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8 people are interested
Velocity Cross-Age Mentoring Program
ORGANIZATION: BOY WITH A BALL
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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8 people are interested
Velocity is a life-changing, cross-age mentoring program that develops high school students to mentor middle school students. Velocity equips high schoolers with interpersonal and leadership tools that makes them great mentors, as well as helps develop their family and school relationships. The program gives middle school students a dedicated mentor to walk through middle school with them and help develop them as a person. Nearly 1000 students go through the program across the world, and of these students, 100% have gone on to graduate high school and 95% go on to college.
As a volunteer with Velocity, you will not only develop great leadership and teamwork skills by helping run the program, but you will also mentor a high school student as they mentor a middle school student, which leads to double impact in young people's lives.
You can join any of our Velocity teams! Tuesdays in Duluth, Wednesdays in Lilburn, or Thursdays in Lawrenceville. Each program day happens from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
More opportunities with BOY WITH A BALL
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About BOY WITH A BALL
Location:
1945 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, US
Mission Statement
Boy With a Ball exists to better cities by reaching young people and equipping them to be leaders capable of turning and transforming their communities.
Description
Boy With a Ball Global is a convening intermediary organization that works to better cities by reaching young people and equipping them as leaders to turn and transform their own communities.
This work is done through:
-developing and implementing innovative youth, family and community development methodologies,
-founding, equipping and supporting local, indigenous-led youth development organizations in cities around the world,
-weaving international youth development communities of practice and
-advocating for best practices in youth development.
Our offices are currently located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Currently Boy With a Ball Global has founded organizations in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the United States and we are currently working to begin in Atlanta, Georgia and in Beirut, Lebanon.
Boy With a Ball Global has also launched the Institute for International Youth Development as a platform for developing an international community of practice around best practices in youth development for non-Boy With a Ball youth serving organizations
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Children & Youth,
Community
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Gwinnett CountyGwinnett County, GA 30047
(33.890102 ,-84.142975 )
DATE POSTED
August 19, 2024
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays
- Volunteers commit per semester, which means that if you choose to volunteer for the semester, then you will serve every Tuesday OR Wednesday OR Thursday until the end of the semester.