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Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/09/01 11:02:21 -0400
Organization: Hope For Youth
Dates: Sep 01, 2010 - Feb 01, 2011
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Children & Youth
Position will include various community outreach opportunities. General support needed to update facebook, twitter and all other social media outlets. [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:42 -0400
Organization: Teen Moms' Friends Club, Inc.
Dates: Aug 23, 2010 - Aug 23, 2011
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Education & Literacy, Children & Youth, Community
Responsible for writing proposals for both unrestricted operating revenue and restricted projects and for submitting timely and accurate reports for all existing grant funded projects. Major Respon... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:43 -0400
Organization: Bi-habawalk Inc
Dates: Oct 08, 2010 - Jan 28, 2011
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Children & Youth, Community, Arts & Culture
The mission of Bi-Habawalk Inc (BHI) is to serve young people in economically challenged New York City communities. Our aim is to stimulate personal growth, counter destructive peer pressures, and ... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:43 -0400
Organization: Shema Kolainu - Hear Our Voices
Dates: Aug 20, 2010 - Sep 02, 2010
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Disabled, Children & Youth
Our non-profit school and center for children with autism and related disabilities is currently in a contest on Facebook hosted by Kohl's Cares. They are giving away $500,000 each to the top 20 sch... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:43 -0400
Organization: BioVoyage Institute, Inc
Dates: this is an Ongoing opportunity
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Education & Literacy, Children & Youth
Who we are: We are an expanding interactive educational institution with a focus on Multimedia Games Learning for Children, and looking for experienced and innovative Game Developers with strong in... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:43 -0400
Organization: Attachment Parenting International
Dates: this is an Ongoing opportunity
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Children & Youth, Advocacy & Human Rights
Reports to Communications - Aimee Lou Dee and to me Hours - 1-2/week Advocacy Team The API Advocacy Team will work support API's mission and strategic direction by serving as an advocate for API's ... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 01:01:45 -0400
Organization: BioVoyage Institute, Inc
Dates: May 12, 2010 - Dec 28, 2010
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Education & Literacy, Children & Youth
Job Title : Web Developer (Education\Scientific) Our Mission : Our mission is to advance knowledge and educate ALL students (home schools, charter schools, private schools and public schools), teac... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/23 03:01:47 -0400
Organization: Henson Arts In Learning
Dates: Feb 22, 2010 - Sep 15, 2010
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Children & Youth, Community, Arts & Culture
Identifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding corporations, corporate foundations, and private foundations. Incumbent is actively engaged in working to establish long-term partnerships and st... [Read More]
Source Site: VolunteerMatch
Published: 2010/08/27 15:02:01 -0400
Organization: Attachment Parenting International
Dates: this is an Ongoing opportunity
Location: this is Virtual Opportunity
Categories: Women, Children & Youth, Advocacy & Human Rights
AP Month Event Manager Objective: To manage the annual AP Month activities. Responsibilities: Create and manage all documentation and content related to AP Month. Administer APM Central website. Co... [Read More]
Source Site: Twitter
Published: 2010/08/06 19:20:04 -0400
#TakeAction to reward the unsung heroes in youth sports. Nominate a great coach in Play It Forward. http://bit.ly/playitforward
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/04 17:02:18 -0400
Do you enjoy working with youth, cooking and nutrition? If so, we've got the opportunity for you!
City of Dreams is looking for a volunteer to assist us in our after school Cooking & Nutrition Workshops.
Who: www.cityofdreams.org
What: Help with curriculum development and workshop facilitation for youth ages 9-13.
When: Wednesday's & Thursday's from 3:30pm-5:30pm (three month commitment starting mid-August)
Where: Bayview (1030 Oakdale Ave, San Francisco 94124)
Why: It's a fun way to share your skills and teach youth!
We are a non-profit program that helps youth living in low income housing build brighter futures, through mentorship and youth development. As volunteer based program, we expand the perspectives of youth living in low-income housing and empower them to make healthy life choices. We operate in the San Francisco’s Public Housing Communities and teach 12 core life lessons that help youth transform how they approach school, home and ultimately how they approach success. Youth participate in 48+ experiential learning events throughout the year, engage in one-on-one mentorship and will soon offer after school programming.
We provide mentorship to youth living in low income housing between the ages of 10-18; focus on Youth Development through experiential learning and mentorship; engage youth in mentorship with caring adults; empower youth to identify dreams and set goals; encourage youth to give back to their community; and provide a Jr. Mentorship Program for youth who have been involved a minimum of two years. www.cityofdreams.org
Requirements:
Experience working with low income youth.
Experience with cooking/nutrition.
Pass a Department of Justice background check.
Vehicle (not necessary, but helpful for getting to/from site)
City of Dreams is looking for a volunteer to assist us in our after school Cooking & Nutrition Workshops.
Who: www.cityofdreams.org
What: Help with curriculum development and workshop facilitation for youth ages 9-13.
When: Wednesday's & Thursday's from 3:30pm-5:30pm (three month commitment starting mid-August)
Where: Bayview (1030 Oakdale Ave, San Francisco 94124)
Why: It's a fun way to share your skills and teach youth!
We are a non-profit program that helps youth living in low income housing build brighter futures, through mentorship and youth development. As volunteer based program, we expand the perspectives of youth living in low-income housing and empower them to make healthy life choices. We operate in the San Francisco’s Public Housing Communities and teach 12 core life lessons that help youth transform how they approach school, home and ultimately how they approach success. Youth participate in 48+ experiential learning events throughout the year, engage in one-on-one mentorship and will soon offer after school programming.
We provide mentorship to youth living in low income housing between the ages of 10-18; focus on Youth Development through experiential learning and mentorship; engage youth in mentorship with caring adults; empower youth to identify dreams and set goals; encourage youth to give back to their community; and provide a Jr. Mentorship Program for youth who have been involved a minimum of two years. www.cityofdreams.org
Requirements:
Experience working with low income youth.
Experience with cooking/nutrition.
Pass a Department of Justice background check.
Vehicle (not necessary, but helpful for getting to/from site)
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/20 16:03:08 -0400
Youth Development and Education Positions
The final application deadline for fall, 2010 programs is September 1st. Applications received after this date will be placed on a wait list and accepted on a case by case basis. Early applications receive priority. Apply Today.
See below for 2010-2011 application instructions and program start dates.
Our Year Our Voice: FSD and the International Year of Youth
Today, youth represent 18% of the global population or 1.2 billion people. 87% of youth live in developing countries, facing challenges brought about by limited access to healthcare, education, employment, and economic opportunities. Struggling families often need their children to produce immediate income and the subsequent denial of education creates a vicious poverty trap. Recognizing the importance of providing young people with academic and vocational tools that allow them to be contributing members of their societies, FSD partners with community-based organizations (CBOs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to provide an array of services to youth and their families.
In commemoration of the International Year of Youth, we at FSD hope you take a moment to consider the value of young peoples’ energy, imagination and initiatives, and recognize youth action as a crucial component in enhancing peace and development around the world. As an FSD Intern/Volunteer you have the opportunity to advocate for Youth and implement projects such as…
Vocational Skills Building for Youth in Masaka, Uganda | August 2010
Quick Fact: Listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the fourth highest global health risk, Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) kills 1.5 million people every year (more than malaria) and is responsible for over half of annual pneumonia deaths.
The kitchen at Kyabakuza Primary School (KPS) sits in a small room that lacks ventilation. With five stoves burning each day, the smoke quickly fills the kitchen air and creeps into neighboring classrooms. The indoor air pollution at KPS puts the cook and her children, as well as the teachers and students at grave risk for acute respiratory, cardiovascular and ocular diseases. Furthermore, the kitchen occupies a room that KPS could utilize for much needed classroom space.
In response, FSD funded an after-school program that teaches students at KPS practical, hands-on skills. The program’s first project is building a new school kitchen with proper ventilation and using locally sourced materials. Using cassava flour, a cheaper and equally durable alternative to cement, the students will learn cassava construction techniques. KPS is already planning the next project –a school garden that will grow vegetables to provide more nutrient rich meals for students and teachers.
This project exemplifies the types of projects FSD supports–it is locally driven, economically and regionally viable, and environmentally sustainable. Moreover, Kyabakuza Primary School serves as an example for surrounding schools, as they can learn from and easily replicate this project.
Check out other projects FSD interns are currently involved with here: http://fsdinternational.org/opportunities
As an FSD Intern you will…
About FSD
The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) funds critical initiatives around the world that enhance the capacity of community based organizations (CBOs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to address local health, social, environmental, and economic issues. FSD programs include:
The final application deadline for fall, 2010 programs is September 1st. Applications received after this date will be placed on a wait list and accepted on a case by case basis. Early applications receive priority. Apply Today.
See below for 2010-2011 application instructions and program start dates.
Our Year Our Voice: FSD and the International Year of Youth
Today, youth represent 18% of the global population or 1.2 billion people. 87% of youth live in developing countries, facing challenges brought about by limited access to healthcare, education, employment, and economic opportunities. Struggling families often need their children to produce immediate income and the subsequent denial of education creates a vicious poverty trap. Recognizing the importance of providing young people with academic and vocational tools that allow them to be contributing members of their societies, FSD partners with community-based organizations (CBOs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to provide an array of services to youth and their families.
In commemoration of the International Year of Youth, we at FSD hope you take a moment to consider the value of young peoples’ energy, imagination and initiatives, and recognize youth action as a crucial component in enhancing peace and development around the world. As an FSD Intern/Volunteer you have the opportunity to advocate for Youth and implement projects such as…
Vocational Skills Building for Youth in Masaka, Uganda | August 2010
Quick Fact: Listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the fourth highest global health risk, Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) kills 1.5 million people every year (more than malaria) and is responsible for over half of annual pneumonia deaths.
The kitchen at Kyabakuza Primary School (KPS) sits in a small room that lacks ventilation. With five stoves burning each day, the smoke quickly fills the kitchen air and creeps into neighboring classrooms. The indoor air pollution at KPS puts the cook and her children, as well as the teachers and students at grave risk for acute respiratory, cardiovascular and ocular diseases. Furthermore, the kitchen occupies a room that KPS could utilize for much needed classroom space.
In response, FSD funded an after-school program that teaches students at KPS practical, hands-on skills. The program’s first project is building a new school kitchen with proper ventilation and using locally sourced materials. Using cassava flour, a cheaper and equally durable alternative to cement, the students will learn cassava construction techniques. KPS is already planning the next project –a school garden that will grow vegetables to provide more nutrient rich meals for students and teachers.
This project exemplifies the types of projects FSD supports–it is locally driven, economically and regionally viable, and environmentally sustainable. Moreover, Kyabakuza Primary School serves as an example for surrounding schools, as they can learn from and easily replicate this project.
Check out other projects FSD interns are currently involved with here: http://fsdinternational.org/opportunities
As an FSD Intern you will…
- Work side-by-side with a Community-Based Organization specializing in one more of the following development sectors: health, youth and education, women’s empowerment, microfinance, human rights, community development and/or environmental issues.
- Receive intensive training in skills essential to sustainable development, such as: community asset mapping, needs assessments, collaborative project design, grant writing, and project monitoring and evaluation.
- Gain grant writing and project management experience through designing and implementing a community-driven development project in partnership with your host organization.
- Access the FSD Alumni Network upon your return home to connect with like-minded individuals who help one another to reach their academic and professional goals through networking and regional events. FSD Alumni have won internationally renowned scholarships, studied at prestigious graduate schools, worked for prominent international development organizations, and have even started their own grassroots organizations.
About FSD
The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) funds critical initiatives around the world that enhance the capacity of community based organizations (CBOs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to address local health, social, environmental, and economic issues. FSD programs include:
- Capacity Building: Our professional field staff provides on-site training and networking opportunities to more than 300 community-based organizations worldwide.
- Training Programs Abroad: FSD provides comprehensive training and immersion programs for interns and volunteers who seek hands-on development experience.
- Grantmaking: Donations and grants given to FSD are used to support sustainable projects led by our partner organizations.
- Engaged Philanthropy: FSD Giving Circles organize groups of donors who pool their time, talent, and resources to make international grants to our partner organizations.
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/24 16:02:29 -0400
Youth Challenge America (YCA) is recruiting a team of eight Youth Ambassadors between the ages of 18 and 30 with diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds for an eight-week focused youth development project in Costa Rica from January to March 2011.
This exciting opportunity will include a pre-project distance-learning program, followed by an intensive eight-week placement in Costa Rica. While in Costa Rica, you will work with YCA’s partner, Reto Juvenil Internacional, to further the reach and relevance of their youth development program.
Key Project Activities May Include:
• Support the Community Development Association in the construction of community infrastructure
• Mobilize young people and conduct basic literacy and ESL training for local youth
• Respond to community defined needs by collaborating with local stakeholders to design and implement local development initiatives
• Facilitate youth involvement in program activities, with a particular emphasis on leadership development and peer-to-peer education
• Mainstream gender equality into all program activities
• Promote Earth Charter principles and raise awareness about the importance of environmental conservation
• Conduct trainings with community members on sexual reproductive health
• Develop and conduct a community needs assessment to identify economic development opportunities
Recommended Skills and Experience:
• Experience in facilitation and community mobilization, preferably with youth
• Background in development, social science, engineering, physical education, teaching, nursing, health sciences or gender studies
• Training, experience or interest in business, youth programming, monitoring and evaluation, and/or international development
• Previous experience teaching English or literacy
• Experience leading workshops
• Experience working with at-risk, marginalized and/or indigenous populations
• Training in gender issues
• Proven effectiveness in cross-cultural settings
• Prior overseas experience an asset
Fundraising Goal:
YCA’s volunteer participants are required to fundraise and/or contribute a minimum of $3,100 USD to contribute to YCA’s global youth development programs worldwide.
What's Covered by YCA:
• Preparatory support and pre-project distance learning
• In-country training
• Modest local accommodations and food
• In-country work-related travel
• Comprehensive medical and evacuation insurance
What's Not Covered by YCA:
• Airfare and personal expenses
• Travel/medical insurance
• Volunteers will be expected obtain the required vaccinations and take anti-malarials at their own expense
This exciting opportunity will include a pre-project distance-learning program, followed by an intensive eight-week placement in Costa Rica. While in Costa Rica, you will work with YCA’s partner, Reto Juvenil Internacional, to further the reach and relevance of their youth development program.
Key Project Activities May Include:
• Support the Community Development Association in the construction of community infrastructure
• Mobilize young people and conduct basic literacy and ESL training for local youth
• Respond to community defined needs by collaborating with local stakeholders to design and implement local development initiatives
• Facilitate youth involvement in program activities, with a particular emphasis on leadership development and peer-to-peer education
• Mainstream gender equality into all program activities
• Promote Earth Charter principles and raise awareness about the importance of environmental conservation
• Conduct trainings with community members on sexual reproductive health
• Develop and conduct a community needs assessment to identify economic development opportunities
Recommended Skills and Experience:
• Experience in facilitation and community mobilization, preferably with youth
• Background in development, social science, engineering, physical education, teaching, nursing, health sciences or gender studies
• Training, experience or interest in business, youth programming, monitoring and evaluation, and/or international development
• Previous experience teaching English or literacy
• Experience leading workshops
• Experience working with at-risk, marginalized and/or indigenous populations
• Training in gender issues
• Proven effectiveness in cross-cultural settings
• Prior overseas experience an asset
Fundraising Goal:
YCA’s volunteer participants are required to fundraise and/or contribute a minimum of $3,100 USD to contribute to YCA’s global youth development programs worldwide.
What's Covered by YCA:
• Preparatory support and pre-project distance learning
• In-country training
• Modest local accommodations and food
• In-country work-related travel
• Comprehensive medical and evacuation insurance
What's Not Covered by YCA:
• Airfare and personal expenses
• Travel/medical insurance
• Volunteers will be expected obtain the required vaccinations and take anti-malarials at their own expense
Source Site: GlobalGiving
Published: 2010/09/01 01:02:24 -0400
 | $10 — will train 2 youths in financial education & literacy $25 — can provide 2 youths with a business uniform $100 — buys lamps for our solar lamp business  |
Summary
Kito International has a simple philosophy: give street youth an economic opportunity and THEY will WORK their way off the streets and out of poverty.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Imagine the entire population of Russia relocated to live and work on the streets of every other inhabited continent. This is how extreme the problem is for the over 150 million street children worldwide. Found in every major city of the world, street youth face a life of poverty, abuse, disease and exploitation. While thousands of programs offer street youth food, clothing and shelter, organizations struggle to provide a long-term "exit strategy," or a path off the streets and out of poverty.
Activities
We refocus the survival skills and natural resourcefulness of street youth to create a lifetime of economic independence. We offer intensive skills training, employment at a Kito core business, and the opportunity to micro-franchise our businesses.
Potential Long Term Impact
Providing economic opportunities for the short-term and skills for the long-term, Kito enables youth to become self-sufficient and move off the streets forever. When street youth get a chance, they build a future for themselves and their families.
Project Message
"I have a renewed hope and feel encouraged to build a better future for my son."
- Millie Somoya, 19 year-old Kito youth
Project Sponsor: KITO INTERNATIONAL
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$100,000
Project #6343 on GlobalGiving.org
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/24 17:02:09 -0400
SOS Outreach is a sports-based youth development organization. Our goal is to help build
character and self-esteem in at-risk youth through snowsports. We partner with youth-serving
agencies and resorts to provide multi-day snowsports programs that incorporate a set of core
values (courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom and compassion).
Winter Sherpas are mentors who work closely with SOS youth for at least one season in the
University program. Sherpas support their youth through five ride days and various service
learning components and life skills workshops. Winter Sherpas typically work ten hours per
month, from September through May. The University program takes place in California, Colorado,
Oregon, and Washington.
Sherpa responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Attending three Sherpa training sessions- general, database and on-hill
• Attending and participating in monthly Sherpa meetings
• Attending and participating in all University events, including rental nights, five ride days,
service and life skills workshops
• Maintaining regular contact with each youth participant and their families
• Maintaining regular contact with the Regional Program Coordinator
• Teaching and modeling the five core values and Mountain Safety Code
• Assisting youth in developing goals and monitoring their progress
• Monitoring students skiing or snowboarding progress
• Ensuring students have appropriate equipment for each activity
• Tracking students attendance at each event
• Monitoring attendance and progress of each student through the SOS online database
• Preparing for and facilitating a portion of the end of season graduation
Helpful Skills/Interests
1. Experience, comfort, and passion in working with disadvantaged youth, and low-income families
2. Spanish language proficiency and cultural literacy
3. Awareness of factors impacting the lives of urban youth
4. Willingness to learn about privilege, racism, and oppression and how these social constructions impact
students and staff
5. Interest in outdoor based sports and activities such as: camping, rock climbing, rafting, skiing,
snowboarding, and backpacking
character and self-esteem in at-risk youth through snowsports. We partner with youth-serving
agencies and resorts to provide multi-day snowsports programs that incorporate a set of core
values (courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom and compassion).
Winter Sherpas are mentors who work closely with SOS youth for at least one season in the
University program. Sherpas support their youth through five ride days and various service
learning components and life skills workshops. Winter Sherpas typically work ten hours per
month, from September through May. The University program takes place in California, Colorado,
Oregon, and Washington.
Sherpa responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Attending three Sherpa training sessions- general, database and on-hill
• Attending and participating in monthly Sherpa meetings
• Attending and participating in all University events, including rental nights, five ride days,
service and life skills workshops
• Maintaining regular contact with each youth participant and their families
• Maintaining regular contact with the Regional Program Coordinator
• Teaching and modeling the five core values and Mountain Safety Code
• Assisting youth in developing goals and monitoring their progress
• Monitoring students skiing or snowboarding progress
• Ensuring students have appropriate equipment for each activity
• Tracking students attendance at each event
• Monitoring attendance and progress of each student through the SOS online database
• Preparing for and facilitating a portion of the end of season graduation
Helpful Skills/Interests
1. Experience, comfort, and passion in working with disadvantaged youth, and low-income families
2. Spanish language proficiency and cultural literacy
3. Awareness of factors impacting the lives of urban youth
4. Willingness to learn about privilege, racism, and oppression and how these social constructions impact
students and staff
5. Interest in outdoor based sports and activities such as: camping, rock climbing, rafting, skiing,
snowboarding, and backpacking
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/27 14:02:34 -0400
Youth Challenge America (YCA) is recruiting a team of eight volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 with diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds for an eight-week youth development project in Guyana from January to March, 2011.
This exciting opportunity will include a pre-project distance-learning program, followed by an intensive eight-week placement in Guyana. While in Guyana, you will work with YCA's partner, Youth Challenge Guyana, to further the reach and relevance of their youth development program.
Key Project Activities May Include:
• Increase awareness of HIV/AIDS, STIs, sexual health and general hygiene of young people age 12-30.
• Mobilize young people and conduct sensitization workshops on health using community resources.
• Conduct HIV/AIDS awareness and information sessions in conjunction with local youth.
• Conduct hygiene awareness and information sessions in conjunction with local youth.
• Increase the numerical and literacy skills of young people and adults in the local community.
• Provide teaching support to local schools that are understaffed.
• Work with in-school youth to design and implement an after-school literacy program.
• In collaboration with local teachers and youth, develop culturally appropriate teaching aids to assist teachers.
• Conduct basic literacy training for out-of-school youth outside of normal working hours.
Recommended Skills and Experiences:
• Experience in facilitation and community mobilization, preferably with youth.
• Background in development, social science, physical education, teaching, nursing, health sciences or gender studies.
• Training, experience or interest in business, NGO management, monitoring and evaluation, and/or international development.
• Previous experience teaching English or literacy.
• Experience leading health discussions; good knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.
• Experience working with at-risk, marginalized and/or indigenous populations.
• Training in gender issues.
Fundraising Goal:
YCI’s volunteer participants are required to fundraise and/or contribute a minimum of $3,100 USD towards YCA’s global youth development programs worldwide.
What's Covered by YCA:
• Preparatory support and pre-project distance learning
• In-country training
• Modest local accommodations and food
• In-country work-related travel
• Comprehensive medical and evacuation insurance
What's Not Covered by YCA:
• Airfare and personal expenses
• Travel/medical insurance
• Volunteers will be expected obtain the required vaccinations and take anti-malarials at their own expense
This exciting opportunity will include a pre-project distance-learning program, followed by an intensive eight-week placement in Guyana. While in Guyana, you will work with YCA's partner, Youth Challenge Guyana, to further the reach and relevance of their youth development program.
Key Project Activities May Include:
• Increase awareness of HIV/AIDS, STIs, sexual health and general hygiene of young people age 12-30.
• Mobilize young people and conduct sensitization workshops on health using community resources.
• Conduct HIV/AIDS awareness and information sessions in conjunction with local youth.
• Conduct hygiene awareness and information sessions in conjunction with local youth.
• Increase the numerical and literacy skills of young people and adults in the local community.
• Provide teaching support to local schools that are understaffed.
• Work with in-school youth to design and implement an after-school literacy program.
• In collaboration with local teachers and youth, develop culturally appropriate teaching aids to assist teachers.
• Conduct basic literacy training for out-of-school youth outside of normal working hours.
Recommended Skills and Experiences:
• Experience in facilitation and community mobilization, preferably with youth.
• Background in development, social science, physical education, teaching, nursing, health sciences or gender studies.
• Training, experience or interest in business, NGO management, monitoring and evaluation, and/or international development.
• Previous experience teaching English or literacy.
• Experience leading health discussions; good knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.
• Experience working with at-risk, marginalized and/or indigenous populations.
• Training in gender issues.
Fundraising Goal:
YCI’s volunteer participants are required to fundraise and/or contribute a minimum of $3,100 USD towards YCA’s global youth development programs worldwide.
What's Covered by YCA:
• Preparatory support and pre-project distance learning
• In-country training
• Modest local accommodations and food
• In-country work-related travel
• Comprehensive medical and evacuation insurance
What's Not Covered by YCA:
• Airfare and personal expenses
• Travel/medical insurance
• Volunteers will be expected obtain the required vaccinations and take anti-malarials at their own expense
Source Site: GlobalGiving
Published: 2010/08/24 01:03:17 -0400
 | $10 — will buy a subway card for 1 youth to travel to and from a workshop $16 — provides printing materials for youth working together to create an autobiographical booklet as part of a poetry workshop $35 — sponsors participation in a vital trust-building group exercise at a ropes course |
Summary
This project will provide DC youth recently released from prison with monthly workshops that foster new support systems, job skills, and the tools and confidence to follow a positive life path.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Free Minds has served over 350 youth incarcerated as adults in the DC Jail. These young men often return to the community eager for a fresh start, but are held back by the lack of a positive support system. Having spent their adolescence behind bars, their experience as returning citizens is marked by an absence of opportunity. Youth coming home need to practice social skills, create bonds with others, and learn the tools to make positive choices, but these options are rarely offered.
Activities
Through frequent and regular outings and workshops on activities ranging from financial readiness and career goals to hip-hop sonnet classes and outdoor team-building, Free Minds empowers youth to restructure the foundation of their lives.
Potential Long Term Impact
We will nurture and sustain the trusting relationships developed in book club at the DC Jail to instill in youth the confidence needed to pursue employment and education, resulting in lower recidivism rates, stronger families, and safer communities.
Project Message
When I came home, doing activities with Free Minds taught me how I can benefit from new experiences. Now I can be successful on probation and in life.
- Lonte Robertson, 18 years old, Free Minds Re-entry support participant
Project Sponsor: Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
Theme: Education | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,400
Project #6196 on GlobalGiving.org
Source Site: GlobalGiving
Published: 2010/09/01 01:02:23 -0400
 | $10 — will train one Virginia Tech student to provide 50 hours of one-on-one tutoring. $25 — will provide books and writing journals to youth who agree to participate in the program. $50 — will pay one week's wages for a tutor coordinator from the refugee community. |
Summary
This project is an informal academic program that supports refugee youth in achieving grade level
performance in school through one-on-one adolescent literacy tutoring with a college tutor.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Most of the youth served by the program received their elementary schooling in refugee camps. For all of these youth, English is their second language. As a combined result of limited language proficiency, lack of prior formal schooling, and low literacy levels within the adult population, these youth are unprepared for the structure and content rigor of the traditional American high school.
Activities
The program provides participants with proven strategies for school success, as well as opportunities to apply their new skills and competencies to furthering the goals of their community through community service.
Potential Long Term Impact
This program provides a structured opportunity for teens to improve their grades in school, as well as to prepare them for a new culture and social world, while remaining connected to their communities of origin.
Project Message
“Before we came to America, our eyes and ears were closed. Now, we open them for our children. God has helped us here. White and Black live together.”
- Mohammud Mganga, Somali Bantu Elder
Project Sponsor: Virginia Tech Foundation
Theme: Education | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$4,000
Project #6088 on GlobalGiving.org
Source Site: GlobalGiving
Published: 2010/09/01 01:02:24 -0400
 | $10 — can buy a 3 yards of fabric material to train a tailor $35 — can pay a trainer for hour $50 — can buy 2 packets of soldiering wires to train welders |
Summary
This project will upgrade the skills of about 100 youths already trained and practicing in various vocational skills. This will increase their expertise hence high productivity and income.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There is lack of additional skills and expertise needed to transform small vocational business to stable and self-sustainable ventures and this has denied youths engaged in this ventures reliable incomes to fight poverty. This project will equip the youth with technical and marketing skills and attitudes to more competitive in their business. In rural areas, it is a strategy to poverty reduction and raise the standards of living.
Activities
-The project will refresh vocational skills of already practicing youths in areas like: tailoring, carpentry, soldering, hairdressing, mechanics and soap making.
- Product marketing, market reading and access
- Management, investment and networking
Potential Long Term Impact
-100 youths will be able to practice and run businesses in a modern way, raise their income and alleviate poverty within their families and neighborhood
-Quality of services will be improved
- Reduce over dependence on aid
- Stimulate enterprising
Project Message
Project yet to start
- Not applicable; the project to start yet, NA
Project Sponsor: Action pour le Developpement du Peuple (ADEPE)
Theme: Education | Location: Rwanda
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$100,000
Project #6317 on GlobalGiving.org
Source Site: Idealist
Published: 2010/08/24 02:02:17 -0400
Qualifications
-This is a part time AmeriCorps position that requires that you complete 900 hours within the duration of the program period.
-The member must be a United States citizen, a national or legal permanent resident and at least 18 years of age.
- The member certifies that she/he is a high school graduate or has received a his/her diploma or G.E.D
- The member must receive a favorable background check through the Hillsborough County School Board, to include a FDLE/FBI check based on fingerprinting.
-AmeriCorps CSS is a drug free workplace. Members are eligible for random drug testing.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist in preparation for, and supervision of, after school arts programming for teens and middle school youth and Saturday arts and service learning programming for children beginning at age six.
• Coordinate with the Youth Art Program Coordinator and Artistic Director each week’s lessons plan, station set-up and art supplies required.
• Maintain daily attendance records of yourself and of the youth
• Record in writing youth issues and stories
• Team teach with after school program leaders
• With and without youth clean up, organize and contribute to the wish list and organization of the Art House
• Assist in writing an conducting assessments and evaluation of the youth
• Develop and write lesson plans and curriculum
• Other assigned duties.
-General Skills/ Qualities
* Demonstrate mutual respect for others.
* Ability to relate to people from diverse backgrounds.
* Excellent communication and organization skills.
* Creative and able to adapt to various situations.
* Enjoy serving in an educational environment with young children.
* Flexible.
* POSITIVE under all circumstances
Community Stepping Stones strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities and other under-represented communities
*** Living stipend provided
-This is a part time AmeriCorps position that requires that you complete 900 hours within the duration of the program period.
-The member must be a United States citizen, a national or legal permanent resident and at least 18 years of age.
- The member certifies that she/he is a high school graduate or has received a his/her diploma or G.E.D
- The member must receive a favorable background check through the Hillsborough County School Board, to include a FDLE/FBI check based on fingerprinting.
-AmeriCorps CSS is a drug free workplace. Members are eligible for random drug testing.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist in preparation for, and supervision of, after school arts programming for teens and middle school youth and Saturday arts and service learning programming for children beginning at age six.
• Coordinate with the Youth Art Program Coordinator and Artistic Director each week’s lessons plan, station set-up and art supplies required.
• Maintain daily attendance records of yourself and of the youth
• Record in writing youth issues and stories
• Team teach with after school program leaders
• With and without youth clean up, organize and contribute to the wish list and organization of the Art House
• Assist in writing an conducting assessments and evaluation of the youth
• Develop and write lesson plans and curriculum
• Other assigned duties.
-General Skills/ Qualities
* Demonstrate mutual respect for others.
* Ability to relate to people from diverse backgrounds.
* Excellent communication and organization skills.
* Creative and able to adapt to various situations.
* Enjoy serving in an educational environment with young children.
* Flexible.
* POSITIVE under all circumstances
Community Stepping Stones strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities and other under-represented communities
*** Living stipend provided