Achieve Twin Cities

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 10, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$3,668,395

Major Activities

Activity 2

Career & college centers:achievempls career & college centers (cccs, part of the career & college initiative) are located in each minneapolis public high school and serve every student. Each ccc is staffed by a skilled achievempls coordinator who is a member of the high school counseling team. Cccs provide personal guidance and a wide range of life-planning resources for students. In the 2011-2012 school year mps students visited the cccs more than 63,000 times. Coordinators held over 10,000 sessions with students, ranging from large career and college fairs to one-on-one meetings. They met on average with six students per session and devoted 2/3 of their time to individualized, one-on-one support. Ccc activities included: -my life plan activities and assessments: cccs hosted over 2,300 mlp activities in the 2011-2012 school year.-career and college fairs: 5,000 student connections were made at college fairs and 3,400 connections at career fairs.-job skills workshops: cccs hosted 20 career presentations and three multi-week workshops. Volunteers connected with students approximately 3,000 times to offer career support.-financial aid and scholarship information: cccs made 3,200 connections, through 1,638 meetings with students, to assist them with financial aid and fafsa completion.-college support and recruiter visits: cccs made 22,779 connections that focused on college preparation.-act test support: cccs made over 2,000 student connections for act support and test prep.

Activity 3

Step-up achieve:step-up achieve (part of the career & college initiative) helps more than 700 minneapolis young people explore the world of work each year and make strong professional connections through paid summer internships with more than 150 top twin cities employers. Employers range from fortune 500 companies such as us bank, medtronic and target to law firms, public agencies, healthcare providers and the minnesota twins. Step-up has made minneapolis a national model for youth employment. Step-up achieve offers:-meaningful on-the-job career experience-work-readiness training certified by the minneapolis chamber of commerce -adult mentoring and support that can last long after the internship ends-coaching for young people and their employers-career pipelines in health care, legal and financial services, stem, public service and outdoors/recreation -partnerships with over 150 private, public and nonprofit employersin the summer of 2012, the program achieved new participation records, including 1,532 interns who completed work readiness training and 750 interns who were placed in step-up achieve summer jobs with 152 of the region's leading employers. Hundreds of other work readiness graduates participated in step-up discover through the city of minneapolis. More than 90% of interns were low-income young people and 88% were youth of color. Following their internships, 98% of interns said their job was a valuable learning experience and 90% of supervisors said the intern made a valuable contribution to the workplace.

Filer

EIN

41-1425264