CCP Summer Bridge Closing Celebration
Yesterday, we celebrated the third - and biggest! - year of YouthBuild's innovative summer bridge partnership with the Community College of Philadelphia. Like the Thaddeus Stevens Bridge Program, the CCP Summer Bridge offers YouthBuild students the opportunity to experience college life and academics, and even earn college credits, before they've earned their diploma. This year, 45 [...]
Thaddeus Stevens College Summer Bridge Closing Celebration
A unique feature of YouthBuild we like to advertise to prospective students is that dropouts who apply to YouthBuild could be enrolled in college courses - or even living on a college campus - less than a year after applying. Students who apply (in July, let's say), are accepted, and complete their academic requirements on [...]
Celebrating the Page 2 Stage Vol.2 Book Launch!
Yesterday was AmeriCorps Member and Community Project Coordinator Sara Graybeal's last day at YouthBuild - and, she said, she couldn't think of a more appropriate place to be than in the CCR (YB lingo lesson: that's the Community Celebration Room) with students and alumni who have participated in the slam poetry group Page 2 Stage. Sara [...]
YB Student Organizes Awards Ceremony at Project HOME
While volunteering at Project HOME's 1515 Fairmount residence, YouthBuild student Dominique had an idea: What if the organization gave out awards recognizing the residents for their growth and resiliency? Project HOME empowers people to break the cycle of homelessness through housing and services, and the 1515 Fairmount residence is home to men and women in recovery after [...]
Welding partnership heats up YouthBuild students’ summer
It’s quiet in the building this week! As in past years, the school quiets down during the summer while students participate in bridge programs with outside organizations. This year we have students taking classes at Community College of Philadelphia, Esperanza College, and Peirce College. Next week, a group of students leaves for Lancaster, PA to attend [...]
Breaking Ground on Wingohocking St.!
Yesterday we celebrated the launch of the Building Our Future Together partnership's second renovation in Philadelphia with a groundbreaking ceremony, block party, and volunteer event! The next Building Our Future Together project in Philadelphia is on Wingohocking Street in the Nicetown section of North Philly, only blocks from the LEED Platinum house on Greene St. that [...]
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