Providence After School Alliance - PASA

📣 Rhode Island high school students: Looking for a leadership opportunity this summer?

The Rhode Island Teen Institute is now accepting applications for its August 2026 session! Over five days, participants will build leadership skills, connect with peers from across the state, and participate in workshops focused on teamwork, communication, action planning, and more.

🗓 August 19–23, 2026
📍 Aldersgate Camp & Retreat Center

If you're a high school student interested in growing as a leader and making a difference in your school or community, this could be a great opportunity.

📲 Scan the QR code in the flyer to learn more and apply!

PASA is happy to share opportunities that help Rhode Island youth learn, lead, and thrive.

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🌟 Now Accepting Fall 2026 Provider Applications! 🌟

Are you a nonprofit, educator, artist, STEM organization, or community partner passionate about creating meaningful opportunities for young people?

The Providence After School Alliance (PASA) is seeking high-quality providers to deliver engaging afterschool programming through our AfterZone and Hub initiatives for Providence youth.

By partnering with PASA, you'll join a network committed to expanding learning beyond the school day and helping young people explore their interests, build new skills, and thrive.

📅 Application deadline: August 2, 2026
📲 Scan the QR code or head to https://tinyurl.com/Fall-Provider-RFP to learn more and submit your proposal.

Together, let's create more opportunities for Providence's youth. 🧡

🌟 Join the PASA Team!

Do you enjoy working with young people? Looking for a meaningful part-time opportunity where you can make a difference every day?

We're hiring Assistant Site Coordinators and Youth Engagement Specialists to help create safe, engaging, and enriching after-school experiences for Providence youth.

Whether you're an educator, college student, aspiring youth worker, or simply passionate about supporting young people, we'd love to hear from you!

✨ Competitive hourly pay
✨ Part-time afternoon hours
✨ Opportunity to make a lasting impact

📲 Scan the QR code on the flyer or visit mypasa.org to learn more and apply.
Help us inspire the next generation one afternoon at a time.

📣📣The Providence After School Alliance is excited to announce that Tatiana Baena, our NEW Executive Director, has been named an honoree of Providence Business News 2026 40 Under Forty!

We look forward to seeing how Tatiana brings her passion and commitment to education, public finance, and community development to the youth of Providence.

Congratulations, Tatiana! 👏👏
https://pbn.com/pbn-announces-2026-40-under-forty-honorees/

📣📣📣Introducing PASA's New Executive Director! 📣📣📣

After more than 20 years building a citywide system of afterschool and summer learning for Providence youth, PASA is stepping into a new chapter, and we're thrilled to share who will help lead it.

Welcome, Tatiana Baena, PASA's new Executive Director!

Tatiana brings to this role a deep commitment to expanding opportunity for young people and families, shaped by her own journey as an immigrant and first-generation college graduate. She has built her career at the intersection of education, public finance, and community development, with a focus on helping organizations and communities access the resources they need to thrive.

As the founder and CEO of Better Perspective Consulting, Tatiana has supported nonprofits, schools, and small businesses in strengthening financial systems and securing funding, overseeing and influencing the use of more than $30 million in public and private investments. Her prior leadership roles at the Rhode Island Department of Education and the Central Falls School District included overseeing grants, enrichment programming, and statewide mentorship and pipeline initiatives.

Tatiana also brings a strong record of public leadership. She is currently serving her third term as a Central Falls City Councilor and has led community-based efforts that connect young people and families to opportunity, including founding Mundialito, a nonprofit that builds leadership and connection through soccer, cultural programming, and scholarships.

Across all of her work, Tatiana is known for bringing people together and building practical, community-rooted solutions. That approach aligns strongly with PASA's role as a connector and catalyst across Providence's out-of-school time ecosystem.

We look forward to introducing you to Tatiana in the coming weeks and sharing more about the direction ahead.

📣📣401 Gives Is Live!📣📣
🎁Donate here: https://www.401gives.org/organizations/providence-after-school-alliance
Your gift powers opportunity across an entire city - from transportation, partnerships with local experts, and the coordination that makes hundreds of hands-on experiences available to young people throughout the year, from baseball diamonds to campfire cooking to debate club.

And your gift shows up in real moments.

Like Tonya (name anonymized), a student at Roger Williams who wasn’t originally part of an after-school art program but joined during a Thanksgiving project where students were making cards for elderly residents in a nursing home. Tonya, a talented young artist, chose to make multiple cards because the project felt meaningful to her and she loves making people happy through her art. After that experience, she continued coming to the program, deepening her art skills and staying connected to her fellow artists and the teaching artist who led the program.

This is what your gift makes possible. Young people finding what they love, building confidence, and using their talents to connect with others and their future.

🎁🎁Donate here: https://www.401gives.org/organizations/providence-after-school-alliance

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Support Providence After School Alliance | 401 Gives 2026 I’m ready to support Providence After School Alliance on March 31, 2026 during 401 Gives 2026. Learn more about Providence After School Alliance and all the other organizations participating in 401 Gives 2026.

📣Join PASA for 401 Gives! Starting March 31st at 6am to April 1st at 6pm, you'll have the opportunity to support youth across Providence by donating during one of Rhode Island's largest days of giving. Your gift will power transportation, partnerships with local experts, and the coordination that makes hundreds of hands-on experiences available to young people throughout the year, from baseball diamonds to campfire cooking to debate club.

In other words: you’re not just funding a program. You’re powering opportunity across a whole city.

🎁Donate here: https://www.401gives.org/organizations/providence-after-school-alliance

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📣PASA Launches National Search for Executive Director📣

The search for our next Executive Director is being led by Eos Transition Partners. You can help us spread the word by sharing this post!

As longtime friends of PASA, you've been with us through two decades of growth and transformation. You know what keeps us showing up every day after school: seeing a middle schooler who "doesn't do nature stuff" end up knee-deep in the Woonasquatucket with binoculars, completely absorbed.

Moments like these are possible because PASA brings together schools, community-based organizations, city leadership, and families to create a dynamic and high-quality out-of-school time ecosystem across Providence. Whether you’ve been part of this work as a partner, volunteer, funder, school staff person, or family member who trusted us with your young person’s time, you’ve helped build a system that serves more than 1,200 youth each year.

Together, we’ve expanded access to high-quality after-school and summer learning that builds confidence and life skills, supports academic and economic outcomes, and established PASA and Providence as a national model for how cities can invest in adolescents beyond the school day.

Now, PASA is starting a new chapter. We’re excited to announce that our board is launching a national search for an Executive Director who will lead this collective work into its third decade—and we wanted you to be among the first to know.

We're looking for someone who will help us keep building on what we've created together, deepening partnerships across the city and forging new ones. But most importantly, someone who will continue to make sure that every Providence adolescent can experience the belonging, discovery, and support that only out-of-school time offers. Whether sailing on Narragansett Bay or hitting the mats in wrestling scrimmages, PASA's AfterZone and Hub programs create moments youth carry with them.

PASA’s work is also deeply integrated into the life of the city and its schools.

"PASA is one of the City’s most important partners in supporting young people and families, and has helped Providence show the country what’s possible when a city invests in young people beyond the school day. PASA strengthens our schools, helps my office advance citywide learning goals, supports working families, and gives students the confidence and skills to imagine new futures for themselves."
— Mayor Brett Smiley, PASA Board Chair

"Providence Public Schools is proud of our partnership with PASA. PASA’s programs help keep students engaged, supported, and connected to learning during the out-of-school hours, reinforcing the social-emotional skills and habits that matter for success in school."
— Dr. Javier Montañez, Providence Public Schools Superintendent, PASA Board Member.

We’re proud of the trust and close relationships we’ve built across Providence with city and school leaders, community partners, and most importantly, with young people and their families.

With that foundation in place, PASA is seeking a values-aligned Executive Director to steward this work into its third decade, strengthen our partnerships, and help shape PASA’s next chapter.

This search is being conducted by Eos Transition Partners. We invite you to share this opportunity with your networks and encourage candidates who are inspired by collaborative leadership and youth-centered systems to learn more.

Sincerely,

PASA’s Executive Director Search Committee
Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Executive Director RI League of Charter Schools
Margaret Farrell, Partner, Partner, Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP
Maryclaire Knight, Principal, Knight Consulting LLC
Carol Landau, Clinical Professor Emerita of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Medicine, Brown University
Genesis Sanchez, Commercial Litigation Associate, Proskauer Rose LLP, Program Alumna

Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance - Providence, RI Providence After School Alliance Seeks an Executive Director About the Organization Established in 2004 by former Mayor David Cicilline and more than 100 community-based afterschool leaders, youth, and educators, PASA is a citywide alliance that provides high-quality, safe, and enriching out-of-scho...