Special Guest Speakers from the ABC House Co-Directors Tem Blessed and Nancita Alejandro, Board Member Rika Clement, and scholar residents. Thursday May 22 7:00 – 8:30 PM, via Zoom Register here
League of Women Voters / Judy Brooks Series
Gospel Choir Concert: Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
To benefit Amherst A Better Chance (ABC) Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst April 29th, 2025 7:30 p.m. Featuring: The Amherst Area Gospel Choir Amherst Regional High School Hurricane Singers UMass Gospel Choir Before the concert: Please gather with other ABC community friends and meet the ABC scholars at a Welcome Reception. Join us for light refreshments […]
Holiday Networking Sip & Shop
November 28, 2023 5:30pm–8:30pm Mercedes-Benz of Springfield 295 Burnett Rd, Chicopee, MA 01020 Join us for a festive evening of networking, sipping, and shopping at the Mercedes-Benz of Springfield! Get into the holiday spirit as you connect with fellow professionals, sip on delicious drinks, and shop for unique gifts…for yourself or others. 🙂 This in-person […]
Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce 2021 Community Service Award Goes to Sid and Isabel Ferreira!
Sid and Isabel Ferreira with ABC Board President Keith Nesbitt We owe a great deal of our success over the past 5 years to Sid and Isabel Ferreira, resident directors extraordinaire. But the Ferreira’s involvement with and support of Amherst ABC goes back almost 30 years. In that time we could not have asked for […]
Amherst A Better Chance Dedicates Bench in Honor of ABC Alum Keith Hill ‘81
On a beautiful day in late September, the Amherst A Better Chance (ABC) community celebrated the life and legacy of Keith Hill, Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) and ABC alumnus, Class of 1981. Members of Keith’s family (his wife Linda, daughter McKenzie, and sister Tyjuana) were in attendance from Virginia and Indiana for the dedication […]
Welcome to our new Resident Directors
Please join us in welcoming Temistocles Ferreira and Nancita Alejandro, the Resident Directors of the Amherst ABC House! Together Tem and Nancita have 45 years of combined experience working with youth of color and economically disadvantaged young men. Temistocles has worked as the Residential Director (RD) for the Upward Bound Summer Program at UMass Dartmouth. […]
Quynh’s Funky Flower Fundraiser
With so much time at home during lockdown/COVID, Quyhn and her father learned how to create flowers using an assortment of paper headed to the recycling center. She used the proceeds from the hundreds of flowers they’d made to support causes dear to her heart–Amherst A Better Chance and the Amherst Survival Center. Here she […]
Joys…and Sorrows
Amherst ABC alumnus Kleaver Cruz ’07 has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?” Amherst A Better Chance alum Keith Hill ’81 died unexpectedly this summer.
A Fully-funded Summer Enrichment Experience Is Now Part of the Amherst A Better Chance Program for Every ABC Scholar!
Thanks to the generosity of two local donors, Amherst A Better Chance is now able to provide funding and logistical support for each scholar to participate in one summer enrichment program while attending Amherst Regional High School (either between sophomore and junior year or between junior and senior year).
Amherst College Magazine Features “Dream House” about the College’s Partnership with Amherst A Better Chance
Downstairs at the Frost Library archives, you can find all the bound Olio yearbooks lined up just so. Browse through them in sequential order, and you fall into a kind of time-travel fugue state: two centuries of in-jokes, plus an unsettling montage of fashion and hair choices. Crew cuts in one decade give way to […]