Community Partnerships
Hurley in the Community
The Hurley is proud to be a thriving neighborhood school actively supported by the South End community. The school carefully selects partners that enhance the curriculum and meet its high academic standards.
Neighborhood Partners
Since 2003, the Neighborhood Parents for the Hurley School (NPHS) has been our primary funding partner, working closely with the school to supplement its academic and artistic programming and renovate its facilities. With the goal of making the Hurley the best K–8 school in the city and a model for an integrated urban education, NPHS organizes annual fundraisers, writes grants, and solicits private donations.
The surrounding Worcester Street neighborhood and South End community have also played an important role in our history. In the late 1990s, Worcester Street residents and the Hurley Blocks Neighborhood Association worked with the school to spearhead a $500,000 fundraising effort to improve the Hurley grounds. With funding and support from the Browne Fund, the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, the Boston Parks Department, City Year, the South End Land Trust, Boston Cares, area businesses and universities, and scores of South End neighbors like West Concord Street resident and Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, the school received a new playground, outdoor plaza, amphitheater, and landscaped garden.
Program Partners
We are also greatful to count among our supporters a wide range of local foundations, businesses, and organizations that provide enrichment programming and support for Hurley students and teachers. These include:
- Arbour Counseling
- Boston Debate League
- Boston Music Project
- Boston Scores Soccer
- Chess Wizards
- Code Advantage
- Community Music Center of Boston
- DOT Art
- Equitable School Partnerships of Boston
- First LEGO League
- Girls on the Run
- The Huntingon YMCA
- Hurley's Bodega de Arte Afterschool Program Partnerships:
- Strong Women Strong Girls
- Peace Through Play - Northeastern University
- Boston University - BUILD Tutors
- Madres Mentoras, brings parents through a program lead by St. Stephens to provide support in classrooms during the school day.
- The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum
- Minni
- North End Music and Performing Arts Center
- Playworks
- Second Step
- St. Stephen's Youth Programs
- Strong Women Strong Girls
- USES - Club 48