Fellowship Projects: Advancing Skills for Success
Lisa worked as a Corporate Partner Volunteer and Events Fellow at Genesys Works NYC to coordinate and execute a wide variety of skill development and experiential events and activities for underserved youth seeking professional development opportunities.
During Fall 2020, Antolina worked as the High School Program fellow with South Bronx United, where she assisted in planning and facilitating academic lessons. She also conducted school outreach and academic data collection.
Deanna developed a strategic communications plan for Jewels Academy to advertise their upcoming fundraiser and increase social media engagement around a new program developed with the University of Iowa Jacobson Institute BizInnovator curriculum.
During Fall 2020, Kaitlyn worked with Variety - the Children’s Charity of Iowa, where she created a sustainable program evaluation process for Variety’s Mobility and Compassion Fund programs.
During Fall 2019, Lacee Lynn B worked with Iowa Department of Human Rights Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning. She assisted with the development of a juvenile reentry report and an online service inventory.
During Fall 2019, Cleo Bethel worked with Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland on communications for their sports program, Leadership Leagues.
During Fall 2019, Mohamed worked with South Bronx United focusing on building out their Alumni Program.
During Fall 2019, Danny Cook worked with Kids First Law Center (now Iowa Center for Children’s Justice) to develop a database of mental health providers related to family law.
During Fall 2019, Dr. Ian Flatt worked to create a partnership between Drake University and Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa to focus on their music program.
During Fall 2019, Roslyn worked with YSS to develop a section of YSS's website to have information about creating Teens Against Human Trafficking teams accessible online.
During Fall 2019, Kai Joy worked with 826CHI, focusing on teen and volunteer outreach. She identified how to expand volunteer outreach efforts and interviewed teens to learn how to focus 826CHI's teen recruiting efforts.
During Fall 2019, Suzanne worked with Youth INC in relation to their Metrics Program by analyzing and surveying alumni (youth nonprofit partners) to identify their on-going and changing needs to build a culture of evaluation within their organizations.
During Fall 2019, Paola worked with Fiver Children’s Foundation focusing on revamping their College Access program.
During Summer 2019, Sabrina worked with Fiver Children’s Foundation at Camp Fiver as a Character Education Specialist. She enhanced and facilitated programming on helping Fiver participants understand Fiver’s values and attributes and how to apply it to their everyday life.
During Summer 2019, Madeline focused on volunteer recruitment with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa.
During Summer 2019, Danny worked to create a foundation for YSS University by gathering information about current training opportunities, organizing the data, and developing materials to better present these opportunities to staff.
During Summer 2019, Dakari worked as a program evaluator and program facilitator with Territory NFP.
During Summer 2019, Annie created a program evaluation plan for Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa. The evaluation plan will act as a guide for BGCCI staff to use data to make more informed decisions for improved program quality.
During Summer 2019, Mabel Munoz worked with Fiver Children’s Foundation at Camp Fiver as a Literacy Specialist. She enhanced and facilitated literacy programming
During Summer 2019, Linh worked to support Variety - the Children’s Charity’s mobility program by identifying areas of improvement, locating recipients for bikes for a special fundraiser, and assisting with the different steps of the mobility program over the summer.
During Summer 2019, YoVanna worked with Row New York to create a social and emotional learning curriculum to be integrated into coaching and rowing culture offered to youth.
During Fall 2018, Paola worked with IRCO to develop additional Global Cooking Class curricula and identifying areas of improvement in the Fresh Food Pantries.
Clare worked with Fiver Children’s Foundation to improve program outreach efforts during Fall 2018
During Fall 2018, Laknath worked as a Program Evaluation Fellow with Row New York. He created data reports analyzing data for each borough Row New York works in. Additionally, he analyzed attrition rates of Row New York participants. Finally, he created a Data Handbook to ensure that everyone has access to information on the type of data Row New York collects.
During Fall 2018, Brianne worked as a Curriculum Development Fellow, which involved surveying youth and researching best practices to create improvements to two youth programs, Iowa Youth Congress and State Advisory Council of Iowa.
Rachel developed a database of community resources for Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland’s staff, Members, and families during Fall 2018.