CES After School Programs are located in communities throughout Franklin and Hampshire counties. Your gift will help us sustain the programs in all our program locations and provide scholarships to students from low-income families.

Established by the family of Ben DeMarino, this scholarship supports additional learning opportunities for other HEC Academy students while they are enrolled students in the Academy. The Fund has in the past supported students who have taken community college courses or pursued new vocational or life skills not covered in the core curriculum. 

Housed at the Assistive Technology Center, the PWC Lending Library is a home for assistive technology equipment, products, and materials and where educators, students and families explore, test out and match assistive technology resources to their communication needs. 

Strong Foundations for Young Children provides free support for families of infants, toddlers and preschoolers who reside in Hampshire County, MA. Our goal is to provide support to parents to enhance their children’s social and emotional development. The help that we provide is tailored to the individual needs of each child and family. 

The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program (MMEP) supports migratory children and youth to overcome educational disruption, cultural and language barriers, social isolation, various health-related problems, and other factors that may inhibit their ability to succeed in school. Your direct donations and support families who often have needs that may fall outside the scope of the Program. 

The Bogin Playscape Project seeks to develop safe, simple, inexpensive and reproducible play equipment designs that can be used in existing pre-school settings. They focus on designs for indoor play areas in order to offer children more opportunities to move each day, regardless of weather or other factors that keep children indoors.

Native Ed@ CES focuses on learning how to incorporate Native educational practices that communities in MA and in our region believe are best for teaching their histories in an accurate manner, understanding what Native student success means for Native/Indigenous students, and creating a place where Native educators can guide us in learning how to help them support that success. 

The Paid STEM Internship Program provides high school students from Hampshire and Hampden counties with paid internships in STEM settings (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). These internships offer high school students an exceptional opportunity to gain valuable experience and connections in STEM fields and be paid for it.