UrbanPromise

Please help us welcome our AMAZING new staff!🥳 Tonight we celebrated this special group joining our UrbanPromise community. Our leadership team were thrilled to share words of encouragement, gratitude & excitement for this upcoming season together. 🦋“UrbanPromise’s mascot is the monarch butterfly. Just like a caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly, our students grow and change throughout their time at UrbanPromise. They start as curious learners, develop their skills in elementary school, and become independent thinkers in high school. With support, they’re ready to spread their wings and soar into the world. And sometimes, like the monarch butterfly returning home, our alumni staff come back to UrbanPromise to share their experiences and give back to the community that helped them grow.” -Mr. Ryan

🌟 Welcome back, students and teachers! 🌟 The campus is buzzing with excitement as we reunite with both familiar and new faces. Hearing all the summer adventures, from fun vacations to awesome summer camps, has been such a treat! And wow, some of our students have definitely grown a few inches taller! 📚🎒 Our classrooms are looking amazing with fun, vibrant themes, and we’re ready to dive into this school year with joy and enthusiasm. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to our back-to-school drive—it’s made a world of difference for our students and teachers! We’re still in need of a few items for 🎨Art & 🧪Science class, so if you’d like to help, check out our Amazon link. https://lnkd.in/e_xyqBnr Here’s to a year filled with learning, laughter, and growth! 🌟🍎

Join Sal Paolantonio at UrbanPromise for breakfast & a special look into the Philadelphia season! For tickets & sponsorship, visit urbanpromiseusa.org/SalPal

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Thank you to Gary Shickora,CLU®, Northwestern Mutual and the team at Cora Wealth Management for supporting our UrbanPromise Back to School Drive. Having new school supplies and backpacks puts smiles on the faces of our kids and is a great start to a successful school year! School is less than 2 weeks away, and you can still help us. Check out our amazon wishlist to get our students & teachers ready for the first day! https://lnkd.in/e_xyqBnr

A big thank you to our friends at Bayada for visiting our campus and witnessing firsthand the impact of years of unwavering support. Your partnership has been instrumental in driving positive change, and it was wonderful to share our progress with you. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and achieving even greater milestones together!

At UrbanPromise, we believe in the boundless potential of youth. We're not just looking for ordinary employees; we want extraordinary individuals who are committed to helping young minds flourish and thrive. If you're ready to be part of a team that ignites change, then this is the opportunity you've been waiting for. If you are interested in an open position, please send your cover letter with resume to careers@urbanpromiseusa.org. https://lnkd.in/en8PEU46 -K-5 Teaching positions -Middle School English Teacher -Middle School Science Teacher -High School Math Teacher -High School Spanish (Part-Time) -Program Director (After School & Summer Camp) -Teen Development Program Manager -College Advisor (Part-Time) -Campus Facility Steward (Part-Time)

Sunshine and smiles made for the perfect RiverGuides Paddle day! ⛅️🚣♂️ Big thanks to our awesome friends for joining our youth on the Tidal Cooper River today. We explored the beauty of Camden and had a blast doing it. Til’ our next adventure together. 💙✨

Thank you to the Cooper team for sharing about their work in healthcare to our teens!🙌 It was great to hear from the group of panelists.❤️

I love good surprises. I love bumping into alumni—hearing updates on their fruitful lives and reveling in the memories they cherish from their time with our ministry. “I attended summer camp back in the early 1990s,” shared Joanna Nicasio, standing in our parking lot last week. Joanna was leading a corporate volunteer group from TD Bank. Fifteen TD employees donated a day to pull weeds, clean closets, cut grass, and paint classrooms. An invaluable gift to our staff. “This place was so special to me as a child,” she reminisced. “I was one of six children. My mother worked two jobs. UrbanPromise was that safe, fun place where we could just be kids.” Over the past three decades, thousands of Camden’s children and teens have enjoyed the benefits of comprehensive, neighborhood-based summer day camp programs. In the moment, one never fully understands the profound impact that safety, love, singing songs, fun, field trips, arts and crafts, Bible lessons, and regular meals will have on a child’s development. Sometimes it’s years later—in a random encounter—that the impact is revealed. Like Joanna. A beautiful reminder. Walking across campus this week, I once again was moved by the laughter and singing. I felt the youthful energy reverberating down the hallways. Another summer begins. More memories are created. It never gets old. Bruce Main Founder & President PS. Check out the short interview above with Joanne. It was the good news I needed this week. https://lnkd.in/epSrGvTi