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Last week, YouthBuild Philly’s Young Professionals and Young Friends groups collaborated to host “Conversations Over Coffee" as part of Young Involved Philadelphia’s week of State of Young Philly programming. At this event, YouthBuild Philly students and alumni discussed the issues facing young people in Philadelphia, including: youth homelessness and access to resources violence community change and mentoring [...]

Interested in volunteering at YouthBuild? Let us know! What made you decide to volunteer at YouthBuild? After hearing about YouthBuild from my good friend Marty Brigham and attending one of the graduations a few years ago, I was hoping to be able to get involved with this program knowing it’s accomplishments helping students who are trying [...]

The cloudless sky on Monday was perfect for our latest field trip! Two YouthBuild students in the GreenBuild track - and one GreenBuild alum currently working in solar energy - visited the Saint-Gobain North American headquarters in Malvern, PA.  YouthBuild students attended the ribbon-cutting for the new headquarters last fall, and since then the building has achieved [...]

Last week, a select group of students and alumni in our Customer Service training pipeline visited the Saxbys Headquarters in Center City.  We toured the headquarters' on-site cafe, and met with Director of Operations & Hospitality Ed Doherty and CEO and Founder Nick Bayer. Saxbys has provided training and employment opportunities to YouthBuild students and alumni [...]

This school year marks YouthBuild Philly's 25th year of serving young adults! We are celebrating on the 25th of every month with a new event or announcement. This month, we held an Open House at the student-run cafe. Customer Service students in the Class of 2017 staffed their first-ever shift behind the counter serving guests, and [...]

Last week YouthBuild Philly hosted our first-ever customer service employer roundtable, giving our employment partners and YouthBuild staff a forum to learn from each other about employing opportunity youth in customer service positions. In the last few years, YouthBuild has expanded vocational training to include a Customer Service Excellence Training curriculum, and developed multiple partnerships with local [...]