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Your support can bring youth-led service to more youth.

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Consider making a monthly contribution to empower youth to be leaders and changemakers through youth-led community service.

Join Our Team

vacancy: after school program facilitator (1 opening, part-time, seasonal)

Are you interested in part-time, hourly, seasonal work? This may be the role for you. Commit to 10-12 hours a week, 5 afternoons a week. Learn more about our program facilitator position and how to apply here.

OUSD elementary and middle school educators, collaborate with us!

We are looking for program facilitators to lead our youth-led service learning programs during out-of-school time. If you’re passionate about social justice and eager to support 4th-8th graders at your school in creating community service solutions to the challenges and inequities they see and experience directly, email us!

OUSD Teachers, you will be paid for your out of contract hours spent leading our program at your school. Here’s more information.

We are actively recruiting program instructors at the following schools!

• Elmhurst United

• Frick United

• Glenview Elementary

• Grass Valley

• Hoover Elementary

• Life Academy Middle School

• Madison Park Academy Primary

• Martin Luther King Jr Elementary

• Prescott Elementary

• Urban Promise Academy

Morning to Empower May 4, 2024

thank you for your interest, SIGN UP TO volunteer on Saturday, may 4, 2024 FROM 9 AM TO 1 PM AT THE Esperanza ELEMENTARY AND Korematsu discovery ACADEMY CAMPUS IN oaKLAND, CA.

*this is the rescheduled date for our planned MLK Day of Service 2024*

can’t attend, but YOU would like to donate?

Our Morning to Empower can use all the support possible.

morning to empower DAY OF SERVICE EVENT DETAILS

Upward Roots invites volunteers to contribute to supporting Esperanza Elementary & Korematsu Discovery Academy in a meaningful way that demonstrates to these school communities that they matter and are loved.

There are many initiatives on campus and within the neighborhood blocks immediately surrounding the campus that will be the focus of volunteer efforts. Here are some of the activities:

• Campus beautification, including removal of litter;

• Gardening and planting; and,

• Whatever else our partners need!

bacr 2023-2024 partners

Join TEAM UR as a Program Facilitator (Site Leader) at your Oakland school site.

You can receive a $400 honorarium for the full academic year*. Key requirements: you will attend Saturday, August 26 in-person training from 10 am - 1 pm (lunch provided), facilitate the program to completion in the fall and spring semester, submit required participant surveys and feedback.

What does Upward Roots do to support program facilitators?

• Provide all supplies and materials necessary to implement the program, including:

• Complete curriculum

• Changemaker Kits for participants

• All supplies and materials for team building, STEM, and other activities

• In-person visits during implementation, with optional co-facilitation support when possible

• Weekly check-ins in a way that works best for you

• We match service projects with community-based organizations and support you with all of the logistics, as appropriate and possible

• We train, coach, and support you on in implementing our detailed program curriculum.