after school program


Apply to the 2021 STRIVE Spring Semester!

STRIVE is back in a virtual setting for the Spring 2021 academic semester. Next Step’s STRIVE is a FREE...

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Thank you STRIVE mentors!

For the last ten years, Next Step has been supporting high school teenagers living with sickle cell disease through...

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Ike: Support Next Step!

Please donate to the 2019 Next Step Annual Fund and help us bring the transformative power of community, music,...

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Last night we hosted a panel for teenagers living with sickle cell disease!

Last night, we hosted a really important survivor panel at our office in Cambridge, Massachusetts during our after-school mentorship...

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Kicking off our 10th year of STRIVE!

Kepler, Next Step’s Program Director, has been busy during September – National Sickle Cell Awareness Month! Kepler spent a...

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