Bma Tenpoint (BMA)

The fiscal partnerships initiative (fpi) is a program of the Bma in which it provides administrative back office services for qualified nonprofit organizations. The purpose is to provide a method for smaller nonprofit community-based organizations and faith-based organizations (fcbos) to obtain high quality administrative services in a way that is cost effective. Also, fpi allows the Bma to provide critical organizational strenghts to smaller fcbos in order to help them grow in effectiveness.

Education has been one of the earliest programmatic functions of the Bma. This makes ample sense since education remains a major lever for moving people out of poverty. For the Bma, the education programmatic area consists of the victory generation out of school time progam (vg) and support of the boston education collaborative (bec). Vg provides technical assistance and program support to churches that wish to start an afterschool program. Its goal is to provide improved academic performance and social/emotional support to ensure that students engage in their educational processes ready to learn.

Programs and initiatives are designed to engage organizations, churches, schools, and government agencies to collaboratively address the needs of youth at high risk. The high risk youth network is a network of more than sixty agencies, churches, and community based organizations that work together to provide support to high risk youth and to provide them resources to remove themselves from high risk status. Teen cafes and summer jobs is an initiative designed to provide safe spaces, especially during high violence periods, where teenagers can gather and be safe and engage in developmental activities with caring adults. The girls initiative is a collaboration of organizations that serve girls and young women who are involved in the justice system.