Welcome to TriTogether
I’ve been spending a lot of time reaching out to other nonprofits, especially those involved with foster care, for their words of wisdom. One that stuck out to me? Have a blog in your own voice. So, here I am! The 2025-2026 school year is our year of growth, and I can’t wait to share our learnings with all of you. I hope that you will follow us on this journey. Let’s start with the story of TriTogether.
I was a middle and high school science teacher for three years after many years of tutoring, and I realized teaching was very different from tutoring. When I left teaching to become a software engineer, I didn’t want to leave education behind, so I started a for-profit tutoring company that did virtual tutoring for a variety of subjects. It was an awesome adventure! Starting a company, interviewing tutors, finding students… it was all new!
About two years later, talking to an awesome woman with a nonprofit called The Gifted Crate (check them out here), I was inspired to bring high quality tutoring to a population that might have less access and a great need for academic support: kids in foster care. That’s where TriTogether was born. I used the skills I learned from my for-profit company to create something that, even though I’m biased, has the potential to do a lot of good for kids in Massachusetts.
Though every situation is different, many kids in foster care have a lot of change going on. Some of our students have frequently switched schools, many have evolving living situations, and we constantly see signs that they are overwhelmed by everything changing around them. We work with their amazing case workers and foster parents to create something stable. We definitely can’t fix everything, and we certainly don’t try to. What we can do is be a support system for their academic journey.
You might be wondering about our students. How do we find them? What age range are they? What subjects and skills do we help with? The suspense is killing you, I know. Oh well… I need something to keep you coming back! And what about our tutors? How do we recruit them? Who are they? I’ll say that they are amazing volunteers (we are all volunteers), but I’ll save the rest for another time.
If you’re interested in making a referral for a student, getting involved as a volunteer, donating, or learning more because you just can’t wait, please click around our website or email us: info@tritogether.org
Thank you for joining us and for caring about our mission.
— Hannah
P.S. I will be hanging out at the Community Table at Franklin’s Farmers Market this Friday (August 1st) from 2 to 6 PM. Come say hi!