Graduation 2014: Highlights, Photos, and Speeches
On August 29, 122 YouthBuild students graduated in front of friends and family at a ceremony held in Zion Baptist Church's sanctuary on North Broad Street. Hundreds of guests attended, as well as Class of 2015 applicants currently going through Mental Toughness Training. We were honored to welcome Marcus Allen, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters [...]
Graduate Profile: Larry, Class of 2013
With the Class of 2014's graduation ceremony less than 3 weeks away, we decided to check in with alums from last year to see what they've been up to since their graduation in August 2013. Here's a profile of Larry , an outstanding Class of 2013 alum who remains motivated to succeed after graduating from YouthBuild Philly: [...]
June Volunteer of the Month: Sirrah Williams
Sirrah Williams is the June 2014 YouthBuild Philly Volunteer of the Month! Sirrah works at the Wharton School of Business and has been volunteering at YouthBuild since March 2014. In addition to helping out in Ms. Willa’s Language Arts class, Sirrah also helped coordinate this year’s partnership between YouthBuild Philly and Wharton’s annual Charity Fashion Show. She [...]
Students Attend US2020 Announcement
In late May, YouthBuild Philly students attended a press event at the Franklin Institute, where Mayor Nutter announced that Philadelphia was one of seven U.S. cities to with the US2020 City Competition. With funding from this competition, the Philadelphia US2020 Coalition will develop innovative models for increasing the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) [...]
YouthBuild Philly Receives Preservation Alliance Award
In June, a group of students and staff from YouthBuild Philly attended the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia’s Preservation Achievement Awards, an annual event recognizing important historical preservation work being done throughout the Philadelphia region. This year, the Preservation Alliance honored YouthBuild Philly with the John Andrew Gallery Community Action Award, for renovating 82 homes since [...]
Students Write: “Dear YouthBuild…”
This year, students in Ms. Willa’s Language Arts class spent the academic year working on ethnography projects that studied a place of their choosing. Ethnography, students learned, is a form of social research that observes and analyzes the everyday patterns and practices of a group. This particular assignment – which Ms. Willa called “Sense of Place, [...]
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