Today · Saturday 14 November
Kestrel Youth Center

Closed today.

Closed on weekends. Open again Monday at 3.
Earlier
Kestrel Youth CenterMentor hour is on Wednesday this week, not Monday — the gym floor is being refinished. Matched pairs: your mentor has the same message.15 Sep · 2:11 p.m.
Kestrel Youth CenterThe Millrace Middle van was 15 minutes late today — road work on Bridge Street. Same tomorrow, so 3:20 at the bus loop.14 Sep · 3:40 p.m.
Kestrel Youth CenterThree mentor places opened up this week. If you have been waiting, the coordinator is calling in order.11 Sep · 1:00 p.m.
About the center
What this isA free drop-in teen center and a one-to-one mentoring program for ages 11 to 18 in the Millrace neighbourhood, since 2009. Gym, kitchen, homework room, studio. No sign-up to walk in. Dinner every night. Programs →
The front of the center on Millrace Street: a one-storey brick shopfront with the door propped open, a bike rack and the white van at the kerb40 Millrace Street. The door is open from 3; the van is back from the second school run by 3:20.
A minute on the year

Where the money goes, in one minute

Sample video. Kestrel is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels), no young person is shown and no face appears, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.

One afternoon, dinner every night, and what the year added up to — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: 142 regulars, 9,400 dinners, three quarters of spending on the programs.

Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.

Impact and the filings →

Sample messagesEvery message on this page is a sample. On a real site the thread is the center’s real notices, posted by staff from one screen; the replies are pages, not a chatbot, and nobody can type into this board.
What this demo shows

Kestrel Youth Center is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits. Youth arts → · Scholarships → · Community theatre → · Youth soccer → · Counseling → · Animal rescue → · Food pantry → · Free clinic → · Resource directory → · House museum → · Domestic-violence services → · Fair-wage ledger → · Soil cleanup → · Land trust →

01

Notices that become the site

Staff post today’s hours, van and dinner once; the thread, the facts column and the quick answers all read it.

Parents →
02

A referral form with live capacity

Schools, counsellors and courts see a place or a waitlist before they type. Demo mode: it sends nothing.

Refer →
03

The mentor steps, in public

Application, interview, references, background check, training, match — and the re-screen rule. A demo application.

Become a mentor →
04

Numbers with a method

142 regular attendees means 30 or more days, counted at the door. Every metric says how it was counted.

Impact →
05

Closure texts, from the staff home

One screen: write the notice, see who gets it, send. In this demo, nothing is sent.

Open the staff preview →
06

Financials a funder can check

Three 990s, the audit and the IRS letter on the page, with a line on what each is.

Financials →