Student startup brings citywide math tutoring to New Haven
New Haven Counts, a tutoring initiative cofounded by Ron Coleman ’25 in 2018, now coordinates more than 100 math tutoring hours each week across New Haven schools and youth organizations.
After shutting down all direct service programs in schools and libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization resumed operations in 2022, and in 2023 it became part of the New Haven Tutoring Initiative, which has since enabled rapid growth. Among the organization’s staff are 20 New Haven high school students (former volunteers completing between 15 and 50 hours of community service) currently serving as paid interns. The organization plans to expand to 25 interns this spring. Central to New Haven Counts’s mission is the belief that sustainable community change must come from within.
Course sparks an interactive, online community
The online version of Professor Teresa Chahine’s Social Entrepreneurship course has created an online community of learners looking to make a difference. Since launching on the learning platform Coursera in December 2023, the course has grown in numbers, and last year Chahine helped participants establish regular feedback sessions during which they can connect with and support each other.
The goal of the Coursera course, which Chahine created with the help of the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, is to make the tools of social innovation entrepreneurship widely available, and free, to anyone interested. Students learn how to identify and define a social problem and then build a solution—whether through launching a venture, getting involved in volunteering and activism, or working within an existing organization.
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