LEAP for Education, Inc.

Leveraging Technology in a Summer Career Mentoring Program for Underserved Youth

LEAP’s Summer Work Program provides teens with paid project-based learning, career exploration, and readiness, supported by 1:1 volunteer career mentors. High demand is evident, with 250+ applicants for 100 slots in the last two summers, necessitating a technology platform for increased efficiency and quality.

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Salem, MA
AMOUNT: $30,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2024
WEBSITE: www.leap4ed.org

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Perpetual Motion

Have you heard the Tower Foundation’s origin story?  It has now been freshly told by Cassandra Gainer in the recent issue of Traffic East, a Western New York journal celebrating entrepreneurial and creative energy.  Gainer interviewed daughters Mollie Byrnes and Cynthia Doyle in telling the story of Peter and Elizabeth Tower’s life together and how they came … Continued