For many nonprofits, the return to a steady post-pandemic pace has varied, at times slow and steady, and at other moments, more like a big bang. Spark Central, the nonprofit creative learning hub in ...

For the past several summers, thousands of kindergarten through eighth-grade students have attended Newport News Public Schools’ SPARK — summer program for arts, recreation and knowledge. The idea is ...

Oress “Fiona” Pratt-MacDonald always liked school. A 2022 sociology graduate of UB, Pratt-MacDonald was chosen for three prestigious international fellowships, including a Fulbright English Teaching ...

The Impact Research on the SPARK program was created by New Victory Theater and WolfBrown highlighting the impact performing arts education has in arts-deprived school communities. New Victory Theater ...

A developer is converting the former Holyoke House hotel at Suffolk and Maple streets, seen above in 2009, into market-rate apartments and retail spaces with help from the Holyoke Spark program.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The program is called Spark and the idea is simple: The YMCA of Greater Kansas City partners with local school districts as a way to intervene and halt the “summer slide” that some ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — YMCA of Greater Kansas City is operating its SPARK program from three locations this summer – Kansas City, Kansas; Linwood and Red Bridge Elementary School. The academic summer ...