Jerome, Class of 2014: “A green house is one less thing for a community to worry about.”
Earlier this month, Saint-Gobain hosted a media day on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin parkway to promote their "Future Sensations" installation and announce their renewed funding of YouthBuild green building initiatives as well as a new YouthBuild school that will open in South Africa. At the event, YouthBuild Philly graduate Jerome Kinard (Class of 2014) delivered the following remarks about how YouthBuild's [...]
Vote for YouthBuild Philly to Win $25,000 in Neighborhood Assistance Funding!
Vote here! Great news: YouthBuild Philadelphia has the chance to build a safer, stronger, and better educated community through our dropout reengagement efforts, thanks to the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program! We are a finalist for a $25,000 to support our mission of supporting former high school dropouts to become self-sufficient responsible, contributing members and leaders [...]
Congratulations Larry, Kawone, and Zurrell!
YouthBuild Philly's graduation ceremony is still a couple of months away, but that didn't keep us from enjoying commencement season this weekend! As more YouthBuild alumni enter postsecondary education and pursue their college degrees, we now have more graduates from the YouthBuild family to congratulate each May. Zurrell Toney '09 with Executive Assistant Eva Lexie and Director of [...]
Photos: Spring Break 2015
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust In March, a group of YouthBuild students and staff traveled to Utuado, Puerto Rico to participate in volunteer projects and explore the surrounding area. Many YouthBuild students have never traveled outside of the Philadelphia region - much [...]
Photos: MLK Day at McMichael Elementary with Starbucks!
For the past two years, YouthBuild Philly staff and students have commemorated the legacy of Dr. King on MLK Day by repainting elementary schools (see 2013, 2014 posts). Last Monday, we continued this tradition by repainting the hallways, stairways, gym and auditorium at McMichael Elementary in the Mantua section of the city. In some of the school's [...]
Business Administration Scholars profiled in SHARE Food Newsletter
This school year, YouthBuild Philly students in the Business Administration track began volunteering at the SHARE food warehouse in North Philadelphia to develop their administration, operations and customer service skills while serving their community. In this month's community newsletter, SHARE highlighted some of the BAS students who volunteered over the holidays on one of the winter's coldest days. We are [...]
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