Boston PROGRAM

Since 2015, Shooting Touch Boston (STB) has used the platform of sport to create safe and supportive environments for girls of color to thrive in. Serving over 500 girls (ages 10-18) from within the Greater Boston Area, STB turns basketball courts into classrooms, community centers, and health clinics in an effort to challenge the existing socio-economic disparities negatively impacting the BIPOC community.

With 1.3 million fewer opportunities for girls to play high school sports than boys and a 30% participation gap between children of lower income families versus higher income families, Shooting Touch Boston is committed to bridging the opportunity gaps for underserved girls in Boston by providing an abundance of free, sport programming within the communities we serve. Using the exciting platform of sport, Shooting Touch Boston equips female athletes with the education, tools, and support necessary to reach their highest potentials in life.

Through our global mission to use the mobilizing power of basketball to improve physical, social, and emotional well-being, Shooting Touch Boston educates and inspires the next generation of young girls from within Boston’s BIPOC community to live happy, healthy and purposeful lives.

WHAT WE DO

Shooting Touch Boston provides a safe and supportive, sport-based response to barriers in girls' physical and mental health, social development, and upward mobility. STB uses basketball to educate and inspire youth, women, and their families through various programs aligning with our 3 objectives: