Celebrating 25 Years with an Open House
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 [...]
YouthBuild Hosts Employer Roundtable
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 [...]
PHOTOS: Creating Community Space with GSK
A crew of volunteers from GSK joined forces with Advanced Construction and Green Build students at the worksite yesterday, leading to great progress at our West Rockland project . We have partnered with GSK volunteers in the Philly region for several years, and are always impressed with the work ethic, focus, and teamwork that they bring [...]
Financial Education with TD Bank
Employees and representatives from TD Bank helped YouthBuild Philly students learn about building good credit and other consumer finance topics during a day-long workshop at YouthBuild on October 4. Approximately 25 TD Bank staff came to YouthBuild Philly to show the young women in YouthBuild Philly's Business Administration Scholars program how to use the bank's new [...]
Celebrating our 25th Year!
YouthBuild Philly started in 1992 as a single-classroom program in a church basement on Catharine Street. Sixteen young people received their diplomas at our first-ever commencement ceremony. Back then, YouthBuild exclusively offered construction training to students. We were small but still mighty back then, and completed the renovation of three affordable South Philly homes within the year. [...]
Opportunity Youth Summit Held in Philadelphia
On September 30 YouthBuild Philly students attended a day-long Civic Engagement Summit organized by Opportunity Youth United, which drew young adults from low income, urban, and tribal communities across the country to Philadelphia. The panels and workshops were designed to help young people think about issues affecting their community and what steps were needed to lead [...]
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