From Virtual to In-person: 2021 Graduation
August 27, 2021 – On August 20, YouthBuild Philly held its 29th annual graduation ceremony at the historic Dell Music Center where we celebrated the accomplishments of 144 young adults. This year’s graduation was special as it marked the end of an unprecedented academic year, and our first full-fledged in-person commencement ceremony since the start [...]
“21 Days of Reflection”
As YouthBuild's Class of 2021 nears their August graduation date, we're excited to share a student-created '21 Days of Reflection' project with our community. A select group of student leaders identified a number of excerpts from their peers' Personal Power Reflections, assignments completed throughout the year that encouraged students to reflect on their growth as [...]
Help Others Be #inspiredbyyb
Help others be #InspiredbyYB! DONATE TODAY. Since March, YouthBuild Philly’s core values of Respect, Excellence and Perseverance have been tried and tested in so many different ways, but our staff and Board members - and above all our alumni and students - have risen to these challenges and continued to show up and show out [...]
#Inspiredbyyb
Help others be #InspiredbyYB! DONATE today. Since 1992, YouthBuild Philly has fostered a supportive environment focused on personal development for young people, anchored by a commitment to community. Through large group efforts to individual projects - and all sizes and forms in between - nearly 3,000 young people have completed over one million hours of [...]
a Socially distanced celebration
September 4, 2020- Every year YouthBuild Philly comes together to celebrate hundreds of graduates for their hard work and dedication. This year was no different, except due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the celebration required a bit more distance than usual. In true YouthBuild fashion, staff, students, family and loved ones came together masked and ready [...]
Black lives matter, now and always
Dear YouthBuild Philly Supporters:ALL Black Lives Matter in our school, in our community and in our world. This truth is foundational to our shared YouthBuild community and to our shared humanity. This has been a very intense and traumatic time for YouthBuild Philly, especially as our community cannot physically connect to embrace and affirm each other as [...]
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