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ALL POSITIONS HAVE BEEN FILLED FOR 2007-2008

Science Club for Girls - Pilot Site and Volunteer Coordinator PDF | DOC
www.scienceclubforgirls.org
CAMBRIDGE / LAWRENCE - Science Club for Girls increases the self-confidence and scientific literacy of girls from underrepresented groups through free, after school programs that focus on hands-on activities, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. The Fellow at Science Club for Girls will serve as a program manager to implement important pilot programs in Lawrence and Boston. The Fellow will oversee the operation and assessment of two to three pilot sites, at a community center, elementary school and/or middle school. Additionally, the Fellow will be responsible for devising and executing strategies for volunteer recruitment, and for coordinating volunteer training and management with the central office. The Fellow will also assist the Executive Director in creating evaluation tools and report forms and training site coordinators and partner site personnel to use these tools.

Massachusetts Coalition for OccupationalSafety and Health (MassCosh) - Youth Development PDF | DOC
BOSTON - MassCOSH is a nonprofit, membership coalition that organizes and advocates for safe jobs and healthy communities. Based in Dorchester, MassCOSH focuses on immigrants and people of color in the lowest paid and the most unsafe/unhealthy jobs, and engages them in efforts to improve workplace conditions and civic participation to have a voice in policies that govern these conditions. Through a four-tiered approach combining popular education, participatory action research, community organizing, and policy advocacy, MassCOSH engages its constituents directly in the process of identifying and developing strategies to promote improvements in their workplaces and communities. The Fellow at MassCOSH will work specifically on the Teens Lead @ Work program, a youth led education and organizing program in which peer leaders identify environmental hazards and unsafe conditions at work, in school, or in their community and then develop and implement solutions to these issues. The Teens Lead @ Work Fellow will: 1.) Support and develop the leadership skills of 8 youth peer leaders to develop a new training curricula and deliver young worker safety training to more than 200 teens and school to career specialists 2.) Engage MassCOSH youth peer leaders as “mentors” to a new Somerville youth development program, providing “train the trainer” sessions and other peer support efforts to expand young worker safety efforts into their community. 3.) Coordinate a new youth-adult Young Worker Safety Task Force, convened by MassCOSH peer leaders following the successful passage of the new Child Labor reforms to develop a public awareness campaign. 4.) Develop the skills of the peer leaders to be effective “investigators”-reaching out to other youth to learn about their experiences, particularly with workplace violence and sexual harassment, and develop new approaches to addressing these problems.

RFK Children's Action Corps - Mentoring Specialist PDF | DOC
www.rfkchildren.org
LOWELL - The Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps operates with a mission to provide at-risk children and youth a safe environment where they can develop self-esteem and become productive members of society. As one of Massachusetts’ most well respected child welfare and juvenile justice agencies, we provide a variety of services especially tailored to help youth who are vulnerable and in need. Through residential counseling, therapy, and a solid educational program, we serve approximately 850 at-risk and high-risk youth annually. The Mentoring Specialist Fellow will create a new mentoring program at the Eliot Community Re-Entry Center in Lowell, MA. The Eliot Center is a community-based Department of Youth Service program providing outreach and counseling services to youth of Greater Lowell. Staff provide short-term intensive intervention for boys and girls ages 12-21 designed to help them adjust their behavior and success in the community.

Asian Community Development Corporation - Youth Development Coordinator PDF | DOC
www.asiancdc.org
CHINATOWN - The Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), a community-based organization, is committed to high standards of performance and integrity in serving the Asian American community of Greater Boston, with an emphasis on preserving and revitalizing Boston's Chinatown. The Fellow at ACDC will serve as the coordinator for A-VOYCE (Asian Voices of Organized Youth for Community Empowerment). A-VOYCE is a unique youth leadership development program centered around two youth-led projects, the A-VOYCE Radio Project and the Chinatown Walking Tour Collective. The Fellow will be primarily responsible for developing a new public online and web presence for A-VOYCE; providing training to youth in the areas of creative media-making, public speaking, communication skills, civic engagement, and personal identity building; supervising and assisting youth in the production of radio shows, walking tours, and new media; and serving as a caring adult, advisor, and role model to youth in the program.

MY TURN, Inc. - Volunteer Coordinator PDF | DOC
www.bostoncares.org
BROCKTON - The Fellow serving at MY TURN, Inc will serve as volunteer coordinator and coordinate two projects:
The first will include working with organizations in the community to engage their membership to volunteer en-masse to work with MY TURN’s programs. MY TURN has recently received an influx of such organizations without any marketing at all to have encouraged them, and limited planning for how to engage them once they were located. Through this project the Fellow will more systematically provide these organizations with short-term volunteer opportunities that will be mutually beneficial. The second piece of the project will be to use MY TURN’s internet presence to more effectively recruit volunteers. MY TURN has acquired an internet content management system that requires minimal technical skill to operate and allows the designer to concentrate on message and presentation rather than programming challenges. It is MY TURN’s intention to use this largely untapped resource to greatly enhance volunteer recruiting efforts.

Tenacity - Assistant Program Coordinator PDF | DOC
www.tenacity.org
BOSTON -The Fellow at Tenacity will be integral to the success of the After-School Excellence Program (ASEP) as it expands to serve 210+ at-risk Boston middle school students during the 2007-2008 school year. The Fellow in this position will coordinate daily ASEP activities at one of five program sites, working closely with the Academic Coordinator at the site to augment literacy programming, recruit volunteers, coordinate student transportation, and oversee field trips, award ceremonies and other events. The position will also play a key role in coordinating Tenacity’s involvement in the Expanding Learning Time initiative.

CityKicks - Programming Fellow PDF | DOC
www.citykickssoccer.org
BOSTON - CityKicks is a small but growing organization whose mission is to enrich the lives and futures of under-served Boston middle school girls by connecting them with the joys and myriad benefits of playing soccer with a team, thus empowering them to realize more of their potential. The Fellow will play a key role as we address the alarming need of Boston’s girls for more athletics, especially offerings that are accessible and explicitly developmental. The Fellow will create and lead at least one new project to enrich the content of our programming, and will be critical to other initiatives around the year aimed at increasing the numbers of youth participating/benefiting and at improving the quality and effectiveness of programming already introduced.

Health Care for All - Child Health Outreach