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1 person is interested
Join the Young Professional Board
ORGANIZATION: Up World Inc.
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1 person is interested
About
Our mission for Up World Inc. is to motivate, empower, engage, and encourage young men and women through Life Literacy & mentoring and various other resources. We will foster a positive environment to support and enhance their personal growth and development as young adults. We will challenge them to build visions and goals for themselves and to ultimately become successful, responsible, and mature young adults in our community.
Why we’re here
If you are in your 20s, 30s or 40s, and you wish to become involved with a nonprofit board, the Young Professional Board of Upworld Inc provides fun, philanthropic opportunities for you to volunteer and support programming for historically marginalized students in the Chicagoland area.
The Young Professional Board experience builds awareness, hosts volunteer events and promotes fundraising for Upworld inc two-year program.
How you can help!
Membership in Upworld Inc Young Professional Board includes attending quarterly meetings either in person or via teleconference, social events, and volunteer opportunities, as well as a small financial contribution. Not only will joining our board help you network with professionals in your age group, but it will also help you build your resume and prepare you for future involvement on a board of directors. Most importantly, you can support the Upworld Inc mission: helping Chicagoland’s
historically marginalized students build, connect and obtain better lives.
For more information or to join, please email info@upworldinc.org
More opportunities with Up World Inc.
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Up World Inc.
Location:
6430 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60636, US
Mission Statement
Up World, Inc. seeks to serve the historically marginalized, often forgotten youth of our communities to create a brighter future through education, empowerment, and social entrepreneurship. We aim to foster a positive environment with a focus on personal responsibility to enable young people to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in their professional and personal lives, and to gain a global perspective that will help them to become not only successful and conscious citizens of their communities, but also citizens of the world.
Description
We seek to defeat the lack of access scarcity of opportunity and hopelessness often exists among those young people who have been disadvantaged as a result of societal conditions. We will break the cycle of dependency and develop self-sufficiency and life skills.
Our participants will develop a functioning business that will not only contribute to their personal wealth, growth, and advancement but will aim to positively impact the community by creating employment and education opportunities and spearheading charitable endeavors.
Our primary educational focus is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education. It is our belief that STEM-based education is the best route for career success.
Social Enterprise: Entrepreneurship social enterprise building are pivotal to our program. As an integral part of their studies, participants work in targeted labs using the education they have gained from our program as well as their own skills and creativity to design and produce a useful and saleable product.
International Exposure: We aim to educate our participants in international business, diversity, and culture and facilitate their adaptation skills so that they can be successful in their endeavors by expanding them beyond international boundaries.
CAUSE AREAS
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6430 S Ashland AveChicago, IL 60636
DATE POSTED
November 19, 2017
SKILLS
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REQUIREMENTS
- We will work with your schedule