The3PointFoundation, Inc.

The3PointFoundation is a Boston nonprofit that pairs classroom learning with basketball to support young people from underserved families. Its programs build 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration and digital literacy through hands-on, project-based learning, and they weave social-emotional learning into daily routines like a “weather report” check-in and team-building exercises. Basketball runs through the program as a way to build healthy lifelong habits, and students are encouraged to serve others through volunteer opportunities.

The organization began in 2012 as a four-week summer program for 15 boys at the Fessenden School in Newton. A partnership with UMass Boston led to after-school programs in Dorchester, and by 2018 it was serving about 150 students in seven Roxbury and Dorchester schools. After the pandemic, at the request of public school partners, it added in-school programming for about 350 sixth through ninth graders a year, plus a weekend basketball program.

What to Know

• 3Point has served more than 3,000 Boston youth since its founding.
• Its after-school program is called Beyond the Court.
• Summer learning academies now run at three locations.
• Fundraisers include a golf tournament and a team of Boston Marathon runners.
• The organization launched a Student Success Academy for incoming seventh graders.