We have a studio with windows and door directly into the hallway available September 1st. If interested call, email or drop by any Wednesday evening 7-9pm when we’re open for tours. The post We Have a Studio Available first appeared on Framingham Makerspace .
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In the non-profit world, it can be easy to focus on tracking statistics and numbers. Numbers provide an easily-digestable way to try to share an organization’s impact – the positive effects that our work has on the community – and to prove that we’re a cause worth investing in. One non-profit consultancy website lists no less than 25 different metrics that an organization should be tracking: number of people served, percentage of budget spent on programs, email open rate, board engagement, etc. It was with this ‘numbers mindset’ that I began to approach writing about AS220’s Summer Jobs program, which recently wrapped up. During 6 weeks in July and August, for 20 hours a week, over 60 youth from Providence (there are those numbers!) were at AS220 receiving paid work-readiness and creative entrepreneurship training from professional teaching artists. Every conceivable space at AS220 was activated with youth who were making music, screenprinting, sewing, DJ’ing, painting a mural, doing hair, nails, and makeup, and more. As I talked to instructors about how the program went, I expe