Mentorship

United Way is committed to providing meaningful volunteer and paid opportunities to youth in the community. By working with United Way, these youth have the chance to learn about United Way and their community while giving back in a significant way.

For the past four years, United Way has taken part in Service Canada's Summer Jobs program for students. Each year the students gain professional experience in marketing, event planning, community development, communications, volunteer administration, and non-profit management. This program offers businesses the opportunity to hire a student for the summer at a reduced cost with funding from the Federal government. Students must be attending a secondary, post-secondary, vocational or technical school before and after the position, and must be between 15 and 30 years of age.

Claire Macleod is our Community Development Assistant for the summer thanks to this wonderful program. Read about Claire's experience so far:

"In my four month employment period with Thompson Nicola Cariboo United Way, I planned and facilitated a dozen or so Days of Caring. These events are designed to engage individuals and organizations with the community through volunteering. Taking advantage of an unprecedented networking opportunity, I was able to work with everyone from the working poor, to hard-working single parents, to senior managers from large corporations. Sometimes working with a minute budget and sometimes with large grants, the work also ranged dramatically – many days of painting, gardening, cleaning, cooking, and building have been logged. My business management education rapidly transformed into trades experience, resource and event planning and ... "

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