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Broadway Bound Kids Inc

Performing arts to inspire young lives

New York, NY   |  www.broadwayboundkids.org

Mission

Established in 2004, Broadway Bound Kids provides a transformative and inclusive environment that inspires youth through performing arts education. We offer comprehensive interactive programs for Pre-K through 12th Grade in the performing arts that focus on enhancing technical skills, social emotional learning, confidence, connection, mindfulness, and creativity. Inclusion and access are central to our programming and organizational culture as we work to break down societal and financial barriers for youth, their families, and their communities. We cultivate communities of open hearts and minds amongst a diverse cross section of youth in New York City and beyond by enabling every student to explore all they can be, on stage and off.

Ruling year info

2017

Executive Director

Elizabeth McGuire

Director of Education

Samantha Parrish

Main address

630 West 135th Street Apt 3

New York, NY 10031 USA

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EIN

81-5106481

NTEE code info

Arts Education/Schools (A25)

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Our programs

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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Broadway Bound Workshop

With an emphasis on social emotional learning, mindfulness, and inclusivity the Broadway Bound Workshop provides training in musical theatre, multiple acting techniques, voice, and movement. The program is designed to develop a wide range of acting and musical theatre disciplines through group and individualized instruction in accordance with each member’s interests and capacity. The Broadway Bound Workshop is an nine month program.

Students spend the fall creating a musical revue. Discovering scenes and songs from a wide range of musical theater, Teaching Artists introduce more technical instruction in music, acting, and dance. In the spring, the ensemble devises a musical rooted in social justice themes such as the effects of social media, responsibility in media, and climate change. BBW occasionally produces a musical written by an emerging playwright/composer. Ultimately, the members in this program develop confidence and competence as performers and as young adults!

Population(s) Served
Adolescents

BBP is a nine month long free theater education program for middle school students from under-resourced communities. Aligned with NYC’s DOE Blueprint for the Arts standards and grounded in trauma-informed teaching, the program provides an outlet for young people seeking a safe and transformative space to sing, dance, and create. Members of this exciting ensemble receive acting, voice, and dance training from professional teaching artists and take master classes with Broadway performers. They rehearse and perform a musical review they help create in the fall, and mount a full-scale musical complete with costumes, sets and props in the spring! This program culminates with a performance on a professional stage.

Population(s) Served

We currently serve 19 NYC public schools per school year, offering dance, and theater classes. Each school partnership is different, as each community is unique. Before building each program, we meet with Principals and school leaders to learn about the school’s culture, the landscape of the student community, and their educational hurdles and goals. We then build programming that is cross curricular with the mission of the school, and cultivate a supported culture of arts through student voice and student choice. For example, this past school year we proudly provided three schools (two in the Bronx and one in Manhattan's Chinatown) with their first ever after school drama club, and students worked on either a student-devised original production, or a book musical.

With each partnership we aim to reach students that wouldn't have otherwise been able to access the arts, and to build a safe and inclusive space that invites all students to express themselves through creativity.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Children and youth
Adolescents

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How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection

Financials

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Broadway Bound Kids Inc

Board of directors
as of 04/22/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Erin Glass

Founding Director of Broadway Bound Kids


Board co-chair

Mark Stein

President, the TICO Group

Term: 2023 - 2026

Jessica Canuelle

Director of Client Relationships, Princeton Tutoring

Mark Grinnell

Software Engineer at Cincom Systems Inc.

Jane Whitty

Senior consultant at Capacity Interactive

Samantha Blain

Co-Founder Hit the Lights Theater Co

Paul Kim

Chief Information Security Officer, JFK Airport

Toby Boshak

Executive Director at Exploring the Arts

Marielle MacMinn

Attorney, Saul Ewing LLP

Tammy Davis

Attorey, Morriston & Foerster LLP

Rose Javier

Budget and Finance Assistant, United Nations

Michael Schiller

CEO, Titan Agency

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 4/22/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

The organization's co-leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 04/22/2024

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.