Massachusetts Promise Fellowship

Massachusetts Promise Fellowship (MPF) 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 provides leadership training to young adults who commit to one year of service to the State's Commonwealth. ^[2]

The 5 Promises

Massachusetts Promise Fellows work to deliver the 5 Promises to youth and their communities.^[3] 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: 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.^[4]

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

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

Healthy Start: 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).^[7]

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

References

1. "Community Service > AmeriCorps Partnerships > Massachusetts Promise Fellowship". Archived from the original on 2009-11-14. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
2. "Massachusetts Promise Fellowship—About". Archived from the original on 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
3. "The Five Promises".
4. http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Effective-Education.aspx^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. "Caring Adults".
6. "New Orleans, LA Gradnation Community Summit".
7. "Fresno, CA Gradnation Community Summit".
8. http://www.americaspromise.org/About-the-Alliance/Five-Promises/Opportunities-to-Help-Others.aspxx^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

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