Breakthrough Manchester FY25 Annual Report (1)

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STUDENTS-TEACHING -STUDENTS MISSION

Breakthrough Manchester’s unique dual mission provides six years of intensive, tuition-free academic programming to support Manchester students from marginalized communities on their path to college while inspiring emerging leaders in high school and college to be the next generation of educators and advocates for educational equit y

BRE AK TH ROUGH PATHWAY

CORE ACADEMICS, COMMUNIT Y BUILDING, & FUN!

ESSENTIAL TR ANSFER ABLE SKILLS

COLLEGE EXPLOR ATION & CAREER READINESS 11TH GOAL SET TING, COLLEGE SEARCH, & APPLICATION PROCESS

2026 WILL BE OUR 35TH ANNIVERSARY!

Celebra t ing 35 years of S tudent s-Teac hing - S tudent s! Summer 2026 will be Breakthrough’s 35th summer at The Derr y field School. Reach out and share your stories, your photos, and your memories! We would love to hear from Breakthrough Scholars, Breakthrough Teachers, and Breakthrough Families Look ou t for celebra tion oppor tuni ties !

BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER’S COMMUNIT Y

COLLEGE PREPAR ATION, APPLICATIONS, & ADJUSTING TO COLLEGE LIFE 12TH

E XEC UTIVE DIREC TOR’S RE FLEC TION

Breakthrough Manchester experienced a summer of joy ful communit y Our 80 Scholars and 24 Teaching Fellows “Rode the Breakthrough Wave” as we learned from each other, living the studentsteaching-students model I learn from our Teaching Fellows and students ever y summer by visiting classes in math, science, literature, and writing, as well as extracurricular classes Most importantly, I appreciate the spirit of compassion and commitment that our Scholars bring to Breakthrough Thank you, Scholars, for leaning into discomfort and living the Breakthrough Norms this summer It has truly been my joy to be on this journey with you

Breakthrough’s Summer of 2025 joy ful moments included:

• W hen a s cholar eagerly shares a novel and brilliant thought in clas s, leaning into dis comfor t and stepping into confidence w it h suppor t f rom clas smates

• S cholars, Teaching Fellows, and Staf f pla y f ully compet ing together on a chalk- dra w n four-s quare cour t

• Per forming on stage, and ever yone star ts clapping along

• Celebrat ing a moment toget her w it h genuine laughter in Ad v is or y

• Tak ing a new sk ill w it h you f rom an ex t racurricular clas s, like Chines e, my t holog y, hik ing, k nit t ing, or music

• Achiev ing succes s w it h an engineering challenge, histor y s ca venger hunt, and climbing wall right in Manchester’s ow n Millyard!

• T he moment w hen you come out of the woods at t he top of Rat t lesnake Mountain to take in the ex pansive beaut y of N ew H ampshire’s Lakes Region

• W hen the T homas Laighton Ferr y arrives at Star Is land, and you step onto an is land for t he first t ime

• T hat confident feeling of “I could belong here” w hen ex ploring a college campus!

Breakthrough Manchester is incredibly grateful to our program hosts and partners: The Derr y field School and Southern New Hampshire Universit y We send a special thanks to the Manchester School District as we support our scholars together We can’t wait to see the places they will go!

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BRE AK THROUGH M ANC HESTE R ADVISORY COMMIT TE

Adeola Adeniyi Southern New Hampshire Universit y

Samantha Baldini The Goddard School

Kate Chappell Mass General Hospital

Susan Grodman Retired, The Derr y field School

Chau Ngo Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy

Ir v Richardson Retired, NE A- New Hampshire

L Jonathan Ross Primmer, Piper, Eggleston & Cramer PC

Joel Rozen The Derr y field School Board of Trustees Liaison

Gabi Zolla Southern New Hampshire Universit y

SUMMER 2025 SNAPSHOTS

Directors’ Holiday Capitalizes on Community Collaboration

Directors’ Holiday Capitalizes on Community Collaboration

Scholars and Teaching Fellows alike appreciated a break from classes Our Directors’ Holiday this year took them just down the road to the Manchester Millyard for a day of exploration and fun! Scholars, organized by their college teams, rotated bet ween activities They built bridges and rockets in an engineering challenge at SEE Science Center, competed in a histor y scavenger hunt at the Millyard Museum, and soared to new heights rock climbing at Ver tical Dreams

Name Challenge

When ever ybody knows your name, the communit y is stronger. This is why Breakthrough promotes a name challenge each summer Once a Scholar or Teaching Fellow can name ever y other scholar, Teaching Fellow, and staf f member - that’s 116 people! - their name is added to a prominently displayed poster This summer saw a remarkable number of competitors accomplish the challenge Traditions like the name challenge are truly a testament to embracing the strength of the Breakthrough communit y

Siblings Share a Breakthrough Summer

Breakthrough is known for it ’ s “staying power ” This summer we had eight Breakthrough Scholar alumni join us as Teaching Fellows, t wo as Program Assistants, and one as our interim Program Director Of these eleven returners, six had siblings who were Breakthrough Scholars These siblings truly lived both sides of studentsteaching-students’ mission!

“Over the summer, I was given the oppor tunit y to complete a full circle moment with Breakthrough Manchester coming back for a summer as a 7th grade Teaching Fellow My youngest sister entered as a 7th grader I got to live the real students-teaching-students experience this summer as I navigated the challenges and success of being a first time TF with no prior teaching experience Having my sister in the program at the same time allowed me to bet ter suppor t her at home and give her additional resources to be able to complete her academic work which was rewarding for me as a teacher, mentor, and older sibling Doing the talent show with my sister helped us connect more with each other at home and with our culture and being able to share that with the communit y at Breakthrough was one of my favorite par ts this summer ”

Jazmin Sanchez Torrez, Breakthrough Scholar Alumna, Teaching Fellow Alumna, Sophomore at Universit y of Southern California

“Thank you, Breakthrough, for believing in me when I doubted myself, for always challenging me to do my best, for pushing me to step out of my comfor t zone, and for always reminding me that I am never alone in this journey To all the Breakthrough students sit ting in front of me today, know that this program is a gif t. Embrace it, learn from it, work hard, and let it transform you ”

— Cr ystina, BTM Scholar alumna, secondyear Teaching Fellow, and first-year nursing student at Rivier Universit y

Cr ystina (lef t) with her sister, a 7th grade BTM Scholar

FIELD TRIPS, FRIENDS, FUN, AND MANY FIRSTS!!

Grade Level Challenges

Grade Level Challenges kick of f the summer with first-time adventures for our Scholars that give each class a bonding experience while they explore New Hampshire Ninth graders love taking the ferr y to Star Island on the Isles of Shoals to learn about the island’s histor y, sustainabilit y initiatives, and marine life Eighth graders head nor th for a boarding school tour of St Paul’s followed by a rewarding hike up Rat tlesnake Mountain Our new seventh graders explore Derr y field’s campus with a competitive scavenger hunt and fun team-building activities! Our scholars are so grateful for these oppor tunities Thank you to all our communit y par tners who help make them happen!

College: Fairs, New Hampshire, & Boston

Teaching Fellows hosted a College Fair, with each Fellow showcasing their respective school This prompted middle school scholars to consider college choices and of fered them the oppor tunit y to ask questions before heading out for t wo days of college campus visits In New Hampshire, we visited Colby Saw yer College, NHTI (NH Technical Institute), Rivier, Nashua Communit y College, and SNHU (Southern New Hampshire Universit y)

In Boston, we visited Boston Universit y, MIT, and Northeastern These college visits are even more impact ful when a Teaching Fellow gets to share their home campus with the Scholars This summer, some of our TFs delighted in showcasing both Colby Saw yer and Boston Universit y One staf f member, a BTM Scholar alumna, at tributes her Breakthrough college visit to at tending and graduating from Colby Saw yer!

College is woven throughout each Breakthrough summer Students and Teaching Fellows compete on six college teams in visionar y, scholarly, and resilient competitions

Olympics and Spirit Day are favorite communit y-building events; the creativit y, collaboration, spirit, and fun are contagious Competitions range from artistic with cheer and shield creation, to academic with mind-benders and homework completion, to athletic with the perennial favorites dodgeball and tug-of-war, to just plain silly like soapy watermelon relays! Attendance and homework completion score points, too, so ever ybody needs to be all in!

of all BTM College- Bound Graduates achieve post -secondar y success, with 98% enrolling in 4 -year colleges and universities (the other 2% continued their education through Vocational School and US Ser vice). 100%

“Go Teach & Learn” is the charge as Breakthrough Scholars begin each morning Scholars par ticipate in core academic classes of literature, math, science, and writing Breakthrough Collaborative provides the curriculum, and our Instructional Coaches adapt it to New Hampshire standards The goal is to fill in gaps from the previous school year while ensuring students are set up for success in the year ahead College-aged Teaching Fellows make learning fun adding creative t wists to their lesson plans to engage near-peer Scholars The School Counselor from Trinit y High School shared, “ We of ten find that incoming freshmen who have par ticipated in Breakthrough make tremendous gains over the summer, and our original academic placement for them is no longer the right fit They are ready for the nex t level of algebra, for example!”

In Literature, Scholars read The Other Wes Moore, Loraine Hansberr y ’ s play, A Raisin in the Sun, the graphic novel, The Arrival, and Farewell to Manzanar Our Scholars relate to these books and are inspired to share their own stories of coming of age in the cit y, their families’ immigration stories, and discrimination A Raisin in the Sun prompted 8th graders to grapple with how the Younger family should invest an insurance payout They par ticipated in their first debate, which helped them ar ticulate ideas, build confidence in public speaking, and formulate constructive arguments to suppor t their positions In preparation for this debate, they don costumes and act out scenes from the play to help them form strong opinions embracing their roles as members of the Younger family

Breakthrough’s math curriculum of fers Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometr y. Scholars moved outside on a beautiful day to create a human number line to understand the placement of rational numbers They practiced fraction simplification, square roots, and identified positive and negative numbers to determine their place on the number line while strengthening group dynamics through communication, collaboration, and social skills

Biology, Chemistr y, and Physics are the science of ferings Ninth-grade roller coaster design and construction in Physics is a capstone project shared with family and friends at Celebration’s Academic Fair The roller coasters are explained with detailed posters, sharing knowledge of energy transformations and New ton’s Law of Motion The excitement mounts as marbles run through the course Scholars truly master these physics concepts!

Writing classes focus on informational essay writing, personal narratives, translations, and code switching Translation and personal relevance are the focus of ninth-grade writing; students explore altering diction and syntax They rewrite the ending of Jhumpa Lahari’s shor t stor y, Interpreter of Maladies, being challenged to match the author’s diction and syntax while exploring character decision-making Scholars were so engaged in this lesson, they sought each other out at recess to continue sharing their ideas with their peers and Teaching Fellows!

F Y 25 FINANCIALS

REVENUE*

GOV T. F U N D I N G 8% $43,072

FOU N DATIO N 31% $174,405

C O RPO R ATIO N 10% $55,825

I N D IVI DUAL S 24% $135,897 E N DOWM E NTS 25% $142,438 GI F TS - I N - KI N D 2% $9,053 TOTAL $560,690

EXPENSES*

SUMM E R PROGR A M 81% $430,608

SC HOO L Y E AR PROG. 9% $50,692 M ARKE TI N G & 2% $9,738 C OMMU N IC ATIO N

ADM I N ISTR ATIVE/ 5% $24,346 I NVE STM E NT

PH I L ANTH RO PY/ 3% $14,608 PRO F. D E V/DU E S/ SU BSC RI P TIO NS TOTAL $529,992

* These are preliminar y numbers and have not been audited

E STATE P L AN N I N G S E M I NAR

NEW YEAR, NE W LOOK!

We are t hr illed to be par t ner ing wit h The Der r y field S chool to of fer a complimentar y estate planning seminar to our communit y facilitated by A nu Mullikin (DS ’84), Devine Millimet, and Susan Matore - B aker, Cambr idge Tr ust

Febr uar y 3, 2026 5:30 p.m.

Gateway S eminar Room, The Der r y field S chool

All are welcome to par ticipate. Plan for your future! Come learn how to create a legacy for you and your family with thought ful advice from Anu and Susan! Reach out to A lice Handwer k to lear n more at ahandwer k @der r y field org or 603 621 6273

As Breakthrough Manchester launches a new school year (our 35th!), we will be launching a new look in collaboration with the national Breakthrough Collaborative. For nearly five decades, the Breakthrough Collaborative has been a launching pad for students and Teaching Fellows across the countr y As we step for ward into our next chapter, we ’ re proud to unveil a refreshed logo that reflects who we are and where we ’ re headed

This new design was built with intention:

• Two sets of dots representing students and Teaching Fellows, each on their own path but growing together Interconnected In motion

• Anchored by the belief that no one moves for ward alone

• Breakthrough is, and has always been, a communit y. This logo captures that spirit: dynamic, collective, and full of possibilit y.

We invite you to continue this journey with us. Same mission. Stronger together. #breakthroughtogether

BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER 2024-2025 DONORS

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H ar vard A r t Mus eums

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SEE S cience Center

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Southern N ew H ampshire Universit y Star Is land

T he Derr y field S chool

N D OW E D F U N DS

Kathy & Jon Ross generously host a lobster bake each summer for our college-aged Teaching Fellows from across the country

BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER GENER AL ENDOWMENT FUND

Da v id Flagg

ELKIN TEACHING FELLOWSHIP ENDOWED FUND

Established with a challenge grant from Pauline and Mar tin Elkin to provide financial aid and scholarships for summer Teaching Fellows

Clare Cail

JOEL VARGAS ACHIEVEMENT FUND

Melis s a Granet z

Established in honor of Joel Vargas, the first Breakthrough student to become a Breakthrough Director; this fund supplements our students’ academic experiences

Joy ia and A had Fazelat

Sue Flagg

Walt Milne

HONOR ARY GIFTS

In honor of A lic e Handwer k

Debra McLoud

Jennifer and Gregor y Melkonian

A nna and B oyan Moskov

In honor of Deb Mc Loud

Jan Hicinbot hem

In honor of Scot t Miglior i

K rist ie and Duke Logan

In honor of Damien Net h

Kat herine and Michael Gar field, Jr

In honor of Molly Provenc her

Maura Maguire

In honor of Gabi Zolla

A llis on Moskow

Honor ing t he bir t hday of Niazi Hasan

B enita Lebow

Maureen and Eric Ohnemus

Just in T hibeault

Felicia and Joel Vargas

MEMORIAM GIFTS

In memor y of Bar bara Johnson

H elene and George Hill

In memor y of E mmie Lamp

Edgar A lfaro

A nnie and Rich B ranch

Vic tor Chang

Jamie Dahl

Ellen Fraker- Glas s cock and T homas Glas s cock

Audrey and Da v id H ammer

Donna H arris

Jolene Lester

Yinyan L i

A nna Mitrenga

John - Louis X Pane

Jos eph Pitrelli

Jennifer Rogers

A my Howell and Cars on S mit h

A ngela and Jef f rey Tous saint

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BUD SMITH SCHOL ARSHIP

Bud Smith, Kiwanis Past President, believed in having fun while working toward Kiwanis’ mission to suppor t the children of Manchester The Bud Smith Scholarship is given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence while collaborating with peers, consistently showing us that learning can be fun

Jey is the epitome of work hard, play hard He has infectiously wonder ful energy and came to ever y class with a smile on his face and an incredibly positive at titude He was an excellent team player, never complained, and was always on task He even found creative ways to make homework fun, like creating word problems in math.

JAYME’S FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Jayme’s Scholar is awarded to a 7th grade student who is academically successful, a creative thinker, socially conscious, and motivated to make the world a bet ter place

In the words of our Teaching Fellows:

“Brayden is an excellent nominee for the Jayme’s Scholar award He is incredibly intelligent, kind, and collaborative He paid at tention consistently in class, and his homework was exemplar y He went above and beyond the work to think deeper and go far ther than his peers then of fered to reach out to others and help them achieve as well ”

TREVOR CUSACK COUR AGE AWARD

Awarded to a BTM student who demonstrates strength and resilience ever y day in the way that they face challenges both academically and personally; always striving to be the best that they can be

Antonio persevered through many challenges this summer with great enthusiasm and passion for Breakthrough He communicated concerns and integrated feedback from his teachers to achieve success with homework and classwork With his passion for the game of chess, he created a club for both scholars and teachers

“He is an ex tremely positive presence and made all our days at Breakthrough a lit tle brighter this summer ” - BTM Teaching Fellow

REACH FOR THE STARS AWARD

In recognition of a student who shows academic excellence, perseveres to be the best person they can be, and embodies the Breakthrough spirit Aaron could always be counted on to par ticipate in any and all activities He brightened ever y Breakthrough day with his kindness to others and his bright smile

DIRECTORS’ AWARDS

Awarded to one or more Breakt hrough st udents each summer w it h per fec t at tendance and homework complet ion, w ho model academic excellence, kindnes s , out reach to ot hers , and a great Breakt hrough Spirit

Jey (center) pic tured with his 7th- grade Advisor y
Antonio, enjoying the Star Island Marine Lab on the Ninth Grade Level Challenge
Brayden (lef t) enjoying Ben & Jerr y ’s a t Clap in! Clap out!
Direc tor Award W inners: Debensley, Naika, Drissel, A shley, KK , Atarah, Car ter, and Aylin
Aaron (center) building balloon boa ts with his Boston Universit y teamma tes as par t of the visionar y challenge

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