston teens
- Have on-site parking spaces, a dedicated bus lane, and pull-off for two coach buses – increasing youth safety while getting on and off the bus.
- Be closer to two family housing developments, schools, other outdoor/sports-based nonprofit organizations, and nearby green spaces like a skate park, playground, running track, and more.
About the Campaign for the Next 50 Years
16,000 Square Ft, 3 story commercial building will include: activity space, classrooms, rock climbing boulder, ski rental shop, outdoor mezzanine, and equipment storage. To learn more about this exciting project, click here.
Total Cost: $15.0 million
Sale of 412 Mass Ave (Current Building): $4.6 million
Fundraising Goal: $10.4 Million
Raised to Date: $5.8 Million
Breaking ground: Fall 2024
Completion: 2026
Major Milestones
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Help Us Reach Our $10.4 Million Goal
Thanks to the incredible generosity of our Capital Campaign Investors and donors, YES has already raised $5.8 million. But we still have a ways to go. YES is more. Support our Campaign for the Next 50 Years and donate today!