Massachusetts Promise Fellowship

Massachusetts Promise Fellowship is a non-profit AmeriCorps organization that places Fellows who commit to a year of service at non-profit organizations, schools, and city agencies across Massachusetts to create, lead, and manage youth development projects. ^[1]

Mission

The Massachusetts Promise Fellowship believes that all young people in the Commonwealth have a right to the resources that they need to be successful in life, including a caring adult, a safe place, a healthy start, an effective education, and an opportunity to serve. We deliver these 5 promises to youth by training emerging leaders who commit one year of service to support and provide these needed resources to youth throughout the Commonwealth. ^[2]

The 5 Promises

Massachusetts Promise Fellows work to deliver the 5 Promises ^[3] to youth and their communities. These are well-defined objectives developed in partnership with host sites and funders. All Fellow projects align with at least one of these five promises:

Marketable Skills: ^[4] An- Fellows will work closely with and support emerging youth leaders as the young people develop and implement a variety of activities, programs, and projects that benefit their community.

Caring Adult: ^[5] Fellows will develop new mentoring programs and expand upon current mentoring programs in an effort to establish and support new mentor/mentee matches.

Safe Place: ^[6] Fellows will develop and lead out-of-school enrichment activities (i.e., adventure programming, service-learning projects, tutoring, athletics) for young people.

Healthy Start: ^[7] Fellows will coordinate and lead education and outreach efforts (i.e., newsletters, web sites, seminars, summits, workshops, dances) to inform and educate young people on a variety of issues and topics (i.e., sex education, health care access, nutrition, substance abuse prevention, diversity awareness, conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS, legal rights, mental health).

Opportunity to Serve: ^[8] Fellows will actively recruit, train, and manage volunteers that will serve to support their project and the mission of their host organization.

References

1. ^ http://www.northeastern.edu/communityservice/americorps/fellowship.html
2. ^ http://www.masspromisefellows.org/about.html
3. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises.aspx
4. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Effective-Education.aspx
5. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Caring-Adults.aspx
6. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Safe-Places.aspx
7. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/A-Healthy-Start.aspx
8. ^ http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Opportunities-to-Help-Others.aspxx

External links

• Massachusetts Promise Fellowship website
• America's Promise Alliance website
• Massachusetts Promise Fellowship on Northeasern's Website