About Us
The Bronx Can...provides a brave space for Bronx youth by providing a sense of community and vast opportunities to explore their voice through creative writing. We also create pathways to explore non-traditional career paths to expand their reach and move forward in life.
We guide youth through exploration, exposure and provide them with access to their inner world and their world at large.
We believe in community.
Our goal is to educate, empower, and guide Bronx residents from low-income communities by pairing them with mentors in the Bronx and greater New York.
We believe in providing youth with holistic support.
We see a gap in both emotional and professional support - so we aim to lend an ear and gain a voice.
We believe
The Bronx Can...LEVEL UP.
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How We Invest in Our Community
Personal
Youth thrive with social emotional support as part of their development
Holistic Youth Development
Professional
Studies show youth thrive when supported by a mentor
Creative Writing Curriculum and Career-Based Mentoring
While learning about themselves and their world through creative writing sessions, they will also be paired with a career based mentor who will expose them with alternative career paths.
Past Events!
Our career panel with BET/Viacom Producers!
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We strive to amplify the stories they will tell...stories of Bronx youth succeeding, thriving, overcoming, learning, growing, resisting, being human. All of which are stories that deserve to be told.
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Our first writing workshop is coming up in September and it will focus on mental health as young people return to in person learning! Learn more!
Invest Your Time!
Sign Up for short term mentoring
We are always looking to partner with high schools, educators, influencers, parents and the community to discuss short term and long term commitments with Bronx high school youth. Have something better to offer? Let's chat!
We envision the Bronx as a borough that is thriving where our next generation of leaders are dismantling oppressive systems by sharing their stories and removing the construct of a single narrative.
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A collective space where relationships are forged
and access is given.
