City of Durham Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)
This office oversees programs and services that help businesses start, grow, stay in, and get recruited to Durham. These services include offering advice to businesses and assisting with financing through our economic development grant and incentive programs. We also administer federal, local, and private grant dollars to help people move forward on a career path, find jobs, and keep them employed. Four DukeEngage students are needed to assist staff with implantation of the summer youth program to include planning a pre-employment week of training for participants of the program. They will also work with participants to ensure pre-employment training week is a success and youth are getting the most benefit they can from the training.
Community Empowerment Fund (CEF)
CEF partners with other Durham homeless providers to offer a savings program, financial literacy and workforce development classes, computer literacy classes, and relationship-based support. DukeEngage participants will build meaningful relationships with homeless and low-income individuals as they partner with them to reach personal savings goals, gain employment, learn computer skills, navigate the social services system, and achieve long-term transitions out of poverty. Participants take on key leadership responsibilities to significantly shape a growing, student-driven organization, including piloting additions to the Safe Savings Program based on behavioral economics principles, and creatively enhancing CEF’s use of our new Durham office space to become more productive and community-oriented.
Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC)
This organization is an initiative of End Poverty Durham, a collaborative of faith and community-based organizations as well as government entities and educational institutions that are working to eliminate poverty in Durham. As an adult poverty initiative, this organization uses workforce development and the availability of new basic need items at reduced costs to address the difficulties faced. Already, job readiness preparation and training has been introduced to over 200 people with a 70% employment placement or advanced education opportunity rate. Three DukeEngage will design a workshop for Members of the DERC Board of Directors to help them become more effective ambassadors for the organization. This project will require identifying best practices, developing a workshop (which may require hiring consultants), actually hosting the workshop and then creating a manual so a board member can conduct the workshop for future new board members.
Threshold
Two DukeEngage students will be working collegially with members of the Clubhouse to facilitate assertive engagement of young aduls (18-25 years old)into the program. In addition, students will provide computer skills to members which will provide assistance in preparing articles for the newsletter, data entry for Medical billing and when feasible, teaching basic computer and internet skills.
Youth Education for Savings Consortium, Inc. (YES!)
The YES Consortium delivers personal finance and entrepreneurship education to youth in targeted, economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Two DukeEngage interns will teach fun financial education lessons at summer camps, lead youth in developing and carrying out a community project, assist with social media marketing and outreach, and assess students' comprehension of the content. A background check is required.
This office oversees programs and services that help businesses start, grow, stay in, and get recruited to Durham. These services include offering advice to businesses and assisting with financing through our economic development grant and incentive programs. We also administer federal, local, and private grant dollars to help people move forward on a career path, find jobs, and keep them employed. Four DukeEngage students are needed to assist staff with implantation of the summer youth program to include planning a pre-employment week of training for participants of the program. They will also work with participants to ensure pre-employment training week is a success and youth are getting the most benefit they can from the training.
Community Empowerment Fund (CEF)
CEF partners with other Durham homeless providers to offer a savings program, financial literacy and workforce development classes, computer literacy classes, and relationship-based support. DukeEngage participants will build meaningful relationships with homeless and low-income individuals as they partner with them to reach personal savings goals, gain employment, learn computer skills, navigate the social services system, and achieve long-term transitions out of poverty. Participants take on key leadership responsibilities to significantly shape a growing, student-driven organization, including piloting additions to the Safe Savings Program based on behavioral economics principles, and creatively enhancing CEF’s use of our new Durham office space to become more productive and community-oriented.
Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC)
This organization is an initiative of End Poverty Durham, a collaborative of faith and community-based organizations as well as government entities and educational institutions that are working to eliminate poverty in Durham. As an adult poverty initiative, this organization uses workforce development and the availability of new basic need items at reduced costs to address the difficulties faced. Already, job readiness preparation and training has been introduced to over 200 people with a 70% employment placement or advanced education opportunity rate. Three DukeEngage will design a workshop for Members of the DERC Board of Directors to help them become more effective ambassadors for the organization. This project will require identifying best practices, developing a workshop (which may require hiring consultants), actually hosting the workshop and then creating a manual so a board member can conduct the workshop for future new board members.
Threshold
Two DukeEngage students will be working collegially with members of the Clubhouse to facilitate assertive engagement of young aduls (18-25 years old)into the program. In addition, students will provide computer skills to members which will provide assistance in preparing articles for the newsletter, data entry for Medical billing and when feasible, teaching basic computer and internet skills.
Youth Education for Savings Consortium, Inc. (YES!)
The YES Consortium delivers personal finance and entrepreneurship education to youth in targeted, economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Two DukeEngage interns will teach fun financial education lessons at summer camps, lead youth in developing and carrying out a community project, assist with social media marketing and outreach, and assess students' comprehension of the content. A background check is required.