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7 people are interested
Kids After-school Activities Planner
ORGANIZATION: EMERGE Community Development (EMERGE)
Please visit the new page to apply.
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7 people are interested
Passionate about working with youth?
Bring your patience and good interpersonal skills to assist in organizing activities like: chess, karate, yoga, painting, step/dance, storytelling, etc., to EMERGE Villages (or Camden Apartments) and volunteer with us through the Link program.
The EMERGELink program seeks several individuals to help provide or help facilitate on-site summer programming for approx. 25 kids ages 5-14 (for both small and large groups).
EMERGELink is a housing program that supports chronically homeless families and their children.
We invite you to partner with us in reaching a rather simple goal: providing youth overcoming homelessness with nurturing care and well-rounded activities designed to boost school performance and attendance, and build social, emotional and leadership skills. We believe this can help break cycles of familial poverty and downward social mobility.
Thank you for your time!
If interested, please fill out our Volunteer Interest Survey at: http://www.emerge-mn.org/GetInvolved/Volunteer.aspx
More opportunities with EMERGE Community Development (EMERGE)
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About EMERGE Community Development (EMERGE)
Location:
1834 Emerson Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to reveal the potential in people and communities through skill building, employment, and economic opportunity
Description
EMERGE is a community and workforce development organization based in North Minneapolis and Cedar-Riverside - neighborhoods that have struggled with some of the metro area’s highest rates of unemployment and most concentrated poverty.
Each year we help thousands of people access jobs, financial coaching, housing, and other key services along pathways to brighter futures. Our services are available to anyone who needs them, but many people we serve are facing significant obstacles. Some are re-entering the community after periods of incarceration. Others are overcoming generational poverty or are starting over in the US as New Americans and former refugees.
In 2016, EMERGE served 2,996 people: 784 gained jobs, 341 participated in career training, 306 people learned financial skills, and 85 formerly homeless families were housed.We offer adult and youth workforce services, combined with a range of other services, tailored to the specific needs of the participant. Every year the people we serve are approximately 90% people of color; 95% low-income with more than 60% under the poverty-line. About one-third are overcoming a criminal background; and 15% are over 21 and do not have a high school diploma/GED.
Overall, we facilitate life change in areas of our community where jobs are scarce, poverty levels are high, and racial/economic disparities prevail. EMERGE helps people facing significant obstacles redefine themselves. We are committed to creating better jobs, better lives, and better community.
CAUSE AREAS
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4643 Lyndale Ave. N.Camden ApartmentsMinneapolis, MN 55412
DATE POSTED
March 17, 2017
SKILLS
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REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Summer Break Mpls School Calendar