Getting Ready for MLK Day 2017!
Preparations for our annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service are in full swing! Last week, YouthBuild Philly's Community Project Coordinators traveled to Ziegler Elementary in Northeast Philadelphia to begin stenciling the murals that our students and volunteers will paint next Monday. We're excited to report that Ziegler students are already looking forward to the [...]
News From Our National Network
Monday's edition of The New York Times featured a profile of Dorothy Stoneman, who founded the first YouthBuild program in East Harlem in 1978. Over the next 38 years, Dorothy's vision - engaging young people in rebuilding their lives and their community at the same time - grew to encompass 260 programs in the U.S. and 80 international [...]
Women in Leadership Conference at TD University
Twenty women representing YouthBuild's Business Administration program and the Young Professionals extracurricular group traveled to Mt. Laurel, NJ earlier this week to attend a Women in Leadership conference at TD University. The conference was hosted by women representing TD Bank leadership in the region, and featured networking as well as career development activities. Students and TD volunteers [...]
Celebrating Thanksgiving as a YB Family
Celebrating Thanksgiving as a chosen family is one of our most cherished traditions here at YouthBuild! We celebrate Thanksgiving a day early every year with a Thanksgiving lunch - prepared and served by staff - followed by a party and games. In addition to staff and students (and students' children), we often have great volunteers in [...]
40 Students Graduate in November Ceremony
We love graduation ceremonies of every size - large, small, and anywhere in between. At YouthBuild, our focus on students as individuals means that each student's completion is a milestone for our school. Each diploma-accepting smile is its own special event. On Tuesday, November 22 we celebrated forty times as the Fall School cohort of the Class of [...]
25 ways to support YouthBuild students during the holiday season
At YouthBuild, we know that transformation comes from small gestures, adding up over time. For example, at YouthBuild: Each day our students come to school, they build new habits and skills for long-term success. A hug - or even just a well-timed high five - can turn a bad day around. One field trip can change a young person's [...]
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