Business Advancement & Social Entrepreneurship Inc

BASE serves 100 students between Boston and Harlem, NY.

BASE's programs target high risk, high school students living in economically disadvantaged communities in Boston and Harlem, NY. In order to succeed, these youth need access to cultural capital and to opportunities tailored to address their academic, professional and personal needs. BASE provides a highly personalized, comprehensive and long term focused model aimed at assisting Boston's youth overcome hurdles by employing an eight year program beginning freshman year of high school extending through senior year undergraduate college. BASE's model maintains a constant emphasis on self-sufficiency and civic responsibility. Additionally, with BASE's focus on entrepreneurship, BASE encourages and increases the likelihood of its youth pursuing entrepreneurial ventures both for profit and non-profit after their college graduation.
BASE is committed to providing multiple layers of support to enable each student in the program to develop to his or her full potential and excel. The BASE curriculum includes 640 hours of classroom instruction each year and requires a commitment from students of 13-plus hours a week, in addition to their regular schoolwork. The year-round program offerings include:
? One-on-one tutoring, teacher engagement, report card monitoring and parental oversight of BASE at-home assignments and practice drills;
? Small group (1:10 instructor to pupil ratio) skill-building workshops to assist academic preparedness, career planning, social development and personal growth;
? Intensive SAT & SAT II preparation (averaging 5 hours a week);
? English language reading and writing seminars taught by certified teachers;
? Weekly mentoring by adult role model;
? Civic engagement, including mentoring a younger student;
? Paid summer internships (10-plus weeks in duration) arranged by BASE, beginning the summer after freshman year.
All freshmen are expected to maintain a 3.0 or better GPA, take first-year college level reading and writing, donate 250 hours to community service and successfully complete a summer internship.