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SquashBusters Inc.
795 Columbus Ave.    
Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts  02120  
   
Non-Profit Organization [Non School]
 

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Employer Website: http://www.squashbusters.org
 
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Employer Description
 
SquashBusters challenges and nurtures urban youth - as students, athletes, and citizens - so that they recognize and fulfill their greatest potential in life. 

Founded in 1996 by former squash professional Greg Zaff, SquashBusters set out to connect two seemingly different worlds by introducing the sport of squash to young people in urban public schools.

By connecting these worlds, SquashBusters would provide young people with a bridge to college success, broaden their access to opportunities, and improve their health and fitness.

The program was launched with 24 students from Cambridge and Roxbury. For the first seven years, practices took place at the Boston YMCA, the Harvard Club, and Harvard University.

In 2003, SquashBusters partnered with Northeastern University to build a youth center on its campus. The facility allowed SquashBusters to increase its enrollment and introduce a high school component to the program.


In 2012, SquashBusters expanded to Lawrence, using borrowed courts and classrooms at Brooks School and Phillips Academy. In 2017, SquashBusters launched a third program site in Providence, Rhode Island, thanks to a facility partnership with Moses Brown School.

More than twenty years later, SquashBusters has developed a replicable model for changing the lives of young people.


There are now urban squash programs in more than 20 cities worldwide, including New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Oakland, Cleveland, Johannesburg and Toronto.

These programs collectively serve 2,500 young people all over the world with the guidance of the Squash and Education Alliance (SEA).
 
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Diversity Mission Statement
 

“Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably” (NAC International Perspectives: Women and Global Solidarity).

SquashBusters is a caring community that strives to celebrate and honor diversity, equity and inclusion as tenets of all that we do for and with our constituents and ourselves.  Our organization and program were founded on noble values.  When our founder, Greg Zaff, speaks of what has allowed SquashBusters to succeed, those values are always mentioned: lots of love, attention to kids, commitment, and treating others as human beings.

However, our organization and program have been built within the greater context of Boston and the United States, where the impacts of systemic racism are real.  SquashBusters operates within a society that is set up in a way that works better for some than others.  We strive to be a program that works for all, and to be a welcoming organization where everyone feels safe and comfortable to be themself.

We commit to…

  • Being anti-racist.
  • Implementing strategies that dismantle racism within all aspects of our organization by identifying, discussing and challenging issues.
  • Creating an environment where everyone knows they are valued, regardless of race or the color of their skin.
  • Learning from each other’s lifestyle, culture, ethnicity, challenges, and successes.   

We believe in an intersectional approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion, where all of the various forms of power/oppression are addressed, challenged, and dismantled.  Our primary focus is on racism because we live in a society that is so resistant to, and uncomfortable with, discussions of racism.