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.
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Mission
The Massachusetts Promise Fellowship provides leadership training to young adults who commit to one year of service to the State's Commonwealth.
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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]
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