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, [...]
May Volunteer of the Month: Alexandra Brown
Alexandra Brown Is the May 2014 YouthBuild Philly Volunteer of the Month! Alexandra is studying Anthropology and Human Biology at Temple University, and has been volunteering at YouthBuild Philly since January. All of us at YouthBuild thank her for the hours of tutoring and valuable service she’s provided at our school this year! Below, Alexandra reflects on her time at [...]
Photos: Thaddeus Stevens College 2014 Commencement
Did you know that YouthBuild Philly has not one but two Classes of 2014? We're not referring to the early diploma ceremony for Jerome and Aaron last month - and not to our tradition of holding two graduation ceremonies in August and November - but rather to the many YouthBuild alumni graduating from college this year. With [...]
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