Summer Interns, Institute for the Development of African American Youth

Posted by on June 06, 2011

Institute for the Development of African American Youth (IDAAY)
Summer Interns

Mission

IDAAY’s mission is to provide educational/cultural and prevention/intervention programs and social services for youth and the larger community via a combination of carefully designed programs. The agency was founded by S. Archye Leacock and a colleague in May 1991 in direct response to the alarming statistics characterizing the high level of violence reflected in the lives of disadvantaged youth in the Philadelphia area. The co-founders recognized that a large segment of the City’s minority youth resides in high-risk, “hot spot” neighborhoods. As a result are under-educated, besieged by social and economic problems, and denied cultural opportunities essential for a well-rounded, productive life. To address these issues, the co-founders created an organization whose expressed purpose is to serve and empower youth at-risk. The Institute strives to forward its mission and achieve its goals through a series of carefully constructed, evidence-based prevention/intervention and educational/cultural programs that reach at-risk youth and their families throughout Philadelphia.

Job Description for Interns

1.    Conduct research for potential grant opportunities
2.     Assist staff in the grant application process
3.    Assist in the structure and development of the micro–entrepreneurship program for IDDAY graduates to enhance job related skills
4.    Assist in the advertisement and promotion of the program in the surrounding community
5.    Assist in curriculum development, outline and instruction of weekly micro-enterprise classes

For more information, contact:
S. Archye Leacock, Executive Director
215-235-9116 or
aleacock@idaay.org

These positions pay a modest stipend.