Access for All
Access for All (A4A) taps into a young person’s intrinsic passion for dance and empowers them to succeed by providing them with holistic resources that enable them to thrive through their dance education. Access for All subsidizes up to 100% of tuition costs at Urbanity’s School and also provides dance attire, transportation stipends, tickets to professional dance performances at Urbanity and around Boston, and additional support, so that each student may bring their full selves to every class, thereby enabling them to reap the full individual and communal benefits of a dance education.
Access for All scholarship program reaches 183 young people in Boston, with 75% of students on full tuition scholarship. This represents a 300% increase over the last five years. Access for All students come from families with average household income of approximately $30,000, and they would not be able to experience the benefits of dance without your support. (The total cost of covering each student for an entire school year is between $1,000-$1,500.)
As School enrollments return to and exceed pre-Covid levels, we will continue to see the Access for All program grow. We are extremely proud that with the intentional focus on expanding the Access for All program, our student body is more diverse and includes more students from predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods than ever before. The median household income of our A4A families is between $20k and $30k. Over 50% of A4A students identify as Black or African American, 45% as Hispanic or Latine, and 10% as Asian. 23% of A4A students reside in Dorchester and 21% reside in Roxbury.
In order to sustain this growth, additional investment in the program and in our students is required. Please join us in ensuring that this proven program can continue to grow and serve the young people of Boston by making a gift today, which will provide them with direct access to the high quality dance education at Urbanity Dance that they deserve.
“I'm very happy that she was able to be part of this program because it's given her a lot of self-esteem and a good sense of pride in the way that she expresses her dancing.”