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Home  >  Articles by: Brenda Paredes
  • By Brenda Paredes
  • September 3, 2024

Access to Arts: A Final Showcase and Farewell

As part of our strategic reorganization, the Access to Arts (ATA) program concluded as a standalone initiative in August 2024. Moving forward, we plan to integrate the arts into our […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • August 26, 2024

Empowering Future Leaders: Introducing the 2024 PYD/GEICO Changemaker Scholarship Recipients

Partners for Youth with Disabilities partnered again with GEICO this spring to award young adults with disabilities the GEICO Changemaker Scholarship to support their educational goals.   PYD granted $15,000 in […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • July 10, 2024

A PYD Internship Experience: Nektaria Muratoglu’s Journey at the Discovery Museum

Nektaria Muratoglu, a student at Milestones Day School and Transition Program, has been an active participant in PYD’s Career Readiness programming through the JobLab and the Pre-ETS intensive last summer. […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • June 25, 2024

Meet our 2024 Youth Advisory Council

Last November PYD launched a Youth Advisory Council, called the Empowered Voices Council. The goal of the council is to make tangible change at PYD and to foster leadership and […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • May 29, 2024

Equip, Empower, Employ: Inside Party4PYD’s 2024 Trifecta!

On May 15th, we came together for our annual fundraiser, Party4PYD, a celebration of unity and empowerment. With the support of local businesses, participants, families, and our community, we advance […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • April 29, 2024

Meet the Spring 2024 Dinah F.B. Cohen DREAM Fellows!

Join us in celebrating the next generation of leaders in the making. Our fellowship program, dedicated to empowering college students and recent graduates with disabilities, equips participants with crucial professional […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • March 25, 2024

Announcing the 2023 Denny’s Hungry for Education Scholarship Winners

PYD partnered with Denny’s Hungry for Education to grant $9,000 in scholarships to three high school and three college students with disabilities, including PYD participants and youth across the country. […]

Three PYD 2024 Honors Night award recipients wearing gold capes and posing like superheroes!
  • By Brenda Paredes
  • February 26, 2024

PYD’s 22nd Annual Honors Night

On February 6, 2024, Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD) hosted its 22nd Annual PYD Honors Night (formerly Mentor Appreciation Night). Held at the Nonprofit Center, PYD celebrated and honored […]

  • By Brenda Paredes
  • January 29, 2024

PYD’s Access to Arts Mosaic Project Officially Unveiled

On January 4, 2024, a momentous occasion unfolded at Spaulding Hospital in Cambridge as PYD’s Access to Arts (ATA) community mosaic project was officially unveiled. The culmination of creativity and […]

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