Strive

Please join us in celebrating our Executive Director Tameka Walton and the entire 2020 Chicago Peace Fellows. This prestigious group of leaders have been actively working to create sustainable change within Chicago these past few months and they are looking forward to sharing with you the work that has been created.

2020 Chicago Peace Fellows Graduation https://bit.ly/PeaceFellowsGraduation

Congrats to all of our 2020 graduates, we are so very proud of our students and will miss our interns! We can not wait to see what you will do next!

Today is , which has been activated in response to all those organizations impacted by the current COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate you considering Strive at this time. Please help us support our valuable youth programming so that we may continue to engage kids in our community as soon as is safely possible.

We also want to take this time to thank all of our supporters both past and present there is no us with out you!

If you would like to donate to us at this time, please press this link: https://www.paypal.me/strivechicago and share our post far and wide.

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"Providing Academic opportunity for our young, mentoring, and community-building...this is what Strive does and this is what we so desperately need. I have seen multiple generations of Strive families and have seen up close for the last 11 years the program's impact over what is now around 30 years!! " Pastor Johnathan, Strive Supporter for 11 years.

Today is our Virtual Giving Day!!!!! Please consider sharing our post and encouraging your social media friends and family to donate to Strive!

Strive is excited to host its very first virtual giving day this Friday, April 24, 2020. Stay tuned to learn the ways that you can become involved with our program.

“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
Dr. King, Nobel Peace Prize address, 1964

Today Strives Executive Director along with volunteers and families participated in the University of Chicago's MLK Day of service. Along with over 60 other volunteers we packaged 40,000 packages of food for Rise against hunger an organization that provides meals to families all over the world. What an amazing way to kick off our MLK weekend.

We start each session with healthy snacks, here are a few of our students enjoying bananas and graham crackers this afternoon.

We are back! Winter session began today and we are excited to welcome back both students and tutors. We are all looking forward to an exciting 2020.

Hi All!

Friendly reminder that Strive is still looking for someone to join our team as Program Coordinator!

If you would like to apply or know of someone that would, please send them our way!

Program Coordinator Job Description:
(Part-time hourly employee, work volume that ebbs and flows depending on the season, flexible schedule needed, however, primarily afternoon & evening hours required, some morning hours required.)

ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Strive is a small Chicago nonprofit located in Hyde Park/Kenwood on the South Side that harnesses the power of volunteers to provide free educational and enrichment services to local youth. One-to-one tutoring/mentoring, small group tutoring/mentoring, and the Strive Summer Program half day summer camp are our primary services. Strive values our volunteers, students and their families, and all staff should expect to outwardly demonstrate and reinforce this shared value for our community every day on the job.
Job Description:
This position reports to the Executive Director
Manages attendance of students and tutors.
Daily communication through email, text, and phone with parents and tutors
Coordinates student and tutor schedules
Manage, collect, and process required student and tutor forms, tracking and following up as needed
Manage program budget, staff hours and supplies expenses.
Recruits, interviews, trains, develops, supports, and evaluates paid staff and volunteers
Manages student behavior
Assists in planning of annual fundraising benefit
Produces reporting as needed for projects and Board of Directors review
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the Executive Director

Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Work, or related field.
• 2 + years’ experience working in an administrative role.
• Experience supervising college interns and volunteers and direct experience working with children/youth and their families.
• Demonstrated understanding of and experience implementing academic goals and classroom activities, including experience with a wide range of academic subjects and age-groups.
• Understanding of social-emotional learning and pro -social youth development strategies.
• Proficient in MS office (particularly Word and Excel) including mail merge and labels, QuickBooks, and Google apps.
Proven ability to work as a part of a team developing programs, with ability to both lead and follow.
~ Detailed Job Description can be found at www.strivechicago.org ~

Strive Strive is a youth development organization that supports the intellectual, social, emotional, physical, environmental, and spiritual growth of students in 1st-12th grades from Chicago's south side in our after school and Summer programming